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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. military history has been arrested in Venezuela after fleeing before his sentencing, authorities said Wednesday.

The international manhunt for Leonard Glenn Francis ended with his arrest by Venezuelan authorities Tuesday morning at the Caracas airport as he was about to board an airplane for another country, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stark repudiation of Donald Trump’s legal arguments, a federal appeals court on Wednesday permitted the Justice Department to resume its use of classified records seized from the former president’s Florida estate as part of its ongoing criminal investigation.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on every U.N. Security Council member to “send a clear message” to Russia that it must stop its nuclear threats in the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this week that his nuclear-armed country will “certainly use all means available to us” if its territory is threatened and to defend the country and its people.

21 Sep 2022; MEMO: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called on Greece to abandon its policies of escalation and provocation and to listen to Ankara's calls for cooperation.

His remarks came during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, where he said: "Those who seek to showcase their forces in the region, although they are not our equal politically and militarily, put themselves in a laughable situation."

Israel's "savage power" and its "savagery is not ending", Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told the UN General Assembly yesterday.

"The region has not seen an occupying savage power such as the Zionist regime in its midst in the past," Raisi said.

He explained: "The killing of children and women are present in the dark report card of the Zionist regime. It has managed to form the biggest prison in the world in Gaza and the expansion of settlements and housing illegally on Palestinian territories."

NEW YORK, Sept 21 (APP): US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif here at the UN General Assembly.

Secretary Blinken expressed sympathy for the flood victims and assured the Prime Minister of US commitment to stand with Pakistan at this difficult time.

WASHINGTON, Sep 21 (APP): Britain’s King Charles, is a “loud admirer of Islam, a critic of Western interventionism and a champion of multiculturalism who will win his country new friends – and some populist enemies – across the world”, according to a British journalist and author.

“King Charles III will surprise us,” Ben Judah, the journalist, wrote in The Washington Post, about the new monarch, who, according to him, has for decades sought to free himself from what he calls “Western materialism” by immersing himself in the world’s second-largest faith.

UNITED NATIONS, September 21. /TASS/: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold meetings on Wednesday within the framework of the UN General Assembly session with IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Central African Republic’s President Faustin-Archange Touadera, the Russian delegation told the media.

NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's thinly veiled threat to use nuclear weapons after Russian setbacks in Ukraine was "dangerous and reckless rhetoric," NATO's secretary general said on Wednesday, adding that the only way to end the war was to prove Moscow will not win on the battlefield.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the world is in big trouble and needs collective action across the board.

"Our world is in big trouble. Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. And challenges are spreading farther," Guterres said while addressing the UN General Assembly before the opening of the General Debate.

"We need action across the board," he said.