Soviet Union: Death of the last leader Mikhail Gorbatchev

A hospital in Moscow announced that the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in Russia. “Today (Tuesday) in the evening, after a long and serious illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev passed away,” said the Central Clinical Hospital (TSKB) under the Russian presidency. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in ending the East-West confrontation in the last century, Mikhail Gorbatchev has spent the last 20 years withdrawing from politics while regularly raising his voice, worried about new tensions with Washington.

Russia's Gazprom stops gas deliveries to France

The flow of Russian gas to France will be completely dried up on Thursday, after the Russian giant Gazprom announced on Tuesday evening that it would completely suspend its deliveries to the French group Engie on that date. “Gazprom Export has notified Engie of a complete suspension of gas deliveries from September 1, 2022 until full receipt of the financial sums due for the deliveries,” the Russian group said in a statement published Tuesday evening on its Telegram account. According to a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of March, Gazprom states “that it is prohibited to deliver more natural gas to a foreign buyer if the buyer has not made full payment within the period specified in the contract.”

NASA: Another attempt to take off Saturday for the rocket to the Moon

After a day of suspense, NASA announced that it would try to launch its new mega-rocket to the Moon on Saturday, following a failed first attempt on Monday due to a technical problem. “We have agreed to change our take-off date to Saturday, September 3,” Mike Sarafin, in charge of the Artemis 1 mission, which should mark the start of the American program to return to the Moon, said Tuesday at a press conference. The shooting window starts at 14:17 local time (18:17 GMT) and extends over two hours.

Intense fighting in southern Ukraine: Zelensky meets with the IAEA mission

The Ukrainian military's counteroffensive continued in southern Ukraine, where intense fighting was reported, while President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Kiev to “do everything possible” to avoid a nuclear disaster at the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia. “Fighting is currently taking place practically on the entire front line: in the south, in the Kharkiv region (north-east) and in Donbass (east),” Zelensky said in the evening.

In his daily message, he also asked the “Ukrainians in Crimea” to stay “away from Russian military installations” and to provide the security services with “all the information you have about the occupiers so that the liberation” of this peninsula annexed in 2014 by Moscow “takes place more. quickly.”.

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