🇳🇮The Biden administration is intensifying pressure on President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule in Nicaragua, threatening a ban on Americans from doing business in the nation’s gold industry, raising the possibility of trade restrictions, and stripping the U.S. visas of some 500 government insiders.

The actions, stemming from an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on Monday, are the latest and perhaps most aggressive attempt by the U.S. to hold the former Sandinista guerrilla leader accountable for his continued attacks on human rights and democracy in the Central American country.

Previous sanctions have focused on Ortega, his wife, and vice president, Rosario Murillo, and members of their family and inner circle. But none of those moves have loosened Ortega’s grip on power. The latest target by Ortega’s government: is the Roman Catholic Church. In August, security raided the residence of a bishop, detaining him and several other clergies.

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“Where do we go?”: Joe Biden gets lost in the White House garden after a tree planting event

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“They turned out to be civilians”: A captured Azov militant confessed to crimes in Mariupol.

❗️IAEA to visit two nuclear facilities in Ukraine as Russia warns of 'dirty bomb' threat

🇮🇷 Exclusive: Construction of multipolar world cannot be stopped Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi tells Sputnik

▪️Construction of multipolar world cannot be stopped, there are already many centers of power outside western world;

▪️Only Western countries impede the creation of a multipolar world;

▪️A multipolar world is built with the help of regional organizations, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO);

▪️Tehran takes development of relations with Moscow seriously, considers the SCO one of the centers of power;

▪️Many nations want freedom from the US, and Iran will continue to support freedom-loving peoples;

▪️The US has already realized sanctions do not work and began to use other methods, including information terrorism

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⚡️ Air raid alert announced in Kiev and Kiev region – local media

🛢 The world is in the middle of "the first truly global energy crisis", Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, says

The situation has arisen because markets for liquefied natural gas (LNG) have been squeezed and major oil producers have cut supply.

Rising imports of LNG to Europe during the Ukrainian crisis and a potential rebound in Chinese demand for the fuel will tighten the market as only 20Bln cubic meters of LNG capacity will come to market next year, Birol said.

He added that the recent decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies - known as OPEC+ - to cut output by 2 million barrels per day is "risky" and "really unfortunate".

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❗️ WhatsApp users report technical problems; outages reported from the UK to Singapore

👛💸I’ve been saving for it for ages!

In the Rudrapur city of India's Uttarakhand a young man paid Rs 50,000 in Rs 10 coins to buy a TVS Jupiter scooter he had been dreaming of.

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⚡️ Macron in Vatican: "We need the United States to negotiate to advance the peace process in Ukraine"

Su-34 crews detect and destroy ground targets (video by Russian MoD)

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⚡️ King Charles III accepts Liz Truss' resignation

⚡️Kremlin says unacceptable to deny Kiev's plans to create 'dirty bomb' against backdrop of danger Moscow is talking about

Kremlin spokesman Peskov after Macron's call to the Pope and the US to talk with Putin: At the same time, Kiev, which rejected negotiations, is not called for talks

Rishi Sunak has arrived at Buckingham Palace where King Charles III will ask him to form a new government

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PHOTO: Rishi Sunak meets King Charles III

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⚡️ Rishi Sunak officially appointed Britain's prime minister as King Charles III asks him to form a new government

❗️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:

▪️Russia is ready to talk to the US and the Pope about the situation in Ukraine, but this must proceed from the point that Kiev rejects the possibility of peace talks with Russia.

▪️TurkStream has potential for expansion if necessary.

▪️There’s no reason to fear that Turkey might abuse its privileged position in the gas market.

▪️Russia and Turkey understand the global environment in the gas market, no one will go beyond the bound of reason.

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🇬🇧UK's new prime minister Rishi Sunak in his address from Downing Street pledges to fix Truss' "mistakes", says "difficult" choices are ahead

🥴 "Rashee Sanook": Joe Biden mispronounces name of the UK's new Prime Minister

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