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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‼️ UN Security Council to hold ministerial meeting on Ukraine September 22 - French Envoy ➡️ LIVE UPDATES

The UN Security Council will hold a ministerial meeting on Ukraine on in the morning on September 22, the French Ambassador to the United Nations Nicolas de Riviere said on Thursday.

"I will conclude with the crisis on Ukraine on Thursday the 22nd of September in the morning, the French Minister of Europe and foreign affairs will preside over a ministerial meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine with a particular focus that will be placed on impunity and justice," Riviere said.

The ambassador explained that the meeting will touch upon all of the parameters of the Ukraine crisis.

France is presiding with the UN Security Council during the month of September and has signaled being interested in discussing the situation in Ukraine. Upon Russia’s request, the UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on September 6, focusing on the situation in and around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

⚡️ Launch of passenger trains between Crimea, Kherson, Zaporozhye postponed - Crimea Head

🗣 Tehran sends ‘constructive' response to US proposals on JCPOA - Foreign Ministry

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Friday that Tehran has sent a "constructive" response to Washington's proposals on the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

"The text that was sent [by Iran] has a constructive approach aimed at finalising the negotiations," Reuters quoted Kanaani as telling Iranian media.

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‼️ Reports: Ship loaded with Ukrainian grain that ran aground has been refloated

⚖️ Former NYPD officer receives 10 years sentence for Jan. 6 attack

The former New York Police Department officer convicted of assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Thomas Webster, who is also a Marine Corps veteran, was convicted by a jury in May on multiple charges stemming from his membership in the mob, including assaulting officers and violent and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

In court documents filed ahead of Thursday's sentencing, the Justice Department argued Webster "spearheaded" a breach against the police line on the Capitol's west front and was responsible for "disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve."

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"Equality and democracy are under assault," Biden said during a primetime address in Pennsylvania. "Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal."

"Trump and MAGA Republicans represent the extremism that threatens the very foundation of our Republic … MAGA Republicans don’t respect the Constitution, the rule of law, or the will of the people," he continued.