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The Russian invasion. The outside world's response
Details: Zelensky plans to pressure Biden on NATO membership

Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to press Joe Biden for a formal NATO invitation and a decision on continuous supplies of high-tech weapons when the two presidents meet later in September. Sources with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg.

The demands on the United States are said to be part of the "Victory Plan" that Zelenskyj referred to in several statements, but did not go into detail about.

Zelenskyi has also stated that he wants to discuss the plan with both presidential candidates.

- We will present a very concrete plan not only for how Ukraine will endure the war, not only for maintaining the level of resistance we have now, but for how we will be able to become stronger every moment, Zelenskyy says in his daily video speech on Telegram.

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The election in the USA The electoral movement
Difficult for Trump to sell - even though the lock up has expired

The lock up period has ended and presidential candidate Donald Trump can now do whatever he wants with his shares in Trump Media, which fell to a new low on Friday.

The presidential candidate has explicitly said that he has no intention of reducing his holding, which corresponds to almost 60 percent of the shares. But even if he wanted to, it would take him more than five weeks to dispose of his nearly 115 million shares, writes Bloomberg based on the daily trading volume.

In addition, any major sell-off would put further pressure on a stock that is already trading some way below its listing price.

- The law of supply and demand cannot be repealed, says law professor Usha Rodrigues.

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The new election in France
Data: New French government leans to the right

There will be no surprises or heavy names in French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's proposal for a government in France, according to AFP's information. But it is said to lean to the right.

Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for European Affairs, is named as the new Foreign Minister according to an anonymous source.

The group leader of the right-wing Republican party in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, may take over the interior ministry, according to the news agency's sources.

Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who is close to Macron, is said to remain in the same role.

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The elections in Venezuela
EU Parliament recognizes opposition leader as president of Venezuela

The European Parliament has voted through a resolution that recognizes the Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the country's legitimate president. This is reported by AFP.

Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro declared himself victorious after the July election. The result has been widely questioned.

The new EU resolution is not binding and does not prevent the member states from taking their own positions.

"My message to the Venezuelans is this: the international community continues to increase its support," writes González Urrutia on X.