🇺🇸The US defense contractor and his wife who were photographed in KGB uniforms have been charged in Texas with stealing the identity of two dead children

The couple have been living in the US for decades under false names and it’s still not clear why.

Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, both in their sixties, took the names Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague - two children who died in Texas in 1987. Under these new identities, they remarried, and Primrose joined the US Coast Guard. After retiring, he became a defense contractor.

The couple were arrested last week. They are charged with appropriating personal data and using it in cases related to the jurisdiction of the US Department of Defense. Primrose faces up to 17 years in prison.

📷 Photos of Primrose and Morrison in Soviet KGB uniform have been used in the case, but the charges against them do not include espionage - the photos were taken as a joke, their lawyer insists.

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China' s top diplomat Wang Yi seems to be in an upbeat mood, waving at journalists at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ministerial summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. China is one of the founding members of the transregional bloc, has a lot of influence on its decision-making, and "Shanghai spirit" is the phrase which is often used to describe the organization's cultural diversity.

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⚡The West's military strategy to deal with Russian-Ukrainian conflict doesn't work - Hungary PM Orban

Lisichansk residents are asking why the Ukrainian Army shelled Orthodox churches:

"These non-Orthodox churches are still standing... all the Orthodox buildings were razed to the ground."

"We are one people - Slavs... Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians... One Heavenly Father - and they did this."

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🇺🇸Joe Biden's granddaughter to be married at the White House

❗️San Francisco declares state of emergency over the spread of monkeypox

Numerous cases of flooding in the US: Here downtown Las Vegas, Nevada is seen inundated by tonnes of water

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⚡️Russian MoD: Ukrainian forces fired HIMARS missiles last night at the pre-trial detention center near Elenovka in Donbass, where Ukrainian prisoners are kept (including Azov neo-Nazis). As a result of the strike, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded, eight employees of the detention center were also wounded.

"Currently, a lot of Ukrainian servicemen have voluntarily laid down their arms: they know how humanely prisoners of war are treated on the Russian side. This egregious act was committed to intimidate Ukrainian servicemen and prevent their surrender. The circumstances of this provocation are being investigated."

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📹Artillery units of the DPR People's Militia destroy fortifications and strongholds of the Ukrainian army with the aid of UAVs

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📹The Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers meeting is underway in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Russian Security Service says thwarted terrorist attack in Lipetsk plotted by Ukrainian Right Sector militants trained by foreign instructors

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WATCH LIVE 👉 Russian top diplomat Sergei Lavrov talks to media after SCO Foreign Ministers' Council meeting

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov: broad consensus within SCO on possibility of granting Belarus full-time membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.