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Ever since the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in 2022, Hungary has been vocal at its criticism of the EU leadership’s eagerness to support the regime in Kiev and antagonize Russia to the detriment of European nations’ economies.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking the US Supreme Court to rule whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution, court documents revealed on Monday.

For years, governments have slowly retreated from investing in the US dollar, shifting their assets into other currencies, penning agreements to use local currencies instead of dollars for trade, or buying up stable liquid assets like gold - a trend labeled “de-dollarization” by observers.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The losses in the global economy as a result of the fragmentation into two blocs from the conflict in Ukraine are estimated to be up to 7% of GDP, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday.

A recent Dutch academic study of the country’s public spending indicates that the government is more eager to support migrants than its own citizens through investing in core priority sectors, with migrant subsidies averaging an annual €17 billion over the past decades.

The IDF purportedly shelled Lebanon with the toxic shells procured from the US at least once last month.

WARSAW (Sputnik) - The lower house of Poland’s parliament, the Sejm, on Monday passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.

The American mercenary firm, Forward Observations Group (FOG), previously known for its presence in Ukraine, has claimed to have active members engaged in combat inside Gaza on behalf of Israel, Sputnik has learned.

Alex Soros, 38, son of billionaire George Soros, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the weekend. Why did the heir to Soros' financial empire travel to Kiev?

Opinion polls reveal that the Western public is increasingly fatigued with the Ukrainian crisis and has cast doubt on the wisdom of investing substantial amounts of money into a cause that seemed doomed from the outset. Additionally, there is a growing awareness of the Nazi origins of Kiev's ideology.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) -About 1.9 million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip, amounting to approximately 85% of the enclave's population, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.

According to numerous reports, the Ukrainian military is demoralized and bleeding white with no desire to take further part in already-lost battles for the corrupt Kiev authorities.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukraine has lost up to 200 soldiers both killed and injured in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The Biden administration is not following its own guidelines while providing military equipment to Israel, as per the US press.

Amid Ukraine's high-profile failures both on the battlefield and on the home front, Kiev's Western bosses are growing ever more eager to seek an appropriate replacement for President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reports.

Nearly half of American voters say Washington's aid to Ukraine is excessive. The poll results were released ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to DC to lobby for more aid.

UK Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps will confirm the transfer of the vessels to Ukraine later in the day, the statement read. He is also scheduled to confirm further details of UK military support to Ukraine.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) -Trump was set to testify in a civil fraud trial brought against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly making false statements about the value of his properties.

CAIRO (Sputnik) - Nearly 16,000 people have entered Egypt from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing since early November, the Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) said on Sunday.

Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star and belongs to the constellation Orion as the hunter’s “left shoulder”. It’s one of the brightest stars in the night sky, as well as one of the largest stars ever discovered, according to NASA.

Chinese media blamed the United States for “fueling the Philippines' audacity of provocations.”

Kishida's poll ratings, which are already low, may drop even further as the investigation into the underreporting of fundraising proceeds has been scheduled for next week.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel is detaining doctors \"en masse\" in the Gaza Strip, the founder of the Gaza Medic Voices organization, Omar Abdel-Mannan, said on Sunday.

MOSCOW, December 11 (Sputnik) - A US F-16 fighter jet crashed into the Yellow Sea on Monday morning during training, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing sources, adding that the pilot ejected.

The United States has used the ostensible “alliance” to dominate Europe and threaten Russia for decades.

GENEVA (Sputnik) - Some children in the Gaza Strip are undergoing amputations without anesthesia due to lack of funds, while others are on the brink of starvation, a representative of the Save the Children humanitarian organization.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian urged the European Union to take more efficient measures to prevent the continuation of the Gaza conflict and lift the blockade of the enclave, the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated on Sunday.

Despite being the wealthiest country in the world by net worth (according to 2022 data), the United States continues to struggle with hunger.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis will convene the plenary meeting of the Tenth Emergency Special Session on Tuesday to discuss the situation around the Gaza Strip, spokesperson to the UN General Assembly President, Monica Grayley, stated on Sunday.

Empirical data demonstrates that, although US warmongering may fatten the pockets of military contractors, the consequences for citizens around the world have been dire.

TUNIS (Sputnik) - The death toll from the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has increased to 17,997 people since October 7, with over 49,000 people injured, Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Qudra stated on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that it had struck over 3,500 targets of Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the end of ceasefire earlier in the month.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Joe Biden has invited his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to visit the White House on December 12 to discuss the US's support for Ukraine, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow was not \"breaking off\" diplomatic relations with Berlin, pointing to the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the credentials of a new German ambassador.

As the flow of weapons and military hardware from Western powers to Ukraine appears to be slowing, several prominent defense contractors are mulling setting up joint armaments production facilities on Ukrainian soil.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Netherlands resumed buying liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in September after a three-month hiatus, Sputnik calculated on Sunday based on Dutch statistical data.

The Ukrainian president has displayed a penchant for appearing at various events around the globe to ask for money and weapons over the past two years. He now traveled to Argentina to attend the inauguration of the recently-elected President Javier Milei.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Sunday called for imposing sanctions on Israel for its violence against Palestinians and holding the United States to account for supporting Israel's failure to abide by international law and UN resolutions.

New truck sales in Russia are set to break all-time industry records by reaching an unprecedented 128,069 vehicles from January to November this year, an impressive 81.5% annual increase.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Germany imported 2.5 times less gas in January-September this year compared to the same period in 2021, but failed to make any savings as prices also grew 2.5 times, Sputnik has calculated based on data from the German statistical office.

The far-right politician is known as a libertarian economist with a strong aversion towards state intervention into the economy and social spheres.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call on Sunday and reaffirmed rejection and condemnation of terrorism in all its forms, the Kremlin said.

A DC think tank has pointed out that Washington could lose influence in the Arab and Muslim world by killing off the UN ceasefire resolutions.

Bombastic media personality and controversial journalist Alex Jones may be making a triumphant return to social media network X (formerly Twitter) following a motion initiated by tech mogul Elon Musk.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Vladimir Putin gave a speech during Friday meeting with the Heroes of Russia in the Kremlin, the footage was published in the Telegram channel of journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday.

US military experts are openly questioning Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin's rationale behind continuing to support the Ukrainian military despite Kiev's failures on the battlefield.

Recent activities by Russia's Vostok Battlegroup show how it deals devastating blows to Ukrainian strongholds in Kleshcheyevka.

The new two-meter-long fossil is believed to be one of the most complete specimens of its kind ever found and could provide new insights into this ancient predator.

Russia's modernized Ka-52M attack helicopters have entered the fray to seize control of the skies in the conflict, using a variety of munitions to decimate targets.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - At least six people died in the US state of Tennessee as a result of a storm that had hit the state on Saturday, with three casualties in Montgomery County and three in the city of Nashville in Davidson Country, according to local authorities and police.

Volodymyr Zelensky will attend the inauguration of president-elect Javier Milei. The Ukrainian president is seeking to strengthen ties with the Global South, but Kiev's rapprochement with Buenos Aires won't help him win the hearts and minds of Latin Americans, says an Argentine newspaper.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Speaking at a Boston reception in Massachusetts earlier in the week, Biden said he was not sure he would be running in the 2024 presidential elections if Trump did not decide to campaign again.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The number of Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has risen to 97, The Times of Israel reported on Saturday, citing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The plea was made as polling shows Americans increasingly believe the country has sent too much money to Ukraine.

Tropical cyclone Jasper has intensified into a category 4 system as of Friday. However, the timing of when the cyclone will hit the north Queensland coast remains up in the air. But one thing is for certain: Australians are feeling the heat.

The Pentagon made $106.5 million from a transfer of munitions to Israel just hours after vetoing a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations.

BUDAPEST (Sputnik) - Hungarian road carriers will begin protests on the border with Ukraine on Monday, as Ukrainian truckers ruin Hungarian logistics companies, Hungarian Road Transport Association (MKFE) Secretary General Tivadar Arvay said on Saturday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held phone talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves, as a result of which Caracas agreed to hold a meeting with Georgetown on the territorial dispute, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

The poll's suggest that Germans' level of dissatisfaction is the highest on record for the sitting chancellor.

Biden, who campaigned on restoring global respect for the United States, has had little success in the highly important region.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sri Lanka has made every effort to prevent the recruitment of its citizens into foreign armed forces, including in Ukraine, through local agents, Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror reported on Saturday, citing Foreign Minister Ali Sabry.

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - The United States is putting pressure on Tehran not to produce heavy water (also known as deuterium oxide), but American companies are buying it from Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Saturday.

Sunak is preparing to delve into the conservative talking point ahead of what is slated to be a difficult election year for his party in 2024.

Some party figures are worried the president has been too late to hire campaign personnel in key battleground states. It’s just the latest concern Democrats have over the octogenarian president’s chances for victory next year.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Yemen's rebel Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, is ready to allow vessels of all countries pass through the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea except those ships that are related to Israel, a spokesman for the rebel movement said on Saturday.

38-year-old biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy spent his allotted time tearing into former Trump UN ambassador Nikki Haley’s alleged corruption and neoconservative agenda at the fourth Republican presidential debate on Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Trump himself was nowhere to be found, preferring to skip the debates, for now.

TUNIS (Sputnik) - The death toll from the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has increased to 17,700 people since October 7, with over 48,000 people injured, Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Qudra said on Saturday.

In an interview with Sputnik, the head of the Serbian Defense Ministry said that Belgrade intends to maintain its policy of military neutrality and refrain from joining anti-Russian sanctions.

The first six months of this year saw roughly 42,000 people leave the country, following on the heels of 93,818 who emigrated in 2022 and 85,927 in 2021.

The US military has grounded its entire fleet of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft after a deadly crash off Japan last week. Sputnik spoke to veteran Russian combat aircraft pilot Vladimir Popov to get a better sense of the problems associated with the fledgling technology, and why the US refuses to just close the Osprey program down.

The leader of Germany's coalition government attempted to scapegoat Russia for his country's self-inflicted economic woes as Berlin faces the threat of deindustrialization.

As the Palestine-Israel conflict rages on and Tel Aviv’s war on Hamas enters a new phase after a brief ceasefire, questions are already being asked about what comes next — and what type of governance can be expected for the enclave.

Ukraine’s president and his ministers have spent nearly two years parroting the line that Kiev is fighting for the West’s freedom, and that if Russia is allowed to win, it will attack other European countries. But some Poles no longer buy these claims.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Former UK Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said in his first remarks after resigning that it was impossible to integrate migrants into society at the current rate of new arrivals, while blaming the government for paying too little attention to legal migration as compared to irregular migration.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,000-square-meter site in Ningbo's Hemudu culture zone, revealing an ancient, sophisticated irrigation system, remnants of rice cultivation and evidence of residential connectivity in the lower Yangtze River region.

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of media reports and remarks by officials on possible peace talks aimed at ending the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. But the trust deficit between Moscow and Washington appears to be simply be too great after the West’s thirty-year “continuum of deception,” says Russian foreign policy strategist Dmitry Suslov.

The contested territory will now be officially designated by Caracas as the 24th state within Venezuela's borders and referred to as Guayana Esequiba.

The Russian Armed Forces continue to strike the positions of Ukrainian troops and ammunition production sites with precision weapons.

A new breakthrough is changing established beliefs in historical building conservation. Although the growth of plants on old structures is usually considered harmful, the unique non-invasive root systems of 'biocrusts' make them more compatible with preservation activities.

The AI industry has been locked in a heated arms race over the past few years, with billions poured into the field. However, there have been concerns voiced by governments and the public over everything from economic impact – such as AI taking over jobs – to fears of misinformation and privacy violations.

Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, was established on December 9, 2013.

The former president said on the campaign trail in 2016 that he would consider the possibility of brokering a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement as “the ultimate deal,” but the heavily-pro-Israel peace plan rolled out by his administration in early 2020 was decried by Palestine’s president as an agreement belonging in the “dustbin of history.”

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Military operations by the Israeli army in the southern Gaza Strip's largest city of Khan Yunis might end in three to four weeks, media reported, citing a senior Israeli defense official.

Earlier, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida touted Japan's biggest defense build-up since the Second World War as a \"turning point in history.\" Japanese militarization envisaging doubling the nation's defense spending within the next five years has sparked concerns among many countries of the Asia-Pacific region, considering the nation’s past.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive began on June 4, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces have failed to make significant gains in any direction. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said, the \"counteroffensive\" turned out to be a failure.

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been used by both sides of the conflict since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine. Russian forces effectively operate UAVs, even when they have to ram enemy drones.

Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, was established on December 9, 2013.

More than 50 troops have been killed in crashes of the troubled aircraft.

Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, was established on December 9, 2013.

The annual National Defense Authorization Act mandates billions of dollars towards bases, weapons systems, and service member pay, but a controversy over the new Space Force headquarters remains unresolved.

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders, according to the CDC. Sickle cells - which are crescent-shaped instead of disk-shaped - die early on, and can cause a constant shortage of red blood cells. Symptoms for patients can range from mild to severe.

On Thursday, Hunter Biden was charged by a federal grand jury in California on nine charges, including three felonies and six misdemeanors. The charges are in addition to previous federal firearms charges in Delaware related to a gun he purchased in 2018.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A US judge approved a settlement that bars US officials from separating migrant families that illegally cross the US southern border, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a press release.

A full vote of the House of Representatives to formally authorize Republicans’ impeachment inquiry of President Biden is expected next week. A White House spokesperson called the effort a “stupid stunt.”

DONETSK (Sputnik) - Ukraine shelled the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) 10 times over the past day, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of issues related to Ukraine's war crimes said in a statement.

Crises are not a novelty, but 2023 brought them to Germany's doorstep with unabating vigor and impact. Interestingly, a community of linguists captured the essence of these times in just one word.

The release of the podcast comes just a day after a federal grand jury in California indicted Hunter Biden on nine charges, which include three felonies.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The West believes Kiev will most likely fail to launch another significant counteroffensive until 2025, as the Ukrainian forces need time to recover after this year's failed military campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing Western diplomats and military strategists.

After two months of air assault and ground invasion, the Israeli military has turned its attention from northern Gaza to the south, where it previously directed 1 million Palestinians to seek refuge amid its war against Hamas.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The topic of US assistance for Ukraine is not expected to make a difference in swing states in the 2024 elections, even in those that economically benefit from it, former Republican National Committee Chair and ex-US Ambassador to the OSCE Jim Gilmore told Sputnik.

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