Biden bullies reporter during meeting with UK PM

“I say you be quiet until I speak, okay? That's what I say. Good idea?” the US president said, refusing to respond to a question about possible consequences for allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.

“You go be quiet and I'm going to make a statement, okay?” he chided.

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Harris can’t stop laughing again

The Vice President joined a dinner organized by the Congressional Black Caucus, appearing to embrace her reputation for uncontrolled laughter.

“Hello to all my divine nine brothers and sisters… and my soro… and to all my HBCU brothers and sisters,” Harris said through fits of laughter.

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▪️Americans sentenced in Democratic Republic of Congo coup plot, recalling history of US interference in Africa

▪️Houthi success swatting down Reaper drones betrays US trillion-dollar military’s paper tiger status

▪️Chip-maker Intel to get billions in US grants for secret Pentagon program

▪️Keir Starmer failed to disclose gifts given to his wife from wealthy donor – report

▪️Hillary Clinton criticizes Palestinians, college students in leaked excerpts from new book

▪️Harris can’t stop laughing again

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A pair of Russian MiG-31BM fighters intercepted a mock enemy over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan as part of the Ocean 2024 exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The exercises were launched on September 10 and are Russia’s biggest naval drills in 30 years, with more than 400 Russian Navy warships, submarines, and support vessels, along with more than 120 Russian Naval Aviation planes and helicopters. Over 90,000 personnel are involved.

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Houthis achieve all their targets, while West realize none of its – ex-Royal Navy commander

“They [Houthi fighters] are achieving their ends, all of them, and we're achieving none of ours. We're spending millions and millions of dollars on not winning. It's a real problem,” former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe told the Iran International news outlet.

Hitting the Houthis “hard enough to make them stop would be really difficult” because they’ve learned “so much from Iran in terms of mass maneuverability”, Sharpe argued. 

The Houthis hide their weapons in the mountains and villages, moving them around on mobile launchers, he said, adding that the Americans would need “a tremendous amount of highly expensive airborne surveillance to achieve anything."

Iranian Permanent Representative to the UN Amir-Saeed Iravani earlier denied claims by the US and its allies that Tehran is assisting the Yemeni militia in its ongoing maritime blockade of the Red Sea.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have been targeting international shipping near the country's coastline to show support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In response to the Houthi maritime attacks, the US-led naval coalition in the region has intensified its military operations, conducting strikes on Houthi military sites.

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Russian military specialists study HIMARS system missile head 

"This is the head unit that is responsible for the entire performance of the missile itself. We have begun to dismantle it slowly. The microcircuits have not been fully examined yet, but a huge amount of work is being done to study this particular head unit," the specialist stated.

The HIMARS missile head's nose stabilizer control systems, microcircuits, and electronics have come into the Russian military's possession. After dismantlement, the captured elements will be analyzed.

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West сan't impose its will on Iran through sanctions - Iranian Foreign Minister

Western countries are unable to impose their will on Iran by using sanctions, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.

“Western countries should know, and it is surprising that they don't already know this, that sanctions are a failed tool and they cannot impose their will on Iran by sanctions, both on the nuclear issue and on other issues.” Araghchi said, as quoted by the Fars news agency.

The top Iranian diplomat also called on the Western countries to change their course, adding that Tehran is ready to engage in dialogue based on mutual respect, rather than threats and pressure.

In a joint statement, Germany, the UK and France threatened Iran with new sanctions, including cancellation of bilateral air service agreements, over Tehran's alleged deliveries of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in combat operations in Ukraine.

Iran has denied the accusations of providing military support to Russia, saying it is not involved in the conflict in Ukraine.

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❗️Russian forces struck a Ukrainian warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons and a workshop for the production of components for operational and tactical missiles

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

▪️Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup repelled 10 counterattacks. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 545 militants;

▪️The Russian Vostok combat group repelled one counterattack by Ukrainian forces, which lost up to 110 soldiers;

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 150 militants in the area of responsibility of Russia's Sever Battlegroup;

▪️The Russian Zapad Battlegroup has improved its tactical position. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 570 military personnel;

▪️The Russian Yug combat group repelled three counterattacks, with Ukrainian forces losing up to 765 soldiers.

▪️Russian air defenses shot down 55 drones in a day.

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American journalist exposes Western media lies about the Donbass

Unlike “extremely deceptive” Western press, Russian media show diligence when it comes to “checking information to see if it's true or false,” independent US journalist and blogger who came to Russia in 2023 and traveled to Donbass, Tofurius Maximus Crane, tells Sputnik.

"When we first arrived in Donetsk, I realized how resilient everybody was," Crane explains. "I've traveled to many places in Russia and the LPR, the DPR - the flags everywhere, the patriotism. It's extremely heartwarming. How would I compare the real situation with Western media? You know, Western media doesn't report about any of this… Western media is just about control and deception."

Crane adds that while he himself “has never seen any falsehoods come out of Russian media” and notes that Western media publish articles with anonymous sources, or “sources within the government who must remain anonymous.”

The US earlier slapped sanctions on Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya and several other Russian media companies over their purported efforts to influence the upcoming US election, allegations that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected as nonsense.

Russia previously denied running information operations to meddle in America’s elections or other parts of the country’s politics.

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Houthis eating US Reaper drones for breakfast: how many have they destroyed so far?

Yemen’s Houthi militia has now downed over a quarter billion dollars’ worth of General Atomics MQ-9 Reapers – the Pentagon’s drone of choice for the bombing of poor brown people. The latest Reaper shootdown took place last Saturday while it was carrying out intelligence-gathering activities over Marib province in central Yemen, according to the Houthis.

The US military refused to confirm the loss until Friday, when an anonymous DoD official said an Air Force MQ-9 had been “struck but then landed safely and was recovered by US partner forces on September 9” somewhere in the Middle East. The Pentagon did not elaborate on where the drone touched down, who recovered it or what shape it was in.

▪️The damaged Reaper is at least the eighth $32 million-apiece US UAV struck by the Houthis since last November.

▪️On August 4, the Houthis blew a Reaper out of the sky over Saada, northwestern Yemen. An informed source told Sputnik the militia used a modernized Soviet 2K12 Kub air defense system to do. The Houthis are known to have adopted the Kub to fire Yemeni-made Fater-1 interceptor missiles.

▪️On May 29, the Houthis destroyed an unmarked Reaper, possibly belonging to the CIA, over Marib, releasing footage of warriors wearing sandals standing on top of the downed drone.

▪️On May 24, the Houthis shot down an MQ-9 over Sanaa, Yemen’s capital.

▪️On May 17, another Reaper was destroyed over Marib.

▪️On April 27, the Houthis shot down an MQ-9 in Sadaa province in northwestern Yemen.

▪️On February 19, a Reaper was destroyed over al-Hudaydah city in western Yemen.

▪️On November 8, 2023, a US Air Force Reaper was downed over the Red Sea.

The Houthis shot down three more Reapers between 2017 and 2019 along with an array of other NATO-made weaponry during the US’s attempts to help a Gulf coalition oust the militia from power.

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NATO 'wasting' arms in Ukraine in attempt to repeat Napoleon and Nazi Germany's failed Russia invasions - US journalist

The West has failed to learn from France and Nazi Germany’s botched aggressions against Russia in 1812 and 1941, independent US journalist Tofurious Maximus Crane tells Sputnik.

He shares his impressions about visiting an exhibition of Ukraine’s captured NATO weapons on Poklonnaya Gora (Hill) in Moscow, where a US-made Abrams main battle tank is on display, among other military equipment.

Crane says he “couldn't hardly even keep a straight face because in America, they believe that the Abrams is the most powerful tank in the world, and they cannot be destroyed. And now we have multiple Abrams that have been destroyed. We see basically a waste of American and European taxpayers money.”

"When I visited the exhibition, it was ironic because that hill there is where Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the city. For me, it was double comical. You know, it was like the last time, […] the West tried to take Russia - we saw what happened. And then right below the hill, there's these vehicles, from the West. So it was it was kind of like a 2.0,” the journalist points out.

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Key statements by the Russian Defense Ministry on Ukraine's incursion into the Russian Kursk region:

▪️During the day, Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 300 militants and 22 armored vehicles, including three tanks, four armored personnel carriers and 15 armored fighting vehicles.

▪️Russia's Akhmat special forces took two Ukrainian strongholds, destroying the enemy and taking prisoners.

▪️Units of the Russian Sever Battlegroup defeated the formations of seven Ukrainian brigades.

▪️Russian troops repelled six Ukrainian attempts to break through across the Russian-Ukrainian border.

▪️During the day, Russian tactical aviation and missile forces attacked concentration areas in the Sumy region and the reserves of four Ukrainian brigades.

▪️Seven Ukrainian militants surrendered to Russia in the Kursk region over the past day.

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US sanctions against Russian media are another 'orchestrated campaign' - Russian Foreign Ministry

Washington's new sanctions targeting Russian media, including the Rossiya Segodnya international media group, are seen as an orchestrated campaign, and will not go unanswered, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.

"In essence, this is yet another orchestrated campaign, a 'witch hunt' … We have no illusions that the rampant censorship in the US will receive proper assessment from relevant international organizations, whose activities are orchestrated by Washington," Zakharova said in a statement published by the ministry.

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‘Beacon of hope’: US journalist lauds Russia’s traditional values

"Russia is the largest country still embracing traditional values," independent US journalist Tofurious Maximus Crane said in an interview with Sputnik.

"And in the US and Europe – they've rejected traditional values. And look at their economies right now, look at their people. Look at the amount of homeless people on the streets, look at the amount of drug addicts, etc. They're rejecting moral values right now in the West. And now we see a massive decline in Western societies," he added.

Russia’s traditional values are “basically a beacon of hope, a lifeboat” for those in the US or Europe who still have these values, the journalist underscored.

Crane plans to stay in Russia and obtain Russian citizenship. He also informs other foreigners how to move to the country.

"I actually receive 600 to 1,000 messages a day on TikTok, YouTube, and on the Russian migration website from people asking how they can move here," he said.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on August 19 providing foreigners who share Russia's spiritual and moral values, and who seek to escape the West's destructive neo-liberal ideals, with a temporary residence permit in the country.

"For me, the decree is the best thing that ever happened in my life, besides, you know, family and children," he noted.

Many Americans don’t realize how big, beautiful, and diverse Russia is, Crane says, adding that his next mission will be to travel around the country and show the rest of the world what it’s like.

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