🛢🇺🇸 US strategic oil reserves are at their lowest level in 36 years

US strategic oil reserves have fallen to 434.1 million barrels, the lowest level since 1984. Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the US is spending its strategic oil reserves faster than expected, trying to contain prices in the global energy market.

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NASA reschedules Artemis 1 moon mission launch for September 27

The director of the kindergarten in Energodar spoke about how it was shelled by Ukraine.

"The destruction is unimaginable", the woman said, underlining that "kindergarten is beyond politics."

At least 49 people Armenians were killed as a result of shelling on the border with Azerbaijan, Armenian PM Pashinyan says

🚀🛸☄️ Footage of a sighting of mysterious bright lights blinking in a row in the night sky in India's Uttar Pradesh state has created a buzz on social media, sparking rumours of unidentified flying object (UFO).

👽 Refuting rumors of the unnatural light sighting being a UFO, some netizens guessed it to be a satellite passing through low earth orbit.

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🇺🇸 A US eighth grader was filmed on video fighting his teacher after a cell phone dispute

The boy was arrested and charged with a first-degree felony: aggravated assault of a public servant. The incident occured at a middle school in Odessa, Texas.

📹 As seen in the video, the brawl happened right in the classroom, but no one came to help the educator

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❗A legendary French-Swiss cinema director, Jean-Luc Godard, has died at age 91

Critics have hailed him as the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. Many of Godard's films were lauded for the way they challenged traditional Hollywood and French cinema

🇧🇷 Former Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running again for the post of head of state, told CNN Brazil that the EU's decision to provide military support to Ukraine is wrong.

In his opinion, the EU made a mistake by intervening in the conflict in Ukraine, instead of helping to resolve it.

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📹 2S4 Tyulpan 240-mm self-propelled mortars destroying the camouflaged fortified positions and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (video by Russian MoD)

▪Tyulpans are designed to destroy objects that cannot be destroyed by artillery pieces of a smaller caliber;

▪The mortar is notable for the fact that its use does not require the special preparation of the position;

▪Tyulpan is the only mortar of this caliber in the world and has no analogues

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🇪🇺The EU is unlikely to cap the price of Russian gas, The Guardian says, citing a leaked document

The European Commission is retreating from imposing a price cap on Russian gas, but pushing ahead with windfall taxes on companies' “surplus” energy profits, according to a leaked paper (a proposed regulation on the “electricity emergency tool”)

🇷🇺❄️ Russian media shared a video showing Manul Timofey from the Moscow Zoo, who is already transforming for winter as his fur becomes thicker and more reddish.

😼His muzzle’s expression is becoming stern as well.

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❗Sergei Lavrov and several members of the Russian delegation received visas to participate in the UN General Assembly

💬 Putin makes every effort to de-escalate tensions on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov

CSTO says organized work to activate mechanisms to resolve the situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is being carried out, adding that the use of force on the border is unacceptable, and political and diplomatic methods and agreements should be used.

Meanwhile, France convenes UN Security Council to discuss escalation on Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

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🇺🇸 In 2021, Americans spent more on taxes than on food, clothing and health care combined: $16,700 versus $15,500, according to the information provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

▪The BLS recorded spending costs on an average 'consumer unit,' or a financially independent family or individual;

▪On average in 2021, US consumer units spent $8,289.28 on food, $1,754.39 on clothing, and $5,451.61 on healthcare

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🇺🇸 Joe Biden "got lost" on stage again: this time after delivering a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

During that event the US President asked cancer survivors not to "jump" from a balcony.

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🇫🇮 Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said that Western sanctions must affect the "everyday lives of ordinary Russians"

"We must continue our support to Ukraine in all of its forms and we must be ready to take more sanctions because the more impact we take with sanctions, the more expensive it will become for Russia to continue this war. The sanctions must be reflected in the everyday lives of ordinary Russians," Marin said during the plenary session of the European Parliament.

Marin also noted that the lifting of the visa facilitation agreement between the EU and Russia was "a well-founded decision," but it was "not enough."

Moscow repeatedly warned Europe that anti-Russian sanctions would only result in further escalation and won't solve the crisis. At the same time, the restrictions imposed by the West resulted in skyrocketing energy prices worldwide, leading to high inflation in Europe

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🕋 Saudi authorities have arrested a man who claimed to have traveled to Mecca to perform an umrah pilgrimage on behalf of the late Queen Elizabeth II

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▪️The man posted a video of himself holding a banner saying: “Umrah for the soul of Queen Elizabeth II, we ask God to accept her in heaven and among the righteous.” at Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque, where non-Muslims are forbidden.

▪️The footage was circulated on Saudi media, with people calling for the man’s arrest.

▪️Saudi Arabia forbids pilgrims to Mecca from carrying banners or chanting slogans, and umrah can be performed on behalf of deceased Muslims but not non-Muslims like the Queen, who was supreme governor of the Church of England, the mother church of the global Anglican communion.

▪️Saudi security forces reportedly “arrested a resident of Yemeni nationality who appeared in a video clip carrying a banner inside the Grand Mosque” and “legal measures were taken against him and he was referred to the public prosecution," citing a statement carried by state media late on Monday.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Air Forces performed high-precision attacks, hitting the provisional bases of Ukrainian units from the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade, the 115th Mechanized Brigade, and the 53rd Mechanized brigades in the DPR;

▪️In addition, Ukrainian units from the 35th Marine Brigade and 57th Mechanized Infantry Brigade in the Nikolayev region, the Mountain Assault Brigade in the Zaporozhye region, and the 14th Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region have also been hit by the Russian Forces during attacks.

▪️The attacks have resulted in 800 casualties among Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries;

▪️Russian Forces hit 12 Ukrainian command posts in the DPR, in the Zaporozhye region and in the Nikolayev region, as well as hit 47 Ukrainian artillery units and 152 areas where Ukrainian manpower and military equipment are concentrated;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed five Ukrainian missile, artillery armament, and munitions depots in the Zaporozhye region, in the DPR and in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Air Forces destroyed a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian air defense means destroyed 6 Ukrainian UAVs in the Kherson region, Nikolayev region, Zaporozhye region and in the DPR, as well as intercepted 7 Ukrainian rocket-propelled projectiles in the Kherson region.

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❗️London and Washington are trying to "sweep under the carpet" information about US military biological activities in Ukraine, Russia's deputy minister of foreign affairs says.