🇺🇸 🇸🇦 After Israel, US President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia to meet Prince Mohammed bin Salman. However, many US human rights activists say the visit contradicts his promise to put human rights at the center of American foreign policy.

▪️ How will the official negotiations on bilateral cooperation end?

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😮 The 76-year-old father of Tesla and SpaceX owner, Elon Musk, has made a shocking revelation that he and his 35-year-old stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout had a secret second child three years ago.

▪️ In an interview with The Sun, Errol Musk admitted that he welcomed a baby girl with Elon’s stepsister, Jana, in 2019.

▪️“The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce,” Errol said during the interview, adding that the second baby with Jana was unplanned but he was living with her after the birth of their first baby boy Elliot Rush in 2017.

▪️ Elon and his father had a massive falling out out after Jana’s first pregnancy with Errol was revealed in 2017.

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🇮🇷 A senior spokesman for the Iranian military, Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, slammed pronouncements by US President Joe Biden and Israeli PM Yair Lapid that Washington and Jerusalem could use force against Iran, calling such statements psychological warfare and delusion, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

▪️ On Thursday, Biden and Lapid pledged to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms by all means, including by the use of force.

▪️ According to the news outlet, Shekarchi said that both the US and Israel have a long list of fails in the Middle East, that is why they should consider the real situation in the region rather than threaten Iran.

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🇵🇸 The United States will provide an extra $200 million in financial assistance for Palestinian Authority, President Joe Biden said on Friday.

🗯 "Today I am announcing that the United States is going to provide an additional $200 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency [for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA] so it can continue its vital work helping the most vulnerable Palestinians," Biden said during a joint press conference with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

▪️ He also reaffirmed his commitment to the two-state solution.

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⚡️ White House on whether US will ask Saudi Arabia to limit oil exports to Russia: President Biden will have broad conversation about energy security in kingdom

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📌 WATCH LIVE: US President Biden arrives in Saudi Arabia by direct flight from Israel

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🆙 The United States has lived through 14 straight months of higher and higher inflation since President Biden and his economic advisors deemed the issue a “temporary” and “transitory” issue that would quickly be brought under control.

▪️ Data put out by the Labor Department this week showed that the Consumer Price Index hit 9.1 percent in June, its sharpest monthly increase since 1981 and the height of the ‘malaise days’ of the late Carter and early Reagan years. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted that inflation was “unacceptably high,” but blamed Russia.

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📹 British journalist shocked by what he saw in Donbass

▪️ In an interview with German journalist Anna Lipp, her British colleague John Miller said that the Western media deliberately ignore what is happening because it is not in their interest:

🗯 “There is no British or American journalist from a major network - it's shocking. The Ukrainian Army is shelling civilians. And it's just a fact. And they are not talking about this in the West simply because it's inconvenient.”

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📹 US President Biden bumps fists with Saudi crown prince.

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📹 Donbass is returning to normal life!

A Sputnik reporter has visited the region to see with her own eyes the recovery process and how life in the recently war-torn area is getting back to normal.

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📹 Ukrainian nationalists have very unique priorities: while ordinary fighters were living in dugouts, they set up entire drug laboratories in apartments. Apparently they forgot to remove their equipment and “harvest” during their retreat.

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📹 The Ukrainian military struck the “Center” bus station in Donetsk.

▪️ A girl who was on her way home from work and a minibus driver were killed. According to preliminary reports, three more people were wounded.

▪️ Ruslan Yakubov, head of the DPR representative office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination, reported that it was a strike by a 155mm M777 howitzer from the direction of Kurakhovo.

▪️ There were no military facilities nearby, so this was another targeted shelling of civilians in the republic.

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⚡️ US House passes abortion defense bill in response to end of Roe protections

📹 😃 Engineers from St. Petersburg have designed and launched a speedboat that looks like a 1967 Ford Mustang vintage car.

▪️ According to the head of the tuning studio Ford-Market, Dmitri Ratyuk, the idea of creating an original watercraft arose suddenly when the enthusiasts decided to combine “two pleasures of life” – cars and boats.

▪️ Take a look at how they realized their idea in the form of something truly special!

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⚡️ US provides information to Ukraine that they are using across battlefield, senior defense official says

🙃 Good News Friday: Here is a little recap of nice things from this week

▪️ An Albuquerque gas station treated the city to a customer appreciation day by cutting their gasoline prices in half.

▪️ Researchers believe vitamin D could be key in preventing ovarian cancer.

▪️ Researchers measuring the effects of mindfulness on pain perception and brain activity showed that meditation interrupted the communication between brain areas involved in pain sensation and those that produce the sense of self.

▪️ A carpet cleaner in Maryland has learned 40 languages.

▪️ Hollywood star Paul Rudd kicked into hero mode in real life, responding to a now-viral online post and connecting with a 12-year-old boy desperately looking for friends.

▪️ Lola, the Oklahoma City Zoo’s 11-year-old female Sumatran tiger, gave birth to two cubs on Saturday, July 2 at the Zoo’s Cat Forest habitat.

▪️ А previously unknown work of Vincent van Gogh was discovered on the back of another one of his paintings.

▪️ Scientists at the AI research laboratory DeepMind achieved a feat of a different kind, developing an AI system with a thinking pattern similar to that of a human infant.

▪️ A rare find was made in Belgium, where the remains of a soldier slain during the legendary Battle of Waterloo over 200 years ago were unearthed.

▪️ A recent survey of 2,000 US adults, half of whom are homeowners, found that 63% are confident they can accumulate property, investments, or other things with monetary value to be passed down from one generation to the next.

▪️ For those who are awaiting the release of the upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” streaming TV series, a new trailer – a main teaser, in fact – was recently unveiled.

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