🤔 Why US re-entry won't solve Somalia's security problem & how Russia can save the day

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❗French electricity price exceeds 1,000 Euros for first time, Bloomberg reports

⚡Ukrainian troops open fire at ZNPP, shells hit area near storage of radioactive isotopes, radiation level not exceeding norm, Enerhodar authorities report

🇺🇸US Approves $1.95 billion sale of Black Hawk helicopters to Australia, Bloomberg reports.

The potential sale of 40 Black Hawk helicopters estimated to be worth $1.95 billion has been approved by the US Department of State after the Australian government made a request in 2021 to replace its MRH90 Taipan helicopters due to ongoing performance issues.

The US believes that the sale will support “the foreign policy and national security objectives of the US”.

🗯️“It is vital to the US to assist our ally in developing and maintaining a strong and ready self-defense capability,” the US Security Cooperation Agency said, commenting on the sale.

❗Gas futures in Europe trading up almost 5%, top $3,400 per thousand cubic meters

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story based on FBI misinformation warnings.

The story relates to The New York Post alleged leaking of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop which included details of Hunter introducing a Ukrainian energy tycoon to his father and arranging a meeting.

🗯️"The background here is that the FBI came to us - some folks on our team - and was like 'hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that'." Zuckerberg told Rogan, explaining his intentions to censor the information.


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Footage showing how the Ukrainian Army damaged residential buildings using HIMARS in the Zaporozhye region.

📹 Footage shows Joe Biden slamming “MAGA" Republicans

🗯️"They are not many real republicans anymore (...) I don't respect these MAGA Republicans," the US president said during a rally for the Democratic National Committee at Richard Montgomery High School.


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⚡US court releases redacted affidavit underpinning search of Trump's Mar-a-lago residence

🏎️“Racing is in the DNA”

Audi is to make its debut in Formula One as an engine manufacturer for the 2026 season.

▪️The chairman of the Audi board stressed the rising role of electrical elements in the power units and the intent to run the engines on fully sustainable fuels as being key in Audi’s decision-making process.

▪️Previously, Audi placed a central focus of its racing activities in sports cars, having colossal success at the Le Mans 24 Hours, winning it 13 times.


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🇫🇷🇬🇧French President Emanuel Macron believes that the UK and France will face problems if leaders are unsure over their friendship

🗯️"If, between us as French and British people, we aren't able to say if we're friends or foes - the term isn't neutral - we're heading towards serious problems," Macron said, commenting on remarks made by the favorite to be the next British prime minister Liz Truss when she refused to say if the French president was "friend or foe".

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👨‍🎓Younger Americans face a bigger student loan burden than the previous generation and school debt will be a major economic issue for decades to come - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

▪️About 36% of older Gen Z-ers - those aged 20 to 25 - have student loan debt compared to 31% of millennials (now 36- to 41-years-olds) when they were around that age.

▪️The average student loan balance for the younger set was also 13% higher at $20,900.

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🌊Footage of the Pakistan floods that hit 33 million people in the worst disaster in a decade.

⚡Main statements from a Dmitry Medvedev interview with the French channel LCI:

▪️ Russia conducts a special military operation in the DPR and Ukraine to prevent a third World War;

▪️The special military operation in Ukraine was essential as negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the West were not successful;

▪️Any Ukrainian refusal to participate in NATO is currently a significant, but not sufficient condition for achieving peace. Russia demands its security guarantees;

▪️Zelensky as an interlocutor in the negotiations does not inspire confidence in the Russian Federation. He is inexperienced, dependent on other countries and subject to the influence of psychotropics;

▪️The possibility of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine at the highest level depends on the situational development. The negotiations will be held only under certain conditions;

▪️Russia did not go for a tough scenario of a special military operation, although it would have ended faster;

▪️Russia can join the LPR and the DPR only if the republics themselves hold the appropriate referendums.

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😷D.C. public schools are pushing back enforcement deadlines for students who fail to receive their required vaccinations, including against COVID-19. According to the new attendance guidelines issued Friday, students age 12 or older will have until Jan. 3, 2023, to have received all the needed doses of a COVID vaccine before facing exclusion from school.

Children in pre-K through fifth grade have until Oct. 11 to complete all their routine pediatric immunizations, while students in sixth through 12th grade have until Nov. 4.

Paul Kihn, the District’s deputy mayor for education, told local school officials in a letter that the staggered approach to enforcement is meant to reduce the number of students who can be excluded from schools at any given time.

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⚡️Liz Truss may trigger article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol if she becomes Prime Minister.

🔹A bomb threat made early Friday (August 26) forced students at Howard University to evacuate two residence halls for the second time during the first week of fall semester classes. According to NBC Washington, D.C. investigators checked out the threat and found nothing. A university spokesperson said police may know where the call originated.

A Howard spokesperson said in a statement that human, animal, and mechanical explosive-finding devices were used in the search of the two residential buildings.

The university notes it’s in contact with federal officials, who have been assigned to investigate similar threats. Late Tuesday, another bomb threat forced students to evacuate Cook Hall. The D.C. police department’s bomb unit responded and gave the all-clear early Wednesday.

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◾️Environmental rights groups have cautiously welcomed a new agreement between the German and Canadian governments to begin shipping hydrogen across the Atlantic as early as 2025, as the two countries shift towards more renewable energy.

The Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance, announced this week following meetings in Canada between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, comes as Europe tries to wean itself off Russian energy amid the war in Ukraine.

“The Hydrogen Alliance between Canada and Germany is a significant milestone as we accelerate the international market rollout of green hydrogen and clear the way for new transatlantic cooperation,” Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice-chancellor, said in a statement on Tuesday.

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📊 A Gallup poll released Thursday and two other polls released earlier in the week show that Biden’s approval rating has been increasing in August but remains below 50%.

The Gallup poll shows that Biden’s approval rating now sits at 44%, with 53% disapproving. While that is still far from where Democrats would want it to be if they hope to hold onto the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections, it is significantly better than last month, when only 38% approved of Biden’s job performance.

A Morning Consult-Politico Poll and a Reuters-Ipsos Poll also reflected growth in Biden’s popularity, sitting at 43% and 41%, respectively.

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🔎A Colorado mother accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after her teen daughter said she started associating with supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory was found guilty of conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping on Friday.

Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. She had lost custody of him earlier that year after being accused of medical child abuse — lying about him having seizures and other health problems to trick doctors into providing unnecessary care.

Jurors also found Abcug guilty of a misdemeanor count of child abuse. She is scheduled to be sentenced in October. Her son, now 10, is still in foster care and has not had serious health problems since being removed from Abcug, according to prosecutors.

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🚓After finding "rainbow fentanyl" during two recent busts in the Portland area, federal authorities are warning Oregonians to keep an eye out for the brightly-colored and highly-toxic synthetic opioid that resembles sidewalk chalk.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon joined the Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday to warn over the rainbow fentanyl. Officials say the new colorful-powdery form has a higher potency than other forms of fentanyl.

They say the DEA’s Portland Office has seized record amounts of fentanyl, adding that the drug’s availability has led to a huge rise in overdose deaths in Oregon. “Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat we face today,” said DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Jacob D. Galvan from the Seattle Field Division.

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