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🚨 Iran unveils West Asia's biggest cancer hospital The new main building of the Iranian Cancer Institute is equipped with over 610 beds and cutting‑edge medical technology. 🔸 The hospital spans 60,000 square meters - 18 floors, 37 specialized departments and a national cell therapy lab 🔸 It is equipped with 11 imaging and radiotherapy machines, 96 chemotherapy beds, and 19 operating rooms 🔸 It functions as the nation's main hub for cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment War and sanctions haven't stopped Iran from advancing its healthcare infrastructure.
Sputnik205,549 views • 6 days ago

🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 Xi Jinping warns China and the US must avoid the 'Thucydides Trap' Thucydides Trap refers to the historic pattern where fear between a rising power and a dominant one leads to conflict. "These are questions posed by history, the world, and peoples," Xi stressed.
Sputnik820,867 views • 25 days ago

🚨Putin asked if Russia "benefited" from Iran war because "the world now buys Russian oil without problems" Here's his response: "Oil & gas used to be ~50% of Russian federal budget. Now it’s down to ~20-23%. We’re not critically dependent anymore. What matters is market stability, not spikes. Turbulence hurts everyone — including us. We’ll keep working with OPEC+ to reduce volatility."
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🚨🇷🇺Putin explains how Russia tested the Oreshnik missile in Ukraine Russia has not carried out a single full-scale combat use of the Oreshnik missile system in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with international news agency leaders at SPIEF. The launches that have taken place were tests intended to assess the system's performance and gather data for its future full-scale deployment. Putin described the tests as important for the missile complex's future full-scale use.
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🚨Putin explains Iran's response to US/Israeli attacks "I kept saying this in our consultations with the colleagues from Iran, we keep saying that they should deter from [straightforward answer]. They say, "we've been attacked, our children are being killed. What can we do? We are forced to respond in such a way." So from this perspective, yeah, the situation is not very simple."
Sputnik26,504 views • 3 days ago

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Chinese engineer Peng Pai, who reunited with Vladimir Putin in Beijing 25 years after first meeting him as a child, showed Sputnik the gift the Russian president gave him during his latest visit. Spoiler: it's a “Moscow Classics” tea set from St Petersburg’s Imperial Porcelain Factory.
Sputnik107,318 views • 19 days ago

🚨🇷🇺 North Korean troops march on Moscow’s Red Square as part of May 9 Victory Day Parade
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🇷🇺🇹🇿 Putin meets Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Kremlin The leaders are holding talks in Moscow during Hassan's state visit to Russia, the first by a Tanzanian head of state in more than 55 years. Hassan will later travel to St. Petersburg to participate in SPIEF 2026 and attend a Russia–Tanzania business dialogue.
Sputnik22,574 views • 5 days ago

🚨🇨🇳 World’s first end-to-end robotic hotel launching in China The hotel will use robots for all seven key operations - check-in, luggage, room service, food & beverage delivery, cleaning, security, and guest escort. 🔸 The robots run as one unified team on a single platform 🔸 They coordinate actions and make decisions completely autonomously, no humans needed 🔸 The complex is scheduled to welcome its first tourists in 2027 🔸 By that moment, it aims to also automate landing, sightseeing, accommodation, and shopping China is leaving the world's tourism industry in the dust with its technological edge.
Sputnik22,929 views • 5 days ago

👉 CNN correspondent Nick Walsh — who is wanted in absentia in Russia for taking part in the invasion of Kursk region — filmed a propaganda segment about Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian cities exactly FOUR days after the deadly Starobelsk strike that killed 21 children. Neither the hosts nor Walsh said a single word about it, Russian MFA spox Maria Zakharova noted. “Instead, CNN ran a full promotional campaign praising the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones.“
Sputnik37,115 views • 12 days ago

🚨🇧🇾 Attack on Belarus would take Ukraine war to new level – Lukashenko “God forbid a military strike occurs on Belarusian soil from any territory — the war in Ukraine will take on a completely different dimension,” Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned. European NATO member states are pushing Zelensky to threaten Belarus, he added. In December 2025, Lukashenko announced that Russian Oreshnik missiles had entered service in Belarus. The Oreshnik is Russia’s newest missile system equipped with a medium-range ballistic missile and hypersonic warheads.
Sputnik26,114 views • 8 days ago

🚨🇨🇳 How Chinese WS-10 jet engine made it a modern air power Celebrating twenty years since its debut, the WS-10 Taihang turbofan has become the backbone of the Chinese air force fighter fleet. 🔸 The project was launched in 1987 and finalized in 2006, and built up the domestic engineering base 🔸 It ended dependence on foreign suppliers, allowing mass production of 4th- and 5th-generation jets 🔸 The engine also powers exported J-10CE fighters 🔸 The WS-10 almost rivals the US General Electric F110 in performance The breakthrough gave China a completely self-sufficient air force.
Sputnik24,448 views • 8 days ago

🚨🇷🇺Putin: Russia is ready to end the Ukraine conflict 🟠Russia is prepared to reach a peace agreement and bring the Ukraine conflict to an end through negotiations, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with international news agencies in St. Petersburg. 🟠He stressed that any final settlement must be signed by officials with the legal authority to represent Ukraine. He noted that Volodymyr Zelensky's presidential term expired two years ago and argued that questions surrounding his legitimacy remain unresolved. 🟠The Russian leader also pointed out that calls for elections in Ukraine, widely discussed earlier this year, have largely disappeared from public debate. 🟠However, legitimate representatives capable of signing a peace agreement exist within Ukraine's political system, including the Verkhovna Rada, Putin noted. 🗣"If there is a desire for peace, we will find those who can sign the relevant documents," Putin said.
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