🇨🇳 Xi says BRICS states should step up as mediators in pressing issues

"We should support each other on the issues of interest for each of us, strengthen coordination on main international and regional issues, actively mediate in resolving pressing issues and promote political settlement," Xi said at a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg.

The Chinese chairman also called on fellow BRICS leaders to stand against economic coercion and focus on common development through cooperation.

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🇯🇵 Japan starts releasing Fukushima wastewater into Pacific Ocean despite protests

The process is being broadcast live by leading Japanese television companies.

The nuclear plant's operator TEPCO has collected more than 1 million tonnes of wastewater more than a decade after a massive tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

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🇷🇺 Russian forces thwart Ukraine drone attack, destroy three drones in Bryansk & Kaluga regions

Two UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems over the territory of the Bryansk region with another Ukrainian drone detected and destroyed above the Kaluga region, the MoD said.

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📹 Road to Prigozhin jet crash site cordoned off by police

The area of the Kuzhenkino village in the Tver Region remains sealed off, with law enforcement vehicles entering and exiting the scene.

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🇧🇾 Belarus to host CSTO ‘Combat Brotherhood-2023’ joint drills on September 1-6 - MoD

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.

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🇺🇸📹 'Cable lost its credibility': Trump skewers US mainstream media as 'corrupt news'

Tucker Carlson interview with Trump on Twitter X now has 117.2 million views.

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🇺🇸📹 ‘Manchurian candidate’ in White House: Trump says Biden compromised with China

Rather than taking part in the August 23 Republican debate, former US President Donald Trump instead chose to take part in a pre-recorded interview with Tucker Carlson that was published minutes before the GOP event kicked off.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian court extends US reporter Gershkovich's detention by three months

Evan Gershkovich, a WSJ correspondent, was caught red-handed in Yekaterinburg while collecting classified information regarding the activities of one of the firms of Russia's military-industrial complex, as per the Russian Federal Security Service.

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❗️LIVE NOW: BRICS summit in South Africa: Day 3

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❗️'Isolation' as an American weapon has been defeated forever, Russia’s MFA spokeswoman Zakharova says

“The press conference of the BRICS leaders to announce the results of the summit will start any minute now. The results are brilliant,” Maria Zakharova said.

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⚡️ BRICS has adopted Johannesburg declaration II, South African President Says

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⚡️ BRICS expanded: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE join the club

These countries will become full bloc members starting January 1, 2024.

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❗️Vladimir Putin at BRICS:

▪️Negotiation of the BRICS final declaration was not easy, including on the issue of expansion

▪️The president of South Africa showed diplomatic skill when discussing issues of expanding the bloc

▪️A single settlement currency is a very complicated issue, but we will move in this direction

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🎉 Historic moment: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE join BRICS

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