🇷🇺🇩🇪 The Alternative for Germany party will continue supporting Nord Stream 2 after the election, Tino Chrupalla, the party’s co-chairman, told Sputnik.

🗣 "AfD supports Nord Stream 2, this project … is very important for the energy security of Germany, it is an opportunity to receive cheaper energy. And therefore we strongly reject criticism of this project. This peaceful project, as I call it, should be launched," Chrupalla said.

He expressed hope that the fate of the Nord Stream 2 project will not change under the new government in Germany.

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🇷🇺 YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she hopes to continue working in Russia despite any possible disagreements with the Russian authorities.

🗣 "If it comes to a point when there is an issue with the government we'll do our best always to work that out," Wojcicki told Bloomberg.

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"Most heinous human rights abuser": North Korean state media denounced the US for using human rights as a means to pressure other countries and assert global dominance.

"'Human rights' touted by the US are nothing but a trick to easily realize its wild ambition for dominating the world," the KCNA said. "The US is the most heinous human rights abuser in the world that severely disturbs the normal and peaceful development of sovereign states under the pretext of 'human rights.'"

The "hypocritical moves under the cloak of human rights" displayed by the US should be abolished to create a free and prosperous new world, according to the KCNA.

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'You f'd up your presidency': Lindsey Graham blasted Donald Trump after the latter refused to concede the presidential election, the latest Trump-era tell-all book, "Peril", claims.

And while the outburst prompted Trump to hang up on Graham, the former called back the next day.

The South Carolina Republican is said to have later suggested that he may have made a misstep, conceding that he "would have hung up too" if someone had spoken to him in the same manner.

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#URGENT | Exiled president Ghani urges international community to recognize Taliban's rule in Afghanistan

UPDATE | Ashraf Ghani's Twitter page posts message indicating he didn't endorse the Taliban's rule

UPDATE | The post on Ghani’s Facebook page has been removed

❗️Facebook puts development of Instagram for kids on hold after pushback

Commenting on recent media reports about US discussions of a possible assassination of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, another whistleblower Edward Snowden publishes a WikiLeaks video of a covert "grab team" as of 2017.

"If you're reading the story today about the US's planned kidnapping or killing of Julian Assange, recall that WikiLeaks began noticing teams of people appearing outside around the same time," Snowden tweeted.

🤨 What causes wildfires? Some may say global warming, while others will say arson attacks. But sometimes a fire can start when a human being decides to boil some bear urine to drink. The unique accident happened in California, when "shaman" Alexandra Souverneva allegedly sparked the Fawn Fire, which has destroyed 41 homes and 90 smaller structures and is threatening 2,340 others.

What does the woman herself think about the case? Do bears poop in the woods? Of course, she has pleaded not guilty.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates alongside regional US envoys. According to media reports, he will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to urge the kingdom to halt its military actions in Yemen.

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⚡️US President Biden will deliver remarks, get a COVID-19 booster at 1 p.m. (17.00 GMT) – statement

💉US President Joe Biden will receive a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot on Monday, the White House said.

The 78-year-old leader, who is encouraging the boosters as a new tool against the coronavirus pandemic, will "receive a Covid-19 booster shot in line with" US government health authorities' guidelines, the White House said.

Biden will also deliver remarks on the fight against Covid. The event was scheduled for 1:00 pm (1700 GMT).

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⚡️Deputy Secretary of State Sherman will lead US delegation in Geneva on 30 September for strategic stability dialogue with Russia – US Department of State

Joe Biden receives COVID booster shot, delivers remarks

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⚡️President Biden gets third booster dose of Pfizer COVID vaccine

❗️US District Judge Paul Friedman said on Monday he would grant "unconditional release" to John Hinckley, who wounded former US President Ronald Reagan and three other people in a 1981 assassination attempt.

In 2016, Friedman allowed Hinckley to move out of a Washington psychiatric hospital, where he had lived for three decades, but imposed restrictions on his travel and internet usage.

Friedman said during Monday’s hearing that he planned to lift those remaining restrictions, adding he would issue a written order later this week memorializing his decision.

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⚡️JUST IN: US has successfully tested an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, marking the first successful test of the class of weapon since 2013 – Pentagon

⚡️US State Department spokesman Ned Price tests positive for COVID-19

"After experiencing symptoms for the first time this morning, I tested positive for COVID-19 shortly thereafter, & will now quarantine for the next 10 days. I'm feeling under the weather but am grateful for the protection from severe illness offered by safe and effective vaccines," Price tweeted.

⚡️US State Department says no other members of delegation who travelled to last week’s UN General Assembly are currently showing COVID-19 symptoms