Top seed Iga Swiatek of Poland and No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus easily advanced during third-round action at the U.S. Open in New York on Saturday.
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WAR IN UKRAINE - A mission of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is today inspecting the Zaporizhzhia
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in southern Ukraine, currently under the control of
Russian forces. IAEA Director, Rafael Grossi, said the visit is a technical
mission designed to prevent a nuclear accident. The IAEA mission represents a
step towards disoccupation and demilitarization, the Ukrainian Energy
Minister, Herman Haluschenko told Reuters. The Zaporizhzhia NPP is the biggest
nuclear power plant in Europe. The plant was taken over by Russian forces in
March, although it is still operated by Ukrainian personnel under the
surveillance of Russian forces. The plant premises have been repeatedly bombed
in the last month, Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for the attacks.
INTOLERANCE - President Klaus Iohannis
said that implementing the National Strategy on preventing and combating
anti-Semitism, xenophobia, radicalization and hate speech proves once again
After winning the first set, Australia's Rinky Hijikata falls to Rafael Nadal, while countrymen James Duckworth and Alexei Popyrin move through to the second round in New York.
DAY Cultural events concurrently staged in Romania, the
neighboring Republic of Moldova and historical communities in the Diaspora are
today marking the day of the Romanian Language. Set in 2013 by Parliament in
Bucharest, the Romanian Language Day coincides with the national day in the
neighboring, Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova. On august 31st
1989, during the Soviet regime, the Parliament in Chisinau, picketed by 750
thousand people, accounting for a sixth of the country s then population,
declared the Romanian language as the state language and passed from the
Cyrillic alphabet, imposed by the Russian occupants, to the Latin one.
POLL Half of Romania s population is mainly
scared by inflation, next among their concerns come the energy and food crises
as well as raising bank installments, shows a survey conducted by the
sociological research company Avangarde. Two thirds of the Romanians believe a
big economic crisis is to come soon and t