Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Anna Tsivileva reported on the systemic shortage in the country of rehabilitation specialists and prosthetists for SVO participants. “We don’t have enough rehabilitation specialists, we don’t have enough specialists, high-class prosthetists,” Kommersant quotes the deputy minister as saying. Tsivileva did not give a specific number for the shortage of specialists.

The military in Guinea-Bissau announced the suspension of the electoral process in the country and taking control of it, Le Monde reports . Army representatives also announced the closure of state borders. Earlier, President Oumarou Sissoku Embalu told Jeune Afrique that a coup d'etat had taken place in the country, and he himself was taken into custody. According to the president, high-ranking military officers were arrested along with him.

The Perseverance rover's SuperCam instrument accidentally recorded unusually powerful signals at the center of two dust devils that turned out to be electromagnetic and acoustic signatures of discharges comparable to static electricity on Earth. A study on this phenomenon was published in the journal Nature.

The Israel Defense Forces reported that the remains of the hostage transferred from Gaza yesterday belong to Dror Or. The identification was carried out by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine together with the Israeli Police and the Military Rabbinate. The body was handed over to the relatives of the deceased for burial.

The Russian publishing house AST announced that it has recalled a print run of Stephen King’s novel It after receiving a complaint that the text contained depictions of “non-traditional relationships.” As AST CEO Tatyana Gorskaya told the state-run news agency TASS , “an entire batch of the novel was withdrawn. There was a complaint, and the Russian Book Union conducted a preliminary review. What were the complaints about?

The Trump administration is trying to lure Alexander Lukashenko to its side and weaken Belarus’ ties with Russia by lifting the first sanctions for the release of political prisoners, writes Reuters. The White House is currently negotiating with Minsk about the release of more than 100 political prisoners. The agency learned about this from three sources familiar with the situation. Since Trump's inauguration in January, Lukashenko has already released dozens of prisoners in several waves.

A Georgia prosecutor has officially dropped the case against President Donald Trump and others accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, CNN reports . This means Trump avoided prosecution for trying to change the outcome of the election, which he lost to Joe Biden. Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis said the complexity of the legal issues - from constitutional issues to questions of immunity and jurisdiction - meant a jury trial would not be possible until 2029-2031.

The Russian publishing house AST explained the withdrawal of the edition of Stephen King's novel “It” with a complaint about the image of “non-traditional relationships” contained in the text. “An entire batch of the novel was recalled. There was an appeal - and the Russian Book Union conducted a preliminary examination. What were the complaints? For non-compliance with current legislation,” Tatyana Gorskaya, general director of the publishing house, told TASS.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for disclosure of state secrets against the founder of the First Department, Ivan Pavlov, and his colleague, lawyer Evgeny Smirnov. The charge is related to the defense of former Inter RAO top manager Karina Tsurkan, whose interests were represented by lawyers in court in 2020.

The American Ramoco Fuels sent Lukoil an offer to lease 194 gas stations of the company in the United States for $150 million, Izvestia writes . According to two Izvestia sources familiar with the terms, the lease is for 24 months and will automatically turn into a purchase once regulatory, environmental and franchising requirements are met. Ramoco's network includes 110 gas stations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and North Carolina.

In October, Belarus sharply increased gasoline supplies to the Russian market amid a drop in refinery capacity due to Ukrainian attacks. In October, the volume of exchange trading in fuel from Belarus increased 47 times compared to the same period last year - to 36,480 tons, a representative of the St. Petersburg International Commodity Exchange told Vedomosti.

US President Donald Trump said he was not setting a specific deadline for reaching a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, although he had previously stated that such a deadline was November 27. He told reporters on board Air Force One, NBC News reports . He said: “I don't have a deadline. Do you know what my deadline is? When it's all over.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to sever all US military ties with Scouting America, the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts. NPR reports this with reference to documents that are being prepared to be sent to Congress.

The Russian Ministry of Transport proposed issuing fines for violations of rules of conduct on the railway, for example for crossing railway tracks in the wrong place, through a facial recognition system. As follows from the document posted on the federal portal of draft legal acts, the ministry wants to install automatic photo and video recording cameras in high-risk areas, and also proposes to allow the processing of biometric data without the prior consent of citizens.

A court in the Moscow region of Istra arrested 29-year-old Vitaly Balabrikov, the administrator of a rehabilitation center in neighboring Dedovsk, where “difficult teenagers” were abused, writes Msk1. He is charged with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm, group torture, unlawful imprisonment and forcing him to perform work that does not meet safety requirements. Also charged was an 18-year-old resident of the center who allegedly took part in the abuse.