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❗️First Ship With Russian Zircon Missiles Placed On Combat Duty

The first Russian warship carrying Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, the frigate ‘Admiral Gorshkov,’ began routine combat service on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw the ceremony via video link. He said that the Zircon missile was a “unique weapon” and that “no other country has anything comparable.” 

“I am sure that such a powerful armament will allow us to steadfastly defend Russia from potential foreign threats. It will help to maintain the national interests of our country,” Putin stated.

According to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, the frigate will conduct “a voyage in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.”

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Main Adversary Of Russia’s First President

Ruslan Khasbulatov, one of the most powerful men in the early days of post-Soviet Russia, has died in Moscow Region at the age of 80, media reports, citing his relatives. 

The politician and economist led the first Russian parliament and supported Boris Yeltsin, who was yet to become the country's first president, in his standoff against junta coup plotters who sought to grab power in the USSR in 1991. However, just two years after Khasbulatov and Yeltsin stood side by side against the attempted coup, they turned against each other, sparking the 1993 constitutional crisis. 

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EU Gas Prices Fall To Lowest Level In Over A Year

European gas futures dipped below $750 per thousand cubic meters on Wednesday for the first time since November 2021, data from the London Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) shows.

The cost of gas futures for February delivery at the TTF hub in the Netherlands was down more than 5% to $733 per thousand cubic meter or €67 ($71.1) per megawatt hour (MWh) in household terms early on Wednesday morning, before climbing slightly back up.

Despite the current decline, gas prices remain several times higher than the long-term average.

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Russian Electricity Exports To Asia Growing — Minister

Russia’s electricity supplies to China and Mongolia will see an overall 20% jump by the end of this year, Energy Minister Nikolay Shulginov has said.

Estimates by the Russian energy giant Inter RAO suggest that the country has supplied a record 4.4-4.5 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electrical power to China in 2022. Data shows that China’s electricity consumption had risen in December due to colder weather. This has also pushed demand for coal and gas for heating higher.

“This year [2022] we can talk about the growth of eastbound [electricity] exports, that is, total exports to China and Mongolia have increased by 20%, and there will be an uptick of about 16% to China by the end of the year,” Shulginov revealed last week in an interview with the TV channel Rossiya-24.

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Trump urges Republicans to back McCarthy in race to become US House speaker
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Former United States President Donald Trump has urged far-right Republicans to support Kevin McCarthy in the election to become the US House speake

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Top 10 world news: WHO asks China to provide 'more realistic picture' of Covid-19 situation & more
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Air­line trade body slams COVID rules on trav­ellers from Chi­na
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Crit­i­cism from In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion comes as EU weighs bloc-wide rules on ar­rivals from Chi­na.
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US House im­passe: Biden urges Re­pub­li­cans to ‘get act to­geth­er’
Re­pub­li­can leader Kevin Mc­Carthy re­mains de­fi­ant in bid for House speak­er as law­mak­ers pre­pare for fur­ther bal­lots.
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French police investigate sex assault claim against ex-archbishop
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Michel Aupetit, who resigned as archbishop of Paris in 2021 after admitting to an ‘ambiguous’ relationship with a woman in 2012, denies wrongdoing

Stinger used to halt car which failed to stop for gardaí and crossed Border
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Facebook parent company fined €390m by Data Protection Commissioner
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Meta Ireland was fined €210 million for breaches of EU data privacy rules relating to Facebook, and €180 million for breaches in relation to Instagram

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France limits paracetamol sales
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With China using up its own supply, Paris has suspended online purchases of the painkiller for a month

France on Wednesday announced a prohibition on the online sale of paracetamol, which has been in short supply for several months. The ban, which will last until February, came after China restricted exports of the drug amid a surge in Covid-19 cases.

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Crit­i­cism of Lula’s eco­nom­ic plans mounts as Brazil mar­kets tank
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An­a­lysts and a lead­ing news­pa­per have slammed min­is­ters af­ter lo­cal mar­kets tanked in Lula’s first two days in of­fice.
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