🇫🇷 Paris plans to reduce lighting on the Eiffel Tower… because of energy crisis.

🤔 Eiffel Tower management company SETE explained that contrary to popular belief, lighting the tower at night accounts for only 4% of the monument’s annual electricity bill, and the flashing of 20,000 LEDs flashing for five minutes at the beginning of each hour is done using energy efficient equipment. Therefore, the measure, which will be announced on September 13, is symbolic.

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🇦🇫 📹 A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a Taliban* training exercise in Kabul, killing three, the group's defense ministry said Saturday.

🗯"An American Black Hawk helicopter, which was flown... for training, crashed due to a technical problem inside the campus of the National Defense University," said Ministry of Defense spokesperson Enaytullah Khowrazmi, adding that five people were injured.

▪️The Taliban took control of some US-made aircraft after they seized power in the country just over a year ago. It remains unclear how many are operational.

*under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

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⚡️ Russia will not sell gas or oil to countries that impose restrictions on their price, the head of the Russian Energy Ministry says

❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces perform high-precision strikes on Ukrainian units and reserves in the Kharkov region. As a result, Ukrainian personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian units and of the14th and 92nd Mechanized Brigades were hit; the Ukraine’s Army losses totaled more than 200 servicemen and more than 20 military equipment units;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 250 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed 12 Ukrainian units of armored vehicles, three field artillery guns, one multiple-launch rocket system and 17 motor vehicles;

▪️Russian Air Forces performed high-precision missile strikes on the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog axis, destroying a temporary deployment point of units of the 36th Brigade of the Ukraine’s Army Marine Corps near Nikolayev. As a result, more than 100 Ukrainian troops and 15 Ukrainian units were eliminated;

▪️In total, from September 6 to 10, Kiev’s losses totaled more than four thousand and more than eight thousand were wounded in these two areas alone;

▪️Russian Aerospace forces performed strikes in the Kherson region, eliminating over 50 Ukrainian servicemen and 7 pieces of military equipment of the 60th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed eight Ukrainian command posts in the Dnepropetrovsk region, in the Nikolayev region and in the Kherson region. In addition, Russian Forces eliminated 43 Ukrainian artillery units, as well as Ukrainian troops and military equipment in 103 areas.

▪️Russian Forces destroyed Ukrainian munitions depots in the DPR and in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed radio detection and ranging station in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian air defense means destroyed a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense means destroyed four Ukrainian UAVs in the Kherson region, Nikolayev region and in the DPR, as well as intercepted two Tochka-U ballistic missiles and two American HARM anti-radiation missiles in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces intercepted 12 rockets fired by US-made HIMARS systems and nine Olkha rockets in the Kherson region.

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📹Footage showing combat by the Russian MI-8MTV-5 army aviation rotorcraft crews within the special military operation. The video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD.

Crew members of the MI-8MTV airlift helicopter eliminated the fortified strongpoints, armored equipment and manpower of Ukraine’s Army, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

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📹 The Russian MoD has published footage showing Su-25 assault fighters in combat action.

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📌 Today marks the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy

👉 Here is a look at the massive terrorist attack which claimed the lives of almost 3,000 and shocked the US and people around the world. After the terrorist attack, the US and its allies responded by invading Afghanistan and things escalated into the longest war in US history.

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📹Footage taken by a Mi-35 attack helicopter crew during combat amid Russia's special military operation. The video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD.

Crew members of the MI-35 attack helicopter thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian troops to bridge the Oskol river in the Kharkov region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

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"Final step to complete the circle of independence to become a truly sovereign nation"

❗️Antigua and Barbuda will vote on whether to become a republic amid the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the country’s prime minister has said.

▪️PM Gaston Browne made the comments after confirming Charles III as King and head-of-state of the Caribbean nation, adding that a referendum could take place within three years and emphasizing that the move was “not an act of hostility”.

▪️In addition to the UK, King Charles serves as head-of-state in 14 countries - Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu. Barbados recently voted to ditch the monarchy.

▪️However, many countries are reconsidering the role of monarchy, with Mr Browne saying that becoming a republic would mark the "final step to complete the circle of independence to become a truly sovereign nation".

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❗️IAEA head Grossi announced the need to urgently create nuclear and physical safety 'security zone' around the Zaporozhye NPP, consultations began

“Today I go home with my hands full of gifts, and with help… I feel overwhelmed”

A resident of Melitopol describes her emotions after receiving humanitarian aid from Russia.

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⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed food security and reaffirmed that the grain exported from the Black Sea ports should be directed to developing countries, the Kremlin press service said on Sunday.

"During the discussion of the problems of global food security, it was reaffirmed that the grain exported from the Black Sea ports should be directed primarily to satisfy the needs of developing countries," the press service said in a statement.

According to the Kremlin ,Russian President Vladimir Putin also stressed that the European Commission should not impede the supply of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

▫️Besides, the two leaders discussed the situation in Ukraine with a focus on ensuring the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Both presidents expressed their mutual readiness for a non-politicized interaction with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the situation around the ZNPP.

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⚡️Ukrainian Special Services planned to blow up railway tracks and power lines in the Kherson region, according to Sputnik's source in Russia's Security Forces.

▪️The Russian Security Forces prevented a series of terrorist attacks in the Kherson region, which were prepared by the Special Services of Ukraine.

▪️The perpetrators of the planned terrorist attacks in the Kherson region were detained and gave testimony to the Russian Security Forces.

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😂Weather alert: extreme temperatures and hate speech

📊Hot and cold weather impacts on the use of hate speeches on social networks, according to research published by the Lancet Health.

▪️Scientists used a supervised machine-learning approach to identify hate messages in a dataset containing around four billion geolocated tweets from 773 cities across the US.

▪️Then, they statistically evaluated the changes in daily hate tweets against local temperatures, isolating the temperature influence from confounding factors using binned panel regression models.

▪️The prevalence of hate tweets was lowest at moderate temperatures (12 to 21°C), while marked increases in the number of hate tweets were observed at hotter and colder temperatures, reaching up to 12.5% for cold temperature extremes (–6 to –3°C) and up to 22% for hot temperature extremes (42 to 45°C).

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