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🇺🇸 🇯🇵 Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay a brief condolence visit to Japan next week in the wake of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the State Department said Sunday.

▪️ Blinken will travel to Tokyo on Monday to pay his respects to the former leader and meet with senior Japanese officials before returning to Washington from an Asian tour that he is now wrapping up.

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😍 Johnny Depp has reportedly written a song about his experience with the lengthy and much-publicized defamation trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.

▪️ The track, due to be released on Friday 15 July, is one of two songs written by the actor on an album collaboration ennoscriptd 18, which has been recorded alongside the British guitarist Jeff Beck.

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😳 NYPD officers shot and killed a man who threatened to "change the government" by killing Governor Kathy Hochul and the "PD chief", only to "blow up the world" later, New York Post reported, citing police and sources.

▪️ While the sources identified the killed suspect as Raul Hardy, NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Maddrey said during a press conference that the suspect "clearly stated that he was going to blow the head off of the first police officers that he saw."

▪️ Neither the New York governor nor any police officer ended up being hurt as NYPD tackled the man.

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🤔 With US President Joe Biden planning to run for re-election in 2024, “his age has increasingly become an uncomfortable issue for him, his team and his party,” according to The New York Times (NYT).

▪️ The newspaper argued that the 79-year-old POTUS is “testing the boundaries of age and the presidency,” and recalled that a year and a half into his first term, Biden is “already more than a year older than Ronald Reagan was” at the end of his two terms.

▪️ The NYT cited unnamed current and former senior White House sources as saying that the 46th US president remained “intellectually engaged,” but that he looks “older than just a few years ago.”

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🇹🇼 Taiwan conducted a successful test launch of the first locally-made HTTP-3A sounding rocket, which could be used to carry miniature communications satellites into orbit, media reported on Sunday.

▪️ According to the Central News Agency (CNA), the launch of the rocket, designed by the Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC), took place on July 10 at 06:12 (22:12 GMT, Saturday) from a launch site in Pingtung's Mudan Township, located in the southern part of Taiwan.

▪️ Under the initial flight plan, the rocket was expected to reach a top altitude of 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) during an 8-10 minute flight. However, during the test launch, it stayed in the air for two minutes, reaching an altitude of three kilometers.

▪️ Despite the low altitude, the test demonstrated a "major technological breakthrough," the ARRC was quoted as saying by the CNA.

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❗️ A US Navy F-18 Super Hornet fighter fell overboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman due to bad weather, the US Navy said in a statement on Sunday.

▪️ According to the statement, the incident occurred on Friday, July 8.

▪️ The incident happened while the aircraft carrier was resupplying at sea. During the operation, one sailor was injured. Now his condition is stable, and his life is no longer in danger.

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😳 Cardi B has furiously struck a fan with her microphone after the concertgoer touched the rapper during her explosive London performance.

▪️ The incident happened after the Bodak Yellow artist lashed out at another fan for grabbing her mic moments before.

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🔫 The homemade gun used by Tetsuya Yamagami, who shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday, was designed to fire six bullets at a time, the NHK broadcaster reported on Sunday, citing the suspect's interrogation materials.

👮‍♂️ On Sunday morning, Yamagami was sent to the prosecution. He is facing murder charges.

▪️ Yamagami said that his improvised firearm was made of two metal pipes, held together by duct tape, and a capsule with six bullets, which was inserted into each barrel, according to the report.

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😍 Real heroes don’t wear capes

👍🏼 Hollywood star Paul Rudd, who played Ant-Man in the Marvel movie, has kicked into hero mode in real life, responding to a now-viral online post and connecting with a 12-year-old boy desperately seeking friends.

▪️ The actor initially responded to a Facebook post by a Colorado mom saying that her son Brody had only got two autographs for his yearbook.

😀 In response, Russ decided to help the boy and surprised him with a Facetime call, which was later shared on Instagram.

🗯 "I heard about you. I'm like, 'I gotta talk to this kid because this kid sounds like my kind of guy", he said during the call. "Likes chess, likes fencing, likes dinosaurs... am I right?" he continued. "Well, I'm very excited that I get to talk to you and I get to meet you!"

😱 In addition, Rudd sent Brody a handwritten note and a very real Ant-Man helmet signed by the superhero himself.

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😳 Tourists filmed the descent of the glacier in Kyrgyzstan. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the collapse occurred due to melting.

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📹 Russia's MoD has released footage of the first apartment in a residential complex under construction in Mariupol.

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing mortar crews firing on AFU artillery positions.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇱 At least 16,000 police officers will be deployed to ensure security during US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel, Israeli police spokesman Mikhail Zingerman said on Sunday.

🗯 "Sixteen thousand police officers will be involved during the visit. This is an unprecedented number," Zingerman told a press briefing.

▪️ According to the police spokesman, officers will ensure safety, public order, and uninterrupted traffic, and one of the main tasks will be to make sure that "the damage to the level and normal rhythm of life of the citizens" is minimized.

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🤔 J.K.Rowling has weighed in on an online debate, rejecting the claim that women demanding access to single-sex healthcare are "psychotic".

▪️ "Intimate touching without consent is sexual assault. A self-proclaimed doctor says it’s ‘psychotic’ for disabled women to assert the right to female-only intimate care. I’m praying he’s not actually an MD, just a standard misogynist here to troll, but either way," the author tweeted.

▪️ Her comments came after a netizen claiming to be a doctor responded to a women's rights activist who was highlighting the importance of disabled women having the opportunity to demand a female doctor when it comes to their intimate care.

▪️ A lot of social media users flocked to Rowling's Twitter thread to support her sentiment against the “doctor’s” claim.

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