❗️🇬🇧The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Monday Sept. 19 at Westminster Abbey in London, Buckingham Palace announced.

Queen Elizabeth II will lie in state for four days at the Houses of Parliament in London.

📹Footage showing combat by the Russian 2S-19 Msta-S self-propelled artillery system crew from Izyum-Balakleya. A group of troops was distinguished for its courage and heroism while destroying Ukrainian armored equipment and artillery as part of the special military operation. The video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD

The artillery battery of Msta-S 152-mm self-propelled howitzers had recently destroyed six Ukrainian armored vehicles, one mortar crew and one infantry section with BMP-1 personnel carrier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.

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📹Footage showing combat by the Russian Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower crews from Izyum-Balakleya. A group of troops was distinguished for its courage and heroism while conducting intense fights against Ukraine’s Army units. The video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD.

Servicemen of the group have succeded in detecting Ukrainian units’ positions and launching an attack by the heavy flamethrower system, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports

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📹🇬🇧Watch how Prince William and his wife reunited with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to pay tributes to the Queen.

"The Prince of Wales invited the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to join him and the Princess of Wales earlier." a palace spokesperson said.

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⚡️Iran: Europe's 'unconstructive' statement on JCPOA talks may undermine nuclear deal revival

❗️Venice Film Festival 2022 first award winners:

Colin Farrell wins the award for best actor with his performance in “The Banshees Of Inisherin”.
Cate Blanchett wins the award for best actress with her performance in "Tár."

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Venice's Golden Lion goes to the movie "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" directed by Laura Poitras

📹🎡Finally, a first look at the largest Ferris wheel in Europe – “The Sun of Moscow”

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📈 President Joe Biden speaks after groundbreaking for Intel’s $20 billion semiconductor plant

Intel’s groundbreaking ceremony kicked off construction of what the company has called the “largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet.” It’s part of Intel’s plans to invest $100 billion in Ohio over the next 10 years.

The company has said that the project could take more than 7,000 workers to build the facility that is expected to house two separate factories and, once finished, employ 3,000 workers.

Earlier this month, Micron said that it would invest $15 billion to build a new plant in Idaho. On Friday, Wolfspeed announced a $5 billion investment to build a new semiconductor facility in North Carolina.

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🚛 Rivian and Mercedes are teaming up to build electric vans more quickly

The companies are teaming up with the aim of building large electric vans more quickly, the goal is to produce two vans on common assembly lines. 

Both companies have already been working on electric vans, with Rivian having an agreement to build 100,000 of them for Amazon.  The company is setting up a second EV factory in Georgia, but production won't start there until 2024.

From Mercedes' perspective, this is part of a broader strategy to accelerate the transition to electric vans, by the middle of this decade, all of its new vans will be entirely electric. 

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‼️Ukraine shells Kakhovka hydropower plant ➡️ LIVE UPDATES

Ukrainian troops fired a barrage of missiles at the Russia-held southern city of Novaya Kakhovka in Kherson region on Saturday, targeting a key hydropower plant, the district administration said.

"No visible hits by Ukrainian missiles were reported in the city. The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was one of the usual targets," the administration said on social media.

The power plant supplies the district with electricity and provides for the irrigation of large swathes of southern Ukraine and northern Crimea. District authorities said air defense fired 14 missiles at aerial targets.

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💰 US authorities recover $30 million of hacked crypto funds

US authorities, with help from blockchain analyst Chainalysis, have recovered $30 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity in March. It's but a fraction of the $625 million the play-to-earn game lost to the North Korean-linked hacking unit known as the Lazarus Group, but it's a significant achievement for law enforcement and the crypto community.

Apparently, most of the funds stolen from Axie Infinity remain in the blockchain, showing that the bad actors are having a tough time moving stolen assets around and converting them into fiat currency. 

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Zelensky vows to start power supplies to Poland in December, while his own people face uncertainty

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country intends to start supplying electricity to Poland in December from the Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant.

🗯"I have ordered to accelerate the reconstruction of the power transmission line from the Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant to the Polish city of Rzeszow ... We must complete this reconstruction by December 8 and provide Poland with the necessary amount of electricity," Zelensky said in a Saturday video address.

▪️The statement comes after Ukraine ceased to receive power from Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which it continues to shell despite the IAEA's calls to "immediately" stop the bombings of the plant.

▪️Zaporozhye NPP had previously accounted for around 20% of all power used by Ukraine.

▪️With the move to cut off the electricity supply from Zaporozhye NPP in favor of bombings and to use the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant to supply power to the Poles, priorities seem to be set for Zelensky: and Ukranian civilians are not among them.

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🎞 Leaked video from the Bedminster golf course shows former US President Donald Trump admit he wanted to bomb Mexico with rockets. The one-term president recalled that he “didn’t want to deny” the leak that he had wanted to fire rockets into Mexico and was gleeful “people loved it.”

🚀 In May, it was revealed that Trump asked at least twice about “quietly” shooting Patriot missiles - which are surface-to-air weapons - into Mexico and then denying responsibility. White House insiders previously detailed how the president was displeased by drug trafficking across the US-Mexico border.

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🏆 Iga Swiatek beats Ons Jabeur to win 1st US Open

The 21-year-old defeated Ons Jabeur in Saturday's US Open women's final, becoming the first Polish woman to win the tournament. This was the first US Open women's final featuring two top-10 players since 2013, as Świątek came in as the world No. 1 while Jabeur ranked fifth. Świątek has now cleared 10,000 WTA rankings points this year, the most since Serena Williams in 2013.

The loss was bittersweet for Jabeur, as the 28-year-old Tunisian still became the first Arab and African woman to reach a US Open final -- this coming two months after she became the first Arab and African woman to make any Grand Slam final at Wimbledon.

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