01 September 2023; MEMO: Former Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, and his wife, Michelle, chose to remain silent when they appeared before Federal Police on Thursday to testify in an investigation into jewellery gifts that they received from Arab heads of state and never declared, Reuters reports.

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned China in interviews broadcast on Sunday that the patience of U.S. business was "wearing thin," saying American companies deserved a "predictable environment and a level playing field."

The two biggest economies in the world used to be each other's largest trade partners, but Washington now trades more with neighboring Canada and Mexico, while Beijing trades more with Southeast Asia.

LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia’s impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering from the storm. Notably absent was Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate who declined to join Biden after he suggested that the Democrat’s presence could hinder disaster response efforts.

Biden, when asked about his rival’s absence, said he was not disappointed by the turn of events, but welcomed the presence of Rick Scott, one of the state’s two Republican U.S. senators.

03 September 2023; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has launched its campaign to be the sole host of the FIFA 2034 World Cup having abandoned its joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup alongside Egypt and Greece.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Their rivals are busy answering voters’ questions at town halls across South Carolina, glad-handing with business owners in New Hampshire and grinding to hit every one of Iowa’s 99 counties.

But the front-runners for their party’s nomination, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, are barely campaigning in crucial early-voting states as the primary season enters the fall rush.

02 September 2023; MEMO: Israeli analysts disclosed on Friday that the competence of the Israeli army has declined due to the coalition judicial reforms, Arab48 reported on Friday.

Military analyst Tal Lev-Ram shared that the Israeli army is worried about the reception of the crisis within Israeli society regarding the army’s competence on the security fronts.

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — Tim Scott seldom specifically brings up race in Iowa. Nor does the Republican presidential candidate have to.

He is often the only Black person at his campaign events in the state. The South Carolina senator introduces himself as the product of early-life mentors who taught him not to be bitter.

When race comes up, he often says the United States is not fundamentally racist.

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered for the Burning Man festival remained stranded in the Nevada desert on Sunday after storms that swept through the area, as authorities investigated a possible death and worked to open exit paths by the end of the Labor Day weekend.

ISLAMABAD, September 03 (APP): Iranian Ambassador Reza Amiri-Moghaddam, in a recent gathering of religious scholars and leaders from various faiths and sects, raised concerns about the increasing incidents of disrespect towards religious symbols, particularly the Holy Quran, in European nations.

The event, titled ‘Honoring the Holy Quran from the Perspective of Religions and Sects,’ witnessed a unified call for safeguarding religious sanctity and promoting mutual coexistence.

KIEV/MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments related to the Ukraine crisis:

Ukrainian forces have breached the first line of Russia's defense near the city of Zaporizhzhia on the country's south, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Sunday, citing a Ukrainian military commander.

"Now we are between the first and the second defensive lines," said Oleksandr Tarnavsky, commander of the operational-strategic grouping of troops "Tavria."

MOSCOW, September 4. /TASS/: Two drones were destroyed by Russian air defenses over the Black Sea off Crimea and over the Kursk Region, as Kiev made yet another attempt to attack Russian facilities, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"At about 1:00 a.m. today, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terror attack on facilities on Russian soil with the use of two unmanned aerial vehicles was foiled. [Russian] air defense forces on duty destroyed the Ukrainian UAVs over the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula and over the Kursk Region," the ministry said.

NEW DELHI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - India switched off its moon rover, the first craft to reach the lunar south pole, after it completed its two-week assignment conducting experiments, the country's space agency said.

The Pragyan rover from the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was "set into Sleep mode" but with batteries charged and receiver on, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, late on Saturday.