Incidents

The head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, Fumio Kishida, who previously held the post of foreign minister, was elected the country's 100th prime minister.

Alexei Zaitsev, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that Moscow calls on the US and the EU to pay attention to "Ukraine's destruction of its own population", to achieve an end to the war in Donbass.

Indian police have detained 33 people on charges of gang raping a 15-year-old girl, according to the Hindustan Times.

During a meeting of the expert committee, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga officially announced the complete withdrawal of the coronavirus emergency regime that was in force until September 30.

In the center of the Swedish city of Gothenburg, an explosion occurred in a residential building, reports the Nordic News portal citing local media.

Switzerland became the 29th country to allow same-sex couples to officially marry.

The leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), candidate for Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olaf Scholz, answered a question about relations with Russia and Ukraine.

The University of Leipzig, which Angela Merkel graduated from during the existence of the GDR, does not plan to hire her as a research assistant after leaving the post of German Chancellor.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) candidate Francisca Gifai will become the first woman to hold the post of mayor of Berlin.

Of the group that suffered a disaster while climbing Elbrus, 14 climbers were rescued. 

The only truly sustainable solution to the extinction of Europe is to increase the birth rate among its own indigenous population, and not to rely on arriving migrants, Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis said.

The British Prime Minister has proposed to rename it in honor of the god of the northern stormy wind and become Boreas Johnson because of his support for renewable energy sources, writes The Guardian.

The President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, published a video message after the assassination attempt on his first assistant, Sergei Shefir.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the 76th UN General Assembly in the United States and thanked him for his words about the non-recognition of Crimea as Russian.

Next year, Ukraine will be able to start work on creating its own "missile shield".