🇵🇱🇩🇪 Germany's position regarding reparations for Poland for World War II is unchanged, the issue is "closed," a representative of the German Foreign Ministry told Sputnik

💬 Rosatom head's aide to IAEA chief: Direction shows that shells at ZNPP came from Kiev-controlled Marganets. Fragmentation shells were intended for Zaporozhye NPP employees, no Russian military here

❗IAEA chief Grossi has left the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, a Sputnik correspondent reports

Russia's Ministry of Defense on the situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP):

▪UN Secretary-General Guterres’ lack of reaction to the Ukrainian provocation at the ZNPP is "puzzling";

▪The silence of the United Nations after the provocations by Kiev casts doubt on the objectivity of the UN towards the situation around the ZNPP and this leads to further escalation;

▪The deathly silence of Kiev’s Western sponsors on the topic of the provocation at the ZNPP actually confirms their tacit participation in its preparation;

▪The position of IAEA chief Grossi and his team, who went to the nuclear power plant despite the provocations of Kiev and Ukrainian shelling, deserves respect

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🇨🇳 While European politicians are scratching their heads over how to explain to voters how to survive the winter, China has a different problem

📹 Dramatic videos have appeared on the Internet showing China demolishing unclaimed buildings

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⚡US sabotaging participation of Russian Interior Minister at UN event by denying visa applications - Vassily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the UN

🇫🇷 French Permanent Representative to the UN Nicolas de Riviere expressed his skepticism that Ukraine would be able to regain the territory of Donbass and take control of Crimea

"I am a little skeptical that Ukraine will be able to regain its lost territories. I would be surprised that Ukraine will be able to kick the Russians out of Donbass or to kick them out of Crimea," de Riviere said in an interview, adding that he is not expecting ceasefire any time soon.

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Grossi confirms the IAEA is establishing a permanent presence at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

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🇦🇫🇺🇸 A rally took place in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan a year after the US troop pullout. People demand the US pay compensation for killing their relatives and destroying property, as well as that it unfreeze Afghan assets.

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🇷🇺 Putin comments on the Ukrainian education system

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the education system that Kiev tried to impose. Students did not know that Ukraine and Russia were part of a single state, the Soviet Union, and thought that the Crimean bridge is just a fake.

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🇺🇸 White House's Kirby says US will not have troops involved in Ukraine, sees no role for US to create demilitarized zone around Zaporozhye NPP

⚡A ship heading to Istanbul from Ukraine has run aground in the Bosphorus Strait - Turkish Coast Guard

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📉 US life expectancy plunged again

The nation's life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020. In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.

Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, given death rates at that time. It is “the most fundamental indicator of population health in this country,” said Robert Hummer, a University of North Carolina researcher focused on population health patterns. The last time it was that low was in 1996.

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🪐 NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World

For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable.

The image, as seen through four different light filters, shows how Webb’s powerful infrared gaze can easily capture worlds beyond our solar system, pointing the way to future observations that will reveal more information than ever before.

“This is a transformative moment, not only for Webb but also for astronomy generally,” said Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Webb is an international mission led by NASA in collaboration with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).

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👮‍♂️ NYPD officer punches a 19 years old girl in the face in viral video

An NYPD officer is under fire after video shows him apparently punching a woman in the face and knocking her to the ground below. The authorities were in search of attempted murder suspect Elvin James, 22, in Harlem, New York, when the woman, 19-year-old Tamani Crum, confronted an officer, as seen in body cam footage shared to Twitter by the NYPD.

"This incident, including the conduct of the detective who used force, is under ongoing review by our Internal Affairs Bureau's Force Group," Keechant L. Sewell, NYPD police commissioner, said in a statement. "All police body-worn camera footage, as well as other video surveillance from the area and witness, statements, are being gathered and reviewed.”

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🗣 Preview of Biden’s Thursday primetime speech

Excerpts released by the White House on Thursday revealed that US President Joe Biden will be discussing threats the nation is facing, and how the mentality behind the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement is “determined” to take the US “backwards,” among other talking points.

“For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not,” Biden’s excerpt reads. “We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us.”

Biden’s primetime speech is expected to begin at 8 p.m. local time.

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