🇺🇸 🇸🇦 The Biden administration is considering lifting a ban on US sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, Reuters has cited unnamed sources as saying.

▪️ The sources added that any final decision would depend on whether Riyadh makes progress toward ending the armed conflict in neighboring Yemen.

▪️ In February 2021, Joe Biden, who as a presidential candidate vowed to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah” state, declared a halt to US support for the Kingdom’s offensive operations in Yemen, including “relevant arms sales” to Riyadh.

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❌ The majority of US Democrats do not want President Joe Biden to run for reelection in 2024, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll out Monday.

▪️ A total of 64% Democratic voters say they prefer a new candidate in the upcoming presidential campaign, the survey said. Only 13% of US voters believe that the country is on the right track, according to the poll.

▪️ In June, the White House confirmed that Biden will seek reelection in 2024, denying claims that his age could pose a problem. The administration said it is not focused on the age issue and the president’s priority is to work to the benefit of American people and improve their lives.

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China and Pakistan launched their four-day Sea Guardian-2 naval drills near the waters of Shanghai on Sunday, China's Ministry of National Defense stated

While the official statement said that the drill “has nothing to do with the regional situation and is not targeted at any third party”, the exercises coincides with the ongoing US-led RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) Exercises which kicked off near Hawaii in the last week of June and will continue until August.

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⚡️ 📹 Another example of a lynching in Ukraine: two men are tied to a pole for breaking into a car

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🇨🇦🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has summoned Canada's charge d'affaires over Ottawa's decision to return a repaired turbine for Nord Stream to Germany

❗️ EU plans to introduce a new batch of sanctions against Russia in coming weeks, reports say

⚡️ Iran to become member of Shanghai cooperation organization this year - Uzbekistan's foreign ministry

❗️ Belarus' appeal to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was sent to member countries, procedures for its admission may begin at the summit in Samarkand

❗️📹 A Ukrainian soldier speaks about the discrimination against the Russian language in Ukraine

"Go fight on the front lines and then you'll understand there's no difference what language you speak," he tells those who discriminate.

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🗣 US President Biden was interrupted by a father during the White House's celebration of the passing of a new gun safety law.

Manuel Oliver's teenage son was one of 17 victims killed in the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

“We have to do more than that!” the man is heard shouting, as Biden spoke about the new measures.

Earlier, Oliver wrote on Twitter that "The word 'celebration' has no space in a society that saw 19 kids massacred just a month ago," in reference to the latest deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

👀 Speaking about the February 14, 2018 massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Biden yet again got confused, saying it occurred in "1918."

🇷🇺🇧🇷 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil is close to buying cheaper diesel from Russia as part of a strategy to reduce domestic fuel prices.

WATCH | US intel shares radar data, satellite images, target locations of Russian territory with Ukraine.

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⚡️🇬🇧 1922 Committee announces timetable for Tory leadership contest

🇨🇦 Canada telecom execs summoned after wide service outage

The federal industry minister said Sunday he is summoning telecom executives following an outage at Rogers Communications Inc. that disrupted mobile and Internet services across Canada, hampering several crucial services.

In a statement, Francois-Philippe Champagne said he would meet with Tony Staffieri, Rogers’ chief executive officer, and other telecom leaders to discuss improving “the reliability of networks across Canada.” He called the failure “unacceptable.”

Many 911 services couldn’t receive incoming calls, several hospitals reported services affected, and debit card transactions were paused. It was the second significant outage for Rogers in 15 months.

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🚙 Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick reportedly saw violence against drivers as a tool for growth

A new trove of leaked documents has shed an unfavorable light on the early days of Uber. Dubbed the Uber Files, the leak consists of approximately 124,000 company documents, including more than 83,000 emails and text messages exchanged between former CEO Travis Kalanick and other executives, that date to a period between 2013 and 2017.

Working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), The Guardian shared the trove with 180 journalists at 40 outlets across 29 countries. The documents show a company willing to do things many of its own executives thought were “f***ing illegal.” 

Another selection of documents details the lengths the company went to escape regulatory scrutiny. In at least 12 instances, Uber ordered staff at local offices in six countries, including France, the Netherlands and India, to employ the “kill switch,” an internal tool the company developed to protect its data.

🛰️ 'Deepest View of the Universe': NASA Reveals First Image From New Space Telescope

The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe.

The “deep field” image released at a White House event is filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking through here and there. Part of the image is light from not too long after the Big Bang, which was 13.8 billion years ago.

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