❗️Latest statements by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak:

▪️Russia will continue to supply oil only to those consumers who provide market pricing mechanisms;

▪️The introduction of a price cap on Russian oil prices will damage the energy market, lead to shortages and price rises;

▪️Russia is ready to supply gas via the undamaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline;

▪️Investigation of Nord Stream incident should be carried out with Russia's participation, but operators, Gazprom, Rostekhnadzor not allowed yet.

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🚀The Falcon 9 rocket launched from the spaceport in Florida with the Crew Dragon ship and a crew of four people, including Russian Anna Kikina.

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📹Have a look at the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from a different persepctive.

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❗️US President Biden is disappointed with the "myopic" decision of OPEC+ to reduce oil production, the White House says.

The president will discuss ways to weaken the influence of OPEC on prices with Congress.

“Before they left they took to the highway and hit the school from a tank”

📹WATCH a woman describes how the Ukrainian Army hit local infrastructure while leaving their positions.

❗️EU is ready for diplomatic solution on Ukraine 'if circumstances allow', EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says

📹WATCH Сrew-5 members, including Russian cosmonaut Anna Karina, being greeted by people on the eve of the rocket launch.

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Chief director for energy at the Institute of Energy and Finance, Alexei Gromov, explained how OPEC+'s decision to cut oil production by two million barrels per day may affect Russia:

💬"Russia, by joining today and initiating a significant reduction in oil production by OPEC+ countries, in fact, does not lose anything. Russia would already be forced to limit its production due to restrictions on exports, which it will receive starting from December this year. In the future, Russia will be able to overcome these export restrictions, but at the moment they will really lead to a restriction of Russian oil production. Knowing this, why would Russia not legitimize this opportunity within the framework of the OPEC+ agreement in order to stabilize the world oil market? In my opinion, this is a very elegant and beautiful solution for Russia."

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Chief director for energy at the Institute of Energy and Finance, Alexei Gromov, explained what OPEC+'s decision to cut oil production by two million barrels per day means for China:

💬“In this situation, China will still have an incentive to buy more Russian oil, especially after the entry into force of the European oil embargo, Russia, I think, will be ready to offer China additional shipments of Russian oil, and at a very significant discount to the world price that will be formed at that time. Strengthening bilateral oil cooperation will be mutually beneficial for Russia and China from a purely economic point of view."

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📹Have a look at Sputnik’s video on the UK’s train workers' strike.

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📌 You are not supposed to say that! Jeffrey Sachs was censured during a live TV interview for suggesting that US might be behind Nord Stream attack
📌 Hands off of Haiti! Dr. Jemima Pierre drops by to discuss Haiti’s four years of struggle against Western interference
📌 Make Twitter Great Again: Elon Musk wants to turn the platform into “everything app”

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📹WATCH Kherson resident describes how the Ukrainian Army shelled his home.

▪️A suicide bombing has hit a mosque at a government ministry in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, killing four people and wounding 25, a ministry spokesman said. The explosion on Wednesday afternoon occurred as workers and visitors were praying inside Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry mosque, which is responsible for security and law enforcement.

The ministry is on Kabul’s main road next to Kabul International Airport and is in its fortified compound. A Taliban-appointed spokesman for the ministry, Abdul Nafi Takor, said in a tweet: “Unfortunately this afternoon, about 1:30 pm [09:00 GMT], there was an explosion in a sub mosque at the Ministry of Interior. As a result, four worshippers were martyred, and 25 others were wounded.

The incident is under investigation; we will share the details with the media when it is done.” On Wednesday afternoon, the Emergency hospital was closely guarded by Taliban forces, who were also heavily deployed around the attack scene.

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💸🇺🇸The national debt has hit a new record, and with interest rates rising and high inflation sticking around, there are fears that the federal government’s debt obligations will become overwhelming. In August, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that Biden's policies would add $4.8 trillion to budget deficits between 2021 and 2031.

There are also worries that too much debt not only threatens the country’s economic stability but will hurt Americans’ wallets down the road.

“Future generations are going to face lower wages than they otherwise would have. They're going to receive less in federal government benefits. They're going to pay more in taxes, and a larger share of our budget is going to go just to financing interest on the debt,” Goldwein said, senior vice president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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📲 Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got excited on social media Wednesday when the Republican gave remarks introducing President Biden while standing at a podium with the presidential seal on it.

“Mr. President, welcome to Florida,” the governor said at one point. “We appreciate working together across various levels of government.”

Biden was slightly ahead of DeSantis by 36% to 35% in a YouGov survey from August -within the margin of error- but led Trump 39% to 36%. 

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🚀The first stage booster of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made a successful landing on the Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) drone ship after launching four astronauts to the International Space Station.

SpaceX shared a video of the booster deploying its landing legs before settling onto the JRTI’s landing platform, eliciting cheers from the command center.

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🚰🇫🇷France will turn off the hot water in the restrooms of public buildings and order municipalities to reduce water temperatures at public swimming pools by 1 degree Celsius as part of broader plans to reduce energy consumption, the energy ministry said.

President Emmanuel Macron's government is due to announce sector-by-sector energy saving measures on Thursday designed to avoid power outages or shortfalls in gas supplies during the winter.

Le Parisien newspaper reported that hot water production in administration buildings alone accounts for 10% of the energy bill of the French state, which employs over five million people.

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😵A violent armed group was captured in video footage stealing a car in Philadelphia. Last Saturday, unknown males robbed the victim, a 29-year-old-male. The victim parked his vehicle at the gas station while a white transit van parked in front of him. When the victim exited the store and walked back to his car, four masked males with guns jumped out of the white van and robbed the victim of his car.

The Philadelphia police department has launched investigations to find those responsible.

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