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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday that Ethiopia’s yearlong war has been marked by “extreme brutality” as a joint investigation into alleged atrocities faulted all sides for committing abuses, and “the big numbers of violations” are linked to Ethiopian forces and those from neighboring Eritrea.

The investigation was hampered by authorities’ intimidation and restrictions and didn’t visit some of the war’s worst-affected locations. It said all combatants have committed abuses which may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Over five days abroad at two global summits, President Joe Biden showed a new willingness to openly confront China over climate change and its lack of leadership on the global stage.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Over five days abroad at two global summits, President Joe Biden showed a new willingness to openly confront China over climate change and its lack of leadership on the global stage.

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) believes that Advisor to the head of Russia's Roscosmos State Space Agency Ivan Safronov and political scientist Demuri Voronin handed information on the activities of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria over to Germany's intelligence, Safronov's lawyer Ivan Pavlov told reporters.

November 2. /TASS/: Russia's coronavirus cases rose by 39,008 to 8,593,200 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Tuesday. This is the lowest daily number of cases in a week.

According to data from the crisis center, Russia's coronavirus growth rate was 0.46%.

In particular, 3,066 coronavirus cases were reported in St. Petersburg in the past day, 2,893 in the Moscow region, 1,547 in the Samara region, 801 in the Voronezh region and 789 in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

There are currently 939,698 active coronavirus cases in Russia.

SEVASTOPOL, November 2. /TASS/: The Black Sea Fleet’s Bal and Bastion coastal defense missile systems wiped out a notional enemy’s surface ships during drills in the Black Sea, the Fleet’s press office reported on Tuesday.

"The teams of Bal and Bastion mobile coastal defense anti-ship missile systems from a Black Sea Fleet missile/artillery formation held drills to eliminate a group of the mock enemy’s surface ships in the Black Sea," the press office said in a statement.

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/: S-400 air defense systems and Pantsyr-S1 anti-aircraft missile/gun launchers enjoyed the greatest demand among foreign customers in 2021, Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev said in an interview with the RBC media group on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/: Russia has not changed its plans to supply gas to Europe after November 8, once its own gas storage facilities are filled, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.

When asked if Moscow plans to increase gas supplies to Europe after November 8, he said:

BUCHAREST, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Romania reported a record daily number of 591 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday amid a persistently low vaccination rate and a wave of coronavirus infections that has overwhelmed the country’s ailing health care system.

Only 37 per cent of adults in Romania, a European Union member with around 19 million people, have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 compared to an EU average of 75 per cent. Within the 27-nation EU, only Bulgaria has a smaller share of its population vaccinated.

PARIS, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five million people have died worldwide from Covid-19 since the disease first emerged in China nearly two years ago, according to a tally from official sources.

   Monday’s milestone, nearly four months after four million deaths were registered, came even as mortality rates slow thanks to a global vaccine rollout that has seen billions of people injected.

   While the number of daily deaths worldwide fell below 8,000 for the first time in almost a year in early October, there remain blackspots globally.