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PREDAPPIO, Italy (AP) — Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito Mussolini as they marched to the slain Italian dictator’s crypt Sunday, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has warned that global hunger could increase because of Russia’s suspension of a U.N.-brokered deal to allow safe passage for ships carrying Ukrainian grain.

“It’s really outrageous,” said Biden speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday. “There’s no merit to what they’re doing. The U.N. negotiated that deal and that should be the end of it.”

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/: On Saturday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to land troops in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, chairman of the ‘We Are Together with Russia’ movement Vladimir Rogov said on Saturday.

"Early in the morning, according to eyewitnesses, militants of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky attempted to land troops in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar," he wrote in his Telegram channel.

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/: The Russian Foreign Ministry, alongside national specialized agencies, is working on practical measures concerning the involvement of British specialists in plotting the terrorist attack on Sevastopol, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Saturday.

SEVASTOPOL, October 29. /TASS/: A surface drone and a UAV were destroyed in the waters of the Sevastopol Bay, there were no casualties, Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev wrote in his Telegram channel on Saturday.

"In addition to the UAV, our military, according to preliminary information, also destroyed a surface drone," he wrote.

He added that the attacks started at 04:30 in the morning. "Various air defense systems in Sevastopol repelled drone attacks. All UAVs were shot down," the governor said.

YEREVAN, October 29. /TASS/: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is ready to sign a document at a trilateral meeting in Sochi to extend the mandate of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh for up to 20 years, he said on Saturday.

"We want the Russian peacekeepers to continue their mission. I'm prepared to put my signature on a document in Sochi extending the peacekeepers' mandate for 10, 15, or 20 years. I suggest that the Russian President come up with this initiative. I can make the proposal, but Russia needs to support it," Pashinyan said.

GENEVA, Oct 29 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The World Health Organization (WHO) called on health workers and students, patients, public institutions, filmmakers and other interested parties to participate in the fourth edition of the Health for All Film Festival.    

In the opinion of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, this festival has become an extraordinary sounding board for all kinds of health problems faced by people around the world, as well as the experiences of people who devote their lives to improving the health of others.

WARSAW, Oct 28 (Reuters) - U.S. firm Westinghouse Electric Co will build Poland's first nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, confirming a long-awaited decision aiming to reduce the country's carbon emissions and phase out coal.

With Russia waging war in neighbouring Ukraine, Poland's choice of a partner from the United States underlines the emphasis Warsaw places on relations with Washington at a time when its security is in the spotlight.

LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Russia said on Saturday that the accelerated deployment of modernised U.S. B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the "nuclear threshold" and that Russia would take the move into account in its military planning.

Russia has about 2,000 working tactical nuclear weapons while the United States has around 200 such weapons, half of which are at bases in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belgium and the Netherlands.

LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine.

Russia did not give evidence for its claim that a leading NATO member had sabotaged critical Russian infrastructure amid the worst crisis in relations between the West and Russia since the depths of the Cold War.