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FIDE postpones decision on easing sanctions against Russian chess players
Sixty-six delegates voted in favor of consultations with the IOC and IPC on the partial qualification of Russian and Belarussian chess players
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Putin highlights importance of efforts to develop relations between Russia, Armenia
The Russian President congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Armenia’s Independence Day
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Report on alternative payment systems will be prepared by BRICS summit in Kazan — Lavrov
The Russian foreign minister also drew attention to the growth of trade in national currencies between Russia and other countries
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Russian science remains open despite CERN’S unfriendly stance — science ministry
"At its 214th session, held on December 15, 2023, the CERN Council decided to discontinue CERN agreements on international cooperation with Russia upon their expiration in November 2024. We believe that this decision was taken under political pressure," the press service said
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Russia's newest satellites to change course of Ukrainian conflict — former UN inspector
According to Ritter this conflict would become "unsustainable for the Ukrainian sometime by the end of summer, early fall"
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5.1 magnitude earthquake registered off the coast of El Salvador
There were no reports of casualties, and no tsunami threat was declared.
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Russia will not 'shoot itself in the foot' by halting gas supplies — Lavrov
According to the top Russian diplomat, for many decades, since the times of the Soviet Union, since the 1970s, Moscow has been establishing mutually beneficial cooperation in gas supplies
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Military record launch of 10 shells at northern Israel from Lebanon
According to its information, the shells were launched in the direction of the Jezreel Valley in the Lower Galilee
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Russian lower house speaker arrives in Belarus for working visit
According to the Russian State Duma press service, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Russia and Belarus will hold a meeting in Mogilev on September 23
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Ukraine’s forces in Ugledar virtually encircled — sources
"Most positions around the city, including those at the most important sites and heights are Russian, the whole city is exposed to fire," the sources explained
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Russian prime minister approves list of countries imposing destructive attitudes
It includes the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and other states
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Neglect of Russia’s interests makes lasting settlement in Ukraine impossible — MFA
At the same time, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained that Russian representatives "have not participated in any meetings within the framework of the ‘Buergenstock process’ and are not going to participate in any
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6-magnitude earthquake rocks Argentina
The epicenter was located 158 km northwest of the city of San Luis
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EU will grant loan to Kiev that will be paid from frozen Russian assets — EC president
Ursula von der Leyen stressed that 35 billion euros is the part which the European countries will contribute to the 45 billion euro loan approved by the G7 in Italy in the summer
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Ukrainian minister says West pledged funds for making missiles, drones in Ukraine
We have developed a missile program, Ukrainian Defense Minister said
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Physicists from Russia to be banned from Large Hadron Collider from December 1 — Nature
At the same time, CERN will continue to work on projects already underway with about 270 employees of the Russian Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
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Ukraine spends over $150 billion on military needs, but it's not enough — Defense Ministry
Rustem Umerov did not specify for what period exactly the specified amount was spent
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Modi, Biden discuss cooperation between India, US
The meeting took place on the sidelines of a summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which includes Australia, India, the United States and Japan and is also known as QUAD, in Wilmington, a city in Delaware
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Zelensky may be overthrown if Ukraine fails to hold elections — Ukrainian MP
Ukraine is still facing the question of the legitimacy of power in the absence of parliamentary and presidential elections, which cannot be held during martial law
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Russia, China launch joint naval exercise in Vladivostok — Pacific Fleet
A joint group of warships from the Pacific Fleet and China’s PLA Navy has departed from Vladivostok to conduct Russian-Chinese naval maneuvers
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UN General Assembly has lost its viability, says Brazilian president
"The pandemic, conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, the arms race, the climate crisis have revealed the limitations of multilateral formats," Inacio Lula da Silva said at the Summit of the Future at the UN headquarters
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Israeli army declares strikes on 180 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon
"The Israel Defense Forces have completed a series of strikes on southern Lebanon," the army’s press service said in a statement
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US coalition’s aircraft violated Syria's airspace 12 times over past day
At the same time, no bombardments of Syrian government forces' positions by terrorist groups were recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone
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Russia’s air defenses repel massive attack on Bryansk region, taking down over 50 drones
Russian Defense Ministry’s air defense forces intercepted or destroyed 53 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles
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Cessna-182 makes emergency landing in Moscow Region — Investigative Committee
No one was hurt, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee’s Western interregional investigative department for transport said
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Russia says drone shot down over Kursk Region
The Kiev regime made an attempt to carry out a terrorist attack with a fixed-wing drone on sites on the territory of the Russian Federation
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Hezbollah attacks Israeli Ramat David air base for second time
Movement used two types of rockets: Fadi-1, with a range of 80 km, and Fadi-2, with a range of 105 km
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Putin, Berdimuhamedow discuss partnership, international meetings
Putin earlier sent a message with birthday greetings to the Turkmen president
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Russian aviation hit 20 areas of deployment of Ukrainian troops in Kursk Region
Russian warplanes hit 13 settlement in the Sumy Region as well, the Russian defense ministry said
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Erdogan says ready to meet with Syria’s Assad, waiting for response from Damascus
We have said that we would like to hold a meeting with Bashar Assad to normalize relations between Turkey and Syria, Erdogan said
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As many as 1,200 people evacuated from municipality in southern Russia after drone attack
Two unmanned aerial vehicles were downed outside Tikhoretsk this morning
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Russia fully ready to defend its interests in Arctic — Lavrov
The minister to say that NATO is becoming increasingly interested in the Arctic region
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Russia cautions Chisinau against involvement in Ukrainian conflict — Foreign Ministry
Maria Zakharova drew attention to the speculations about Romania's plans for redirecting to Moldova the mobile maintenance stations for F-16 fighter jets received by Bucharest for their subsequent deployment at the Marculesti airbase
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Theft of Russian assets to nullify trust towards EU — MFA
Maria Zakharova pointed out that the European Union had lost independence
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Kadyrov send two more Cybertucks to special military operation zone
"The electric car’s mobility, comfort and maneuverability are what is needed here," the Chechen leader said
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German authorities say escalation of Middle East conflict can be avoided
"The devastation resulting from such a confrontation would be catastrophic," the Cabinet’s spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said
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Russian Baltic Fleet's patrol ship ends visit to Dar es Salaam
The ship's crew replenished water, fuel and food supplies and conducted technical examination of the ship
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Israeli air force attacks 290 Hezbollah facilities in Lebanon in 24 hours
According to IDF, 180 targets were hit
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Press review: Hezbollah pagers attack threatens wider war and Russia ready to test nukes
Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, September 18th
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Russian forces strike Ukrainian energy facilities, troops last night — top brass
Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike on energy facilities that supply electricity to Ukrainian defense plants and drone production cites as well as Ukrainian troops
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Bundestag members address Cabinet with query regarding Ukraine’s attack on Kursk Region
The legislators are asking whether German weapons are used by the Ukrainian forces in their incursion into the Kursk Region
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Israel wants no war with Lebanon — ambassador to UN
Unless de-escalation is reached through diplomacy, Israel will have no other choice except to use all means for protection of its citizens, Danny Danon said
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Russia wants no nuclear war — Lavrov
The foreign minister still assured that Russia possesses weapons "that will have serious implications for the handlers of the Ukrainian regime"
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Russia says its Iskander missile destroys US-made HIMARS in Sumy Region
The crew of an Iskander tactical missile system of the Russian Armed Forces carried out a missile strike on the position of an M142 HIMARS of Ukrainian forces in the settlement of Shaposhnikovo
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Russia to push for multipolar world order jointly with global majority — diplomat
The event will be held in New York on September 22-23 in the runup to the 79th session of the UN General Assembly
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Russia says 15 drones shot down over 5 Russian regions, Sea of Azov overnight
Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev said the situation didn’t warrant a drone attack alert
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Iran Air asks passengers not to take pagers and walkie-talkies on flights to Beirut
According to PressTV, this measure was introduced after the Lebanese authorities banned such devices from being brought into Beirut airport and transported by air
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Over 30 foreign leaders invited to BRICS summit in Kazan, 18 RSVP — Kremlin
"We have not organized such a large-scale international event in quite a long time," Yury Ushakov underlined
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PREVIEW: Summit of the Future opens in New York ahead of UN high-level week
The two-day event is expected to set the direction for future action in the field of sustainable development, security and human rights
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Press review: BRICS challenges existing security concepts and Europe's economy in trouble
Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, September 13th
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Russian diplomat slams Pact for the Future as serious blow on UN
"The United Nations had infringed upon its own principles to pander to a group of delegations from the ‘beautiful garden,’ who have usurped the talks from the very beginning," Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said
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FIDE postpones decision on easing sanctions against Russian chess players
Sixty-six delegates voted in favor of consultations with the IOC and IPC on the partial qualification of Russian and Belarussian chess players
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Russia ready to help Brazil with hosting BRICS Games — head of Duma’s sports committee
Oleg Matytsin hopes that the BRICS Games will be held in an open format
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Hezbollah handing out pagers hours before their detonation — agency
The sources said that the Shiite movement did not have any specific suspicions about these pagers and their "checks had been part of a routine 'sweep' of its equipment to find any indications that they were laced with explosives"
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Kremlin slams Poland's idea to revise Crimea's status 'absurd'
"Russian territory and Russian regions cannot be the subject of any discussion or transfer to anyone," Dmitry Peskov emphasized
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FSB declassifies testimony Nazis forged forensic examination in Katyn case
Ludwig Schneider explained that such a percentage of iron oxide was to certify that the knife had remained in the grave for much longer than the true results of the analysis indicated
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Press review: Israel declares new phase of war and Russia boosts drone production
Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, September 20th
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads vote count in Sri Lankan presidential election so far
The inauguration of Sri Lanka's next president will take place on Sunday, after the official results are announced
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Lavrov says he agrees with Trump about destructiveness of sanctions for US dollar
The Russian foreign minister stressed that, despite the continued dependence of many economies on the dollar, the risk of this phenomenon has already been recognized
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Ukrainians sustain over 300 casualties in Kursk area in past day, Russia says
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian losses have amounted to over 300 troops and nine units of armored hardware, including an infantry fighting vehicle, two APCs, six armored combat vehicles, as well as six artillery guns
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Middle East to see no big war, but confrontation will continue — expert
The main external actors of the Middle East situation are the United States and Iran, Boris Dolgov, a leading research fellow of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, says
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Russia says battlegroup West struck 4 Ukrainian brigades
Enemy lost up to 420 troops
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Hollywood action star Jackie Chan says he loves Russia, thanks his fans
The actor wished that the friendship between China and Russia would last forever
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Some 101 Ukrainian drones intercepted in Russian regions, Azov Sea overnight — ministry
Air defenses eliminated UAVs over eight regions, Defense Ministry said
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Russia’s Emergencies Ministry sapper dies in Kursk Region during mine clearance
Vyacheslav Tsoffka had to his credit than 10,000 detected and neutralized explosive items
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CERN's turn away from Russian scientists has positive aspects — Kurchatov Center chief
This is quite obviously a positive development for us in some respects, Kovalchuk said
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Conflicts in space to increase over time, German general predicts
"The enemy views our space capabilities, both civilian and military, as targets," Michael Traut, the head of Germany's Military Space Command, noted
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IAEA inspectors briefed on consequences of Ukraine’s attack on Zarya substation — ZNPP
The Zaporozhye NPP reported that the nearby city of Energodar had come under a repeated drone attack
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Senior Russian lawmaker warns that calls for long-range strikes open way to nuclear war
Vyacheslav Volodin commented on a recent resolution of the European Parliament to allow strikes inside Russia with Western weapons
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Second rocket attack launched on Israeli territory from Lebanon — TV
According to Al Jazeera TV channel, the target of the shelling were cities in the northern part of the Jewish state
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PREVIEW: Elections to legislative assembly to be held in Brandenburg in eastern Germany
As the results of the latest polls show, an extremely tough fight is expected between the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Alternative for Germany
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Russian prime minister says Islam is integral part of national historical heritage
Mikhail Mishustin called "invaluable" the contribution made by the Spiritual Board Russia’s Muslims to improving the inter-religious dialogue
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Kremlin spokesman says West ‘obsessed’ with fighting Russia until Ukraine runs out of men
Peskov was commenting on NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's recent statement that there is no need to be afraid of using Western weapons for strikes deep inside Russia
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Hezbollah reports rocket attack on Israeli Air Force Ramat David airbase
The Israel Defense Forces press service previously reported shelling of northern regions of the country
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Ukraine puts pressure on FIDE General Assembly over admission of Russians — source
The General Assembly, which will consider the issue of the full-fledged return of Russian and Belarusian players, is being held on September 21-22
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Israel wants to drag whole region into war, engages in terrorism, says Erdogan
The Turkish President said he would address the UNGA to ask the participants to remember "the need for taking action against genocide in the Gaza Strip and Israel's aggressive policies"
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Explosions in Lebanon pose interest for Russian intelligence — Kremlin spokesman
According to Dmitry Peskov, Moscow has not discussed the events in Lebanon with regional actors
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Press review: Russia moves to boost its army and Zelensky to present victory plan to Biden
Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, September 17th
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Russian ambassador’s escort car drives into mine in Pakistan, policemen injured
Russian diplomats were not hurt
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Iran's supreme leader calls on Islamic countries to sever economic ties with Israel
"The Zionist regime is committing crimes shamelessly and without hiding it," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said
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Evacuation starts in Kuban settlement due to explosion after drone fragments fall
Two unmanned aerial vehicles have been downed near Tikhoretsk
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Scholz says Germany not to send Kiev missiles ‘capable of reaching as far as Moscow’
German Chancellor emphasized the need to explore ways in order to peacefully resolve the Ukraine conflict
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Russia, China do not need to create military alliance — Lavrov
Those relations are the best in the whole history of ties that existed between two countries, Foreign Minister added
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More than 100 rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon on Sunday morning — Israeli military
Some of them was intercepted, according to the statement
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Russia ready for talks with Turkey on Su-35, Su-57 fighters
Russia earlier noted its readiness to participate in the program of developing the Turkish TF-X fifth-generation fighter
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Ukrainian troops captured: situation in Kursk Region
In total, the enemy has lost over 11,800 servicemen since fighting began in the region
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Medvedev allows use of nuclear weapons by Russia when ‘patience runs out’
The politician underscored that no one really needs a nuclear conflict - it is "a very bad story with a very difficult outcome."
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Russia keeps balance in relations with Muslim countries — Muslim Board
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin added that Russia was originally formed in the bosom of three monotheistic religions and for more than 1,000 years has continued and consolidated the tradition of communion, good-neighborliness and brotherhood of religions
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UNGA member countries adopt Pact for the Future, despite Russia’s objection
Along with Russia, Belarus and Nicaragua, delegations from North Korea, Syria, Sudan, and Iran voted against
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Nazi Germany’s Gestapo officers accompanied Katyn commission
Аs follows from testimonies by a laboratory technician, the German Army’s Senior Ensign Ludwig Schneider, contained in the declassified FSB archive materials
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IRGC says exposed network of 12 Israeli agents in 6 Iranian provinces
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has blamed Israel for seeking to spread the conflict onto Iran’s territory and destabilize the situation inside the country
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Zelensky says Ukrainian troops in extremely difficult situation in two DPR areas
The situation on the frontline remains extremely difficult, Ukrainian President said
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Press review: US shifts rhetoric on Ukraine and walkie-talkie explosions rock Lebanon
Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, September 19th
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Poll reveals what Russians think about office love, polyamory
It is noted that opinions are changing not only about relationships with colleagues, but also about romance between a subordinate and a supervisor
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QUAD leaders oppose unilateral actions that hinder peace in the Middle East
"We underscore the need to prevent the conflict from escalating and spilling over in the region," said a joint statement by the leaders
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At least 30 people died in Gaza in 24 hours due to Israeli strikes — Al Jazeera
This includes 22 people who became victims of the Israeli attack on a school building in the Az-Zeitoun area
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UN General Assembly adopts resolution on Golan Heights — results of vote
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Russian Su-34 bomber destroys Ukrainian manpower, equipment in Kursk area
After receiving a confirmation from reconnaissance that the Ukrainian army’s temporary disposition location had been destroyed, the crew safely returned to the airfield of departure
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Top brass proposes specifying state borderline in Russia’s westernmost region
"This will alter the Russian state maritime border due to a change in the territorial sea’s external bounds," it says
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Ukrainian troops retreat from village near Artyomovsk in DPR — Russian officers
The enemy fled from near Andreyevka where it has long been holding positions, it has retreated, law enforcement officers said
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Four people dead, dozens injured in Alabama shooting — report
According to the report, two men and a woman died at the scene
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