On October 11, an action by the «Point of Support» movement — an anti-war community of Russians in Korea — took place at the Russian Embassy in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Participants remembered the victims of Russian aggression and dedicated the rally to the memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed on October 7.

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Ethiopian authorities said the country had «no choice left but to defend itself against Eritrea», and demanded the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean troops from its territory. The appeal was sent to the UN Security Council amid fighting in northern Ethiopia.

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Sergey Lavrov, at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, said that Russia will not suspend the war against Ukraine during negotiations. Before that, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, he met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an article for Bloomberg, called for a sweeping reform of the UN: abolish the veto in the Security Council, abandon permanent membership, and strengthen the powers of the General Assembly. He called this the central element of the reform.

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The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT), in a report cited by Bloomberg, estimated the number of DPRK citizens working in drone production in Russia at up to 25,000. According to the researchers, some of them work in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, where drones based on Iranian Shaheds are assembled.

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