❗Annual inflation in the eurozone in August accelerated to a record 9.1 percent from 8.9 percent a month earlier - according to the final estimate from Eurostat

❗Erdogan: we have a very productive cooperation with the UN on the export of Ukrainian grain

Vladimir Putin's latest statements at the SCO summit in Samarkand:

▪The SCO is the largest regional organization in the world with more than half the world's population living in its member countries;

▪Russia supports the accession of Belarus to the SCO;

▪The SCO is increasing its role in solving international problems;

▪The usage of national currencies in trade among SCO states is growing;

▪Russia welcomes the decision to lift sanctions on Russian fertilizers, but it appears that only European countries, and not the poorest nations, can buy them

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🌐 The SCO member states' leaders sign the Samarkand declaration following the summit, a Sputnik correspondent reports:

🔹The SCO states confirm the organization is not directed against other countries & international organizations

🔹The SCO members reject interference in the internal affairs of states under the pretext of countering terrorism & extremism

🔹The SCO states call for a more effective WTO & reforming the organization

🔹The SCO states consider it important to implement the action plan on Iran's nuclear program

🔹The SCO considers it important to create an inclusive gov't in Afghanistan

🔹 The SCO states plan to increase cooperation in the field of defense & security

🔹 The SCO states call for observance of the Chemical Weapons convention

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⚡️🇱🇧💰 Meanwhile, another armed customer robs another bank in Lebanon to get his money back

An armed depositor stormed BLOM Bank's Tariq al-Jedideh branch around noon Friday, a few hours after another armed depositor managed to recover $19,200 from Byblos Bank’s branch in the southern town of Ghazieh.

Netizens are joking that it's becoming a sad trend for the country.

🇭🇷⚽ Netizens furious over video showing Croatian football fans performing Nazi salutes during a match in Italy's Milan

Fans of Croatian soccer team Dinamo Zagreb marched through the streets of Milan making the Nazi salute before their club squared up to AC Milan for the UEFA Champions League match.

Italian media also reported several other incidents and fights between the two sets of fans, including a report that one Dinamo supporter was stabbed before the match.

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A briefing from Russia's MoD:

▪High-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces near the city of Nikolayev hit the deployment points of the Ukraine Armed Forces' 28th motorized infantry brigade;

▪In the Kharkov region, temporary deployment points of the Ukraine Armed Forces' 66th mechanized brigade were hit near the settlements of Dvurechnaya and Kupyansk, and in the city of Kharkov a temporary deployment point of neo-Nazi formation "Kraken" was hit;

▪Positions of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by a precision strike near the settlement of Seversk in the DPR: more than 400 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and wounded, and more than 20 units of armored and motor vehicles and 3,000 rounds of ammunition for rocket and cannon artillery of various calibers were destroyed

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▪Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit nine command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Nikolayev regions

▪Eight depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition have been destroyed near the city of Nikolayev, in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Zaporozhye region

▪Air defense systems shot down five UAVs per day in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Kherson region

▪53 shells of the HIMARS and Olha multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed in the air in the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions

▪An Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed near the city of Soledar

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