During these hours, Hurricane Dorian reached the north of the Bahamas in the United States. At its epicenter on Abaco Island, the hurricane reaches 175 mph with gusts of over 200 mph (320 km/h), the US National Hurricane Center said at 9:30 a.m. (4:30 p.m. ET). The hurricane had been upgraded to Category Five, the most severe category, an hour earlier, when its power reached 160 miles per hour (equivalent to 257 km/h). Threat.

The United States may tighten sanctions against Russia, Reuters writes , citing a speech by US Energy Secretary Rick Perry. “These negotiations are being held at a high level, we are serious about this option,” quoted TASS him as saying. At the same time, the American media noticed that Perry's statement was preceded by Trump's proposal with the opposite message: to return Russia to the G8. Sanctions.

The Defense Department accused the United States of launching an airstrike in Syria without warning. The maintenance of the ceasefire regime in the Syrian de-escalation zone Idlib is endangered, and frustrated in a number of areas, said the ministry in a statement. The US Central Command explains the strike by the need to destroy the control center of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia). US airstrike.

The Swedish government plans to increase defense spending by about $508 million a year through a new tax on banks, Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said on the eve of August 31 in Stockholm. The money was needed due to the aggravation of relations with Russia and will be used to protect the Baltic Sea, write Bloomberg and Reuters. New tax. Details of the new taxation will be made public at a later date, Andersson said.

Australian Craig Steven Wright, one of the alleged creators of Bitcoin, should pay the relatives of his late business partner Dave Kleiman 410 thousand units of bitcoins, who are now worth about $ 4 billion, Bloomberg reports (the court’s decision can be found at this link ). During the process, the judge of the Western District Palm Beach in Florida Bruce Reinhard refused to study the question of whether Wright and mythical creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto were one face.

The manufacturer of the ice cream “Cow from Korenovka”, which traditionally boughts by Vladimir Putin at the Max air show in Zhukovsky, took more than 8% of the Russian market, bursting into the first five. But almost nothing is known about his owner. Photo: from the Kremlin website Perhaps the most discussed event of the week - as Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdogan bought ice cream at the air show in Zhukovsky.