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Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While WION takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not receive "serious injuries" after his car was involved in a traffic accident in Kyiv, his spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said in a Facebook post early on Thursday. Nykyforov said that Zelensky's car collided with a private vehicle, but he did not reveal when the accident actually happened. He mentioned that medics accompanying Zelensky attended to the driver of the private car. The driver was given emergency aid and the medics put him in an ambulance. ALSO READ | Ukraine President Zelensky promises 'victory' on visit to recaptured Kharkiv region In a statement posted on Facebook at 1:22 am (local time), Nykyforov said, "In Kyiv, a passenger car collided with the car of the President of Ukraine and escort vehicles. Medics accompanying the President provided the driver of the passenger car with emergency aid and transferred him to an ambulance." "The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were detected. The law enforcement officers will investigate all the circumstances of the accident," he added. WATCH | Kremlin: SCO Summit will showcase an alternative to the western world × ALSO READ | Beirut: Woman armed with toy gun, demands trapped savings for ill sister Zelensky's surprise visit to Izium On Wednesday, Zelensky made a surprise visit to Izyum in the Kharkiv region. During his visit to the strategic city, the Ukrainian president promised 'victory' in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The visit came at a crucial moment of the war, as Ukraine is expelling Russian forces from swathes of the east and seriously challenging the Kremlin's ambition to capture the entire Donbas region. Zelensky said in a statement on social media: "Our blue-yellow flag is already flying in de-occupied Izyum. And it will be so in every Ukrainian city and village. We are moving in only one direction -- forward and towards victory." WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 'not seriously hurt' after car accident

Is your baby continuously crying? Do you think sometimes it's just impossible to make the babies stop crying? Here's the solution. A new research, published in Current Biology on Tuesday (September 13), talks about the most effective way to soothe a crying baby.

Is your baby continuously crying? Do you think sometimes it's just impossible to make the babies stop crying? Here's the solution. A new research, published in Current Biology on Tuesday (September 13), talks about the most effective way to soothe a crying baby. The research, which is led by Kumi Kuroda at the RIKEN Centre for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, weighs in on the importance of carrying infants rather than simply holding them when they are crying. The research says that just sitting down with the babies in your arms might not work when you are trying to soothe them. Doing this can even raise the heart rate of the baby and make them fussier. ALSO READ | Aspirin found to boost survival rate in cancer patients in new study The study shares details of how crying babies are physiologically affected by being held, carried, and laid down. The researchers explain, "Crying infants are calmed and inclined to sleep by a five-minute walk/hold, even in the daytime when the infants are normally awake." To carry out this small study, participants sat with their sleeping children for another five minutes after walking with them. As per the findings, they had the best success at getting their kids to stay asleep. ALSO READ | Robots are here 'for good, or bad,' but will they take over the world? World's most advanced humanoid says no During the study, in one of the experiments, of 13 crying babies that fell asleep and stayed asleep, nine were put to bed using the walk-sit method. The authors say, "For secure holding, caregivers should attach the infant's body snugly to their own body and support the infant's head. Five-minute walking should be on a flat and clear passage and at a steady pace, preferably without abrupt stops or turns." WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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More than 40 local elected officials across Russia signed a two-sentence petition on Monday that ended with: “We demand the resignation of Vladimir Putin from the post of president of the Russian Federation!”

The petition, pushed by opponents of the Ukraine invasion, had no practical impact, and it was roundly ignored in Russia’s state-controlled media. But it was striking in its very existence, showing that despite the Kremlin’s extraordinary crackdown on dissent, Ukraine’s counteroffensive successes have left Putin’s opponents newly emboldened — and his supporters looking for someone else to blame.

Pro-war commentators and politicians have pointed to the military leadership or senior officials, saying they have not waged the war with sufficient decisiveness and competence, or have not delivered all the facts to Putin. Longtime Kremlin critics have seized on that discord, and Russia’s setbacks at the front, to take the risk of speaking out against Putin.

“There is now hope that Ukraine will end this war,” said Ksenia Torstrem, a member of a municipal council in St. Petersburg who helped organize the petition and called Ukrainian advances an “inspiring factor” for it. “We decided we needed to put pressure on from all sides.”

On Russian state television, where criticism of the Kremlin is rare, supporters of the war are increasingly pointing fingers over what they cast as a disorganized and insufficiently concerted invasion; others are raising the idea of suing for peace. With anger spreading over the embarrassing withdrawal of Russian troops from more than 1,000 square miles of northeastern Ukraine, one senior lawmaker said in an interview that an “urgent adjustment” to the war effort was needed.

In a phone interview Monday, that lawmaker, Konstantin F. Zatulin, a senior member of parliament in Putin’s United Russia party, laid out the stakes.

Zatulin described the retreat by Russian troops as doing “very serious damage to the very idea of this special military operation,” using the term that the Kremlin has adopted for the war. But he also cautioned that if criticism of the war effort from across the political spectrum spirals out of control, it could lead to unforeseen consequences, citing the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet collapse of 1991.

“It must be underlined that this criticism should not go overboard,” he said. “Otherwise, it could spark an uncontrollable reaction.”

Zatulin insisted that any optimism by people hoping that Putin would be toppled was “very much premature.” Ukraine’s successes, he said, might prompt the Kremlin to escalate its war effort to try to deliver Ukraine a decisive defeat, though he added that he did not expect this to mean “nuclear war.”

“What now appears to some to be the success of the Ukrainian side could in fact lead to the last drop that will lead to the beginning of a war for real,” Zatulin said. “Given that Russia truly did not use the full force of its abilities, nothing remains to be done other than to demonstrate this force.”

There is no evidence that Putin’s hold on power might be weakening, and the Kremlin on Monday said the invasion would “be continued until the original goals are achieved.”

Still, there were gathering signs that Russia’s elite was unsettled by the army’s retreat and uncertain how to proceed.

A member of the lower house of parliament, Mikhail Sheremet, told a Russian news outlet that the military would not succeed in Ukraine “without a full mobilization.” It was an implicit criticism of Putin’s refusal to carry out a nationwide draft, a step that Russian proponents of an escalated war effort have long been demanding.

The leader of a pro-Putin party, Sergei Mironov, praised the strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure targets Sunday night that left parts of the country without power, but complained that they “should have been carried out two to three months ago.”

And on the social network Telegram, where pro-war Russian military bloggers have gained huge followings, the grumbling also continued. “Stop whining,” Yevgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent for Russian state television, posted, referring to those who were worried about an escalating war.

But a senior member of the upper house, Andrei Klimov, tried to push back against the voices calling for all-out war, telling reporters that he saw no “necessity” for a mobilization or for martial law to be declared.

Opponents of Putin have been heartened by the discord.

“Many have the hope that something will finally break,” Ivan I. Kurilla, a historian at the European University at St. Petersburg and a critic of Putin, said in a phone interview. “We are probably wrong, it’s probably not yet time, but since everyone has been waiting for half a year for something to crack, this hope is very strong.”

After the invasion in February, Putin led the most intense crackdown on dissent since taking power two decades ago, signing a censorship law that made any criticism of the war effort — or even calling it a war rather than a “special military operation” — a potential crime. Thousands of journalists, activists and others fled the country, while just about all the prominent independent news media outlets still operating inside Russia were forced to shut down. Leading opposition figures who refused to flee were jailed.

So when a group of municipal council members from Putin’s home city of St. Petersburg published a statement calling for the president to be removed from office for treason last week, it was a shocking move in an environment in which fear of imprisonment has driven almost all criticism of Putin underground.

Some of those council members now face fines for “discrediting” the military and government, but in Moscow, members of another municipal council followed suit in calling for Putin to resign. And over the weekend, Torstrem, the St. Petersburg representative, wrote to fellow opposition-minded local deputies in a Telegram chat group: “I also want to do something.”

She was convinced to speak out, she said, both by colleagues who had already published anti-Putin statements and by the military advances of Ukrainian troops. She also noted the unhappiness in the pro-Putin camp, saying it put the Kremlin in a particularly delicate spot.

Torstrem, 38, helped draft the petition issued Monday calling on Putin to step down. She was careful not to mention the war, to avoid making any of the signatories vulnerable under the laws that criminalize criticism of it. The petition said only that Putin’s actions “do harm to the future of Russia and its citizens.”

The petition had 19 signatories from Moscow and St. Petersburg when she published it on Twitter on Monday morning. By the end of the day, the number had grown to more than 40, including municipal representatives from the remote city of Yakutsk in Siberia and from Samara on the Volga River.

She acknowledged that it was unclear how, in practice, the petition might help precipitate Putin’s resignation. But one signatory, Vasily Khoroshilov, a municipal deputy in Moscow, said the idea was to send a message to powerful opponents of Putin that they would have support among the Russian public.

“The radical patriots have also started to doubt the correctness of the path that is being followed,” Khoroshilov, 38, said in a phone interview. “Some forces in the highest echelons of power might take some kind of decisive action if they see support among the people.”

Putin’s core supporters appear to be focused on the notion that any problems in the war are not his fault, but that he was being misled by senior officials or the military leadership.

That was the message sent by Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler of the southern Russian region of Chechnya. He posted a rambling voice message to his Telegram account over the weekend and warned that if the military did not change its strategy “today or tomorrow,” he would be forced “to speak to the Defense Ministry’s leadership and the country’s leadership to explain to them the real situation on the ground.”

Zatulin, the senior lawmaker, said that many in Russia believed that “Putin was wrongly informed and doesn’t know everything, that he was deluded.”

“The president himself maintains his authority and is the foundation of stability at this moment,” Zatulin said.

But, he cautioned, “it’s clear that any system has its limits.”

More than 40 local elected officials across Russia signed a two-sentence petition on Monday that ended with: “We demand the resignation of Vladimir Putin from the post of president of the Russian Federation!

More than 40 local elected officials across Russia signed a two-sentence petition on Monday that ended with: “We demand the resignation of Vladimir Putin from the post of president of the Russian Federation!” The petition, pushed by opponents of the Ukraine invasion, had no practical impact, and it was roundly ignored in Russia’s state-controlled media. But it was striking in its very existence, showing that despite the Kremlin’s extraordinary crackdown on dissent, Ukraine’s counteroffensive successes have left Putin’s opponents newly emboldened — and his supporters looking for someone else to blame. Pro-war commentators and politicians have pointed to the military leadership or senior officials, saying they have not waged the war with sufficient decisiveness and competence, or have not delivered all the facts to Putin. Longtime Kremlin critics have seized on that discord, and Russia’s setbacks at the front, to take the risk of speaking out against Putin. “There is now hope that Ukraine will end this war,” said Ksenia Torstrem, a member of a municipal council in St. Petersburg who helped organize the petition and called Ukrainian advances an “inspiring factor” for it. “We decided we needed to put pressure on from all sides.” On Russian state television, where criticism of the Kremlin is rare, supporters of the war are increasingly pointing fingers over what they cast as a disorganized and insufficiently concerted invasion; others are raising the idea of suing for peace. With anger spreading over the embarrassing withdrawal of Russian troops from more than 1,000 square miles of northeastern Ukraine, one senior lawmaker said in an interview that an “urgent adjustment” to the war effort was needed. In a phone interview Monday, that lawmaker, Konstantin F. Zatulin, a senior member of parliament in Putin’s United Russia party, laid out the stakes. Zatulin described the retreat by Russian troops as doing “very serious damage to the very idea of this special military operation,” using the term that the Kremlin has adopted for the war. But he also cautioned that if criticism of the war effort from across the political spectrum spirals out of control, it could lead to unforeseen consequences, citing the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet collapse of 1991. “It must be underlined that this criticism should not go overboard,” he said. “Otherwise, it could spark an uncontrollable reaction.” Zatulin insisted that any optimism by people hoping that Putin would be toppled was “very much premature.” Ukraine’s successes, he said, might prompt the Kremlin to escalate its war effort to try to deliver Ukraine a decisive defeat, though he added that he did not expect this to mean “nuclear war.” “What now appears to some to be the success of the Ukrainian side could in fact lead to the last drop that will lead to the beginning of a war for real,” Zatulin said. “Given that Russia truly did not use the full force of its abilities, nothing remains to be done other than to demonstrate this force.” There is no evidence that Putin’s hold on power might be weakening, and the Kremlin on Monday said the invasion would “be continued until the original goals are achieved.” Still, there were gathering signs that Russia’s elite was unsettled by the army’s retreat and uncertain how to proceed. A member of the lower house of parliament, Mikhail Sheremet, told a Russian news outlet that the military would not succeed in Ukraine “without a full mobilization.” It was an implicit criticism of Putin’s refusal to carry out a nationwide draft, a step that Russian proponents of an escalated war effort have long been demanding. The leader of a pro-Putin party, Sergei Mironov, praised the strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure targets Sunday night that left parts of the country without power, but complained that they “should have been carried out two to three months ago.” And on the social network Telegram, where pro-war Russian military bloggers have gained huge followings, the grumbling also continued. “Stop whining,” Yevgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent for Russian state television, posted, referring to those who were worried about an escalating war. But a senior member of the upper house, Andrei Klimov, tried to push back against the voices calling for all-out war, telling reporters that he saw no “necessity” for a mobilization or for martial law to be declared. Opponents of Putin have been heartened by the discord. “Many have the hope that something will finally break,” Ivan I. Kurilla, a historian at the European University at St. Petersburg and a critic of Putin, said in a phone interview. “We are probably wrong, it’s probably not yet time, but since everyone has been waiting for half a year for something to crack, this hope is very strong.” After the invasion in February, Putin led the most intense crackdown on dissent since taking power two decades ago, signing a censorship law that made any criticism of the war effort — or even calling it a war rather than a “special military operation” — a potential crime. Thousands of journalists, activists and others fled the country, while just about all the prominent independent news media outlets still operating inside Russia were forced to shut down. Leading opposition figures who refused to flee were jailed. So when a group of municipal council members from Putin’s home city of St. Petersburg published a statement calling for the president to be removed from office for treason last week, it was a shocking move in an environment in which fear of imprisonment has driven almost all criticism of Putin underground. Some of those council members now face fines for “discrediting” the military and government, but in Moscow, members of another municipal council followed suit in calling for Putin to resign. And over the weekend, Torstrem, the St. Petersburg representative, wrote to fellow opposition-minded local deputies in a Telegram chat group: “I also want to do something.” She was convinced to speak out, she said, both by colleagues who had already published anti-Putin statements and by the military advances of Ukrainian troops. She also noted the unhappiness in the pro-Putin camp, saying it put the Kremlin in a particularly delicate spot. Torstrem, 38, helped draft the petition issued Monday calling on Putin to step down. She was careful not to mention the war, to avoid making any of the signatories vulnerable under the laws that criminalize criticism of it. The petition said only that Putin’s actions “do harm to the future of Russia and its citizens.” The petition had 19 signatories from Moscow and St. Petersburg when she published it on Twitter on Monday morning. By the end of the day, the number had grown to more than 40, including municipal representatives from the remote city of Yakutsk in Siberia and from Samara on the Volga River. She acknowledged that it was unclear how, in practice, the petition might help precipitate Putin’s resignation. But one signatory, Vasily Khoroshilov, a municipal deputy in Moscow, said the idea was to send a message to powerful opponents of Putin that they would have support among the Russian public. “The radical patriots have also started to doubt the correctness of the path that is being followed,” Khoroshilov, 38, said in a phone interview. “Some forces in the highest echelons of power might take some kind of decisive action if they see support among the people.” Putin’s core supporters appear to be focused on the notion that any problems in the war are not his fault, but that he was being misled by senior officials or the military leadership. That was the message sent by Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler of the southern Russian region of Chechnya. He posted a rambling voice message to his Telegram account over the weekend and warned that if the military did not change its strategy “today or tomorrow,” he would be forced “to speak to the Defense Ministry’s leadership and the country’s leadership to explain to them the real situation on the ground.” Zatulin, the senior lawmaker, said that many in Russia believed that “Putin was wrongly informed and doesn’t know everything, that he was deluded.” “The president himself maintains his authority and is the foundation of stability at this moment,” Zatulin said. But, he cautioned, “it’s clear that any system has its limits.”

As Russian losses mount in Ukraine, so does criticism back home

Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change due to its addiction to&nbsp;fossil&nbsp;fuels, the UN said Tuesday in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic.

The UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Programme warned catastrophes will become commonplace should the world economy fail to decarbonise in line with what science says is needed to prevent the worst impacts of global heating.

They pointed to Pakistan's monumental floods and China's crop-withering heatwave this year as examples of what to expect.

"Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.&nbsp;

The UN warned last month that the drought gripping the Horn of Africa and threatening millions with acute food shortages was now likely to extend into a fifth year.

"There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity's&nbsp;fossil&nbsp;fuel addiction," said Guterres.

The UN's United in Science report underscores how, nearly three years since Covid-19 handed governments a unique opportunity to reassess how to power their economies, countries are ploughing ahead with pollution as normal.&nbsp;

It found that after an unprecedented 5.4 percent fall in emissions in 2020 due to lockdowns and travel restrictions, preliminary data from January-May this year shows global CO2 emissions are 1.2 percent higher than before Covid-19.

This is largely down to large year-on-year increases in the United States, India, and most European countries, the assessment found.&nbsp;

"The science is unequivocal: we are going in the wrong direction," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.

"Greenhouse gas concentrations are continuing to rise, reaching new record highs.&nbsp;Fossil&nbsp;fuel emission rates are now above pre-pandemic levels. The past seven years were the warmest on record."

'Uncharted territory'&nbsp;

Last week the European Union's Copernicus climate monitor said that summer 2022 was the hottest in Europe and one of the hottest globally since records began in the 1970s.&nbsp;

Tuesday's report said there was a 93 per cent chance that the record for the hottest year globally -- currently, 2016 -- will be broken within five years.

It warned the continued use of&nbsp;fossil&nbsp;fuels meant the chance of the annual mean global temperature temporarily exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years was roughly even (48 per cent).&nbsp;

Keeping longer-term temperatures below 1.5C is the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement.&nbsp;

Despite more than three decades of UN-lead negotiations, rich polluters show little sign of being willing to make the kind of swingeing emissions cuts that would keep the 1.5C goal in play.&nbsp;

The UN's Environment Programme, in an update to its annual "emissions gap" assessment following new pledges made at last November's COP26 summit in Glasgow, said Tuesday that even these promises were far from adequate.

In fact, it said the ambition even in countries' most recent pledges would need to be four times greater to limit warming to 2C, and seven times higher to make 1.5C.

All told, current worldwide climate policies put Earth on course to warm 2.8C by 2100, UNEP said.&nbsp;

Guterres said that Tuesday's assessment showed "climate impacts heading into uncharted territory of destruction".&nbsp;

"Yet each year we double-down on this&nbsp;fossil&nbsp;fuel addiction, even as the symptoms get rapidly worse," he said in a video message.

Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network, said that the forthcoming COP27 climate conference in Egypt needed leaders to agree to new funding to help communities in at-risk nations rebuild after extreme events.

"The terrifying picture painted by the United in Science report is already a lived reality for millions of people facing&nbsp;recurring climate disasters," she said.

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Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the UN said Tuesday in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic. The UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Programme warned catastrophes will become commonplace should the world economy fail to decarbonise in line with what science says is needed to prevent the worst impacts of global heating. They pointed to Pakistan's monumental floods and China's crop-withering heatwave this year as examples of what to expect. "Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The UN warned last month that the drought gripping the Horn of Africa and threatening millions with acute food shortages was now likely to extend into a fifth year. "There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity's fossil fuel addiction," said Guterres. The UN's United in Science report underscores how, nearly three years since Covid-19 handed governments a unique opportunity to reassess how to power their economies, countries are ploughing ahead with pollution as normal. It found that after an unprecedented 5.4 percent fall in emissions in 2020 due to lockdowns and travel restrictions, preliminary data from January-May this year shows global CO2 emissions are 1.2 percent higher than before Covid-19. This is largely down to large year-on-year increases in the United States, India, and most European countries, the assessment found. "The science is unequivocal: we are going in the wrong direction," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. "Greenhouse gas concentrations are continuing to rise, reaching new record highs. Fossil fuel emission rates are now above pre-pandemic levels. The past seven years were the warmest on record." 'Uncharted territory' Last week the European Union's Copernicus climate monitor said that summer 2022 was the hottest in Europe and one of the hottest globally since records began in the 1970s. Tuesday's report said there was a 93 per cent chance that the record for the hottest year globally -- currently, 2016 -- will be broken within five years. It warned the continued use of fossil fuels meant the chance of the annual mean global temperature temporarily exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years was roughly even (48 per cent). Keeping longer-term temperatures below 1.5C is the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Despite more than three decades of UN-lead negotiations, rich polluters show little sign of being willing to make the kind of swingeing emissions cuts that would keep the 1.5C goal in play. The UN's Environment Programme, in an update to its annual "emissions gap" assessment following new pledges made at last November's COP26 summit in Glasgow, said Tuesday that even these promises were far from adequate. In fact, it said the ambition even in countries' most recent pledges would need to be four times greater to limit warming to 2C, and seven times higher to make 1.5C. All told, current worldwide climate policies put Earth on course to warm 2.8C by 2100, UNEP said. Guterres said that Tuesday's assessment showed "climate impacts heading into uncharted territory of destruction". "Yet each year we double-down on this fossil fuel addiction, even as the symptoms get rapidly worse," he said in a video message. Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network, said that the forthcoming COP27 climate conference in Egypt needed leaders to agree to new funding to help communities in at-risk nations rebuild after extreme events. "The terrifying picture painted by the United in Science report is already a lived reality for millions of people facing recurring climate disasters," she said. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

World going in 'wrong direction' due to addiction to fossil fuels, will worsen climate impact: UN

Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While WION takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. Ivan Pechorin, a Russian energy executive, has died under mysterious circumstances as he reportedly fell from a speeding boat on Saturday night. A report by CNN mentioned that he was found dead in Vladivostok. Pechorin was the top manager for the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic. ALSO READ | Ukraine says it shot down Iranian-made drone used by Russia in Kharkiv - see pictures A statement from the company published Monday read: "On September 12, 2022, it became known about the tragic death of our colleague, Ivan Pechorin, Managing Director for the Aviation Industry of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic." "Ivan's death is an irreparable loss for friends and colleagues, a great loss for the corporation. We offer our sincere condolences to family and friends," it further added. ALSO READ | Ukraine aims to free all Russian-occupied areas after recapturing 8,000 sqkm WATCH | 203 days of Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainian forces provide aid to residents of recaptured cities × Citing the administration of Vladivostok, the Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti reported that Ivan's body was found near the village of Beregovoe. Local media reports mentioned that Pechorin drowned on September 10 near Cape Ignatyev in Vladivostok. Ivan Pechorin is at least the ninth on the list of prominent Russian businessmen, who have reportedly died by suicide or under unexplained circumstances, since late January. Among those, six were associated with Russia's two largest energy companies. Recently, Lukoil's chairman Ravil Maganov had died. In the first week of September, reports emerged that Maganov died after falling out of the window of a hospital in Moscow. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen on Wednesday in a clash near the boundary with the occupied&nbsp;West&nbsp;Bank&nbsp;in which an army officer was also killed, a military spokesman said.

The&nbsp;West&nbsp;Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has seen a surge of violence in recent months as Israel has intensified raids following a spate of lethal Palestinian street attacks in its cities.

Before dawn on Wednesday, the military spokesman said, troops&nbsp;intercepted two men spotted approaching an Israeli barrier along the&nbsp;West&nbsp;Bank&nbsp;boundary near Jenin, a Palestinian town that has seen near-nightly friction between the sides.

The men opened fire, killing an army officer, and were shot dead by the other troops, the military said.

The Jenin Brigade, a coalition of armed Palestinian factions, claimed the two dead gunmen as its members and confirmed they had killed an Israeli army officer.

US-sponsored Palestinian statehood talks with Israel stalled in 2014. Since then, the Palestinian Authority (PA), created under interim peace accords to wield limited self-government in the&nbsp;West&nbsp;Bank, has seen its domestic credibility wane.

Israel has called on the PA to crack down on hotspots like Jenin. PA officials accuse Israel of having weakened their rule.

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Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen on Wednesday in a clash near the boundary with the occupied West Bank in which an army officer was also killed, a military spokesman said. The West Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has seen a surge of violence in recent months as Israel has intensified raids following a spate of lethal Palestinian street attacks in its cities. Before dawn on Wednesday, the military spokesman said, troops intercepted two men spotted approaching an Israeli barrier along the West Bank boundary near Jenin, a Palestinian town that has seen near-nightly friction between the sides. The men opened fire, killing an army officer, and were shot dead by the other troops, the military said. The Jenin Brigade, a coalition of armed Palestinian factions, claimed the two dead gunmen as its members and confirmed they had killed an Israeli army officer. US-sponsored Palestinian statehood talks with Israel stalled in 2014. Since then, the Palestinian Authority (PA), created under interim peace accords to wield limited self-government in the West Bank, has seen its domestic credibility wane. Israel has called on the PA to crack down on hotspots like Jenin. PA officials accuse Israel of having weakened their rule. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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Russian energy executive 'falls from boat' in latest mystery death.

Russian energy executive 'falls from boat' in latest mystery death

The summit this week between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China is a show of force by two autocratic leaders united against what they consider American hegemony. It is also a moment of mutual weakness as Russia suffers losses in Ukraine and China endures an economic slowdown.

They come to the meeting, expected to take place later this week in Uzbekistan, with their own agendas and their own challenges that will test an important relationship both have described as a friendship with “no limits.”

Moscow needs Beijing. Russia’s recent routs on the battlefields of Ukraine, coupled with the broad damage inflicted by Western sanctions, have made Chinese support all the more important. China has emerged as a major buyer of Russian commodities, purchases that have helped replenish Moscow’s coffers.

Beijing, though, remains cautious. It wants to project strength in the increasingly acrimonious competition with the United States and can’t afford for its main partner in an authoritarian alliance to face a humiliating defeat. But providing substantial, additional help to Russia, either economically or militarily, risks running afoul of Western sanctions and imperiling China’s economy.

“Xi’s China has been carrying out an exquisite tightrope walk with regard to Russia,” said Rana Mitter, a professor of history and politics at Oxford University. “It is keen to show support for Russia in general, but finds active support for an invasion too politically embarrassing to contemplate and wants Moscow to resolve matters one way or another.”

Image matters for Xi as he prepares to secure a third term at a pivotal Communist Party congress in Beijing next month. His trip this week, during which he will attend a regional summit in Uzbekistan and visit Kazakhstan, marks the first time Xi has traveled abroad since the start of the pandemic and signals just how much he values the relationship. The meeting with Putin will give the Chinese leader a chance to look like a global statesman, playing well to a home audience.

Russia also provides much-needed backing for China’s agenda. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last month in defiance of China’s claims to the self-ruled democracy, the Kremlin was quick to support Beijing’s stance, describing the trip as “provocative” and pledging “absolute solidarity with China.”

But China has tied itself to a war that has so far backfired for Russia. Any serious weakening of Putin’s dominance in Russia could hurt Beijing’s position at a time when the leadership is dealing with the political and economic fallout from its strict COVID-19 policies.

The question confronting China is whether to double down or let Russia navigate the setbacks on its own. Both strategies carry risks, and most experts expect China to choose a middle path of continued economic support without openly circumventing sanctions or providing outright military assistance.

China, which has avoided describing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war, appears to be tempering its bets. When Xi’s second-highest-ranking deputy, Li Zhanshu, met with Putin in Russia last week, Chinese state media emphasized the two countries’ shared admiration but steered clear of overt advocacy for Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Li has told Putin that, “political mutual trust, strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries have reached an unprecedented level.”

Xinhua made no mention of Ukraine, even as Russian state media claimed Beijing backed the invasion, portraying Li as having said that China “understands and supports Russia” particularly “on the situation in Ukraine.”

“China keeps avoiding military involvement in any degree in Russia’s war and will continue to do so, especially when the Russians have been in a drastic failure situation in the field,” said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. “China’s diplomatic and political support or sympathy will not really help them, though dramatic purchases of their energy since April help a little non-militarily.”

Putin, who describes his war as part of a battle against nefarious Western powers that threaten Russia’s very existence, appears to find China’s middle ground vexing. He suggested as much last week in describing the long-running negotiations for a new pipeline that could allow Russia to export more Siberian natural gas to China rather than Europe — a matter of critical importance to Moscow as Europe rushes to reduce energy imports from Russia.

“Our Chinese friends are tough bargainers,” Putin said at a conference in the Russian port city of Vladivostok focused on increasing economic ties with Asia. “Naturally, they proceed from their national interests in any deal, which is the only way to go.”

Putin will go into the meeting with Xi looking to China as a lifeline at perhaps Russia’s most tenuous moment since the invasion began in February. Russian forces have recently lost more than 1,000 square miles of territory in Ukraine, creating new political headwinds for Putin — even from some of his longtime supporters, now frustrated by Russia’s bumbling war effort.

At this week’s meeting, Putin hopes to close a deal for the natural gas pipeline. Russia also needs access to China’s high-tech exports and Chinese currency to pay for those goods, since Russia’s access to dollars is severely restricted.

“China has more leverage than Russia,” said Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

As Western countries shun Moscow, it is the expanding ties with China that Putin points to most as proof that Russia cannot be isolated. It is a relationship to which Putin has devoted enormous effort, one that accelerated after relations with the West took a dive following Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014.

The honor of meeting Xi in person is sure to be extolled by Russia’s state media as evidence of Putin’s continued acumen on the world stage. “Our relations have reached unprecedented heights,” Putin said at the Vladivostok conference.

The century-old relationship between the two nations is steeped in ideology and history. Moscow was crucial to the Chinese Communist Party’s founding, early survival and eventual victory in 1949 in China’s Civil War. Relatively close relations have continued, although they were interrupted by a rift in the 1960s so serious that the two countries fought border skirmishes.

Xi has a long-standing connection to Russia and Putin, whom he has met with 38 times. The Chinese leader’s father, Xi Zhongxun, a leading party figure in the 1950s, oversaw Soviet experts who came to China to help build the country’s heavy industry after the civil war, said Joseph Torigian, the author of an upcoming biography on the elder Xi.

Xi’s father visited Moscow, full of admiration. “He brought back mementos from Russia,” Torigian said, “that Xi Jinping later recalled.”

A week after he became China’s president in March 2013, Xi chose Russia for his first trip abroad and hinted in a speech there that the two countries would work together against the West.

“Currently, China and Russia are both in important periods of national revival, and bilateral relations have entered a new stage,” Xi said.

China now has the upper hand in the relationship, given its economic and military might. China’s economy was 10 times the size of Russia’s last year, before the war in Ukraine. From May through July, China bought record amounts of Russian oil at a deep discount and imported more Russian natural gas and coal.

Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, announced last week that China’s payments for gas from one pipeline would no longer be made in dollars or euros, but in Russian rubles and Chinese yuan. Such deals make it easier for Russia to bypass Western banks and buy Chinese goods that are similar to high-tech Western products under export restrictions.

While China has sold many cars and other products that do not use Western technology to Russia, it appears to have avoided the riskier activity of reselling advanced Western technology. China appears to have refrained so far this year from shipping weapons to Russia, forcing Moscow to ask Iran and North Korea for military equipment.

China’s military has a long history of training with its Russian counterparts. Last week, China sent more than 2,000 People’s Liberation Army soldiers, 21 combat aircraft and three warships to participate in joint military exercises in eastern Russia.

It was the first time that China had sent air, land and naval forces to participate in the major military exercise, which Putin personally oversaw.

But Xi is unlikely to tie his country more closely to Russia than he did in February, when he declared the limitless friendship.

“I don’t really expect any sort of new statement to be made by Xi Jinping that would be perceived as more strategic support for Russia,” said Li Mingjiang, a specialist in China’s international relations at the National University of Singapore, “nor would I expect China to walk back from what has been said.”

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The summit this week between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China is a show of force by two autocratic leaders united against what they consider American hegemony.

The summit this week between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China is a show of force by two autocratic leaders united against what they consider American hegemony. It is also a moment of mutual weakness as Russia suffers losses in Ukraine and China endures an economic slowdown. They come to the meeting, expected to take place later this week in Uzbekistan, with their own agendas and their own challenges that will test an important relationship both have described as a friendship with “no limits.” Moscow needs Beijing. Russia’s recent routs on the battlefields of Ukraine, coupled with the broad damage inflicted by Western sanctions, have made Chinese support all the more important. China has emerged as a major buyer of Russian commodities, purchases that have helped replenish Moscow’s coffers. Beijing, though, remains cautious. It wants to project strength in the increasingly acrimonious competition with the United States and can’t afford for its main partner in an authoritarian alliance to face a humiliating defeat. But providing substantial, additional help to Russia, either economically or militarily, risks running afoul of Western sanctions and imperiling China’s economy. “Xi’s China has been carrying out an exquisite tightrope walk with regard to Russia,” said Rana Mitter, a professor of history and politics at Oxford University. “It is keen to show support for Russia in general, but finds active support for an invasion too politically embarrassing to contemplate and wants Moscow to resolve matters one way or another.” Image matters for Xi as he prepares to secure a third term at a pivotal Communist Party congress in Beijing next month. His trip this week, during which he will attend a regional summit in Uzbekistan and visit Kazakhstan, marks the first time Xi has traveled abroad since the start of the pandemic and signals just how much he values the relationship. The meeting with Putin will give the Chinese leader a chance to look like a global statesman, playing well to a home audience. Russia also provides much-needed backing for China’s agenda. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last month in defiance of China’s claims to the self-ruled democracy, the Kremlin was quick to support Beijing’s stance, describing the trip as “provocative” and pledging “absolute solidarity with China.” But China has tied itself to a war that has so far backfired for Russia. Any serious weakening of Putin’s dominance in Russia could hurt Beijing’s position at a time when the leadership is dealing with the political and economic fallout from its strict COVID-19 policies. The question confronting China is whether to double down or let Russia navigate the setbacks on its own. Both strategies carry risks, and most experts expect China to choose a middle path of continued economic support without openly circumventing sanctions or providing outright military assistance. China, which has avoided describing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war, appears to be tempering its bets. When Xi’s second-highest-ranking deputy, Li Zhanshu, met with Putin in Russia last week, Chinese state media emphasized the two countries’ shared admiration but steered clear of overt advocacy for Russia’s actions in Ukraine. China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Li has told Putin that, “political mutual trust, strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries have reached an unprecedented level.” Xinhua made no mention of Ukraine, even as Russian state media claimed Beijing backed the invasion, portraying Li as having said that China “understands and supports Russia” particularly “on the situation in Ukraine.” “China keeps avoiding military involvement in any degree in Russia’s war and will continue to do so, especially when the Russians have been in a drastic failure situation in the field,” said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. “China’s diplomatic and political support or sympathy will not really help them, though dramatic purchases of their energy since April help a little non-militarily.” Putin, who describes his war as part of a battle against nefarious Western powers that threaten Russia’s very existence, appears to find China’s middle ground vexing. He suggested as much last week in describing the long-running negotiations for a new pipeline that could allow Russia to export more Siberian natural gas to China rather than Europe — a matter of critical importance to Moscow as Europe rushes to reduce energy imports from Russia. “Our Chinese friends are tough bargainers,” Putin said at a conference in the Russian port city of Vladivostok focused on increasing economic ties with Asia. “Naturally, they proceed from their national interests in any deal, which is the only way to go.” Putin will go into the meeting with Xi looking to China as a lifeline at perhaps Russia’s most tenuous moment since the invasion began in February. Russian forces have recently lost more than 1,000 square miles of territory in Ukraine, creating new political headwinds for Putin — even from some of his longtime supporters, now frustrated by Russia’s bumbling war effort. At this week’s meeting, Putin hopes to close a deal for the natural gas pipeline. Russia also needs access to China’s high-tech exports and Chinese currency to pay for those goods, since Russia’s access to dollars is severely restricted. “China has more leverage than Russia,” said Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. As Western countries shun Moscow, it is the expanding ties with China that Putin points to most as proof that Russia cannot be isolated. It is a relationship to which Putin has devoted enormous effort, one that accelerated after relations with the West took a dive following Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014. The honor of meeting Xi in person is sure to be extolled by Russia’s state media as evidence of Putin’s continued acumen on the world stage. “Our relations have reached unprecedented heights,” Putin said at the Vladivostok conference. The century-old relationship between the two nations is steeped in ideology and history. Moscow was crucial to the Chinese Communist Party’s founding, early survival and eventual victory in 1949 in China’s Civil War. Relatively close relations have continued, although they were interrupted by a rift in the 1960s so serious that the two countries fought border skirmishes. Xi has a long-standing connection to Russia and Putin, whom he has met with 38 times. The Chinese leader’s father, Xi Zhongxun, a leading party figure in the 1950s, oversaw Soviet experts who came to China to help build the country’s heavy industry after the civil war, said Joseph Torigian, the author of an upcoming biography on the elder Xi. Xi’s father visited Moscow, full of admiration. “He brought back mementos from Russia,” Torigian said, “that Xi Jinping later recalled.” A week after he became China’s president in March 2013, Xi chose Russia for his first trip abroad and hinted in a speech there that the two countries would work together against the West. “Currently, China and Russia are both in important periods of national revival, and bilateral relations have entered a new stage,” Xi said. China now has the upper hand in the relationship, given its economic and military might. China’s economy was 10 times the size of Russia’s last year, before the war in Ukraine. From May through July, China bought record amounts of Russian oil at a deep discount and imported more Russian natural gas and coal. Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, announced last week that China’s payments for gas from one pipeline would no longer be made in dollars or euros, but in Russian rubles and Chinese yuan. Such deals make it easier for Russia to bypass Western banks and buy Chinese goods that are similar to high-tech Western products under export restrictions. While China has sold many cars and other products that do not use Western technology to Russia, it appears to have avoided the riskier activity of reselling advanced Western technology. China appears to have refrained so far this year from shipping weapons to Russia, forcing Moscow to ask Iran and North Korea for military equipment. China’s military has a long history of training with its Russian counterparts. Last week, China sent more than 2,000 People’s Liberation Army soldiers, 21 combat aircraft and three warships to participate in joint military exercises in eastern Russia. It was the first time that China had sent air, land and naval forces to participate in the major military exercise, which Putin personally oversaw. But Xi is unlikely to tie his country more closely to Russia than he did in February, when he declared the limitless friendship. “I don’t really expect any sort of new statement to be made by Xi Jinping that would be perceived as more strategic support for Russia,” said Li Mingjiang, a specialist in China’s international relations at the National University of Singapore, “nor would I expect China to walk back from what has been said.” WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Challenges for Russia and China test a 'no-limits' friendship

Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs has written a letter to Afghanistan formally asking&nbsp;the Afghan authorities to locate and arrest&nbsp;Masood Azhar, the founder of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), while sharing details of regions where he is suspected to be present. In the letter, the foreign office also asked to locate and arrest him. Masood Azhar is the founder of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).&nbsp;

In the letter, Pakistan suggests&nbsp;that Masood Azhar is likely to be in the Nangarhar and Kunhar areas of Afghanistan, and thereby tries to convey that the dreaded terrorist is not in Pakistan even as there are no official details&nbsp;about&nbsp;Masood's whereabouts. It is also not clear when exactly did&nbsp;Azhar move to&nbsp;Afghanistan—after the Taliban took control of Kabul last year in August, or before that.&nbsp;

A top official who is related&nbsp;to the development told Pakistan-based Geo News&nbsp;correspondent: "We have written a one-page letter to the Afghan Foreign Ministry asking them to locate, report and arrest Masood Azhar, as we believe that he is hiding somewhere in Afghanistan." The official&nbsp;requested for&nbsp;anonymity.&nbsp;

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JeM is responsible for multiple deadly attacks in&nbsp;India, including the attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001. The attack had brought India and Pakistan to the brink of a full-scale war. Masood Azhar is India's most wanted terrorist.&nbsp;

Now, Pakistan has demanded that Afghan authorities should locate the JeM's chief and report to the Pakistani authorities.&nbsp;

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In 2019, the United Nations had been listed Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee.&nbsp;

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has been mounting pressure on Islamabad to take action against terror funding from its soil. The Paris-headquartered watchdog has also hinted at the probability of Pakistan being taken off the grey list if it takes action&nbsp;against terrorists and terror groups. 
 
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Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs has written a letter to Afghanistan formally asking the Afghan authorities to locate and arrest Masood Azhar, the founder of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), while sharing details of regions where he is suspected to be present. In the letter, the foreign office also asked to locate and arrest him. Masood Azhar is the founder of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). In the letter, Pakistan suggests that Masood Azhar is likely to be in the Nangarhar and Kunhar areas of Afghanistan, and thereby tries to convey that the dreaded terrorist is not in Pakistan even as there are no official details about Masood's whereabouts. It is also not clear when exactly did Azhar move to Afghanistan—after the Taliban took control of Kabul last year in August, or before that. A top official who is related to the development told Pakistan-based Geo News correspondent: "We have written a one-page letter to the Afghan Foreign Ministry asking them to locate, report and arrest Masood Azhar, as we believe that he is hiding somewhere in Afghanistan." The official requested for anonymity. ALSO READ | Taliban claim eliminating 40 resistance fighters in Panjshir JeM is responsible for multiple deadly attacks in India, including the attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001. The attack had brought India and Pakistan to the brink of a full-scale war. Masood Azhar is India's most wanted terrorist. Now, Pakistan has demanded that Afghan authorities should locate the JeM's chief and report to the Pakistani authorities. WATCH | Gravitas: Imran Khan throws a 'political googly' × ALOS READ | Chinese-built Lotus Tower in Sri Lanka all set to open this week In 2019, the United Nations had been listed Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has been mounting pressure on Islamabad to take action against terror funding from its soil. The Paris-headquartered watchdog has also hinted at the probability of Pakistan being taken off the grey list if it takes action against terrorists and terror groups. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Pakistan asks Afghanistan to arrest JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, shares his likely whereabouts

Former United States president Donald Trump was spotted playing golf on Monday (September 12). The images from the Virginia golf course went viral.&nbsp;

In the images, Trump can be seen touring the grounds of the Sterling property. Brad Enie, who is Trump's director of grounds for the club, can also be seen in the pictures and videos that surfaced on social media platforms. &nbsp;

The purpose of the visit is not clear, but the images appear to show that he was probably inspecting or giving a tour of his club's golf course.&nbsp;

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He wrote on Truth Social, "Working today at @TrumpWashingtonDC on the Potomac River. What an incredible place!"&nbsp;

When reports emerged that Trump was flying to the DC area, they sparked rumours and speculations over the visit.&nbsp;

There's an evident curiosity among people over the unexpected and unannounced visit to the nation's capital, Washington, DC.&nbsp;

After his scandalous departure from office in January 2021, Trump has only visited Washington DC once.&nbsp;

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This smacks of wanting to have a conversation where they feel safe the feds aren’t listening. <a href="https://t.co/fnDV7SOpLS">https://t.co/fnDV7SOpLS</a>
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Mobsters <a href="https://t.co/7zVnLYezAL">pic.twitter.com/7zVnLYezAL</a>
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It’s time to re-evaluate whether or not golf is a sport <a href="https://t.co/B85s8nqyCp">pic.twitter.com/B85s8nqyCp</a>
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That’s a private meeting, not a golf game, today in rainy Sterling, VA. <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> photos blown up. Who is with him and why no golf clubs? 🤔<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpinDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpinDC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/ziWkTer0Ar">pic.twitter.com/ziWkTer0Ar</a>
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That’s a private meeting, not a golf game, today in rainy Sterling, VA. <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> photos blown up. Who is with him and why no golf clubs? 🤔<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpinDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpinDC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/ziWkTer0Ar">pic.twitter.com/ziWkTer0Ar</a>
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WATCH |&nbsp;Justice Dept issues 40 subpoenas to former US President Donald Trump for tampering with election&nbsp;

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Now, the users are weighing in on the surprise visit. Some theories suggest Trump may be in DC to avoid being arrested by the Department of Justice. Some say he is to receive medical treatment at Walter Reed. There is no official statement on the same.&nbsp;

Reports have claimed that the former president might get indicted in relation to the January 6 attack and his apparent move to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.&nbsp;

Trouble mounted for Trump as the FBI is probing his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The investigation accelerated dramatically when Trump revealed on August 8 that the FBI had raided his home.&nbsp;

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Former United States president Donald Trump was spotted playing golf on Monday (September 12). The images from the Virginia golf course went viral. In the images, Trump can be seen touring the grounds of the Sterling property.

Former United States president Donald Trump was spotted playing golf on Monday (September 12). The images from the Virginia golf course went viral. In the images, Trump can be seen touring the grounds of the Sterling property. Brad Enie, who is Trump's director of grounds for the club, can also be seen in the pictures and videos that surfaced on social media platforms. The purpose of the visit is not clear, but the images appear to show that he was probably inspecting or giving a tour of his club's golf course. ALSP READ | Twitter shareholders accept Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition proposal He wrote on Truth Social, "Working today at @TrumpWashingtonDC on the Potomac River. What an incredible place!" When reports emerged that Trump was flying to the DC area, they sparked rumours and speculations over the visit. There's an evident curiosity among people over the unexpected and unannounced visit to the nation's capital, Washington, DC. After his scandalous departure from office in January 2021, Trump has only visited Washington DC once. ALSO READ | Ukraine says it shot down Iranian-made drone used by Russia in Kharkiv - see pictures This smacks of wanting to have a conversation where they feel safe the feds aren’t listening. https://t.co/fnDV7SOpLS — Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) September 12, 2022 × Mobsters pic.twitter.com/7zVnLYezAL — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 12, 2022 × It’s time to re-evaluate whether or not golf is a sport pic.twitter.com/B85s8nqyCp — connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) September 12, 2022 × That’s a private meeting, not a golf game, today in rainy Sterling, VA. @AP photos blown up. Who is with him and why no golf clubs? 🤔#TrumpinDC #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/ziWkTer0Ar — FloridaKaren (@KarenInSoFlo) September 12, 2022 × That’s a private meeting, not a golf game, today in rainy Sterling, VA. @AP photos blown up. Who is with him and why no golf clubs? 🤔#TrumpinDC #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/ziWkTer0Ar — FloridaKaren (@KarenInSoFlo) September 12, 2022 × WATCH | Justice Dept issues 40 subpoenas to former US President Donald Trump for tampering with election × Now, the users are weighing in on the surprise visit. Some theories suggest Trump may be in DC to avoid being arrested by the Department of Justice. Some say he is to receive medical treatment at Walter Reed. There is no official statement on the same. Reports have claimed that the former president might get indicted in relation to the January 6 attack and his apparent move to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Trouble mounted for Trump as the FBI is probing his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The investigation accelerated dramatically when Trump revealed on August 8 that the FBI had raided his home. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Donald Trump's unannounced visit to Washington DC sparks rumours

Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While WION takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. In the latest development, the Ukrainian defence ministry said on Tuesday (September 13) that it shot down an Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is said to be used by the Russian armed forces, near Kupiansk, in Kharkiv. A town in the Kharkiv region which was recently recaptured by Ukraine. This is the first time Kyiv said it has eliminated one such device and it is also the first evidence of a Russia-operated Iranian suicide drone in Ukraine. ALSO READ | Ukraine aims to free all Russian-occupied areas after recapturing 8,000 sqkm An image has been shared by the Ukrainian defence ministry that apparently shows parts of the destroyed drone. On the debris, the Cyrillic designation "M214 Geran-2: is there. The wingtip appeared to match that of a Shahed-136. #Ukraine: In the first credible sighting of Iranian drones in use by Russian forces, here we see the remains of a HESA Shahed-136 loitering munition (or a design based on it), which is made in Iran. From the appearance, it seems it likely detonated. Images via @kms_d4k pic.twitter.com/LUBKrPAMNc — 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 13, 2022 × Iranian attack UAV Shahed-136, eliminated by the #UAarmy near Kupiansk, Kharkiv region. 🇷🇺 and 🇮🇷: A perfect union of two despots. 📷 @kms_d4k pic.twitter.com/M7sQ9PX1hJ — Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) September 13, 2022 × WATCH | 203 days of Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainian forces provide aid to residents of recaptured cities × Some of the military experts have said Iranian drones would be useful to Russia for both reconnaissances and as loitering munitions in Ukraine. Such weapons can provide Russia's time in locating and engaging suitable targets. Although Iran has not released key details of the Shahed drone, some experts have suggested that has a range of about 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles), which means it is capable of hitting precise targets from a long range. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Ukraine says it shot down Iranian-made drone used by Russia in Kharkiv - see pictures

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