🗣️ On President Joe Biden’s improvements in domestic policy:

“I mean, let's remember when Biden first became president and we were told that the pandemic policies were going to cut child poverty in half, which was a lie. They never accomplished that. But as you said, temporary. So the child tax credit is gone. The automatic enrollment of Medicaid is gone. People all over the country are being kicked off of Medicaid, losing their SNAP benefits. They may, in fact, be eligible under their state's rules, but there's no more assurance at the top that people are going to receive these benefits. And you're not supposed to mention it,” Margaret Kimberley, editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report and author, told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 A court in Delaware has ordered Hunter Biden to appear in-person on September 26 for a hearing in his illegal gun possession case. A motion to appear by video was denied by officials.

❗️ Ukraine has suspended the speaker of the UAF Territorial Defense Force Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a transgender woman from the US, from her post for the duration of an investigation into his statements, according to the department's report

🇵🇸🇷🇺 The Palestinian Foreign Minister told Sputnik that he is expecting to visit Moscow by the end of the year to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; the trip was postponed until after the UN General Assembly

🗣️ On how the media massively overhyped the Ukrainian counteroffensive:

“The joint US-Ukrainian effort to turn the tide of public opinion after this counteroffensive demonstrated that Ukraine isn't in a good shape, that Ukraine isn't going to win the war. As I said earlier, Ukraine fatigue is growing more and more common in Western countries... We've seen in polls in France and Germany, and in the United States, you're seeing more and more people oppose sending more weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. And so in addition to this public relations offensive, we're also seeing something similar in the Western media,” Bryce Greene, contributor to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, told Sputnik.

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UPD: The initial court appearance and arraignment for Hunter Biden on a firearms charge is rescheduled to October 3, according to a court order from US Magistrate Judge Christopher Burke

🇮🇷 President Ebrahim Raisi “stole the limelight” at the UN General Assembly, with his speech on the “global transition from unilateralism to multilateralism” and Iran’s rising role internationally effectively serving as an “obituary of US hegemony,” one of Iran’s top international broadcasters has reported.

“President Raisi said the project of global Americanization has failed, referring to the staggering collapse of the policy of unilateralism with Washington in the role of a hegemony,” the outlet wrote.

Raisi emphasized that “the equation of Western domination does not work for the world anymore,” and that “the old liberal order that used to serve the interests of imperialists and capitalists has been brushed aside.” The planet, he said, is “reaching a critical junction point as an emerging order of non-Western states look to pursue closer economic and political ties with one another.”

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❗️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi have exchanged views on the main areas of the IAEA's activities and discussed the safety of the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Lavrov and Grossi noted the long-term disastrous effect of the use of depleted uranium munitions supplied to Kiev by the West, the ministry added.

❗️ Rafael Grossi told Sputnik after meeting with Sergey Lavrov that he considers it advisable to continue regular contacts with Russia on the situation around the Zaporozhye NPP.

He added that he is considering the possibility of a visit to the NPP, but it depends on the circumstances.

🗣️ On Zelensky's claims that Russia has kidnapped Ukrainian children:

“Obviously Zelensky is trying to vilify Russia to justify continued arms shipments to his country. I've been in the Donbass twice in the last – in less than a year. And I've talked to people about the children who were killed by the government in Kiev over the years. And moreover, I witnessed, in my own cross-border trips into Russia from places like Estonia, Ukrainians voluntarily emigrating to Russia… A lot of the Ukrainians going to Russia are going there because they want to go there, because they feel safer there. And again, that is something being obscured by people like Zelensky,” Dan Kovalik, attorney and human rights activist, told Sputnik.

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❗️ The Russian Defense Ministry reported a mass terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Crimea, the Russian Armed Forces' air defense forces destroyed 19 drones over the peninsula.

Air defenses downed one drone each over Russia's Kursk, Belgorod and Oryol regions, the Ministry added.

👀 Olaf Scholz spoke at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York in front of an almost empty hall and addressed the whole world in his speech, German media reported.

After speaking, Scholz himself left the room without staying for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's speech.

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❗️ Two UAVs that attempted to attack fuel and energy facilities were neutralized on the territory of the Oryol region, Governor Andrei Klychkov said. Preliminarily, there were no damages or casualties.

🇦🇺 Australia, with a population of 26 million, faces a severe shortage of rental properties due to rising construction costs and opposition to new housing developments by activist groups.

Only 0.9 percent of rental properties are available, exacerbating the housing crisis. The number of new developments is declining, driven by high building costs, low planning permissions, bankruptcies among building firms, and a labor shortage.

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🇸🇱🇷🇺 Freetown's good relations with Moscow will remain unchanged regardless of Western sanctions, Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister Timothy Kabba told Sputnik on the margins of the UN General Assembly.

"We have our bilateral relations, and we're going to keep those intact," Kabba said regarding whether Western sanctions impact relations between Sierra Leone and Russia.

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🇺🇸 An attorney representing 300 individuals suing the US Navy asserts that the Navy, being a sophisticated entity, was well aware of its legal obligations to preserve evidence related to the 2021 fuel storage facility accident in Hawaii that contaminated local water supplies. They criticize the Navy for not preserving call logs and text messages on officers' cellphones, which has raised concerns during an ongoing lawsuit in the US District Court for Hawaii.

In spring 2022, data on the phone of Captain James "Gordie" Meyer, the former commander of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command in Hawaii, was wiped during a "tech support incident." Similarly, Captain Erik Spitzer had his phone wiped upon his retirement in June of that year.

The plaintiffs' attorneys, including Kristina Baehr, Lyle Hosoda, and Frederick Baker, argue for an "adverse inference" from judges, contending that the deletion of messages itself serves as evidence against the government defendants.

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📊 A new poll on Tuesday showed US President Joe Biden’s modest lead over his predecessor Donald Trump had evaporated in the 2024 race for the White House.

The poll, released by YouGov and Yahoo News, showed the candidates tied with each of them winning the support of 44% of registered voters. The results mark a shift from a poll by the same firm the previous month that showed Biden with 47% support and Donald Trump with 41%.

A full 7% of registered voters said they were undecided while 4% said they would refuse to vote in a rerun of the 2020 election.

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❗️ Iraqi Prime Minister expects to visit Moscow by the end of the year, the country's Foreign Minister told Sputnik

The European Institute for Underwater Archaeology has announced the unveiling of new "treasures and secrets" from a sunken temple off Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Among the findings are precious objects from the temple treasury, including silver ritual instruments, gold jewelry, and delicate alabaster containers, providing insights into the wealth and piety of the city's former inhabitants.

The archaeological excavations, conducted in collaboration with the Department of Underwater Archaeology of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt, revealed well-preserved underground structures supported by wooden posts and beams dating back to the 5th century BC.

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❗️ Russian peacekeepers evacuated 5,000 civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh, Defense Ministry said

🇺🇸 US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said during a news conference that House Republicans are nearing a plan to temporarily fund the US government and avoid a potential shutdown.

"We’re very close there. I feel I just got a little more movement to go there," McCarthy said on Wednesday, when asked how close House Republicans are to a plan.

Congress must pass a government funding measure before the end of the month to avoid a shutdown. House Republicans have proposed legislation to extend government funding through the end of next month, in addition to border security measures.

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