⚡️Italian president dissolves parliament, paving way for early elections as PM Draghi steps down

❗️UN confirms Guterres will travel to Turkey this evening for grain talks

⚡Putin, Saudi Crown Prince discuss by phone situation on global oil market - Kremlin

📹‘I have no intention of being a part of America, my life is in Russia’: Jeff Monson, an American-born MMA fighter who was granted Russian citizenship in 2018, says the only thing he misses in the US is his three kids.

Monson explains that he plans to open "more than 100 free sports schools" in Russia, drawing inspiration from the Soviet-era

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📹‘Western Ukraine f*cking profits from refugees like us’: A refugee from Donbass who came back to Ukraine from "very expensive Europe" is amazed by the extremely high cost of living in western Ukrainian cities. "1000 euros for rent in Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk ... I’d rather pay this money to Europe rather than you," she says.

Moreover, if a refugee is registered in Donbass, it's impossible for them to rent something in western Ukraine, the girl says. "You're ‘United Ukraine,’ for f*ck's sake!" she exclaims.

💬“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” Biden said on CNN last July.

The US president has been fully vaccinated and boosted twice with the Pfizer vaccine, but still has been infected

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⚡Scoop: Ukrainian grain issue appears resolved, agreement to be signed Friday, UN source says

📹‘I think I belong here’: Francois Modeme (François Mauld d'Aymée), a French volunteer fighting for the DPR, talks about his service.

Modeme is a graduate of France's Saint-Cyr Military Academy (Charles de Gaulle also graduated from it)

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⚡A document on the "grain issue" will be signed on Friday in Istanbul at 13.30 GMT, with UN Secretary-General Guterres to take part in the ceremony, Erdogan's administration says

👉What drugs is Biden on? COVID-19 remedy Paxlovid explained

📹WATCH LIVE | White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds briefing as Biden tests positive for COVID

A video update from Joe Biden on his condition after testing positive for COVID-19: the president says he's "getting a lot of work done" and emphasizes that he's "double vaccinated, double boosted."

📹4-year-old shoots at police officers

▪Sadaat Johnson from Utah was forcibly removed from his car by police when they responded to reports that a suspect had allegedly brandished a firearm at McDonald's employees due to an incorrect order

▪During the arrest, one of the man's children fired a single shot at police officers, but the cops escaped injury

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❗US "applauds" work of UN Secretary-General, Turkey on reaching Ukraine grain deal - State Dept.

🌎 Google’s prototype augmented reality glasses are going on a trip

The company is planning to test augmented reality (AR) prototypes in public beginning next month. Google has been exploring concepts like AR glasses that show translations in real time, but they want to take its ideas from the lab into the real world.

The tech giant claims its prototypes don’t support photography or videography, though any image data captured during its tests will be deleted unless the data is used for further analysis or debugging.

Google lists “translation, trannoscription and navigation” as the features in testing and previewed glasses at Google I/O earlier this year that can show language translated right in front of your eyes. But in announcing these tests well ahead of when they’ll actually take place in the real world and describing what they will involve, Google seems to be attempting to avoid a repeat of the “Glasshole” debacle that plagued the company’s infamous Google Glass headset.

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‼️ EU Publishes New List of Sanctions Against Russia

The European Union published new list of sanctions against Russian officials and organizations in the Official Journal of the EU.

The new list of sanctions includes Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, actors Sergei Bezrukov and Vladimir Mashkov, parliamentarian Adam Delimkhanov and Russian presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal District Yuri Chaika, among others.

Among the affected organizations are: Rossotrudnichestvo, Sberbank, Young Army and the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund.

The EU ban on the purchase of Russian gold and jewelry will take effect from July 22, the document says.

‼️ Italian President Signs Decree on Early Parliamentary Elections on September 25

Italian President Sergio Mattarella signed decrees to organize snap elections to the country's parliament on September 25 and the first meeting of its chambers on October 13, the presidential office said.

The president received the resigned Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, who presented him with decrees that had previously been approved by the country's Council of Ministers.

After the vote, the number of parliamentarians in Italy will be reduced by a third: in September 2020, the Italians in a referendum advocated reducing the number of parliamentarians from almost 1,000 to 600.

Earlier Thursday, Mattarella signed a decree on the early dissolution of the national parliament as a result of the aggravated political crisis in the country. On Thursday morning, Draghi confirmed his resignation.