📉Meta*'s income is falling for the first time since it went public (it was then called Facebook*)

The company's revenue for the second quarter was $28.82 billion, down from $29.07 billion a year earlier.

“We seem to have entered an economic downturn that will have a broad impact on the digital advertising business,” Mark Zuckerberg said in an earnings call.

*Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are banned in Russia over extremist activities.

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🇺🇸The US unveils its third political party - report

A host of former Democrat and Republican politicians who have found themselves dissatisfied with America’s present two-party system, have proclaimed that the new national political party will appeal to millions of voters.

▪️The party, named Forward, is co-chaired by former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey

▪️The party's basic ideas are to “reinvigorate a fair, flourishing economy” and to “give Americans more choices in elections, more confidence in a government that works, and more say in our future”. The party claims that it has its own way to solve “big issues facing America”: "Not Left. Not Right. Forward”

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“'Oh dad, there’s a plane flying,' and then the bomb landed.” A resident of the Luganskaya settlement in the Lugansk People's Republic describes how his five-year-old son was killed by a Ukrainian airstrike.

The people responsible for the boy's death have yet to be found: no investigation was conducted by Kiev for eight years.

⚡Talks on exchange of prisoners between Russia and the US underway, they should take into account interests of both parties - Moscow

The Ukrainian army shells Severodonetsk (LPR) “to leave scorched-earth behind, to leave just ruins,” a resident of Severodonetsk says, pointing out that Ukraine commits atrocities and blames Moscow for them.

🗣 “This is how we live – by candlelight and without any water," the woman says

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Borrell’s complaint on being less popular than Lavrov in media justified, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

⚡️ Peskov described as "fake" American data about losses sustained by the Russian army in Ukraine: "Nowadays, even the most reputable newspapers spread all kinds of fake news"

🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un said the "powerful force" of the DPRK is ready to eliminate "Yoon Suk-yeol's regime and his army" in South Korea as the neighboring democracy "devises tactics for a military confrontation". Kim added in a speech to mark the anniversary of the end of the Korean War in 1953, that he is ready for any battle with the US.

The North Korean leader underlined that “US imperialists are pushing the South Korean authorities into a suicidal confrontation” with the DPRK, the state’s official Korean Central News Agency reports

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Russia’s top diplomat held talks today with the Chinese FM Wang Yi. They meet in the hallway of the SCO ministerial summit venue with Lavrov assuring Wang Yi that he’s among friends. China is also one of the SCO founding members, which formed the alliance with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan in 1996, paving road for other nations to join. The organization is headquartered in Beijing. While first documents adopted by the bloc were related to military co-operation and border security, its current priorities go far beyond that, with member nations working together in the areas of transportation, energy, telecommunications, finance.

📹Life-threatening floods in Hazard, Kentucky: More than 10 inches of rain has fallen, numerous homes have been severely flooded, and cars are being washed away, reports say

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The grandmother of a girl who was injured by Ukrainian shelling, appealed to the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) in 2020 and has still had no reply

⚡️ Austrian chancellor: EU embargo on Russian gas impossible, it will hurt union more

⚡️ Hungary continues to oppose EU embargo on Russian gas, PM Orban says

⚡️ US Q2 GDP down 0.9% after Q1 1.6% drop, technically placing economy in recession, Commerce department says

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LIVE | Lavrov holds presser following meeting with Uzbek president in Tashkent

⚡️ Countries wishing to join SCO line up in queue amid upcoming summit in Samarkand, Lavrov says

Russian FM Lavrov after meeting with Uzbekistan President: whole spectre of agreements between Moscow and Tashkent was on the agenda - cooperation on higher education, multilateral organization membership aspects, preparations for the SCO summit. Lavrov adds that the Samarkand summit will see many potential new members of SCO taking part. Afghanistan is another issue that was discussed. Russia and Uzbekistan both want to co-operate with Afghanistan's current leadership as per Lavrov.

⚡️ Russia, Ethiopia making progress on switching settlements to national currencies, Ambassador to Addis Ababa says