Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat who is running to become Governor of Texas in the November elections, said that Latino voters have become more right-wing in recent years partly because of his party's disregard for demographics.

🗣"Candidate Biden didn't spend a dime or day in the Rio Grande Valley - or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter - once we got down in the homestretch of the general election," O'Rourke told a crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin

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📊 Of those who voted on the first day, 93 % back the idea of the Zaporozhye region joining the Russian Federation, according to the poll from the Crimean Republican Institute of Political and Sociological Research

⚡️The HIMARS strike on a hotel in Kherson was carried out using information from NATO intelligence services, a law enforcement official told Sputnik

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😳 Roger Waters, has written that neither he nor his managers have cancelled his forthcoming shows in Krakow, as previously reported by Polish media. According Waters, it was all an attempt to introduce censorship: a member of Krakow City Council, Łukasz Vantukh, urged residents not to buy tickets for the performance. The official also wants the musician to be registered as a persona non grata.

🗣 “Notwithstanding that this chap Łukasz Vantukh seems to know nothing of my history of working, all my life, at some personal cost, in the service of human rights, he, in an article in a local newspaper urged the good people of Krakow not to buy tickets to my show. Not very democratic sir?” Waters added

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⚡️An improvised explosive device went off near the administration building in Berdyansk, there were no casualties - authorities

❗️According to Jaishankar, it was the collective responsibility of the world's powers to bring an early resolution to the conflict in Ukraine.

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🧐 Italy’s snap election: Who is running & when can results be expected?

📌 As Italy votes in a snap election on Sunday, the last survey published before a pre-election ban on September 10 showed one in every four Italians planned to cast a ballot for Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, putting the frontrunner on track to become the country’s first ever female Prime Minister at the head of a right-wing coalition.

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing Airborne troopers who distinguished themselves during the special military operation being awarded state decorations.

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🇪🇸 🦠 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.

🗣 "This morning I tested positive for COVID-19... I will continue to work, taking all necessary precautions," Sanchez said on Twitter.

▪️ Due to the infection, Sanchez canceled his participation in an event scheduled for Sunday in the municipality of Gava in the autonomous community of Catalonia in the eastern part of Spain.

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⚡️Massive fire breaks out near Orly Airport in Paris

📌 The Latest From Russia's Ministry of Defense on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️Russian forces eliminated up to 100 militants in a missile strike on a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries near the city of Zaporozhye;

▪️Russian aviation hit 33 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 178 districts over past 24 hours;

▪️Russian forces destroyed a HIMARS MLRS in the area of the settlement of Yavkino in the Nikolaev region;

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system near the settlement of Novoselovka in the Zaporozhye region; a Ukrainian armored boat of the "Gyurza" class was sunk near the port of Ochakov;

▪️ Two MiG-29s converted to use American HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down by Russian air power;

▪️ In the area of Novaya Kakhovka and Svatovo, three American HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down by Russian forces;

▪️ 18 HIMARS rockets were intercepted by Russian air defenses

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❗️WATCH: A queue of people wishing to vote in the referendum has formed outside the DPR representative office in Moscow.

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⚡️About 20 powerful explosions have rocked Kherson, traces of air defense work are visible in the sky above the city, a Sputnik correspondent reports

🇵🇱 Poland's Apple harvest may rot on the trees.

▪️ According to Sputnik Poland, there is no one to pick fruit, nowhere to export the fruit to, and it is very expensive to store them because of the energy crisis

🗣 “We don't have enough workers, especially men. The trade union is trying to recruit workers from other countries, but there are problems with visas,” the president of the Polish Horticultural Association complains.

▪️ He added that Ukrainian refugees are not interested in farming.

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❗️ Sullivan says US response to the referendums will include sanctions against "structures and companies" outside Russia

📹 A guest appearance from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a music event in New York City appeared to rub the audience the wrong way, eliciting audible boos, as captured in footage on social media.

🤬 As Pelosi, 82, briefly spoke about Congress' commitment to reduce carbon pollution and tackle climate change, attendees of the event on September 24 appeared to intercept her speech with jeering and booing.

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