🤔 A picture with Princes William and Harry together with their wives has been circulating on social networks since yesterday. The reason for the growing attention of social media users is the smiles on the royal faces while mourning the Queen.

🤨 Taking into account the fact that William was made Prince of Wales right after the Queen’s death, many social users attribute William's good mood to the multimillion-dollar fortune that he received from the assets of the British Crown upon taking office.

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📹 A man has been arrested after shouting abuse at Prince Andrew as the Queen’s funeral cortege made its way along the Royal Mile.

😮 The 22-year-old was seen on videos shot from multiple angles holding a cupped hand at his mouth as he seemingly voiced insults about the Queen’s son, a friend of child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and her pedophile boyfriend Jeffery Epstein.

▪️ Andrew has repeatedly denied allegations from Virginia Guiffre that he raped her while she was 17 but the controversy surrounding his friendship with the disgraced billionaire has marred his image.

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📹 🗯 ‘Andrew, you’re a sick old man,’ the recently arrested man shouted as the duke walked by.

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📹 🇲🇩 Protesters in Kishinev, Moldova, once again called for the resignation of the government.

Residents of Moldova have been taking to the streets for more than a month because of the energy crisis. Earlier, local media informed that the cost of gas in the country has increased by 301% this year.

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🤬 Audiences have criticized the teaser of “The Little Mermaid” in which Halle Bailey, a black actress, plays the main character Ariel. Now, it has more than 1 million dislikes on YouTube.

😩 Fans did not appreciate the new version of the story, literally drowning the video in dislikes on YouTube – their number has already reached 1.1 million in two days, while there are an order of magnitude fewer likes, only 324,000.

👎The tape was criticized in the comments, once again launching a trend that was relevant after the release of the Amazon Lord of the Rings video – viewers exaggerated what was shown in the video, hinting at the inconsistency of the material with respect to the original cartoon.

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🇷🇺 🌎 Two grand events, EcwaExpo for water technology and WasteEcoExpo for waste management, will be held in Moscow on September 13-15, with over 200 guests from Russia, China and other countries expected to demonstrate their designs and production in the Russian capital.

👌 During the events, which takes place at the Crocus Expo center, participants will offer new solutions to replace the products of western companies that left the Russian market this year.

▪️ The agenda of the Expo includes government support measures, new sources of financing for infrastructure projects, consolidation of domestic businesses to adapt to changing socio-economic conditions, the possibility of parallel import of technology and equipment, as well as the search for new partners and optimization of supply chains.

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🤔 The Guardian: Liz Truss takes on cabinet dissent.

😐 According to British columnist Simon Jenkins, the new UK prime minister chose to get rid of experienced civil servants who hold views different from her own. As such, Truss fired the head of the treasury and national security adviser in the first days on the job.

💭 “There is a suspicion that Truss fired these officials not because they were wrong, but out of fear that they might be right,” the columnist wrote, noting that Truss fired the highest-ranking civil servant in HM Treasury for his disagreement with its economic course.

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😵‍💫 Blue Origin attempted its first uncrewed New Shepard flight in a year, with the NS-23 mission launching on Monday morning.

▪️ As the company’s fourth flight this year, the suborbital launch took place from Launch Site One at Blue Origin’s Corn Ranch property near Van Horn, Texas.

▪️ Just over one minute into the flight, an apparent failure in the booster prompted an in-flight abort of the capsule. While the booster was not recovered, the capsule was pushed to safety by its abort motor and made a successful landing under parachutes.

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😬 CNN: US fears 'split Europe' over energy crisis.

▪️ According to US journalists, Washington fears that the countries of the European Union may change their position on Russia and the conflict in Ukraine amid the energy crisis, which will lead to a split between the United States and the Old Continent.

🗯 "The risk (of a split in Europe) is real... citizens in Europe could rebel against the western strategy of isolating Russia economically," the CNN article said. For example, US officials closely followed the anti-government rally in Prague in early September and continue to monitor the situation on the continent.

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❓ Is a US civil war possible?

🤔 Well, 43% of US citizens think so. According to YouGov figures, more than two in five say that a US civil war is at least possible during the next decade.

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🇪🇹 An impediment to prospective negotiations with the government to put an end to nearly two years of conflict has been removed after Ethiopia's Tigray insurgents declared they are prepared to participate in peace talks facilitated by the African Union (AU) without preconditions.

▪️ The declaration was made in the midst of active international diplomatic efforts after violence broke out in northern Ethiopia in August for the first time in months, derailing a humanitarian truce.

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⚡️ Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said that he would leave Brussels in the near future due to the completion of a work assignment that lasted 17 years

🇧🇷Six people died, and two others were injured on Saturday when an unauthorized nursing home in the eastern part of Sao Paulo, Brazil, caught fire, said police and municipal authorities.

The fire started in a dining room and spread to the other rooms, killing five elderly people and a caregiver, said Aaron Barbosa, spokesman for the Sao Paulo Fire Department.

Named "Lar da Vovo," the nursing home lacked a sanitary operation permit and was also operating without authorization from the fire department.

Neighbors said that they were unaware that a nursing home was operating there. The fire lasted about four hours, according to witnesses.

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⚡#SputnikBreaking Armenian Defense Ministry reports that Azerbaijani armed forces are Shelling Armenia's territory

🔎UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that developed economies are responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere throughout history. The secretary-general made the remarks in a press briefing in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi during his visit to the flood-affected areas of the country.

"Those impacts are skyrocketing," he said, adding that "people living in high climatic vulnerability conditions, including in South Asia, are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts."

In the wake of the flood-disaster Pakistan has been suffering, the secretary-general called upon the international community to devise a new debt relief mechanism for the affected countries. He further advocated a debt swap mechanism that a country, instead of paying the debt to the creditors, should be able to use that money to invest in climate resilience, sustainable infrastructure, and the green transition of their economies.

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💻🥸According to a poll by the consulting firm Gallup, a trend dubbed “quiet quitting’’ is spreading across workplaces in the United States, with workers notably less passionate about their jobs, looking to set boundaries, and refusing to work at night or on weekends.

The survey said more than half of the workers are “not engaged” and do the minimum required. The number of “actively disengaged” people jumped to 18% from 14% in 2020.

The pandemic caused people to rethink their lives and career aspirations. Also, new working modes, including remote work, have reduced people’s connection to organizations, and some employees may not feel their employers care about them.

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🔎On Monday, thousands of nurses in Minnesota left work to protest those conditions. With over 15,000 nurses from 16 hospitals in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding region participating, the work stoppage represents the largest private sector nurse strike in U.S. history.

The nurses, all unionized members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), voted to move forward with the strike last month. They announced the plan on Sept. 1, adhering to a legal requirement that health care workers provide at least ten days’ notice to their employer when preparing for a work stoppage. The strike is expected to last three days.

The strikes come as more Americans support labor unions than ever in half a century. Earlier this month, Gallup’s most recent Work and Education Survey revealed that 71% now say they support organized labor. The last time approval was so high was in 1965.

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🔹Divisions over LGBTQ-related policies have flared recently at several religious colleges in the United States. On Monday, there was a dramatic new turn at one of the most rancorous battlegrounds – Seattle Pacific University.

A group of students, faculty, and staff at the Christian university sued leaders of the board of trustees for refusing to scrap an employment policy barring people in same-sex relationships from full-time jobs at SPU.

That lawsuit eventually was settled out of court, but it intensified criticism of the hiring policy. Through surveys and petitions, it’s clear that most of the faculty and student body oppose the policy. Yet, a majority of the trustees reaffirmed it in May – triggering resignations by other trustees and protests by students that included a prolonged sit-in at the school’s administrative offices.

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