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  • Steve Witkoff
    Steve Witkoff “The meeting was positive, upbeat, constructive. Everybody was there to get to the right outcome.” 22 hours ago
  • Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio “Ending the war in Ukraine could unlock the door for incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians geopolitically on issues of common interest and, frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and also improve our relations in the long term.” 22 hours ago
  • Sergey Lavrov
    Sergey Lavrov “We explained today that the deployment of any troops, any armed forces from NATO countries but under other flags, either the European Union or national flags, changes nothing in this context. For us, of course, this is unacceptable.” 22 hours ago
  • Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio “Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement. We will need active work of diplomatic missions capable of functioning normally to be able to continue these contacts.” 23 hours ago
  • Jana Puglierin
    Jana Puglierin “February 2022 destroyed our faith in a collective security order with Russia and showed us the dark side of our fundamental dependence on Russia and China in critical areas. February 2025 shows us that the Americans no longer feel responsible for European security - and that their interests are fundamentally different from ours.” 23 hours ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense - and this includes the European Union, Turkiye, and the UK - should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world.” 23 hours ago
  • Mariia Mezentseva
    Mariia Mezentseva “It's not yet very clear how this negotiating table will look. But defence and justice must be at the forefront of any solution to end the war, and the US, Europe and Ukraine must be on board. It's not Russia who can dictate the rules because they are the invaders. It has to be absolutely [reversed].” 23 hours ago
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November, 2024

“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.
01 Nov 2024 7 4
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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
01 Nov 2024 3 3
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“They got us into Ukraine. We should have never gone into Ukraine. If I was president, you would have never gone into Ukraine.”

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Former US president
01 Nov 2024 1 2
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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
01 Nov 2024 6 2
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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
01 Nov 2024 3 3
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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
01 Nov 2024 4 3
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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
01 Nov 2024 6 2
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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
01 Nov 2024 6 2
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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
01 Nov 2024 1 4
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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
01 Nov 2024 3 3
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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
01 Nov 2024 2 3
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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)
01 Nov 2024 2 1
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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
01 Nov 2024 2 2
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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
01 Nov 2024 4 1
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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
01 Nov 2024 7 2
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