🏛🏅President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 Americans, including Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, soccer star Megan Rapinoe and Gold Star father Khizr Khan.

“The Fourth of July week reminds us what brought us together long ago, and still binds us, binds us at our best, what we strive for. We the people, doing what we can to ensure that the idea of America, the cause of freedom, shine like the sun to light up the future of the world,” Biden said in his opening remarks. “That’s the soul of our nation. That’s who we are as Americans.”

The medal is “presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors,” the White House said.

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⚡️🇯🇵Japan's Ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unconscious after alleged shooting attack – Reports

‼️Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shows no signs of life after being attacked - Kyodo news

🇯🇵🚨: Alleged videos from the scene of a shooting attack on Japan's Ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

😳🐍A fishing guide barely avoided losing his life after an anaconda attacked him in Brazil.

The footage shows the guide, Joao Severino, 38, leaning over the snake, according to a video shared by the New York Post. As the snake leaps out of the water, Severino shakes the camera backward and yells in shock as he’s bitten. After Severino and the others on the boat realize they are no longer in danger, laughter can be heard.

It’s unclear how large the animal was, but anacondas can reach as much as 30 feet in length, according to Live Science. The outlet noted that the average female anaconda is around 15 feet long, and males are about 9 feet.

Severino, an angling expert, spotted the massive snake while guiding tourists through the Araguaia River in Goias, Brazil, the outlet said.

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Attempts to ban Russia from the G20 have failed. Russian FM Lavrov had a number of bilaterals at the Bali meeting, including talks with Chinese and Indian counterparts.

💻 Russian hacker group RaHDit has published the data of another 2,500 officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the military department of Ukraine.

▪️ The hacker group said that the published data contains information about the relatives of the said officers and the people who live with them, as well as individuals who have been receiving payments from the GUR bank accounts.

▪️ RaHDit told Sputnik that it was not planning to make public information about underage relatives of Ukrainian officers.

▪️ Among the GUR officers, there are drug addicts and former criminals convicted of robbery, the illegal trafficking of weapons and drugs, the infliction of grave bodily injuries, and rape, according to the group.

▪️ RaHDit noted that it had handed over the data to law enforcement bodies.

▪️ Earlier, RaHDit has published the first leak containing the data of 1,000 employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR).

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📹 The moment of the assassination attempt on former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

▪️ The perpetrator fired two shotgun blasts into the politician's back during his campaign speech in the city of Nara, police said.

▪️ Abe was hospitalized unconscious after the attack.

▪️ The only suspect has been detained. According to media reports, he is a 40-year-old local resident. The motives for his actions have not been reported.

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📹 New footage from the scene of the assassination attempt on Shinzo Abe.

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⚡️ Man who shot ex-PM Shinzo Abe is former sailor of Japanese self-defense forces, reports suggest

📹The police said that Shinzo Abe was conscious immediately after the assassination attempt, but during transportation his condition became critical.

Russian ambassador to Japan strongly condemns 'barbaric attack' on former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

⚡️ Lavrov: If West wants to 'defeat Russia on battlefield' in Ukraine there is no sense in talks

⚡️ Russia is ready for negotiations on export of Ukrainian grain - Lavrov

❗️ Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe in 'very grave condition' after shooting, Fumio Kishida says

Russia’s top diplomat had a chance to voice the country’s position on the discussed topics – namely the food crisis, blaming the West for provoking food shortages through the flawed implementation of the “green” agenda. Lavrov also added, that even though attempts are being made to position Russia as the nation responsible for problems for Ukrainian grain exports, Kiev only delivers 1% of the world’s grain, and Kiev authorities have to de-mine safe passages for ships carrying it, while Moscow is prepared to provide safe passage for these vessels.