⚡️Argentina's president requests BRICS membership for his country

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Afghan national released from Guantanamo Bay after 15 years

Assadullah Haroon Gul, who was held without charge for 15 years at the US military prison in Cuba under the name Haroon al-Afghani, was delivered to Qatar ̶ which has long served as a go-between between the US and the Taliban.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s deputy culture and information minister, wrote on Twitter that Gul was one of the last two Afghan prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

“As a result of the efforts of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and its direct and positive interaction with the United States, one of the remaining two detainees, Asadullah Haroon, was released from Guantanamo prison,” he stated.

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🎥 The EU and NATO are gathering a coalition for war against Moscow, Russia's minister of foreign affairs said on the granting of EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova.

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❗️ US Supreme Court overturns landmark Roe vs. Wade allowing states to ban abortion

Advisor to the head of the DPR government, Yan Gagin, shows the grain storage facility that the Armed Forces of Ukraine burned down in Mariupol.

International Yoga Day in NYC

On June 21, New York joined the world in celebrating International Yoga Day.
Many people participated in a yoga class held in the middle of Times Square as part of the 20th year of 'Solstice in Times Square: Mind Over Madness Yoga', an annual event held to celebrate not only International Yoga Day but also the summer solstice in New York.

The United Nations has gathered data confirming that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by bullets fired by the Israeli troops, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says.

⚡️Missouri becomes the first state to ban abortions after US Supreme Court decision

⚡️ US President Biden to address the nation on Friday after Supreme Court ends constitutional abortion protection

❗️ UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls US Supreme Court abortion ruling 'a big step backwards'

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❗️ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: SCOTUS ruling 'one of the darkest days' US has ever seen

❗️ Barack Obama says SCOTUS ruling 'attacks essential freedoms of millions of Americans'

❗️ Ex-White House Press Sec Jen Psaki reacts to SCOTUS ruling

❗️ AOC says 'people will die' because of SCOTUS decision to overrule Roe v Wade