🗣️ On the myth of Western prosperity:

“Why is Western society still considered to be rich, to be prosperous? Because of inertia. I think the people who have experienced to live in the West could challenge this assertion of this status, that the Western world, Western society, is best. That's the past… So we should not reduce this problem to poor society - illiberal society, rich society - liberal society. That is not true anymore,” Alexander Dugin, one of the world’s most famous political philosophers, told Sputnik.

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🇬🇧 Sunak's public approval rate drops under 25%, Opinium poll shows

Based on the results of the survey, opposition Labor Party leader Keir Starmer is treated relatively better, with 28% approving of his performance and 35% disapproving. He also beats Sunak on the question of who would make a better prime minister, with 27% of respondents choosing him and 23% choosing Sunak.

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🇹🇷 A meteorite has crash-landed in the southeastern region of Turkiye

☄ Blazing fragments were witnessed in the skies above multiple provinces, as reported by local television.

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🇺🇸👨🏻‍🦳 US Congress is older than ever, but reform is unlikely, experts say

💬 "The US Congress and the Presidency constitute a gerontocracy, and I see no chance that such graybeards will reform themselves on that score anytime soon," John Seery, the George Irving Thompson memorial professor of government and professor of politics at Pomona College, summarized the situation.

💬 "The few times in the modern era that it has been considered in relation to, for example, President [Ronald] Reagan, have caused significant unease. No-one wants to be the person informing the president that they are no longer considered fit for office," Clodagh Harrington, a lecturer in US politics at University College Cork, said, commenting on whether a version of the 25th Amendment for members of Congress could be passed.

💬 "The difficulties of passing such an Amendment are nearly insurmountable, and I think the real problem is a corruption that has permeated our politics. I think the question to be asked is who, exactly, is benefitting from keeping such obviously incapable seniors such as Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, and Mitch McConnell in office?" Stephen Presser, the Raoul Berger professor of legal history emeritus at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, said.

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🇺🇸 Ramaswamy to vote for Trump in the 2024 election even if he's convicted

"I still expect that Donald Trump or whoever the Republican nominee will be better than the alternative, and I care about what actually moves this nation forward," Ramaswamy told the American broadcaster when asked why he was going to vote for Trump even in the event of conviction.

Ramaswamy also pledged to pardon Trump if he is elected US president because he believes it may help to reunite the country that split on the issue of an ongoing court trial against the former US leader.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳 US to be 'as strict as possible' limiting China's access to cutting-edge chips

The reason for this was that technological developments may be allegedly used to boost the Asian nation's military capacity, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Sunday.

"We are not going to sell the most sophisticated American chips to China that they want for their military capacity," Raimondo told the American broadcaster, adding that the US will keep selling less sophisticated chips to China, still worth billions of dollars.

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🇺🇸🌍 Yellen’s G20 lobbying won’t sway India into taking sides on Ukraine: here’s why

Russia expects the West to try to “Ukrainianize” the agenda of the upcoming G20 Summit in New Delhi next week, and warned that it will block any declaration from the gathering that fails to reflect its position on Ukraine and other global crises.

Veteran Indian academic Anuradha Chenoy has told Sputnik why Moscow should have nothing to worry about.

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🇯🇵☢️ Cancer risk surges from even a tiny trace of tritium, an expert warns amid the Fukushima water dump

The presence of even a low concentration of tritium in water is known to increase the risk of cancer by over 500%, Moscow State University oceanographer Sergey Mukhametov has told Sputnik.

As for the long-term effects of trace amounts of the hydrogen-derived isotope present in the filtered cooling water being dumped from the Fukushima nuclear site, scientists are yet to determine that, he added.

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⛽️ What country has the highest price of gas?

In today's interdependent world, the cost of gasoline, or just gas, has gained international relevance as a commodity of concern.
Nevertheless, grasping the dynamics of the worldwide gasoline market is of utmost importance for market experts, government decision-makers, and ordinary citizens who rely on this indispensable resource to fuel their automobiles and maintain the flow of their daily lives.

👉Sputnik explains the factors that influence gas prices, why they vary by country, the complexities of the global gasoline market, which country currently holds the highest gas prices, etc.

🇰🇵 North Korea conducted a drill with a simulated tactical nuclear strike on September 2 in response to joint military exercise by the US and South Korea, Pyongyang-run news agency reported on Sunday.

As many as two long-range strategic cruise missiles tipped with mock nuclear warheads were fired, with each of them flying some 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) for 7,672 and 7,681 seconds, respectively, and exploding afterward at an altitude of 150 meters above the "target island," the news agency also stated.

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🪖🤒 Inclusivity: Ukrainian military lowers health requirements for connoscripts

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has updated the list of diseases for assessing the suitability of servicemen; now all servicemen with "controversial" diseases will be recognized as fit.

In particular, the health requirements for paratroopers and Marines have been simplified, and the health requirements for airborne assault troops and Marines during mobilization and martial law have been relaxed.

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🇦🇺🇨🇳 Australia and China resume high-level dialogue for the first time since early 2020

The 7th Australia-China High Level Dialogue is expected to provide a platform for senior representatives from industry, government, academia, media, and the arts "to exchange perspectives across the breadth of Australia and China's bilateral relationship," the Australian Foreign Ministry said.

The dialogue will also give an opportunity for the two sides to engage in a constructive discussion on a number of issues such as trade, investments, international security and people-to-people links, the Ministry added.

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🇫🇷🚭 France may ban single-use electronic cigarettes to reduce the number of smokers

"Tobacco is [the cause of] 75,000 deaths annually, it is an enormous number. The government will soon present a new national plan to tackle tobacco smoking, which includes, among other things, a ban on single-use electronic cigarettes, known as 'puffs,' that are contributing to the development of harmful habits among young people," Borne told French broadcaster.

The minister said that the French government would not raise the prices on conventional cigarettes.

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🪖Millions of Ukrainians dodging draft to 'avoid certain death' fighting for NATO

Alternative media and even some legacy outlets have reported on the growing difficulties facing Ukrainian authorities in recruiting more connoscripts for the NATO-backed proxy war against Russia, with widespread reports of draft officers grabbing men off the street, draconian restrictions on travel abroad, and demands for large-scale bribes from anyone seeking to avoid being sent to fight.

Inside the country, military analyst Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik, people have been disoriented and frightened into silence, or propagandized into believing that the ever-expanding graveyards are filled with the "defenders of Ukraine." Because of this, society at large hasn't risen up in protest, Litovkin said.

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📡👽 'Twinkling' radio signals from space may aid the search for 'alien life'

A novel technique conceived by scientists will, they hopeful, offer a breakthrough in the search for alien life in planet Earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way. The breakthrough approach is tailored to filter signals that may, potentially, be sent out by extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence, from various other ground or satellite radio interference.

The innovation helping to seek out true alien ‘techno-signature’ has been developed by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen project.

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❗️Russian forces destroy four US-made Willard Sea Force assault boats with Ukrainian landing parties in Black Sea, MoD says

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🇺🇸 US Commerce Secretary warns of looming government shutdown worries among business leaders

The White House has urged Congress to swiftly approve a short-term spending bill to avert a partial shutdown, with Gina Raimondo emphasizing the need for a speedy resolution. She noted that such an event could pose a significant challenge to the economy and potentially hinder its progress.

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📹 SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev returns to Earth from ISS

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Putin and Erdogan meeting: What to expect from Russia-Turkiye summit?

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to hold negotiations in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi on September 4, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. This will be the first meeting between the two leaders in person since October 13 last year in Astana, Kazakhstan.

👉 Sputnik takes a closer look at what to expect from the upcoming talks

📹 WATCH Russian Ka-52 and Mi-35 chopper crews destroy (01:10) Ukrainian stronghold in Krasny Liman direction

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