Суд у РФ засудив політв’язня з Криму Олега Приходька до ще 4,5 років ув’язнення – ЗМІ

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Проукраїнському активісту, політв’язню з Криму Олегу Приходьку, засудженому російською владою на п’ять років нібито за підготовку терактів, суд у РФ додав ще чотири з половиною роки ув’язнення за двома новими звинуваченнями. Про це повідомляє «Суспільне» із посиланням на доньку кримчанина Наталю Швецову.

Згідно з повідомленням, російський суд додав до терміну Приходька звинувачення у «виправданні тероризму» та «публічні заклики до розв’язання агресивної війни». Повідомляється, що Приходько брав участь у судовому засіданні по відеозв’язку з в’язниці, відомої як «Володимирський централ».

«Його «мурижили» чотири години, він там з шостої години був. Йому штучно створювали проблеми у спілкуванні. Тобто постійно заважали, постійно забігали, заважали йому спілкуватися з адвокатом. Адже він ще й глухий, розумієте. Загалом суд відбувся і зараз йому винесли вирок: додали статей… Зараз йому впаяли 4,5 роки суворого утримання», – цитує дочку Приходька «Суспільне».

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3 березня 2021 року Південний окружний військовий суд у російському Ростові-на-Дону виніс вирок Приходьку. Його засудили до 5 років ув’язнення.

Олега Приходька затримали співробітники ФСБ у Криму у жовтні 2019 року. Правозахисники вважають, що приводом для цього стала його проукраїнська позиція: Приходько відкрито виступав проти анексії Криму та вивісив на своєму будинку у Саках державний прапор України.

Російська ФСБ звинуватила його у підготовці до теракту та незаконному виготовленні вибухових речовин. Приходько заперечує обвинувачення на свою адресу.

Міністерство закордонних справ України висловило рішучий протест через арешт кримчанина. Правозахисний центр «Меморіал» визнав Олега Приходька політичним в’язнем.
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Police Investigate Fentanyl-Filled Envelopes Sent to US Election Offices

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Authorities were hunting Thursday for whoever sent suspicious letters — including some containing fentanyl — to elections offices in at least five states this week, delaying the counting of ballots in some local races in the latest instance of threats faced by election workers around the country.

The letters were sent to elections offices in the presidential battlegrounds of Georgia and Nevada, as well as California, Oregon and Washington, with some being intercepted before they arrived. Four of the letters contained fentanyl, the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service reported in a statement to elections officials Thursday.

“Law enforcement is working diligently to intercept any additional letters before they are delivered,” the statement said.

The Pierce County auditor’s office in Tacoma, Washington, released images of the letter it received, showing it had been postmarked in Portland, Oregon, and read in part, “End elections now.”

In Seattle, King County Elections Director Julie Wise said that letter appeared to be the same one her office got. She said it was very similar to one King County received during the August primary, which also contained fentanyl.

Authorities in Georgia suspect that election offices in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta and is the largest voting jurisdiction in one of the nation’s most important presidential swing states, was a likely target. They were working to intercept any letters. In the meantime, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said officials were sending the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to the office as a precaution.

“This is domestic terrorism, and it needs to be condemned by anyone that holds elected office and anyone that wants to hold elective office anywhere in America,” said Raffensperger, a Republican.

It was not immediately clear how authorities came to suspect that a letter might have been sent to Georgia’s biggest election office. Raffensperger said the state alerted all 159 of its counties of the possible threat Wednesday but believes only Fulton County is being targeted.

In California, the United States Postal Service intercepted two suspicious envelopes that were headed to election facilities in Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Authorities in Lane County, Oregon, which includes the University of Oregon, were investigating a piece of mail that arrived at the local election office Wednesday. No one who came in contact with it had experienced any negative health effects, said Devon Ashbridge, spokesperson for the Lane County Elections Office in Eugene.

The incident prompted officials to close the office and delayed an afternoon pickup of ballots. Ashbridge declined to provide further details.

“Someone attempted to terrorize our elections staff, and that’s not OK,” Ashbridge said.

On Wednesday, authorities in Washington state said four county election offices had to be evacuated as election workers were processing ballots cast in Tuesday’s election, delaying vote-counting.

Election offices in King, Skagit, Spokane and Pierce counties received envelopes containing powders. Local law enforcement officials said the substances in King and Spokane counties field-tested positive for fentanyl. In at least one other case, the substance was baking soda.

Pierce County Auditor Linda Farmer released images of the envelope and letter her office received. The letter contained a warning about the vulnerability of “ballot drops” and read: “End elections now. Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.”

The letter featured an antifascist symbol, a progress pride flag and a pentagram. While the symbols have sometimes been associated with leftist politics, they also have been used by conservative figures to label and stereotype the left, and the sender’s political leanings were unclear.

Elections offices in two Washington counties — King and Okanogan — also received suspicious envelopes while processing ballots during the August primary, and the letter sent to King County tested positive for traces of fentanyl. Those letters remain under investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and FBI.

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs called the incidents in his state “acts of terrorism to threaten our elections.”

White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton said the Biden administration was aware of the investigation: “We are grateful for the election and poll workers who served this week to ensure the security of our democratic processes.”

Fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as the same amount of heroin, is driving an overdose crisis deadlier than any the U.S. has ever seen as it is pressed into pills or mixed into other drugs. Briefly touching fentanyl cannot cause an overdose, and researchers have found that the risk of fatal overdose from accidental exposure is low.
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UN Report Outlines War’s Devastating Impact on Palestinian Economy

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A new U.N. report paints a stark picture of the collapse of the Palestinian economy after a month of war and Israel’s near total siege of Gaza.

The gross domestic product shrank 4% in the West Bank and Gaza in the war’s first month, sending more than 400,000 people into poverty, an economic impact unseen in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, or any previous Israel-Hamas war, the U.N. said.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers launched a surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 killing more than 1,400 people, mainly civilians, and kidnapping about 240 others.

More than two-thirds of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have fled their homes since Israel launched weeks of intense airstrikes followed by an ongoing ground operation, vowing to obliterate Hamas. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said Thursday that 10,818 Palestinians, including more than 4,400 children, have been killed so far.

The rapid assessment of the economic consequences of the Gaza war released Thursday by the U.N. Development Program and the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for West Asia was the first U.N. report showing the devastating impact of the conflict especially on the Palestinians.

If the war continues for a second month, the U.N. projects that the Palestinian GDP, which was $20.4 billion before the war began, will drop by 8.4%, a loss of $1.7 billion. And if the conflict lasts a third month, Palestinian GDP will drop by 12%, with losses of $2.5 billion and more than 660,000 people pushed into poverty, it projects.

U.N. Development Program Assistant Secretary-General Abdallah Al Dardari told a news conference launching the report that a 12% GDP loss at the end of the year would be “massive and unprecedented.” By comparison, he said, the Syrian economy lost 1% of its GDP per month at the height of its conflict, and it took Ukraine a year and a half of fighting to lose 30% of its GDP, an average of about 1.6% a month.

At the beginning of 2023, the Palestinian territories – the West Bank and Gaza – were considered a lower middle-income economy with a poverty level of $6 per day per person, Economic Commission Executive Secretary Rola Dashti said.

In January, Gaza was grappling with high unemployment of about 46%, 3½ times higher than the West Bank’s 13%, the report said.

But just weeks of war has destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs.

“As the war hits the one-month mark, 61% of employment in Gaza, equivalent to 182,000 jobs, is estimated to have been lost,” it said. “Around 24% of employment in the West Bank has also been lost, equivalent to 208,000 jobs.”

Al Dardari pointed to the massive disruption to the economy in the West Bank, which is responsible for 82% of Palestinian GDP, explaining that this is supposed to be the season for olive and citrus farmers to collect their products, but they can’t because of the war. And “the tourism season is practically gone – and agriculture and tourism represent 40% of the GDP in the West Bank,” he said.

In addition, Al Dardari said, there are major disruptions to trade, to the transfer of money from Israel to the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, and no investment.

The Economic Commission’s Dashti said “the level of destruction is unimaginable and unprecedented” in Gaza.

“As of November 3, it is estimated that 35,000 housing units have been totally demolished and about 220,000 units are partially damaged,” she said. The report said at least 45% of Gaza’s housing units have been destroyed or damaged.

If this persists, the majority of Gazans will have no homes. Al Dardari added that even if fighting ended now there will be massive long-term displacement, “with all its humanitarian, economic development and security consequences.”

Al Dardari said it breaks his heart that the Palestinian territories had become lower middle income economies, “because all of that growth and development is going to regress between 11, 16, or even 19 years if the fighting continues. … We will go back to 2002.”
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Глобальний саміт миру може відбутися у лютому 2024 року – Жовква

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Глобальний саміт миру для України може відбутися в лютому 2024 року, заявив агенції Reuters заступник керівника Офісу президента України Ігор Жовква.

За його словами, четверта зустріч радників з національної безпеки відбудеться наприкінці листопада або на початку грудня.

«Глобальний саміт може відбутися в лютому 2024 року», – сказав Жовква агенції Reuters.

За його словами, саміт відбудеться обов’язково і стане «символічним початком практичної реалізації української «формули миру» та підсумує всі результати, які вже досягнуті на цьому шляху».

«Нам не потрібен саміт заради саміту. Ми говоримо про максимально широке залучення лідерів Глобального Півдня. Тому ми маємо ретельно продумати час і місце проведення саміту», – сказав він.

Напередодні в ефірі програми Радіо Свобода (програма «Свобода. LIVE») Ігор Жовква також анонсував ще одну зустріч радників із нацбезпеки перед планованим Глобальним самітом миру.

Ще у грудні 2022 року президент України Володимир Зеленський виступив з ініціативою скликати спеціальний саміт – Global Peace Formula Summit (Глобальний саміт миру), щоб визначитися, як і коли країни-союзники та прихильники української «формули миру» можуть реалізувати 10 її пунктів (1. Радіаційна та ядерна безпека; 2. Продовольча безпека; 3. Енергетична безпека; 4. Звільнення всіх полонених і депортованих; 5. Виконання Статуту ООН і відновлення територіальної цілісності України та світового порядку; 6. Виведення російських військ і припинення бойових дій; 7. Справедливість; 8. Екоцид, потреба негайного захисту природи; 9. Недопущення ескалації; 10. Фіксація закінчення війни). Росія відкинула українську «формулу миру», заявивши, що її неможливо реалізувати.

Наприкінці жовтня на Мальті проходила зустріч радників із безпеки щодо реалізації «формули миру». Поки точної дати і місця проведення Глобального саміту миру немає.
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Південні і східні області України охоплені повітряною тривогою

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У південних і східних регіонах в ніч на 10 листопада оголошена повітряна тривога.

Повітряні сили ЗСУ попереджади про активність російської тактичної авіації на східному та південно-східному напрямках.

Зберігається також загроза ударних БПЛА.

Влада просить громадян залишатися в укриттях.

За даними Генштабу ЗСУ, упродовж доби 9 листопада армія РФ завдала одного ракетного та 13 авіаційних ударів, здійснив 42 обстріли з реактивних систем залпового вогню по позиціях ЗСУ та населених пунктах.

Російські військові регулярно атакують українські населені пункти з різних видів озброєння – ударними БПЛА, ракетами, РСЗВ. Росія, попри докази та свідчення, з початку повномасштабного вторгнення заперечує обстріли цивільних в Україні.
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Republican Presidential Candidates Back Israel at Latest Debate

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Five Republicans hoping to be their party’s candidate in next year’s U.S. presidential election debated Wednesday night, expressing support for Israel in its war against Hamas, while clashing over China and Russia.

Not appearing on the debate stage in Miami was Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House after losing the 2020 election.

Trump has not appeared at any of the three Republican debates, and while holding his own rally nearby on Wednesday called the event with his competitors “unwatchable.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who appears a distant second place in opinion polls, said Trump owes it to those watching the debates to appear and “explain why he should get another chance” to be the party’s nominee.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pointed to Trump’s multiple current and impending legal trials, saying, “Anybody who’s going to be spending the next year and a half of their life focusing on keeping themselves out of jail and courtrooms cannot lead this party.”

With Israel’s military response to an October attack by Hamas militants in its second month, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Israel needs to “eliminate Hamas.”

“We need to be very clear-eyed to know there would be no Hamas without Iran, there would be no Hezbollah without Iran, there would not be the Houthis without Iran, and there wouldn’t be the Iranian militias in Syria and Iraq that are trying to hit our military men and women, if it hadn’t been for Iran,” Haley said.

Senator Tim Scott said he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “not only do you have the responsibility and the right to wipe Hamas off the map, we will support you.”

Republican candidates will next debate on Dec. 6.

Voters will begin selecting the party’s presidential nominee Jan. 15 with the Iowa caucuses, and after the state-by-state nominating contests conclude, the Republican nominee will officially be named at the party’s convention in July.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
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Takeaways From the Third 2024 Republican Presidential Debate

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Five candidates seeking to halt Donald Trump’s march toward the 2024 Republican presidential nomination gathered in Miami on Wednesday for the party’s third debate while the former president held a separate campaign rally across town.

Here are some takeaways from the debate:

Laying blame

One night after a stinging series of election losses at the hands of Democrats, the candidates vented their frustrations on the debate stage.

“I’m sick of Republicans losing,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said.

DeSantis has long contrasted his successful reelection last year in Florida with Republican setbacks in the last few elections, including Trump’s loss in 2020. Earlier in the day, his campaign argued that backing Trump cost candidates seats in races such as the one for governor of Kentucky, where Republican Daniel Cameron lost to Democrat Andy Beshear.

Republicans on Wednesday were also smarting from the success of a ballot issue in Ohio that enshrined the right to an abortion in the state constitution, as well as the loss of state legislative control in Virginia.

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy blamed Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, instead of Trump, for the party’s recent performance.

“We’ve become a party of losers,” he lamented. “We have to have accountability in our party.”

McDaniel was Trump’s hand-picked choice to lead the RNC in 2017, and the committee was a sponsor of Wednesday’s debate.

Ramaswamy comes out swinging

It was clear from the outset that Ramaswamy, whose candidacy has faded since the first debate, was determined to be a spoiler and throw elbows in every direction.

Ramaswamy, a businessman with no political experience, attacked former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and DeSantis right out of the gate.

In an exchange regarding the conflict in Israel, Ramaswamy warned that the two leading candidates on the stage could drag America into a bloody war in Europe, while also channeling speculation that DeSantis wears lifts inside his boots.

“Do you want Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels? Because you’ve got two of them on stage tonight,” he said in reference to Haley and DeSantis, while invoking the Republican former vice president who was known for his neoconservative views.

“They’re 5-inch heels, and I don’t wear them unless I can run in them,” Haley later shot back. “They are not a fashion statement, they are ammunition.”

Ramaswamy wasn’t finished going after Haley. During a discussion over banning the Chinese short video app TikTok, he mentioned that Haley’s daughter used the platform. “You might want to take care of your family first,” he said.

“Leave my daughter out of your voice,” Haley countered, adding under her breath, “You’re just scum.”

Given his lagging poll numbers, the Miami debate could end up being Ramaswamy’s final one. Haley won’t miss him.

Haley and DeSantis go head-to-head on China

All eyes were on Haley and DeSantis, who were widely expected to go after each other in a bid to establish themselves as the top challenger to Trump in the Republican nominating contest.

After circling each other for half the debate, they finally went on the attack over the other’s dealings with China.

Both said their opponent had cozied up to Chinese industry as governors — Haley in South Carolina and DeSantis in Florida. Both, unsurprisingly, disagreed, leading to a heated exchange.

While all candidates on the stage portray themselves as tough on China, Haley has taken pains for months to establish herself as the top China hawk in the field.

The DeSantis campaign, meanwhile, has tried to attack Haley on that issue, accusing her of welcoming a Chinese company into her state.
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Війська РФ обстріляли центр міста Семенівка на Чернігівщині – ОВА

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Голова Чернігівської ОВА В’ячеслав Чаус у ніч на 9 листопада повідомив, що під обстріл військ РФ потрапила центральна частина міста Семенівка.

«Семенівка. Обстріл центра. Попередньо – без жертв. Працюють всі служби. Черговий обстріл цивільних обʼєктів», – написав Чаус у Telegram.

Інших деталей посадовець не вказав.

Російські війська регулярно з різних видів озброєння обстрілюють прикордоння України, в тому числі Чернігівщину. Попри докази і свідчення, Москва від початку повномасштабного вторгнення заперечує цілеспрямовану атаку на цивільних.

 
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