🧐 Sudanese-British billionaire Mo Ibrahim criticized the West on Monday for obstructing African nations' effort to develop their own hydrocarbon reserves and constantly ignoring the energy poverty problems of the Global South.

❓ What’s behind the Global North's political short-sightedness and who benefits from the controversy?

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❗️Incidents at Nord Stream pipelines are to be discussed at EU summit on October 7, EU official says.

🏆The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

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❗️Moscow worries about statements issued by Denmark and Sweden on Russia's exclusion from the investigation into the Nord Stream pipelines and has stated that Russia's participation in the investigation is obligatory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

⚡️Pentagon's remarks on possible Crimea strikes confirm US involvement in the conflict, Kremlin says

📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing mobilised servicemen attending training and combat cohesion in the Western Military District.

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❗️Major points from Truss’ Conservative Party Conference speech:

▪️Truss says that she will bring down debt as a proportion of national income;

▪️Truss claims that cutting taxes is morally and economically right. Cutting taxes shows Britain is open for business;

▪️Truss says that the government is improving energy security to make the UK less dependent on other countries;

▪️Truss alleges that the Labour Party has absolutely no plan to tackle illegal migration;

▪️Truss says that her government will "realise promise of Brexit";

▪️Truss condemns the "anti-growth coalition"

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⚡️ Danish PM announces early general election for November 1

⚡️Ukrainian troops are currently shelling four districts of Donetsk, two residents in the Kirovsky district have died as a result of the attack, the city's mayor says.

⚡️ A new package of EU sanctions against Russia will come into force on Thursday, reports say

♻️Greenpeace says it disrupted Truss's speech because she's putting environmental protections 'through the shredder'

Greenpeace UK made a statement moments after the interruption, identifying areas where policies considered by Truss’s cabinet contradicted the 2019 Conservative election manifesto.

💬“Who voted for this? In a healthy democracy, people should get the government program they voted for, but Liz Truss is putting most of it through the shredder”, Greenpeace UK’s head of public affairs Rebecca Newsom said in the statement.

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💬 "The United States is doing everything possible via the war in Ukraine, the expansion of NATO, which is creating tension in Europe, forcing Germany to buy gas from the United States, which is many times more expensive than the gas it was getting from Russia, the United States is doing everything possible to weaken Germany," John Ross, a senior fellow of the Chongyang Institute at Renmin University of China, says.

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📹 Russia's MoD has published a video depicting the Airborne Troops' modernized BRDM-2MS armored reconnaissance vehicles in action, and the training of mobilized personnel in the special military operation area.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian forces launched missile attacks at the forward echelon and reserve forces of the Ukrainian 92nd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region. As a result, up to 100 Ukrainian service personnel and 14 units of military equipment were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces eliminated 15 Ukrainian service personnel and destroyed seven armored combat vehicles and five pickups with large-caliber machine guns from the 14th Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian forces performed a massive fire attack at the manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region and in the DPR. As a result, more than 90 Ukrainian service personnel and seven Ukrainian armored vehicles, as well as two Ukrainian sabotage groups formed by a total of 21 militants were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces launched fire attack at the positions of the Ukrainian 54th Mechanized, 80th Airborne Assault and 10th Mountain Assault brigades, eliminating up to 70 militants, as well as a Ukrainian tank, three Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and six pickups with large-caliber machine guns;

▪️Russian forces performed missile attacks at the units of the Ukrainian 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade in the Zaporozhye region. As a result, up to 30 militants and seven Ukrainian vehicles were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces eliminated two Ukrainian tanks, four infantry combat vehicles and up to 30 Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Air Forces performed massive fire attacks at the Ukrainian forces in the Kherson region, eliminating more than 120 Ukrainian service personnel, two tanks and eight armored combat vehicles;

▪️Ukraine’s army has lost a total of more than 230 personnel, four tanks, 18 armored combat vehicles, two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, two mortars and 20 motor vehicles in the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed six Ukrainian missile, artillery armament and munitions depots in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian hangar with Bayraktar TB-2 UAVs, as well as a counter-battery warfare radar and Ukrainian MIG-29 aircraft in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian air defense destroyed six Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 15 HIMARS rockets, one Olkha projectile and two HARM missiles.

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❗️The OPEC+ Monitoring Committee agreed to reduce oil production by 2 million bpd, Reuters reports.

The price of Brent crude oil on the London ICE exchange rose above $93 per barrel for the first time since September 21.