⚡️Kenyan track star Eliud Kipchoge bested his world record in the Berlin Marathon. According to ESPN, Kipchoge clocked in 2 hours, 1 minute, 9 seconds on Sunday (Sept. 25). In 2018, he clocked a time of 2:01:39 — 30 seconds more than his new record — on the same course.

"My legs and my body still feel young," Kipchoge said. "But the most important thing is my mind, which also feels fresh and young. I'm so happy to break the world record."

According to the Media, Kipchoge’s future goals include becoming the first runner to win three Olympic marathon noscripts in Paris in 2024 and winning all six annual World Marathon Majors.

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🗳🇮🇹Italians cast their ballots in a national election to bring the country’s most right-wing government to power since World War II.

The electoral campaign kicked off after political infighting led to the collapse of outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government in July. Sunday’s election takes place against the background of an energy crisis, widespread voter disillusionment, and questions about Italy’s future stance towards the European Union.

More than 50 million voters are eligible to pick representatives of a slimmed-down parliament: 200 members for the Senate and 400 for the Chamber of Deputies. Polls opened at 7 am and will close at 11 pm local time (05:00 – 21:00 GMT) – after which exit polls are expected.

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🚚After Congress approved new initiatives to speed the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told Reuters it would seek to enforce stricter greenhouse gas emissions rules for heavy trucks.

The EPA, which proposed new rules to cut smog-forming and greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty vehicles in March, said that under the climate and spending Inflation Reduction Act, it will reopen the proposed greenhouse gas rules after passage in August, which could accelerate the shift to heavy-duty electric vehicles in the U.S.

In December, it will also issue a supplemental notice related to more stringent greenhouse gas standards for model years 2027 through 2029. "The big change here is the Inflation Reduction Act. Congress sent a very strong message, backed by significant Resources," the EPA's Joseph Goffman told Reuters.

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▪️Cubans on Sunday will vote in a landmark referendum on whether to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, allow surrogate pregnancies, and give greater rights to non-biological parents. By midday, 37.3 percent of Cuba's 8.4 million eligible voters had gone to the polls, according to the National Electoral Council.

The new family code, promoted by the communist government, would represent a major shift in Cuba, where the culture of machismo is strong and where the LGBTQ community was ostracized by authorities in the 1960s and 1970s.

More than eight million Cubans over 16 are invited to vote "Yes" or "No" amid the country's worst economic crisis in 30 years. Experts say the referendum could turn into an opportunity to voice opposition against the government.

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🔹The Los Angeles Unified School District will provide all its schools with a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses after at least seven teenagers overdosed on pills likely laced with fentanyl in recent weeks, including a 15-year-old girl who died on a high school campus.

"We have an urgent crisis on our hands," district Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said at a news conference Thursday.

Carvalho said doses of naloxone, also known as Narcan, will be supplied to all schools from kindergarten through 12th grade in the next few weeks — about 1,400 schools in total.

The county public health department will provide the medication for free. The nation's second-largest school district will also begin an educational campaign that includes parent outreach and "peer-to-peer" counseling to warn students about the dangers of fentanyl.

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💸Tesla CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to spend the next few days with lawyers for Twitter, answering questions ahead of an October trial that will determine whether he must carry through with his $44 billion agreement to acquire the social platform after attempting to back out of the deal.

The deposition, planned for Monday, Tuesday, and a possible extension on Wednesday, will not be public. As of Sunday evening, it was not clear whether Musk would appear in person or by video. The trial begins on October 17 in Delaware Chancery Court, where it's scheduled to last just five days.

Musk indicated in July that he wanted to back away from the deal, prompting Twitter to file a lawsuit to force him to carry through with the acquisition.

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🇬🇧 🔽 The UK pound fell to a record low against the US greenback in early trading on Monday after UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said last week the government would fund the country's biggest tax cuts in five decades with increased borrowing.

📌 Last week, Mr. Kwarteng announced £45 billion in debt-financed tax cuts that sparked a sell-off in UK government bonds as investors shunned fixed income investments, amid an inflation rate which had reached its highest point in four decades.

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📌 LIVE UPDATES: Six Ukrainian shells target school in LPR city of Rubezhnoye where Central Election Comission located

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🇷🇺 🇻🇪 Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faria, in an interview with Sputnik, confirmed that his country and Russia maintain a high level of cooperation, and said that during a meeting with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov, they confirmed their status as reliable strategic partners.

▪️ The minister also noted that Venezuela would welcome the expansion of the use of the ruble in its resorts and hoped for the restoration of tourist flows from Russia in the near future.

▪️ He also said that trade between Russia and Venezuela has been complicated by anti-Russian sanctions, but has not been rendered impossible, with both Moscow and Caracas exploring ways to continue cooperation.

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❗️ An explosion herad in the centre of Melitopol, authorities say

📹 Watch footage showing Mariupol residents receive humanitarian aid sent from Russia.

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📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the Western Military District's Tor-M2 air defense missile system crews in combat within the special military operation.

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❗️ School shooting reported in Izhevsk, Russia, Interior Ministry says

❗️ Measures are being taken to detain a shooting suspect in Izhevsk, Russia's Interior Ministry says

❗️ According to the head of Russia's Udmurt Republic Aleksandr Brechalov, law enforcement and emergency services personnel are at the site of the incident

❗️An unidentified person broke into a school in Izhevsk, killed a security guard and wounded several children, the head of Russia's Udmurt Republic Aleksandr Brechalov says

❗️According to information provided by the head of Russia's Udmurt Republic Aleksandr Brechalov, the Izhevsk school attacker has committed suicide

❗️ School shooter kills at least six people, wounds 20 more in Izhevsk, Russia, Interior Ministry says