🇷🇺Russian FM Sergey Lavrov held talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly with Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló, the President of 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau.

In London, a climate change protester set himself on fire on a tennis court at the Laver Cup on Roger Federer's last day as a professional player.

The man was reportedly protesting against the use of private jets in the UK, which burn a lot of fuel.

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"We are following your statements and comments", - said Russian FM Lavrov to Serbian President Vucic in Russian at their bilateral meeting. Vucic recently warned about a possibility of a global conflict caused by situation in Ukraine.

Find out in this Sputnik video what residents of the liberated territories think about the historic event and what the ballot for the referendum on joining Russia looks like

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🇷🇺 About 50,000 people attended the rally in Moscow in support of the referendums, police said

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❗Referendums in the liberated territories as of 23 September:

▪About 130 foreign observers followed the voting in the DPR during the day - Central Election Commission

▪In the Kherson region, observers from the US and France followed the voting, the Election Commission said

▪Preliminary turnout in the referendum in the Zaporozhye region was 20.52%

▪Turnout in the referendum in the LPR was 21.97%

▪According to data on the first day of voting in the Kherson region, the turnout was 15.31%

▪Rallies in support of the referendums were held throughout Russia, the largest of them were in Moscow and Grozny

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"Good to see you my friend", says 🇯🇴Jordanian FM Ayman Safadi at the talks with 🇷🇺Russia's top diplomat. Lavrov told Safadi that he has many meetings at the UN GA.

"There are no Nazis there, they must be Hindus": Germans shocked as swastika on Ukrainian APC slips into TV report

Western media diligently claim that there are no Nazis in the Ukrainian army, but facts and even their own TV footage prove the opposite: from soldiers wearing Nazi insignias to Ukrainian children giving Nazi salute.

🇩🇪 Find out how German television viewers reacted to another fail of Western media in our article

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🔹 UNGA 77: Moscow’s Position Gets Attention Despite the West’s Anti-Russian Rhetoric

🎾Friday night was Roger Federer's final match before retiring at age 41 after a superlative career that included 20 Grand Slam noscripts and a statesman’s role. He wrapped up his days as a professional player with a loss in doubles alongside his longtime rival Rafael Nadal for Team Europe in the Laver Cup against Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock of Team World.

The Swiss star announced last week that the three-day team event, which his management company founded, would be his final event before retirement, then made clear the doubles outing would be his last match.

“For me, just personally, (it was) sad in the first moment, when I came to the conclusion it’s the best decision,” Federer said in an interview with Associated Press. “I kind of held it in at first, then fought it off. But I could feel the pain.”

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▪️A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released Friday.

Despite the finding, the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was still listed as undetermined, not a homicide, the report shows. McClain was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police in Aurora for “being suspicious.” He was unarmed.

The original autopsy report written soon after his death in August 2019 did not conclude how he died or what type of death is was, such as if it was natural, accidental, or a homicide. That was a major reason why prosecutors initially decided not to pursue charges.

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🌊🌪Hurricane Fiona blew past Puerto Rico last week, expected to transform into a huge post-tropical storm that will bring hurricane-strength winds, heavy rain, and big waves to Atlantic Canada, meteorologists said Friday in a warning that it has the potential to be one of the most severe storms in the country’s history.

Hurricane Fiona, which weakened a bit to a Category 3 storm, is forecast to make landfall Saturday morning.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre issued a hurricane watch over extensive coastal expanses of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.

“This is is definitely going to be one of, if not the most powerful, tropical cyclones to affect our part of the country,” said Ian Hubbard, meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. “It’s going to be definitely as severe and as bad as any I’ve seen.”

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A meeting between 🇷🇺 Russian delegation and the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) has been held on the sidelines of the UN Security Council in New York. "[We are] making progress in strengthening the United Nations, I hope, and strengthening our partnership between Russia and GCC" - said 🇷🇺Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, when addressing his counterparts from 🇧🇭Bahrain, 🇶🇦Qatar, 🇰🇼Kuwait, the 🇦🇪UAE, 🇴🇲Oman and 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia - all members of the Council, adding: "We discussed our cooperation [with the Council] in June in Riyadh, it was a very important meeting, and we are now following up on main agreements regarding promoting our cooperation in various fields."

Follow our LIVE UPDATES on second day of referendums in Donbass, Zaporozhye & Kherson

⚡️Hungary regards preventing direct conflict between Russia and NATO as the “most important duty,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Sputnik

🗣"Well, when you ask me what’s the most important duty now, [it’s] exactly this: to avoid any kind of direct conflict between NATO and Russia because this would lead to somewhere neither of us wanna go," Szijjarto said

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📉 Americans have lost an average of $4,200 in annual income since President Joe Biden took office, the Heritage Foundation revealed.
As consumer prices soared 12.7% since January 2021, outpacing wages, the average American has lost about $3,000 in annual purchasing power, the think tank stated.

Interest rates hikes by the US Federal Reserve together with growing borrowing costs have slashed purchasing power by another $1,200, according to the report. All this has wiped out the $4,000 increase in yearly earnings achieved under the Donald Trump administration

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