** GOOD MORNING, TEAM! MAIN NEWS FOR THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 4**

**The rare visit of CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow failed to convince Vladimir Putin to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine** and may have even strengthened the Russian president's resolve to achieve military victory" — The Washington Post;

**The Ukrainian Defense Forces have not received instructions to suspend combat operations on the front line,** — Ukrainian media reported, citing a source in the president's office;

**ICC member states expect new U.S. sanctions against the court in the near future**, a diplomatic source reported;

**U.S. authorities want to restrict the granting of citizenship to foreign government employees,** according to a notification from the U.S. Department 
of Homeland Security;

**She brought a saw to work, assigned employees to clean her house, and sent a security guard to a strip club **— all this was done by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, writes The Guardian;

**Argentina is building a military base near the disputed Falkland Islands, on Tierra del Fuego **— said the country's president Javier Milei;

**More than 10 people were trapped under debris as a result of a landslide in China's Jiangxi province, **reported China Central Television;

**Russian tennis player Kalinskaya defeated Ukrainian Svitolina in the third round of the U.S. **Open and reached the 4th round of the U.S. Open for the first time in her career.

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