Brazil’s Bolsonaro calls for negotiations 

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday repeated his willingness to foster negotiations to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, calling for a ceasefire but renouncing sanctions and economic isolation.

The Brazilian president noted how some countries that were once leaders in low carbon emissions had now turned to more polluting sources of energy.

Bolsonaro also took a dig at his main rival, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who leads all polls to return to the presidency he held between 2003 and 2010. Bolsonaro pointed to da Silva’s convictions

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⛽️ Germany nationalizes country’s biggest gas importer Uniper

The German government said Wednesday that it has agreed to nationalize the country’s biggest natural gas importer, Uniper, expanding state intervention in the industry to prevent an energy shortage resulting from Russia’s conflict. The network regulator already was put in charge of Gazprom’s former German subsidiary in April.

The deal with Uniper builds on a rescue package agreed to in July and features a capital increase of 8 billion euros that Germany will finance. As part of the agreement, the government will gain a 99% stake in the energy supplier, which until now was controlled by Finland-based Fortum. The Finnish government has the largest stake in Fortum.

Uniper supplies about 40% of all gas customers in Germany, and bought about half of its gas from Russia.

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‼️ Without sanctions, Europe's economy would recover, avoid recession - Orban

If sanctions are lifted from Russia, prices and inflation will immediately drop in Europe, the European economy could recover and avoid a recession, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.

"If the sanctions were lifted, prices would immediately fall by half, inflation would also drop. Without sanctions, the European economy would recover and could avoid an impending recession," Magyar Nemzet quoted Orban as saying at a meeting of the ruling coalition of the Fidesz party and Christian Democratic People's Party.

⚡️ EU to Add More Russian Officials to Sanctions List Over Partial Mobilization - Source

The European Union will add more Russian officials to the sanctions list as part of the upcoming eighth package and abolish the right of veto for member countries when greenlighting measures against Russia in response to the country's decision on partial mobilization, an EU source told Sputnik.

🔋 Midwestern partnership backs hydrogen as clean energy source

Seven Midwestern states are teaming up to accelerate the development of hydrogen as a clean-energy alternative for automobiles and factories that rely largely on climate-warming fossil fuels, governors said Monday.

The partnership includes Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, whose economies are dominated by agriculture and heavy industry such as steel and automobile manufacturing.

The federal infrastructure law enacted last year included $8 billion for the US Department of Energy to fund regional “hubs” that would step up clean hydrogen production and distribution. Climate legislation that President Joe Biden signed last month offers a tax credit intended to make clean hydrogen more competitive.

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🏛 US House passes election bill spurred by Jan. 6

The US House of Representatives passed a bill to overhaul Congress' certification process for presidential elections on Wednesday, a crucial step as Democrats hope to prevent the kind of chaos from Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters tried to subvert Joe Biden's victory. The Senate is considering its own legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act, with a panel set to debate and possibly modify its version on Tuesday.

The Presidential Election Reform Act would clearly reaffirm that the vice president has no role in validating a presidential election beyond acting as a figurehead who oversees the counting process, barring that person from changing the results. It also would expand the threshold necessary for members of both chambers to object to a state’s results, as well as clarify the role governors play in the process. Finally, it would make clear that state legislatures can’t change election rules retroactively to alter the results.

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Additional sanctions to be imposed on Russia over Donbass referenda - EU Statement

The European Union will impose new sanctions on Russia's leadership and people involved in organizing referenda in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, according to a declaration by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on behalf of the EU.

📺 Trump claims presidents can declassify documents telepathically

Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had declassified the documents he took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate that have since become the subject of an extensive Justice Department investigation.

Speaking on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Trump declined to point to specific evidence of that declassification. In the interview, Trump said he did not pack any boxes when he left the White House, instead leaving the task to the General Services Administration, which helps facilitate presidential transitions.

“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it.”

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📹 Russian forces captured a Ukrainian-made armored personnel carrier which had been fitted with foreign weapons, and a mechanized infantry combat vehicle after defeating Ukrainian units during the special op

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📹 Russia's "Smerch" multiple launch rocket systems are capable of hitting identified objects at a range of between 70km and 90km during the special military operation in Ukraine

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⚡️⚡️ Russia's Federal Security Service says thwarted attempted terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services at oil and gas facility supplying energy to Turkey and Europe

It's been reported that two improvised explosive devices have been seized and a man who had been recruited by the Ukrainian Security Service has been detained

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NYPD officers found several suitcases containing human body parts in a Brooklyn apartment after they received a call that a tenant was missing and there was a nasty smell coming from the apartment.

Entering the sixth-floor apartment in the 10-story building, they immediately found blood and human remains. At present a number of authorities are investigating the case

⚡️ First referendum results in Zaporozhye region will be announced on September 28 - Election Commission