😥🌡Heat waves are hitting around the globe. Scientists say climate change is making them more frequent. "Climate change has everything to do with the extreme weather that we see at the moment, and it's human-induced climate change. It's not a natural variation," Kirsty McCabe, a meteorologist at the U.K.'s Royal Meteorological Society, told CBS News.

This week the U.K. saw a record 40 degrees Celsius, or about 104 Fahrenheit – 30 degrees hotter than typical summer temperatures in a country where less than 5% of homes were estimated to have air conditioning. The heat waves in China earlier this month – specifically in the Zhejiang province, east of Shanghai – saw temperatures exceeding 42 degrees Celsius (up to 107 degrees Fahrenheit).

The extreme heat has contributed to wildfires in the U.K. and across Europe – including France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.

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Video reveals Donetsk oil depot in flames after Ukrainian shelling

🐋Close call: a humpback whale had an unexpected encounter with the bow of a small fishing boat near the coast of the US state of Massachusetts.

🧐What is the reason for its bad behavior? Nothing personal, the boat just ended up in an area where whales usually look for food

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Language control? White House Press-Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre when asked about the WH definition of a recession: "I’m not gonna define it from here"

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📹Ka-52 attack helicopter crews have destroyed Ukrainian forces' strongholds and armored vehicles (Russian MoD video)

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Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who formerly served as a senior presidential adviser, has revealed in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir "Breaking History: A White House Memoir" that he was diagnosed and treated for thyroid cancer while working for his wife's father.

After being diagnosed, Kushner asked White House physician Sean Conley not to tell anyone, especially his wife Ivanka Trump.

The cancer was diagnosed early, but necessitated the removal of a "substantial part" of the thyroid, Kushner notes.

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📹S-300V air defense missile system crews in combat action (Russian MoD video)

The system is designed for protecting troops from cruise, aero ballistic and ballistic missiles, as well as airplanes and combat helicopters amid the complicated aerial situation and electronic counter-measures

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🇺🇸"The police were heroes that day. Donald Trump lacked the courage to act": Joe Biden claimed that his predecessor "lacked the courage" to stop the people who breached the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

In the pre-taped video that aired at the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives' annual conference, Biden accused Trump of sitting "in the comfort of the private dining room next to the Oval Office," while his supporters were storming Congress

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🦠More lockdowns for the god of lockdowns? Dr. Fauci says that given today's knowledge, there would have been “much, much more stringent restrictions” in 2020

▪Now, in 2022, Fauci is paying special attention to the people without symptoms or those in "the pre-symptomatic stage": “We know now, two and a half years later, that anywhere from 50 to 60 percent of the transmission occur from someone without symptoms, either someone who never will get symptoms or someone who is in the pre-symptomatic stage.”

▪“Had we known that then, the insidious nature of spread in the community would have been much more of an alarm and there would have been much, much more stringent restrictions in the sense of very, very heavy, encouraging people to wear masks, physical distancing or what have you,” he added.

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❗A Ukrainian drone has dropped an explosive device at a Russian border checkpoint in Bryansk region, 4 people were injured, the governor says

Ukraine's army morale is falling as its government enlists those who are unwilling to fight, The New York Times reports

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❗A US Embassy representative fainted at a session on the case of basketball player Brittney Griner in Moscow, Sputnik correspondent reports

📹Russian Airborne Forces assault groups are moving under the cover of sniper pairs and large-caliber machine gun crews, as enemy firing points are being destroyed by mortar fire (footage by Russian MoD)

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❗Gas futures in Europe exceed $2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters for 1st time since March

🦠While Dr. Fauci makes claims about "much more stringent restrictions”, UK experts have found out that lockdowns were an indirect cause of the outbreak of hepatitis among children

▪According to UK experts from London and Glasgow, the immune systems of the children weren't ready for the disease, as there were lockdowns and they did not interact with other kids

▪An outbreak of hepatitis has been recorded in 35 countries around the world. About a thousand children (many under the age of five) have suffered from the disease; some required a life-saving liver transplant

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❗EU energy ministers reach political agreement on gas reduction framework - Czech Presidency

LIVE | Russian FM Lavrov holds joint press conference with Ugandan president Museveni

Russian MoD briefing:

▪High-precision missiles have struck a base with so-called Foreign Legion units near Kostantinovka, DPR;

▪An artillery battalion of the 59th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has lost 70 percent of its personnel as a result of strikes with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces near Nikolaev;

▪The 72nd mechanized brigade battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Zaytsevo, DPR, has lost more than 70 neo-Nazis and an ammunition depot as a result of the strike of operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces;

▪During the past day, Russian air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian UAVs near the settlements of Dmitrovka, Kharkov region and Vavilovo, Nikolaev region

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