🧐🗳Some inconsistencies were found in thousands of ballots for primaries held in the US state of Oregon. The ballots contained unclear barcodes that vote-counting machines couldn't read and would delay results by weeks in a critical U.S. House race in Oregon’s primary election.

Voters from both political parties milled about in a narrow room with windows that allowed views of workers opening ballots, transferring votes, reviewing flagged ballots, and using the vote-counting machines.

The failure could affect up to 60,000 ballots, or two-thirds of the roughly 90,000 returned in Oregon’s third-largest county. Hundreds of votes were still coming in under a new law that allows ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

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⚡️🇺🇸Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is moving into a White House role, according to CNN

😍😍 According to multiple reports, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have welcomed a baby boy.

The couple, who first revealed her pregnancy with a belly-baring Harlem photoshoot in January, became parents May 13 in Los Angeles, according to TMZ on Thursday based on unnamed sources.

People magazine, citing an unnamed source, said A$AP and Rihanna, 34, are home in Los Angeles with the baby.

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👩‍🚀NASA's InSight Mars robotic lander will complete its work in late 2022 due to a lack of solar energy, mission chief Bruce Bannerdt says.

The lander now generates only 10% of the original capacity of solar power because of heavy dust on Mars, which has covered the robot's solar panels.

Photo credit: NASA

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📹 Russia's Ministry of Defence has published footage of the work being done by Ka-52 and Mi-28 helicopters during a special military operation in Ukraine

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⚡ Russian Orthodox charity gathers over $300,000 for refugees from Ukraine

📹 Russia's Ministry of Defence has published footage of "Grad" multiple launch rocket systems' combat work during the special operation in Ukraine

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⚡️⚡️ Four people injured in stabbing attack in Norway, police say

🎥 The second part of a prank played by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus on former American president George W Bush, has emerged online.

In it, the former president talks about the West's war against Russia and what role the US has in it

#VovanLexusBush

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⚡️ As many as 1,908 Ukrainian Azov militants from Azovstal surrendered, Shoigu says

📹🎞 Residents of Mariupol learnt how to bake bread on a fire near their house

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📌 Most recent statements from Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu:

▪️ In the Western Military District 12 military units will be formed by the end of the year because of Finland's and Sweden's bid to join NATO;

▪️ US and NATO are increasing the scale of operational and combat training near the Russian border, up to 40.000 military personnel are taking part in training;

▪️ Russian armed forces are doing everything to prevent the death of civilians in Donbass and Ukraine, 1.3 million people have been evacuated to Russia since the beginning of the operation;

▪️ Ukrainian forces use civilians as a human shield, trying to delay the advance of the Russian troops;

▪️ Russian forces with the help of DPR and LPR forces continue to expand control over the territories of Donbass, the LPR liberation is almost complete

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📹🎞 The village of Verkhnetoretskoye was liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis but they continue to take revenge on civilians

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⚡️⚡️ WHO convenes emergency meeting of experts to discuss Monkeypox outbreak, reports say

🎥 In the third part of a prank played on George W Bush by Russian jokers Vovan and Lexus, George Bush thinks he is speaking to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and they discuss NGOs and the information war

#VovanLexusBush

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📹🎞 In the city of Volnovakha, in the Donetsk Region, neo-Nazis held local residents hostage. They didn't let civilians, including women, children and old people leave the basements

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❗G7 intends to provide $19bln aid package to Ukraine - German finance minister

🇰🇷Two drunk US Secret Service agents in South Korea were reportedly involved in an off-duty alcohol-related fracas: one of the agents had a fight with a taxi driver.

The behaviour is a tremendous humiliation for President Biden who is visiting the country at present. The agents have been sent back to the US and, once there, are expected to face disciplinary action

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📹🎞 Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine wants the word "Russian" to be forgotten in the DPR and LPR regions

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❗Ukraine needs to decide on conditions for ceasefire with Russia - Borrell on Italy’s plan on conflict resolution

🇰🇷 Biden was on his usual form in South Korea as he got into a muddle about who he was speaking to. "Thank you all very much, President Moon...," sleepy Joe declared, clearly under the impression that Moon Jae-in, who stepped down as president on 10 May, was still in office. Luckily, an adviser was at hand with a quick prod, "... er, Yoon," Biden concluded as he correctly addressed the country's present president, Yoon Seok-youl.