LIVE | Russian FM Lavrov holds press briefing after talks with Vietnamese counterpart

⚡️⚡️ Two more resignations rock Johnson's government ahead of Wednesday PMQs

On Wednesday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting on calls made by a number of western countries that are taking part in the G20 to exclude Moscow from the summit, noted that he was not aware of any machinations to stop him participating in the forthcoming G20 meetings in Bali.

🗣 The Russian foreign minister added that that if any such attempts had been made, the Indonesian government simply ignored them.

The remarks came after talks between Lavrov and his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from where the Russian foreign policy chief will travel to Bali, Indonesia, to take part in the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, which starts on Thursday

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▪️ Will Quince has resigned as a junior education minister in Boris Johnson's government, having previously defended the prime minister in interviews on Monday when he gave “repeated assurances to the media which have now been found to be inaccurate”;

▪️ Directly after Quince resigned, Laura Trott, who was a parliamentary private secretary at the Department of Transport, announced that she was standing down from her junior ministerial position

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⚡️ Robin Walker, MP for Worcester and a junior minister in the UK, is the latest to have resigned from Boris Johnson's government in which he held the post of minister of state for school standards. He said "recent events have made it clear to [him] that [his] great party has become distracted from its core missions by a relentless focus on questions over leadership"

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⚡️ Ankara has sent written demands to Sweden and Finland for members of the Kurdistan workers' party and the Gulen movement - both of which are outlawed in Turkey - to be extradited, Justice Ministry says

🍦 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised Americans not to eat ice cream from the Big Olaf Creamery of Florida after an outbreak of listeria caused one death and 23 illnesses across 10 states.

The CDC has also warned consumers to clean any utensils that might have come into contact with the ice cream

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⚡️ John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and MP for the UK constituency of Salisbury, "has made the difficult decision to resign from government"

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😳 Tiara Mack, the first openly gay black woman to be elected to the Rhode Island state senate, thought that she might win her voters’ hearts by making a TikTok video noscriptd 'A promised senator thirst trap at Block Island', in which the Democrat could be seen twerking upside down.

It certainly attracted attention, causing something of a brouhaha among netizens - to put it mildly. However, the senator was unfazed by the condemnation which just seemed to spur her on to further heights as she tweeted: "Damn. Twerking upside down really makes the conservative, unhinged internet accounts pop off on a Monday."

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❗WATCH LIVE: BoJo participates in PMQs in House of Commons after high-profile Cabinet resignations

💭Boris Johnson says government should not resign during crisis

⚡️ DEFRA Minister Jo Churchill and Justice Minister Victoria Atkins resign

⚡️ Johnson says will resign if he realizes that government could not continue its work

⚡️ Britain's junior housing minister Stuart Andrew has resigned

🇨🇦Colored hair, face tattoos, men wearing skirts: Canada's new military dress instructions

"Respect, diversity and inclusiveness": The Canadian Armed Forces has introduced updated regulations on personal grooming.

▪face tattoos are allowed;

▪facial hair may be grown to any length, but it should be "neatly groomed and symmetrical";

▪a backpack can be slung over the left shoulder, to leave the right arm "free to salute";

▪men are allowed to wear blouses and skirts as a part of the uniform;

▪restrictions on hair length and color have been lifted;

If bright hair has "a negative operational impact during field operations or training", a soldier can be asked to cover the head with a scarf.

"The Canadian Forces Dress Instructions are about 50 years old and so the policy as a whole was overdue for revision," Canada's Department of National Defence says.

The new regulations will come into effect in September.

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🏃🚴🏊‍♂The triathlon has become the first British sport to ban transgender women from female competitions

"We concluded that the triathlon is a gender-affected sport and that means that athletes who were born male have an advantage over athletes who were born female and this advantage is significant in swimming, cycling and running," said British Triathlon chief executive Andy Salmon.

The British Triathlon Federation is also changing their men's category to 'open', meaning that it will be open to all athletes - men and transgender athletes.

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