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Washington is not behaving responsibly in connection with the October 2 incident with the US Navy nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in the South China Sea and is withholding information, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday, citing Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

China will accelerate the energy transition with wind farms and photovoltaic projects. This promise was made by Chinese President Xi Jinping in his written address to the participating countries of the climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Xinhua news agency reports.

A series of talks on cybersecurity took place between the United States and Russia, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing its own sources.

In the USA, the approach of one of the Russian spacecraft (number 40258 in the catalog of the North American Aerospace Defense Command) of the Luch series to the Intelsat 36 commercial satellite was shown on a computer model. The corresponding video was published by the American company COMSPOC on Vimeo.

After the end of the pandemic, it is important to reconsider the principles of international cooperation in the field of bio-research

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said it was necessary to take under international control the activities of laboratories conducting the study of deadly viruses.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ukraine should stop calling Bayraktar "Turkish".

According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, the drones, although manufactured in Turkey, belong to completely different countries.

A new video has appeared on social networks, apparently made at the earliest stage of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. In a short video, you can see a combat vehicle turned into a pile of twisted metal. According to the individual elements of the design, it can be understood that we have a T-90S main battle tank in front of us.

In the Altai Territory, anti-sabotage exercises with the Barnaul missile compound have ended, in which more than 1,000 servicemen and 100 pieces of equipment took part, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

The conclusions about the origin of the coronavirus contained in the declassified report of the American intelligence community are unreliable and unscientific, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned at a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that Washington's policy towards Taiwan is fraught with deterioration of Sino-American relations and aggravation of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese media reported.

NATO is not interested in developing cooperation and bilateral relations with Moscow, this opinion was voiced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He was answering a question from journalists about whether there are signals from the alliance indicating readiness to restore dialogue with Russia. Representatives of the alliance only offered to discuss the situation in Ukraine during the Council meeting.

The flagship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitney goes to the Black Sea. "The flagship of the Sixth Fleet, Mount Whitney, with the staff of the Sixth Fleet headquarters and the NATO Naval Strike Force, has begun a northward transition to the Black Sea to interact with NATO allies and partners," the fleet tweeted.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, congratulated the sailors on the Day of the Seaman and the Day of the foundation of the Russian Regular Fleet. These two dates are celebrated on October 30.

Sudan will continue to implement agreements on the establishment of a Russian military base in the country, Sudanese military leader, commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

In recent years, the US Navy and Air Force have been writing off more and more outdated equipment, and cruise missile carriers are no exception. Just recently, 17 B-1B bombers were "retired", 22 Ticonderoga-type missile cruisers, 28 Arleigh Burke-type Block 1 and Block 2 destroyers are planned to be decommissioned soon. These losses will only be partially compensated by the construction of new ships.

The peacekeeping exercises "Unbreakable Brotherhood - 2021" of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) countries will be held on the territory of Russia from November 8 to 12.

Ukraine will never receive weapons from other countries if it is promoted on this. This was announced on Monday, November 1, by the ex-head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavlo Klimkin.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the level of equipment of the Russian Navy with modern weapons by 2027 should exceed 70%.

The growing intensity of NATO aviation flights near the borders of Russia requires improving the aerospace defense system. The deployment of US missiles in Europe poses a threat, Vladimir Putin said, opening a series of defense meetings in Sochi.