Venezuela freed a group of political prisoners, human rights activists said. The releases came several days after interim president Delcy Rodríguez met with Donald Trump in New York.

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Dozens of delegates left the UN General Assembly hall during the speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Among those who remained was the Serbian delegation led by President Aleksandar Vučić.

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Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, said that Kyiv will strike Russian energy infrastructure this coming winter if Russia continues attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and the heating system. He added that in the event of a very harsh winter, Ukraine will have no other choice but to make it painful for Russia as well.

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, speaking at a session of the UN General Assembly, announced the creation of a National Center for Information Security within the country’s security services system. According to him, the center will identify, determine the origin of, and counter disinformation spread in the British information space by unfriendly states, including Russia.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an article for Bloomberg, called for a sweeping reform of the UN: abolish the veto in the Security Council, abandon permanent membership, and strengthen the powers of the General Assembly. He called this the central element of the reform.

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