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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❗️The death toll as a result of the earthquake in Morocco has increased to 1,037; another 1024 were injured, according to reports.

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🌍 Is the G20 obsolete in an increasingly multipolar world?

It turns out that Western-centric groups are beginning to cede global leadership to multipolar world organizations, mostly led by Russia, China, and India. Is this trend taking over the politics of the G20? And what are the prospects for the G20 on a future world stage?

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⚓️ NATO says it launched a northern coast exercise in the Baltic Sea

Confict in Ukraine "has radically altered the security situation in the Baltic Sea, and NATO has substantially increased its defensive presence in the region at sea, on land and in the air. Exercises like these send a clear message that NATO stands ready to defend every inch of Allied territory," acting NATO spokesman Dylan White said in the statement.

During the exercise, the 14 nations will train amphibious operations, air defense, strikes from sea to land, and securing sea lanes, with around 30 warships and 3,200 troops involved in the drills, the statement read.

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🇬🇧UK ‘hired gun’ in Ukraine was found dead in a pond, hands tied behind the back

A British man who went to Ukraine in early October 2022 to fight on the side of the Kiev regime as a mercenary has been found dead, according to a UK media report. 31-year-old Jordan Chadwick from Burnley, Lancashire, had reportedly been part of the so-called International Legion, established by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky early last year and believed to comprise 'hired guns' from around 60 countries.

Known simply as ‘Joe,’ the young man had formerly served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015. His body was reportedly discovered in Ukraine, floating in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back. The Ukrainian International Legion repatriated Jordan Chadwick's remains on August 7. There will be an inquest into the cause of his death.

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