❗️ According to local authorities, vehicle traffic on the Crimean Bridge is temporarily blocked

🇺🇸 Trump in a new court filing is arguing for disqualifying the judge presiding over his January 6 federal case. The former US president claims Judge Tanya Chukan should recuse herself as her past comments “unavoidably taint” court proceedings.

"Judge Chutkan has, in connection with other cases, suggested that President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned. Such statements, made before this case began and without due process, are inherently disqualifying," the filing reads.

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American researcher Mark Dickey, who fell seriously ill 1,000 meters below the entrance of a Turkish cave, has been successfully rescued after more than a week. The Speleological Federation of Turkiye reported that teams from Europe came to his aid.

Dickey, an experienced caver, became ill on September 2 while on an expedition to map the cave, which is the third deepest in Turkiye. As he was too weak to climb out on his own, rescuers used a stretcher and made stops at temporary camps along the way.

Dickey was safely brought out of the cave at 12:37 a.m. local time on Tuesday.

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❗️ The movement of vehicles on the Crimean bridge has been restored, local authorities report

Who's to blame for Ukraine crisis and rising global nuclear tensions?

The escalation of the long-running Ukrainian crisis into a full-blown NATO proxy war against Russia has been accompanied by dramatic warnings about the risks of the conflict escalating into a global nuclear conflagration. Is there a way out? A senior diplomat recently offered his perspective on Russia’s position.

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Russia and its partners within BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) need to work on a unification of payment systems and a mechanism to regulate trade in national currencies to boost mutual trade and be more independent, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar told Sputnik.

"We do not need a new BRICS currency, we don’t need a new euro, you don’t need something you can buy coffee with. You need what [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin said, in fact, recently — a mechanism regulating trade in bilateral currencies and multilateral currencies [within BRICS and SCO] and also in parallel a unification of payment systems," Escobar said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Russia's Vladivostok.

One of the ways to start the process is to initiate the unification of Russia's payment system, SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages), China's CIPS (China International Payments System) and the Iranian system, the expert said.

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🇪🇺 The European Union has downgraded the economic outlook for 2023 and 2024 amid growing fears of recession. Economic growth in the euro currency area is predicted to reach 0.8 percent in 2023, down from 1 percent projected in the Spring Forecast, as per the European Commission statement.

The economy of the euro zone will grow “with a reduced momentum,” stated the Summer Forecast from the EU’s executive arm.

For 2024, the revised projections showed growth expectations lowered to 1.3 percent from 1.6 percent. As for the overall 27-country bloc, growth forecast was lowered to 0.8 percent from 1 percent this year, and to 1.4 percent from 1.7 percent in 2024.

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❗️ Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ Russian and North Korean delegations will hold talks in the coming days, with one-on-one communications and an official dinner in honor of Kim Jong-un.

▪️ There will be no press conference at Putin's meeting with Kim Jong-un, which will be held in the Far East.

▪️ Putin and Kim Jong-un will have a rich exchange of views on the situation in the region and discuss bilateral ties.

▪️ Contacts between Putin and China's Xi Jinping are planned before the end of this year

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Authorities on Taiwan said on Monday they had dispatched aircraft in response to detecting numerous Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships and aircraft off the island’s southern coast, including the aircraft carrier Shandong.

The autonomous island’s Ministry of Defense said "a naval formation led by the Shandong was spotted passing 60 nautical miles off the southeast tip of Eluanbi and sailing eastward towards the western Pacific for training," according to Taiwanese media. Cape Eluanbi is Taiwan’s southernmost tip. It is the closest either Chinese aircraft carrier has come to the island.

The ministry said it “sent warplanes and warships to shadow the PLA movements and deployed missile systems as appropriate responses.”

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🇷🇺🇱🇦 Relations between Russia and Laos are developing in many areas, one of the problems is financial settlements, but there are solutions, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Lao Vice President Pany Yathotou.

Putin claimed he hoped Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith will visit Russia in October, adding that contacts between Russia and Laos on the line of military departments are ongoing.

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🇩🇪 Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has been destroyed by Germans over her latest unannounced visit to Ukraine to pledge support for the radical regime against Russia.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Relations between Russia and China have reached an unprecedented historical level, joint work between the countries will continue, Vladimir Putin said

🇸🇾🇺🇸 Syria reveals staggering cost of US looting and sabotage of energy sector

Syria’s Foreign Ministry has decided to remind the United Nations of US crimes against the Syrian people, sending letters to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Security Council President Ferit Hoxha demanding action to put an end to Washington's illegal behavior.

In a summary of the letter published by Syrian media, the Foreign Ministry reminded the UN that “the US and its tools of terrorist organizations and militias continue to violate Syrian sovereignty and plunder the country’s wealth and strategic resources.” Damascus demanded accountability, compensation, an end to “the illegal presence of American forces,” and the “return of lands it occupies and the oil and gas fields of the Syrian state.”

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🇰🇵🇷🇺 Kim Jong-un's armored train is already in Russia

Russia has not ruled out talks during Kim Jong-un’s visit about Moscow providing humanitarian aid to North Korea, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister said

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US President Joe Biden announced on Saturday the India – Middle East – Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), a new rail and shipping route. Some Western observers qualified the corridor as an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative, after it was agreed to by India, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the European Union, among other countries.

What's really behind the plan?

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📹 Russia’s Msta-B 152mm towed howitzer artillery crews continue to destroy Ukrainian manpower and armored vehicles

The artillerymen's main tasks are to prevent the enemy from breaking through, to disrupt the rotation of its units at their positions, and to destroy tanks, armored vehicles and firing points of the Ukrainian fighters.

It is also important for artillery units to conduct counter-battery warfare, including the destruction of Western-made artillery systems.

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