🇺🇸 Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser, reportedly criticized Hillary Clinton for asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to assist in evacuating Afghan women during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

After Clinton reached out to Zelensky's aide to arrange the potential transport and was confronted by Sullivan, she fired back by explaining she wouldn't have needed to contact Ukraine if the Biden administration had acted earlier. She subsequently assured Sullivan she would coordinate with US officials moving forward.

Clinton had also contacted leaders from Canada, Qatar and Albania in her efforts to evacuate 1,000 at-risk women.

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Russian FM Lavrov greeted by Indian PM Modi upon his arrival for the G20 summit in New Delhi.

🌐 Indian PM Modi addresses #G20 summit, here are the key points:

🟧 21st century is the time to show the world a new direction. Old global challenges are demanding new solutions;

🟧 We must follow a human-centric approach to resolve these challenges;

🟧 The COVID-19 pandemic has created a Global Trust Deficit. We defeated COVID-19, we can also overcome these differences;

🟧 Through G-20, we must strive to turn this deficit into a global understanding. It is time to work together;

🟧 The global understanding is needed to address economic turmoil, food and fertiliser security;

🟧 I am confident that the proposal to induct the African Union as a G-20 member has the all of the members' backing.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning confirmed on Friday that China's State Council Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing would be participating in the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) hosted by the Russian city of Vladivostok.

Zhang will head the country's delegation to the forum and will be accompanied by representatives of the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Liaoning, the government of Russia's Primorsky Territory revealed earlier in the day.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Kim Jong Un with the 75th anniversary of North Korea's establishment.

🇨🇳🇨🇦 China has never meddled in Canada's internal affairs and has no interest in engaging in such activities, the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said.

"China has always adhered to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. We have no interest in and have never interfered in Canada’s internal affairs and elections. With ulterior political motives, some Canadian politicians and media have been spreading lies and disinformation against China for a long time," the Chinese Embassy said in a statement obtained by Sputnik.

On Thursday, the Canadian government appointed Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Marie-Josee Hogue to lead the country’s public inquiry on foreign interference that is expected to focus on alleged meddling by China and Russia - a move the Chinese Embassy said it deplores and opposes.

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The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco has increased to 632, while 329 more people have been reported injured, local media says.

🇦🇹 Over half of Austrians believe that sanctions against Russia harm EU citizens, a poll conducted by the Institute for New Social Answers for a Austrian newspaper showed.

Fifty-four percent of respondents think that sanctions against Russia have a negative impact on the European Union, while 21% see neither positive nor negative effect of the sanctions, and only 12% are confident that the sanctions have positive consequences for Western Europe.

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Putin has expressed his condolences to the King of Morocco regarding the tragic consequences of the devastating earthquake.

🇫🇷🇳🇪 France is considering several options for a troop pullout from Niger, contacts with the Nigerien army continue and relate to operational and technical aspects, a French General Staff spokesman told a regional broadcaster.

Niger’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said on Monday that French forces were staying in the country illegally and called for their swift departure.

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🇷🇺🪙 The main foreign guest at the Eastern Economic Forum will not be Kim Jong-un, as some people thought, but the vice president of Laos.

The Vice Premier of the State Council of China will also fly to Vladivostok.

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🇲🇦 The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco has risen to 820, with another 672 people injured, according to reports.

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🫡 Biden, while walking to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave a military salute to an imaginary friend.

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❗️G20 leaders call for full implementation of the Black Sea Grain deal, including ensuring supplies of Russian fertilizers, the summit declaration said

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🏭🇺🇸 US military vulnerability primarily “stems from the slow pace of production, as we’re seeing in Ukraine,” American entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk has pointed out.

The entrepreneur also emphasized that making new prototypes is easy, but putting them into production is hard.

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❗️Key takeaways from the G20 summit declaration:

▪️G20 countries call for full implementation of the Black Sea Initiative to ensure immediate supplies of grain, food, and fertilizers from Russia and Ukraine.

▪️All nations should act in accordance with the goals and principles of the UN Charter regarding the Ukraine conflict.

▪️G20 countries committed to strengthening global food security and affordable nutrition for all.

▪️The G20 countries confirmed that the summit is not a platform for geopolitical issues but a recognized group that can influence the world economy.

▪️The G20 calls for WTO reform.

▪️Today's era should not be an era of war.

▪️G20 countries welcome the African Union as a permanent member and believe its inclusion will contribute to solving issues.

▪️All countries should refrain from threats or the use of force to gain territory.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces carried out six strikes on targets of Ukrainian radio-technical intelligence and the production of unmanned boats;

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) unsuccessfully threw assault detachments into battle 39 times the past week to break through Russian defenses in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ Russian troops eliminated more than 845 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed 27 tanks, including a Challenger 2, the past week in the Zaporozhye direction;

▪️Russian troops in the South Donetsk direction repelled four UAF attacks, enemy losses amounted to over 1,230 troops;

▪️Russian troops successfully repelled 12 UAF attacks in the Krasny Liman direction, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 450 servicemen;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces eliminated up to 355 UAF servicemen and destroyed a tank and 12 artillery guns in the Kherson direction

▪️Russian Black Sea Fleet ships destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned semi-submersible boats that tried to attack the Crimean Bridge;

▪️ Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems intercepted 49 HIMARS missiles, three JDAM guided bombs, and a HARM anti-radar missile; Air defenses and electronic warfare destroyed and suppressed 247 Ukrainian UAVs, including 23 in the western regions of Russia;

▪️Black Sea Fleet aircraft destroyed four UAF boats with 50 servicemen in the sea to the west of Crimea.

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🇿🇦 South African Presidential spokesperson responds to Sputnik India's correspondent

💬 "We believe that the inclusion of AU in the #G20 signals an important step towards the reforms that we have been seeking - of global multilateral institutions including the UN Security Council," Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President of the Republic of South Africa told Sputnik India

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🗣️ On why Ukraine's mobilization is going to be so tragic:

“The people's forces where you bring in children 15, 16 years old, you're bringing in old people in their sixties, you're bringing in the infirm people who otherwise would have received a military deferment. And you're bringing them together to form these units...If this is the stage that Ukraine is at, then this does not bode well for Ukraine because those forces are incapable, incapable of carrying out the kind of offensive operations that the Ukrainian army wants to do... And if they ever put these forces into combat, they will be slaughtered. And that would be, in a long list of tragic events, that would be among the most tragic,” Scott Ritter, former US Marine intel officer and UN weapons inspector, told Sputnik.

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