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  • Carlos Curbelo
    Carlos Curbelo “The coalition that elected them wanted them [Biden-Harris] to unite the country, and they failed to do so. Their failure has resulted in further disillusionment with our country's politics and empowered the Trump base to give him another narrow victory after setbacks in three consecutive general elections.” 5 minutes ago
  • Peter H. Wehner
    Peter H. Wehner “This election was a CAT scan on the American people, and as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption. Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative.” 11 minutes ago
  • Melody C. Barnes
    Melody C. Barnes “The Trump presidency speaks to the depth of the marginalization felt by those who believe they have been in the cultural wilderness for too long and their faith in the one person who has given voice to their frustration and his ability to center them in American life.” 14 minutes ago
  • Peter Baker
    Peter Baker “No longer can the political establishment write off Mr. Trump as a temporary break from the long march of progress, a fluke who somehow sneaked into the White House in a quirky, one-off Electoral College win eight years ago. With his comeback victory to reclaim the presidency, Mr. Trump has now established himself as a transformational force reshaping the United States in his own image.” 18 minutes ago
  • Joshua Kurlantzick
    Joshua Kurlantzick “Trump has been more assertive and more aggressive on China on the campaign trail. The former president often says things as leverage and then changes them. While Trump in the first term was sort of able to be swayed a little bit by his relationship at times with Xi Jinping, we don't really know what would happen now.” 2 hours ago
  • Leslie Vinjamuri
    Leslie Vinjamuri “We have to take Trump at face value. He assumes that he can strike a deal pretty quickly [and] that he would likely block any further assistance to Ukraine. For example, there is the possibility that Trump could reach a deal with Putin that excludes Zelenskyy's input - and could potentially concede quite a lot in terms of Ukraine and its territory. There's also a question of what kind of relationship he would have with Putin and with Russia, and whether that would embolden Russia more generally in the European context - and I think that's a real concern for a lot of people.” 2 hours ago
  • Phil Lavelle
    Phil Lavelle “If you listen to the Republicans, they say they've got no worries about North Carolina. Donald Trump was here yesterday - we were at one of his rallies - and he said he has absolutely no concerns, he's never lost here before, and he doesn't intend to stop. But if you look at the optics around it, he was here on Wednesday, he was here Saturday, he was here Sunday, he was here Monday. Donald Trump does not come to North Carolina that much if he's not concerned. Kamala Harris has gone from saying that they are the underdog to saying that the Democrats can win this. This is both sides projecting confidence, but it is really tight. The people who support the Democrats have got a real hope that they can turn this state Blue, but we're not going to find out for a few more hours, at least.” 16 hours ago
  • Donald Trump
    Donald Trump “We're going to make this country greater than ever before, but you have to stay in line. And don't let them slow ball you. You have an absolute legal right and get that vote in because if we win Pennsylvania, if we win the good old Commonwealth, we're going to win the whole thing. We win everything.” 16 hours ago
  • Kamala Harris
    Kamala Harris “It's either going to be him [Donald Trump] or me in the White House, and if it's him, he's going to be sitting there stewing over his enemies list, plotting his revenge, playing out all of his grievances, which are all about himself. Versus what I will be doing if elected president, which is working from day one on my to-do list on behalf of the American people.” 18 hours ago
  • Nicolle Wallace
    Nicolle Wallace “Women - you can disagree with us. We've actually learned to take it for our whole careers, all the time, in every forum. But you call us trash? Oh, oh, oh, JD Vance, you just effed up in a way I've never seen in my political life, and I worked for Sarah Palin.” 18 hours ago
  • James David Vance
    James David Vance “The citizens of this country are not garbage for wanting to be able to afford groceries and a nice place to live but in two days we are going to take out the trash in Washington DC and the trash is name Kamala Harris.” 18 hours ago
  • Avigdor Liberman
    Avigdor Liberman “Instead of taking care of the security of the country first and putting the welfare of the citizens and soldiers first, the prime minister decided to fire the defense minister and start a new round of political appointments amid a war, all in order to meet shameful political needs. If a defense minister can be replaced in the middle of a war, a prime minister can also be replaced.” 19 hours ago
  • Shlomo Karhi
    Shlomo Karhi “Yoav Gallant failed to rise to the heroic spirit of our brave warriors who demand victory and that his departure clears the war for victory in Gaza. The last one remaining to hinder and fight the government is Mrs. Miara [Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara]. Send her home now.” 19 hours ago
  • Naftali Bennett
    Naftali Bennett “This nation of lions has a sick and crazy leadership. I call on our soldiers on all fronts: Don't lose focus against the enemy. If you guard us, we the public will guard you. Don't despair, change is coming.” 20 hours ago
  • Yair Lapid
    Yair Lapid “Gallant's salute at the end of his speech will be engraved in the memory of every Israeli. This is how an officer and fighter who was fired only because he refused to prefer Netanyahu's wretched politics over the good of the fighters and the lives of the hostages.” 20 hours ago
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
    Benjamin Netanyahu “Unfortunately, although in the first months of the war there was trust and there was very fruitful work, during the last months this trust cracked between me and the defense minister [Yoav Gallant].” 21 hours ago
  • Kamala Harris
    Kamala Harris “The path to the White House runs through North Carolina. And it's a tight race. We are tied. Every vote matters. This is about turning the page and bringing in a new generation of leadership for America.” 21 hours ago
  • Barack Obama
    Barack Obama “In some states, just a handful of votes in every precinct could decide the winner. Tell your family, talk to your neighbours, make a plan, go to the polls with your friends and vote.” 21 hours ago
  • Rob Reynolds
    Rob Reynolds “Officials in Maricopa County, that's the biggest county in the state, have said there have been no irregularities and no threat to voters, so things seem to be going smoothly.” 22 hours ago
  • Abbas Araghchi
    Abbas Araghchi “The EU recently targeted ordinary Iranians and other travelers by banning our airlines from Europe. It did so on the basis of the false and unfounded claim that Iran has delivered ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine. High time for the EU to end this farce. The targeting of ordinary Iranians based on thin air is immoral and plain wrong. It must be immediately reversed.” 22 hours ago
  • John Holman
    John Holman “The Democrats are concerned because the Republicans are beating them in early voting by tens of thousands of votes. Democrats in Nevada are used to that being the other way around. Why are more Republicans going out to vote early? It could be that Donald Trump has been pushing people to do that this time around during his rallies. Before the 2020 election, he said that the only safe vote was to go out on Election Day and vote. Democrats here are hoping that what Republicans are doing is cannibalising their vote. Basically, those voters going out early are subtracting from the people who will go to polling stations in Las Vegas on Election Day. But there is another possibility, and that's that there are more Republicans, freshly energised, going out to vote in general, and that's going to be a big problem if it is the case for Democrats in this state.” 23 hours ago
  • Kamala Harris
    Kamala Harris “I will be at my alma mater, at Howard University. And before that, I have a tradition of having dinner with my family and so we will do that. I have a lot of my family staying with us. And during the day, I'll be, today all day talking with folks and reminding them to get out to vote. I would urge everyone to just remember that in our democracy, the people get to decide, and your vote is your power.” 23 hours ago
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“The coalition that elected them wanted them [Biden-Harris] to unite the country, and they failed to do so. Their failure has resulted in further disillusionment with our country's politics and empowered the Trump base to give him another narrow victory after setbacks in three consecutive general elections.”

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Former U.S. Representative anti-Trump Republican from Florida
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“This election was a CAT scan on the American people, and as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption. Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative.”

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Former strategic adviser to President George W. Bush
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“The Trump presidency speaks to the depth of the marginalization felt by those who believe they have been in the cultural wilderness for too long and their faith in the one person who has given voice to their frustration and his ability to center them in American life.”

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Executive director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia and a former adviser to President Barack Obama
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“No longer can the political establishment write off Mr. Trump as a temporary break from the long march of progress, a fluke who somehow sneaked into the White House in a quirky, one-off Electoral College win eight years ago. With his comeback victory to reclaim the presidency, Mr. Trump has now established himself as a transformational force reshaping the United States in his own image.”

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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst
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“Trump has been more assertive and more aggressive on China on the campaign trail. The former president often says things as leverage and then changes them. While Trump in the first term was sort of able to be swayed a little bit by his relationship at times with Xi Jinping, we don't really know what would happen now.”

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Senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank
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“We have to take Trump at face value. He assumes that he can strike a deal pretty quickly [and] that he would likely block any further assistance to Ukraine. For example, there is the possibility that Trump could reach a deal with Putin that excludes Zelenskyy's input - and could potentially concede quite a lot in terms of Ukraine and its territory. There's also a question of what kind of relationship he would have with Putin and with Russia, and whether that would embolden Russia more generally in the European context - and I think that's a real concern for a lot of people.”

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Director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House
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“If you listen to the Republicans, they say they've got no worries about North Carolina. Donald Trump was here yesterday - we were at one of his rallies - and he said he has absolutely no concerns, he's never lost here before, and he doesn't intend to stop. But if you look at the optics around it, he was here on Wednesday, he was here Saturday, he was here Sunday, he was here Monday. Donald Trump does not come to North Carolina that much if he's not concerned. Kamala Harris has gone from saying that they are the underdog to saying that the Democrats can win this. This is both sides projecting confidence, but it is really tight. The people who support the Democrats have got a real hope that they can turn this state Blue, but we're not going to find out for a few more hours, at least.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Cary, North Carolina
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“We're going to make this country greater than ever before, but you have to stay in line. And don't let them slow ball you. You have an absolute legal right and get that vote in because if we win Pennsylvania, if we win the good old Commonwealth, we're going to win the whole thing. We win everything.”

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Former US president
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“It's either going to be him [Donald Trump] or me in the White House, and if it's him, he's going to be sitting there stewing over his enemies list, plotting his revenge, playing out all of his grievances, which are all about himself. Versus what I will be doing if elected president, which is working from day one on my to-do list on behalf of the American people.”

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Vice President and Democratic nominee in the U.S. presidential election
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“Instead of taking care of the security of the country first and putting the welfare of the citizens and soldiers first, the prime minister decided to fire the defense minister and start a new round of political appointments amid a war, all in order to meet shameful political needs. If a defense minister can be replaced in the middle of a war, a prime minister can also be replaced.”

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Yisrael Beiteinu leader and former defense minister
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“Yoav Gallant failed to rise to the heroic spirit of our brave warriors who demand victory and that his departure clears the war for victory in Gaza. The last one remaining to hinder and fight the government is Mrs. Miara [Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara]. Send her home now.”

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Israeli Communications Minister
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“This nation of lions has a sick and crazy leadership. I call on our soldiers on all fronts: Don't lose focus against the enemy. If you guard us, we the public will guard you. Don't despair, change is coming.”

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Former Israeli Prime Minister
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“Gallant's salute at the end of his speech will be engraved in the memory of every Israeli. This is how an officer and fighter who was fired only because he refused to prefer Netanyahu's wretched politics over the good of the fighters and the lives of the hostages.”

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Israeli opposition leader
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“The path to the White House runs through North Carolina. And it's a tight race. We are tied. Every vote matters. This is about turning the page and bringing in a new generation of leadership for America.”

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Vice President and Democratic nominee in the U.S. presidential election
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“In some states, just a handful of votes in every precinct could decide the winner. Tell your family, talk to your neighbours, make a plan, go to the polls with your friends and vote.”

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Former US president
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“Officials in Maricopa County, that's the biggest county in the state, have said there have been no irregularities and no threat to voters, so things seem to be going smoothly.”

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Al Jazeera's Journalist Reporting from Tempe, Arizona
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“The EU recently targeted ordinary Iranians and other travelers by banning our airlines from Europe. It did so on the basis of the false and unfounded claim that Iran has delivered ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine. High time for the EU to end this farce. The targeting of ordinary Iranians based on thin air is immoral and plain wrong. It must be immediately reversed.”

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
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“The Democrats are concerned because the Republicans are beating them in early voting by tens of thousands of votes. Democrats in Nevada are used to that being the other way around. Why are more Republicans going out to vote early? It could be that Donald Trump has been pushing people to do that this time around during his rallies. Before the 2020 election, he said that the only safe vote was to go out on Election Day and vote. Democrats here are hoping that what Republicans are doing is cannibalising their vote. Basically, those voters going out early are subtracting from the people who will go to polling stations in Las Vegas on Election Day. But there is another possibility, and that's that there are more Republicans, freshly energised, going out to vote in general, and that's going to be a big problem if it is the case for Democrats in this state.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada
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“I will be at my alma mater, at Howard University. And before that, I have a tradition of having dinner with my family and so we will do that. I have a lot of my family staying with us. And during the day, I'll be, today all day talking with folks and reminding them to get out to vote. I would urge everyone to just remember that in our democracy, the people get to decide, and your vote is your power.”

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Vice President and Democratic nominee in the U.S. presidential election
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“There are some hopes among some people that this election might bring about some rapprochement because of the fact that a reformist president, a more balanced president, is in the office in Tehran. There is this hope among some that this election could pave the way for better ties. But there are some others who think that regardless of who wins the election the grand strategy in Washington pertaining to Tehran is not going to experience a [great] change. There's a clear air of mistrust, a significant amount of scepticism regarding how this election could end up and change the ties in the relations between Iran and the United States. All in all, I think opinions are very divided: some people prefer Trump because of his clear, direct approach; others prefer Kamala Harris because her approach is predicted to be more diplomatic, less confrontational.”

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Writer and specialist in Iranian affairs
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“I feel very confident. I hear we're doing very well everywhere. This is the best of the three campaigns I ran. It won't even be close. But it's gonna take a long time to certify.”

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Former US president
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“We have the fairest, the freest, the safest elections. We have a free press that moderates the elections, make sure things are done right. So just stay calm. Stay with it. This state knows a little bit about winning. How about Pennsylvania win this for America?”

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Democratic vice presidential nominee
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“Muslims are split. They're not all voting third party, but let's imagine a third are: then you've got up to 50,000 votes that had traditionally gone to the Democrats moving away. So if the margin is as slim as it was last time, it may affect the Democratic party.”

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Assistant professor in American politics at Michigan State University
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“I think he [Trump] will care less about the means in which it is achieved, but the idea of putting up with a forever war while Trump himself is on record as hating the notion of forever wars, I think stands on shaky ground. Trump's impatience … and inclination to show he is wielding power might in fact work against Israel. But, of course, in fact it might not. It's definitely true that Trump is not going to care about what is happening on the ground.”

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Former chairman of the Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem
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“The comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between Russia and North Korea reflects the geopolitical reality when the West is flooding the Asia-Pacific region with arms. The need to conclude this agreement emerged for two reasons. First of all, this is a new nature of relations between Russia and North Korea which have shaped over the past several years. The second reason is a new geopolitical situation which has emerged after 2022 as well as those processes that are unfolding in Northeast Asia today, around the Korean Peninsula. These processes are above all related to the policy promoted by the US and its allies in the region, which involves flooding this region with weapons, deploying new cutting-edge systems there, including with a nuclear component, and forming new military and political alliances.”

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
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“The United States might have to content itself with a cease-fire based on the resolution, and incremental steps from there. Our political calendar and, more importantly, Middle East political reality is not conducive to anything more.”

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U.S. ambassador to Lebanon in the early 1990s
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“At the end of the day, anybody who doesn't think Hezbollah is going to fight for their position in Lebanon has got another thing coming. I just don't have faith that the government of Lebanon is going to get its stuff together and stand up to the militants. Biden administration officials mainly hope to stop the fighting in Lebanon before it escalates further. With less than three months left in Mr. Biden's term, and a fiendishly complex problem, they may have few other choices. I think the Biden administration understands the limits of trying to move the chess pieces in Lebanon.”

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Political Scientist at Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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“A major piece of the puzzle currently missing is a willing and capable partner in Beirut to implement any agreement. For that, the U.S. and its partners will need to reboot the Lebanese political system by facilitating the election of a friendly president and the formation of a cabinet that does not legitimize Hezbollah's arms.”

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Senior fellow at the Middle East Institute
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“Women - you can disagree with us. We've actually learned to take it for our whole careers, all the time, in every forum. But you call us trash? Oh, oh, oh, JD Vance, you just effed up in a way I've never seen in my political life, and I worked for Sarah Palin.”

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MSNBC Political Commentator
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“The citizens of this country are not garbage for wanting to be able to afford groceries and a nice place to live but in two days we are going to take out the trash in Washington DC and the trash is name Kamala Harris.”

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Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2024 United States presidential election
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“Iranian leaders initially wanted to play down the significance of the Israeli strike last month but when they realised its impact and the significance, certainly the most significant [strike on Iran] since the Iran-Iraq war, they reached a conclusion they can't leave it without any kind of retaliation. The Tehran leadership faced a dilemma: failing to respond would be interpreted as weakness, at home and abroad; but a new attack on Israel could further fuel escalation at a time when Iran is vulnerable. It might be very risky for them … It's very obvious that Israel, in case of an Iranian retaliation, will probably move forward to the next stage of attacks on Iran, which could certainly involve not just military targets, but also symbols of the Iranian regime, oil installations and then also nuclear facilities.”

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Senior researcher at the Israeli-based Institute for National Security Studies
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“We call on Europe to realise that North Korean troops are now waging an aggressive war in Europe against a sovereign European state. This proves once again that while the West is afraid and hesitates, Russia is acting and going for escalation.”

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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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“In July, at the Washington summit, NATO leaders reaffirmed their claim to the alliance's leading role not only in the Euro-Atlantic region, but also in the Asia-Pacific region. If you read the NATO declaration, it turns out that this 'defensive' alliance, in order to protect the territory of its members, intends to fight these 'defensive' battles in the South China Sea and in the Taiwan Strait, a thousand miles from its shores. All reasonable observers understand that this is a road to nowhere. However, the Americans are deliberately introducing NATO's military infrastructure into the Pacific Ocean, not hiding the goal of increasing pressure on China, North Korea, and Russia.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
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“We now assess that as many as 10,000 [North Korean troops] have made their way to Kursk and could enter combat in the coming days. We expected that it was likely that they would enter into combat against Ukrainian forces. And if they did, they would be legitimate military targets.”

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US State Department spokesperson
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“The recent international security situation and the illegal military cooperation between North Korea and Russia pose a significant threat to our national security. We will thoroughly review all possible scenarios to prepare countermeasures.”

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President of South Korea
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“A meeting was held with the brothers in the Fatah movement at a generous Egyptian invitation. They discussed various national issues, especially the war on Gaza and pathways for national action.”

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Senior Hamas spokesperson
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“We're having to just trust in our legal system and say at the end of the day: It will be OK - don't listen to all the noise, your vote counts. Everybody is queasy and anxious and fearful about what's happening on election night. That should not be what our country offers.”

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Presidential historian at Rice University
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“There have been significant improvements in partner supplies to the front line, with an increase in deliveries under support packages. Artillery supplies have also seen marked improvements.”

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President of Ukraine
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“North Korean military will die in Kursk region, because they, like the Russian army, pose a threat to Ukraine. They are present there and, of course, they will die.”

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Ukraine's presidential chief of staff
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“Germany, together with many partners around the world, stands firmly by Ukraine's side. We will support the Ukrainians for as long as they need us so that they can follow their path to a just peace.”

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Foreign Minister of Germany
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“Most likely, more EU money will continue to trickle down to Chisinau, but can Brussels really compete with Russia, especially with allegations that the Kremlin is buying votes? As one EU official said, speaking on background as they weren't authorized to speak on the record: 'We, as Europeans, try to buy Moldovan hearts with words, but Russians buy Moldovan minds with money.' The EU's inability to effectively promote the advantages of closer ties with Brussels is partly to blame for this. Some observers of the process believe this is due to EU officials rarely venturing beyond Chisinau. Others point to the need for EU countries to have a greater presence in the country, with more diplomats and officials, and to help bolster regional and local governments around Moldova, which are both understaffed and underfunded.”

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Europe editor for RFE/RL in Prague, focusing on coverage of the European Union and NATO
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“Who is going to replace UNRWA? When this brutal war finally comes to an end, who will provide education to 400,000 children who go to UNRWA schools, who? What is the plan? We don't have any answer to that. Israel's ban on the agency will take place in 90 days. It is a race against time for member states around the world to work with Israel to not implement this ban. Even other UN agencies who have education within their mandate cannot manage teaching on this level or of this scale. We are the only UN agency in the world that runs 700 schools … In the absence of a political solution for Palestinian refugees, there is no alternative to UNRWA. It's easy to talk. The question is what are you going to do about the ban and how are you going to fill the void? You meaning the State of Israel.”

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Spokeswoman for UNRWA
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“As a country that has been able to manage decades of relative stability without involvement in any direct warfare, it goes against the tendencies of our society and the government's policies to jump into a war. Even looking at the outlier instance, which was the Vietnam War, South Korea sent a significant amount of troops only because we didn't want US forces in South Korea leaving their bases. Hearing from my students, it's quite obvious how young people are against being involved in the Russia-Ukraine War. And the slow state of the economy is likely to make other South Korean citizens frown upon the idea as well. South Korea's role in this conflict looks to be very limited, but President Yoon [Yoon Seok-youl] seems to be searching for a way to be involved as his administration has shown to be active in national security issues.”

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Professor of international relations at Korea University
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“The election outcome would not ease geopolitical tensions. On the contrary, I expect geopolitical polarisation to be amplified by the campaign for the 2025 legislative elections.”

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Moldovan associate professor of international relations at Oakland University
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“Going into election day, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are nearly neck and neck in all seven swing states; North Carolina is one of them, with 16 electoral votes, up one from four years ago. Like many Southern states, it voted for Democrats for a century before swinging to the Republicans in the 1960s, but population shifts, including many people moving in from other states, have made it a swing state in recent elections. Barack Obama narrowly carried North Carolina in 2008 but lost it in 2012; since then, it has remained close, with Republicans generally having a small advantage. North Carolina was the only one of this year's swing states won by Donald Trump in 2020, but just by around 1.3%, so this time, North Carolina is very much at play as a crucial swing state. Kamala Harris doesn't need to win North Carolina, but any scenario in which she does makes her path to 270 electoral votes and the White House a lot easier. Trump can also get to 270 without North Carolina, but doing so will be very, very hard. Like so many other swing states, North Carolina is a story of a few large and heavily Democratic cities balanced against a vast rural and Republican hinterland. Democratic voters are mainly concentrated in the state capital, Raleigh, and the neighboring cities of Greensboro and High Point, as well as in Charlotte, the state's largest city. There's also a small but significant concentration in the west of the state around Asheville, while pretty much everywhere else is Republican red. Every election has a so-called October surprise; this time, it's Hurricane Helene, a devastating storm that caused more than 200 deaths and catastrophic damage across the southeastern United States, including Georgia and North Carolina. These are the communities [in the west of the state] battered by Hurricane Helene. It's unclear how Hurricane Helene will swing these elections, but it may affect the pace of the counting process. How the federal government, that is, Biden and Harris at the White House, and the state government respond to this disaster - and how they're perceived to respond-could be a key factor for the state's voters as they head to the polls.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist
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“We elect the leader who will lead us towards prosperity, to the European Union and a better living here, at home. I voted for peace and for our freedom to edify the future in Moldova. An attack on behalf of the crime rings takes place. It is important that we mobilize at vote! Only the vote can defeat the electoral fraud. Go to vote!”

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Prime Minister of Moldova
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“Trump needs to win here in North Carolina. He won in 2016 and in 2020. But the fact that four of his last 10 events have been here in the state tells us his campaign is not certain it is a done deal. The campaign is concerned about the way things are going, particularly when you add to the mix a poll that came out Saturday night from the conservative state of Iowa that shows Kamala Harris ahead there by three points. That's quite a big deal. And she's particularly ahead with older women voters. If that were to repeat across the country, that's big trouble for the Trump campaign, so they need to ensure they get their base out. That is why Trump is here. Over the next couple of days, he's going to go to Michigan, Pennsylvania and later today, his third campaign stop is going to be in Georgia. All three of those states the Trump campaign considers to be in play. But there is concern that there might just be weakness in the core vote, so he needs to shore that up.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Kinston, North Carolina
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“What's so worrisome is that in every case that was litigated in 2020 about voter fraud, there was found to be absolutely no voter fraud. And yet, the constant repetition of claims of voter fraud make so many Americans believe that there might be voter fraud or that the elections are actually lacking integrity - when nothing could be further from the truth. US elections have been free and fair but the attempt to stoke doubts about their legitimacy really frightens Americans and leads to so much discord in the country. Both sides have been arming up for litigation. Besides that, there's real chance of political violence.”

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Partner at Summer Strategies which specialises in crisis management
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“The only way we're going to win is to swamp the vote and make this thing too big to rig. She [Kamala Harris] doesn't plan to do anything differently. For the people of North Carolina, the choice is very clear: It's a choice between more of the same, more high grocery prices, more unaffordable housing, more open borders, more fentanyl in our communities or … do we take this country in a different direction? Do we take back the peace and prosperity? Do we get back to the leadership of Donald J Trump?”

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Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2024 United States presidential election
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“Over the past one year, only Iran, Yemen, Hezbollah, Iraq, and Palestine supported Gaza and Lebanon. Some Arab states … not only remained silent, but even assisted the Zionists and murderers.”

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Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General
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“If they [the Israelis] reconsider their behaviour, accept a ceasefire, and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type of our response.”

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Iranian President
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“With or without an agreement, the key to returning our [evacuated] residents in the north safely to their homes is to keep back Hezbollah beyond the Litani, to strike its every attempt [to] rearm, and to respond forcefully against all action against us.”

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Prime Minister of Israel
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“The U.S. should not expect China to manage North Korea. It is not the case that China is responsible to manage North Korea and the U.S. is responsible for managing South Korea. I hope the U.S. government could understand China's stance. The troop deployment is a matter between Russia and North Korea, while China's attitude remains unchanged that the conflict should not be escalated.”

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Director of the Institute of American and East Asian Studies at Liaoning University
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“For China there's probably a combination of a little bit of exasperation, a little bit of panic and a little bit of they don't know what to do with regard to the current situation. It's unclear if Beijing was informed of Pyongyang's move [sending troops to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war] in advance. Beijing also could fret over Russia gaining more influence than China over North Korea.”

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Korean chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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“Beijing must find a balance between supporting Moscow and not angering the West. Chinese President Xi Jinping might for his own sake ignore the whole thing. Xi has built a personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he cannot see Putin fail. At the same time, Xi cannot anger the Europeans and Americans when his country's economy is struggling. So he's not going to say anything publicly about this [North Korean troops sent to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war].”

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Senior fellow for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on global issues at Georgetown University
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“Thieves want to buy our vote, they want to buy our country, but the power of the people is infinitely greater than any of their malice. The power of Moldova is in each of you, go out to vote with faith and hope. Heads up, Moldovans!”

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President of Moldova
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“We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on November 1. We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide. The letter is an initiative launched by Turkey.”

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye
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“We are seeing the apocalypse now unfolding in the north of Gaza. While Israel continues to issue forced displacement orders, it is not safe to move. People are being constantly bombarded with aerial attacks and of course, we know that the food and the water is not sufficient. The convoys of food and water are being denied into the north … It is absolutely catastrophic.”

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Humanitarian Director - Save the Children International
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“I don't think that this (the transfer of North Korean troops) is such a decisive step that would lead to some kind of significant change of China's attitude toward North Korea or Russia.”

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China researcher at the Prague-based Institute of International Affairs
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“North Korea wants advanced military and missile technology, but the broader goal of signaling the existence of an anti-Western coalition - which is not going to dissipate-is also important. Russia has provided North Korea with unwavering support at the U.N. Security Council over the past year, a maneuver that fulfills both Russian and North Korean interests. China will not be pleased with North Korea's ongoing claims that its 'number one friend' is Russia.”

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Lecturer in international relations at the University of Oxford
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“Contrary to what China says officially… I don't think Pyongyang would have surprised China by sending troops without discussing it before. Without China's consent, there wouldn't be a North Korean regime.”

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Senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) think tank
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“The war payments are especially attractive to impoverished, middle-aged men who see them as their last chance to escape a lifetime of debt. Beyond that, people getting the money are eating in restaurants, and buying cars, electronics, clothes and property. Government statistics from early 2024 show a 74 percent growth in ordinary Russians across the country purchasing cars compared with the same time period last year, while those paying off consumer debts jumped to 21 percent, up from about 9 percent before the war.”

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Director of the Russian Program at George Washington University
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“The people who wanted to join out of patriotic sentiment have mostly already been recruited and died or were wounded. There are not many like that left in Russia.”

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One of the founders of PS Lab, a group of mainly sociologists organized under the Russia Program at George Washington University to study attitudes toward the war.
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“If the next [US] leader continues adding fuel to the fire in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the same gusto, that will be a very bad choice because it will be a road to hell. This would really pave the way for a third world war. I urge both US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, to recognize this fact. Whoever decides to continue the war will be making a very grave mistake.”

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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman
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“The question on the left is: Is this a cynical performative device by the right to champion an anti-woke, Black, right-wing politician to challenge antiracist policies, and therefore will it have regressive consequences? I prefer to think of Ms. Badenoch as representing a kind of migrant patriotism - the idea that migrants choose the country and the rest of you are born in it and don't know how lucky you are. Ms. Badenoch's political views are very authentic and understandable in the context of a life that took her from privilege and comfort in Nigeria to a tough new start and hard-won success in Britain. It's just that her life experience is quite an unusual Black British story.”

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Director of British Future, a research institute
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“There has been a lot of investment by allies of President Trump to suggest that his victory is inevitable. That's the expectation being set among some of his supporters.”

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Executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research
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“The situation we're experiencing is tragic and dramatic. We're almost certainly talking about the worst flood our continent has seen so far this century. I'm aware that the response we're mounting isn't enough. I know that. And I know there are severe problems and shortages and that there are still collapsed services and towns buried by the mud where people are desperately looking for their relatives, and people who can't get into their homes, and houses that have been buried or destroyed by mud. I know we have to do better and give it our all. There would be time later to look into what had gone wrong and to learn lessons about the importance of our public services and how to reinforce them in the situations we're living through as a consequence of climate change … But now we need to focus all our efforts on the colossal task we face and to forget our differences and put ideologies and disagreements to one side and act together.”

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Prime Minister of Spain
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“The longer the current Ukrainian authorities, backed by the West, undermine various agreements, the less territory this regime has. In February 2014: if they had fulfilled in good faith what they agreed upon, nothing would have happened, and Crimea would be part of Ukraine. But they decided to break the agreement, as they were eager to change the government as soon as possible. By February 2015, the Minsk agreements. If they had honored these agreements, yes, Crimea had already seceded by that time, but Ukraine would have remained within its borders, including all of Donbass. They did not want to do it because they were unwilling to grant a part of Donbass special status, which primarily involves confirming the right of the people living there to speak their language. And the third chance they had was in Istanbul in April 2022. President [of Russia Vladimir Putin] spoke about it in detail. Of course, the current situation is also different from what it was in April 2022.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
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“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front.”

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Iran’s Supreme Leader
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“The Russian Armed Forces have been most successful in capturing areas in Donetsk Oblast, including towns of Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, Vuhledar and Velyka Novosilka. The Russian Federation has occupied an additional 150 sq. km in these areas over the past week. Russia might be preparing for ground offensives in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It is highly likely that the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, based in the Russian city of Pskov, will be involved in future assaults. The aim will be to capture new territory and further engage Ukrainian forces in this area.”

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Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces Intelligence Centre
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“To understand the effect of weaponised starvation, it is essential to consider the broader social and psychological framework within which it occurs. Ignacio Martín-Baró, a prominent figure in liberation psychology, posited that trauma is produced socially. This means that trauma is not merely an individual experience but is embedded within and exacerbated by the social conditions and structures surrounding the individual. In Gaza, traumatogenic structures include the ongoing siege, the genocidal aggression, and the deliberate deprivation of essential resources such as food, water, and medicine. The trauma they result in is compounded by the collective memory of suffering during the Nakba (the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1947-8) and the continuous displacement and systemic oppression of the occupation. In this environment, trauma is not just a personal experience but a collective, socially and politically ingrained reality.”

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Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health
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“The warm water of the Mediterranean added to this week's rainfall totals in Spain. When heavy rains hit the region's small mountain towns, it is no surprise that catastrophe ensues. The infrastructure to drain that much water quickly doesn't really exist. The water just doesn't have anywhere to go. In a part of the world where global warming is also leading to longer and more intense dry spells, all this extra water might seem like a blessing. But only if the right infrastructure is there to capture it. For now, in eastern Spain, that water is mostly going straight into the ocean.”

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Professor of atmospheric science at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
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“We know that extreme rainfall is becoming more extreme and more frequent. And we know that our infrastructure is aging and outdated. But being proactive about that is extremely difficult. This week's storms in Spain also produced large hail and tornadoes, an indication of how much energy was present in the low-level air that was sent aloft. That's something you don't see very often. For me, this is exactly what I would expect from climate change.”

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Professor of weather and climate modeling at the Swiss university ETH Zurich
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“US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several US Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the region. Austin continues to make clear that should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every measure necessary to defend our people.”

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Pentagon spokesperson - Military officer and United States Air Force brigadier general
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“The full extent of the damage caused to the facilities is still unclear. Israel likely wanted to prevent Iran from being able to sustain long-range missile exchanges, especially given the numbers it needs to penetrate Israel's formidable air defenses. The Israelis probably don't know precisely how many ballistic missiles [Iran] has with the requisite range, but have tried to reduce its ability to replenish its stockpile.”

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Middle East defense specialist at the global intelligence company Janes
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“Israel had dealt a significant blow to Iran's ability to produce long-range ballistic missiles. Israel's retaliatory strikes on October 26 were aimed at hindering Iran's production of solid-propellant ballistic missiles that were used by Tehran in its assault, the weapons that are of most concern to Israel. Solid-propellant missiles require fewer personnel and little time to prepare for launch compared to liquid-propellant missiles making them ideal for launching volleys in quick succession.”

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Researchera the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies
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“There seems to have been an escalation from Israel, targeting different towns in the Bekaa Valley. This is at the fourth day we have seen heavy strikes in this area of eastern Lebanon. Sixteen different towns have been targeted according to some sources. There have also been strikes on the port city of Tyre and no warnings were given. The potential for a ceasefire is looking increasingly weak. We don't expect to see anything concrete in terms of a proposal before the US election on November 5.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Beirut
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“Changing the country's nuclear doctrine is on the table if Iran is exposed to an existential threat. We now have the technical capabilities necessary to produce nuclear weapons… Only the supreme leader's fatwa currently prohibits it.”

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Adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
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“The security situation of our state and ever-aggravating prospective threats and challenges require us to continue to bolster up our modern strategic attack forces and more perfectly round off our nuclear forces' response posture.”

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Leader of North Korea
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“At this decisive moment for Moldova and, together with it, for our Europe, I want to convey to the Moldovan citizens a message of courage and hope. The European way is that of freedom and democracy, the foundation of a common future. United we are stronger.”

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President of France
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“Everyone is feeling bad across the board. It has been a very long, hard year and the Russians are still grinding forward. But Russia is trying to suggest its victory is as inevitable as it was in World War II. The Russians would like you to believe this is 1944 on the eastern front. It isn't.”

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Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute who has advised the U.S. military
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“Around a year's worth of rain fell in a single day, and as you can tell, it's had a devastating effect on the community. They're still cut off - no electricity, no connection to any sort of power system here. It's the community itself that has to rally around and sort out provisions for everyone as they've had no help so far from the regional government.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Chiva (Valencia)
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“Favourable conditions, including regional actors preoccupied with other crises and the PKK's weakened state, suggest an opportunity for progress [for a deal between the Turkish government under Erdogan and the PKK].”

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Turkey director of the German Marshall Fund
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“We are deeply grateful to our Korean friends for their principled position regarding the events that have now unfolded in Ukraine as a result of the West's course of advancing NATO to the east and encouraging an openly racist regime to exterminate everything Russian.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
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“Our traditional, historically friendly relations, which have travelled the tested path of history, today … are rising to a new level of relations of invincible military comradeship. North Korea had no doubt that under Putin's wise leadership the Russian army and people would achieve a great victory in their sacred struggle to protect the sovereign rights and security interests of their state. And we also assure that until the day of victory we will firmly stand alongside our Russian comrades.”

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North Korean Foreign Minister
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“Regarding Iran, we struck its soft underbelly … The haughty words of the Iranian regime's leaders cannot cover up the fact that in Iran today, Israel has greater freedom of action than ever before. We can go anywhere that we need to in Iran. The supreme objective that I have set for the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] and the security services is to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons … We have not taken - and we will not take - our eyes off this objective. Obviously, I cannot detail our plans to achieve this supreme goal.”

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“The Russia-North Korea partnership runs contrary to Beijing's goal for a peaceful Korean Peninsula. Beijing is aware of the complexity and danger of the situation. The fact that China hasn't said anything yet on the military alliance agreement between North Korea and Russia indicates that China strongly disagrees with it.”

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International relations expert from Renmin University in Beijing
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“Challenging stereotypes and inspiring a new generation of women leaders would be important accomplishments of a Harris presidency. But her administration could do even more. She could also use her experience and the insights afforded by her identity to advance peace and prosperity at a turbulent time, adopting an approach to global affairs that expands alliances, embraces global governance reform to bring in new voices and ideas, and harnesses the undertapped potential of half the planet. From reproductive health to economic participation to gender-based violence, matters identified as women's issues are too often granted less attention and less funding than they deserve. Making them integral parts of policy can go a long way toward addressing many of the economic, political, and social problems that ail the United States and countries across the world.”

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Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
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“No one has been spared not just among the Palestinians and the Lebanese even in the United Nations and it's because of that on top of the genocide and on top of the 57 years of unlawful occupation that I say it's time to consider suspending the credential of Israel as a member State, I understand the sensitivity because none of you is really has really clean hands when it comes to Human Rights that's okay but no one has maintained an unlawful occupation violating decades of UN Security Council, General Assembly, Human Rights Council, International Court of Justice, decision and resolutions as Israel has done enough, enough.”

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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“The potentially looming U.S.-Saudi security pact has been forged, then, out of American recognition of the energy and positional power of Saudi Arabia-a power that makes it a pivotal state in the emerging 'multinodal' order of shifting alliances and great-power competition. It also comes as Saudi Arabia plots its transition to a post-hydrocarbon energy future, and as the U.S. looks to establish an advantage in the emerging green energy economy. One can think of this new security agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, which would be broad, binding­­ and in fact extend far beyond security concerns, as an update of U.S.-Saudi relations within this evolving geopolitical order. In other words, it is a Carter Doctrine for the new energy era.”

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Senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
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“North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un may have several reasons to test-launch an ICBM [Intercontinental Ballistic Missile] at this time. This test contributes to Kim Jong Un's goals of improving the credibility of his nuclear deterrent. He just visited an ICBM base and called for progress, so this test should be seen primarily through those lenses. Analysts will be tempted to read this in the context of the upcoming US election, but I wouldn't be so hasty. Kim Jong Un remains focused on his nuclear modernisation and the timing of this test should not be over-interpreted in terms of external dynamics.”

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North Korea expert and senior analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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“We're going to see more of these flash floods in the future. This has the fingerprints of climate change on it, these terribly heavy rainfalls, and these devastating floods. Even early warnings of heavy rain based on reliable forecasts did little to prevent the fatalities and people needed to understand the real danger. Just telling people that it's going to rain quite a lot, it's not good enough...We could see that people were putting themselves at risk driving in floodwaters, and there was just so much water that it has overwhelmed these places.”

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Professor of hydrology at the University of Reading
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“In the worst affected areas more than 400 litres of rain per square metre fell on Tuesday. A relatively strong storm, a powerful downpour, like those we see falling in spring or summer, can be 40 or 50 litres per square metre. This practically multiplies it by 10.”

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Spokesman for Spain’s meteorological agency
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“Yesterday was the worst day of my life. Six residents perished and more are missing. We were trapped like rats. Cars and trash containers were flowing down the streets. The water was rising to 3 meters (9.8 feet).”

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Mayor of Utiel, a town in Valencia
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