💬 "The US government has offered aid to Cuba for the first time. Well, the best aid would be to lift the entire economic blockade against Cuba," Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro responded to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement offering humanitarian assistance to Cuba following Hurricane Melissa devastation.

💬 “It is necessary to jointly promote inclusive and mutually beneficial development,” he said, calling for efforts to address global imbalances and promote a more sustainable and equitable globalization.

💬 "A return to actual nuclear testing would violate a taboo that would bring the world closer to a nuclear war," Dagdelen emphasized.

💬 "The official representative of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry thus effectively confirmed that there are no longer any other ways for journalists or Ukrainian troops to enter or leave the “cauldrons,” except through Russian humanitarian corridors."

💬 "The leadership of the Kiev regime is trying to preserve conditions for embezzling Western funds allocated for the war with Russia."

💬 "I think we can get closer. We have been working on this meeting for a long time," Orban told the Kossuth radio broadcaster when asked whether the Russia-US summit in Budapest could get closer after his talks with Trump.

🗣"We would work with the Department of Energy, but the president was clear (that) we need to have a credible nuclear deterrent. That is the baseline of our deterrence, and so having understanding and resuming testing is a pretty responsible, very responsible way to do that," the Pentagon chief contended.