Day: December 13, 2023

A far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles during an event with members of the Jewish community in the country’s parliament, provoking outrage as a new pro-EU government was beginning its work. pic.twitter.com/TZk3kT2hYG

— DW News (@dwnews) December 12, 2023

A former British intelligence officer got 13 years in the pokie for assaulting an NSA agent with a knife. Espionage tensions? #Espionage #Intelligence #nsa #GCHQhttps://t.co/xUcxWwaG2A

— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) December 13, 2023

⚡Reuters: US intelligence reports Russia has lost 90% of original pre-invasion force in Ukraine.https://t.co/NArdZX8Ppx

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) December 12, 2023

Austria’s ex-foreign minister Karin Kneissl says she hasn’t seen ‘any sort of repression’ since moving to Russia this year: https://t.co/bqfzqWXNbb

A case of selective blindness, perhaps?

🧵 She’s far from the only European politician affected by it

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) December 12, 2023

Questions to the 153 countries who voted in favor of the UN resolution demanding a ceasefire:

Hamas publicly vowed to repeat Oct7 again and again. How does a ceasefire stop that?

The resolution call for the release of “all hostages”. Could you possibly be referring to jailed… pic.twitter.com/ug1p9TvQWH

— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 13, 2023

The CIS Executive Committee has already received a written invitation to observe the early presidential elections in Azerbaijan, which will be held on February 7 next year, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev said, Report informs via Russian media.

One city and 10 villages in the Fuzuli district should be built and handed over before the implementation of the ‘I State Program on the Great Return’ is completed

One worker was killed as a result of a fire on the territory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery in Belarus

The referee who was punched on the pitch by the head of a top-tier Turkish soccer club was released from hospital on Wednesday with a swollen eye but no other health issues, the chief doctor said, Report informs via Reuters.