💬 "It doesn’t take [legendary journalist] Bob Woodward to understand that Joe Biden is old"

It "wouldn't be a total shock" if President Joe Biden were to drop out of the 2024 White House race, Franklin Foer, a prominent biographer of the 46th president with extraordinary access to Biden's inner circle, suggested

This revelation comes amid growing concerns about President Biden's age, as he would be 86 years old by the end of a potential second term.

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Russian high-precision artillery strikes pound enemy positions

📹 Russian artillerymen crush Ukrainian firing points and strongholds in forests and woodland areas with surgical strikes.

UAV crews help pinpoint these artillery strikes.

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🥴 It is "unpleasant" from the moral standpoint to buy gas from Russia, but there is no other way to ensure security of energy supply in Austria so far, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said 

The chancellor also stated that Austria had started to reduce its dependence on energy imports from Russia as early as in 2022. The country is working on increasing deliveries through Germany and Italy so as to be able to have more suppliers, he added.

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🇿🇦 🇺🇸 US 'Bullying' Pretoria won't last long: South African expert on Lady R scandal

The United States could opt for being "a partner in a multipolar world" or could continue fighting for the hegemonic position, which is not going to last for long, a researcher at the University of Johannesburg Oscar van Heerden told Spuntik Africa.

🗣 "They can either accept it, be a partner in a multipolar world and probably occupy that hegemonic position for a few decades more to come. Or as we've seen, if they then opt to fight to show that they are the hegemon, they are the bully, then I think that position is going to be short-lived, and it is going to be expedited that they will be knocked off that perch," he explained.

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Japan decided to increase the amount of aid provided to Japanese fisheries to $686 million following China's seafood import ban

The assistance measures for fisheries adopted by the government include the ones aimed at expansion of consumption and production, prevention of reputation damage, search for new export markets and the development of fish-processing industry, among other things.

On August 24, Japan began dumping treated wastewater from the Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean after diluting it with seawater. Tokyo claimed to have cleansed the water of all radionuclides except tritium, which was still within acceptable limits.

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🎾👏 World No. 3 Daniil Medvedev has reached the 1/4 finals of the US Open, beating world No. 13 Alex De Minaura of Australia today

Eighth seed Andrey Rublev will be his next opponent. Both Russians have met 7 times, and Medvedev won 5 of those bouts.

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📹 A Ukrainian tank crew launched an attack at Russian positions. Consequently, their vehicle was immediately destroyed by a pinpoint strike from a Russian anti-tank guided missile system unit.

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⚡️ Ukrainian armed forces fail to achieve their goals in any of directions over 3 months of counteroffensive, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said

Ukrainian troops lost more than 66,000 people and 7,600 weapons since beginning of counteroffensive, Shoigu added.

Ukrainian militants attack civilian facilities and claim them as military victories to hide counteroffensive's failure, Russian Defense Minister said.

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💬 Nothing to say on this topic

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has not confirmed reports about the preparation of a meeting between Putin and Kim Jong-un amid such rumors

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More key statements made by Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Change of Ukraine's defense minister is Kiev's internal affair;

▪️Agreements on grain is a multilateral process, so far it is hardly possible to agree on something specific;

▪️Vladimir Putin talked about drone attacks on ships guarding gas pipelines during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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🇹🇷🇺🇳 No prospects for peace in Ukraine on the horizon, Turkish President Erdogan has said

▪️The UN has proposed a mediation mechanism for paying for Russian food, Erdogan added.

▪️The Turkish president intends to discuss a possible resumption of the grain deal with the UN secretary-general during the General Assembly, which will be held this month.

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📹 Footage showing two American M88 recovery vehicles towing another wrecked German tank in the zone of the special military op has appeared on social media

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🗣️ On why Africa is pivoting to BRICS:

“This is something that France has never done in Africa, and the Germans have never done, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Americans. These people are not bringing the prosperity to the African countries. What they do is they bring wheat. They say 'Oh, we feed you.' This is exactly what happened during the war in Yugoslavia, where the West was sending food to the Bosniaks, but allowing the Serbs to continue bombing. So all that is feeding the population; it means telling the population 'you depend on this for your survival.' But that is not right,”Elijah Magnier, veteran war correspondent, told Sputnik.

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❗️Human Rights Watch told Sputnik that it had collected evidence of the death of the inhabitants of the city of Izyum as a result of Ukrainian shelling with cluster munitions in 2022

▪️The organization said that it studied the situation on the ground and that there were remnants of cluster munitions everywhere in the city.

▪️Judging by the direction from which the fire was opened, it was possible to determine that they were used by Kiev forces.

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🇮🇳 India Wants to Change Its Name

📄 The Indian gov't is likely to introduce a resolution to officially change India's name to "Bharat" during a special parliamentary session scheduled for September 18-22, local media report.

Interestingly, President Droupadi Murmu has already been sending out #G20 dinner invitations under the name of "President of Bharat."

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💬 "Almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis"

Donald Trump said that a possible attempt to block him from running for president in 2024 by invoking the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is another "trick"

The former president also said that his opponent, incumbent President Joe Biden, is the "most incompetent and most corrupt" leader in the history of the United States, who is "incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election."

The third section of the 14th Amendment provides that a person who has previously held civil or military office may not be elected if the candidate has participated in or supported a rebellion or insurrection.

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🗣 Russia will perceive the possible return of American nuclear weapons to Britain as a step towards escalation, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Earlier, media reported that Washington could return to its 1958-2008 policy of stationing nuclear arsenals in Britain based on an analysis of the draft US Air Force budget by scientists.

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🗣️ On BRICS as a counterweight to the G7:

“US allies are defecting and joining the BRICS, and as you pointed out, Saudi Arabia, but also UAE, and essentially the large developing countries that have large assets of energy, both hydro energy and fossil fuel, are joining the BRICS. And what that does is it undermines the G7's control, the G7's 'globalist control' of the entire planet. It's creating a counter-hegemonic bloc. It's creating a multipolar world,” KJ Noh, author, journalist and geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

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