⚡️ Report: IAEA mission to Zaporozhye NPP to begin on Aug 31 and last until Sep 3

📌 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Russia is interested in the visit of the IAEA delegation to Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP) and is prepared to cooperate and interact;

▪️The IAEA delegation will arrive at the ZNPP from the area controlled by Ukrainian forces;

▪️Russia believes that all countries should put pressure on Ukraine so that it stops attacking the ZNPP and threatening Europe's security;

▪️Russia will ensure that the IAEA delegation is safe, taking into account the risks associated with incessant Ukrainian shelling

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Peskov said in reply to a statement by NATO's secretary-general that the alliance's presence in the Arctic should be increased, that "Russia's capabilities in the high North are a strategic challenge for the whole Alliance":

▪️The Kremlin believes that the NATO chief’s statement about the Arctic is nothing more than an expression of intention to oppose Russia’s interests;

▪️Cooperation between Russia and China in the Arctic can’t pose a threat to anyone;

▪️Russia condemns statements about increasing NATO's presence in the Arctic

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🗣 The Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi says that, during his trip to the UN General Assembly in New York, he will not meet with US President Joe Biden as such a meeting would not have any benefit to the Iranian people

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⚡️ Netherlands may allow Hague city administration to purchase Russian gas that falls under EU sanctions as exception, source in Brussels told Sputnik

🥴🇺🇸 "Bye-bye Russia!": A US YouTuber from Cincinnati, Ohio thought he was dropping nuclear bombs on Russia while playing Solar Smash (a so-called planet destruction simulator) and streaming it on air, but it looks like he was bombing himself

📹 A video that went viral shows IShowSpeed asking his audience which country he should bomb. After choosing Russia, the YouTuber moves the map several times and starts dropping nuclear bombs on the US. "Bye-bye Russia!" the streamer shouts, enjoying a highly bizarre nuclear war scenario.

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❗US, allied defense ministers to meet on Ukraine in Germany on Sept. 8 - Pentagon

📹 Russia's FSB has published a video with a second participant in the murder of Daria Dugina, Ukrainian citizen Bogdan Tsyganenko. According to the intelligence agency, Tsyganenko provided Vovk (the first suspect) with fake license plates and documents under the name of Kazakh citizen Yulia Zaiko. Together with Vovk, he made a homemade bomb in a garage in southwestern Moscow;

▪ The footage shows Tsyganenko entering Russia, driving with Vovk, getting fake license plates, and leaving. The video also contains footage of how Vovk went to the parking lot at the Tradition festival to follow Dugina

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❗Rescue operation underway as car ferry with 300 people on board catches fire off Swedish coast

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📹 Supporters of al-Sadr have broken into the Republican Palace, the seat of the Iraqi government. A curfew has been declared in Baghdad from 12:30 GMT

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⚡️ NASA says called off Artemis launch around Moon amid engine issue, fuel leak

No strawberries and cream until 21!

New York stores are now asking people who look under 21 for ID to buy a can of whipped cream. The crackdown resulted from fears that teenagers are resorting to canisters of whipped cream to enjoy nitrous oxide which they inhale, giving them short-term euphoria followed by lowering blood pressure, fainting, heart attack and sudden death

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😏 New York City: A man calmly eating a juicy kebab on a skewer managed to infuriate an excitable gathering of vegans as they took part in a rally to harass Nike into abandoning animal products while producing clothes.

One of vegans assaulted the meat-eater by screaming in his face. But fortified with delicious food, the man simply radiated goodwill, finding the reaction of the vegans almost as enjoyable as his food

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❗Roof of special building storing fuel for reactors at ZNPP pierced as result of Ukrainian shelling - authorities

🌊 Deja vu: Iraqi protesters who broke into the Republican Palace could not resist the temptation to take a dip in the pool at the government building. The same was seen two months ago in Sri Lanka, when the presidential residence was occupied by protesters

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