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

🇺🇸Prosecutors from the Department of Justice (DoJ) are making preparations to try to force former White House officials to testify about then-President Donald Trump's conversations and actions around 6 January, CNN says, citing people familiar with the matter.

▪Their endeavors are founded on the expectation that the former president will invoke executive privilege to hide some information from the federal grand jury as the criminal investigation digs deeper into the ranks of White House officials who directly interacted with Trump, to uncover whether Trump intended to prevent the transfer of power to Joe Biden

▪Commenting on the matter, Attorney-General Merrick Garland declared that Trump’s status as a former president doesn’t put him "beyond the reach of the investigation" and stressed that they are taking care to “get this right”

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When asked whether Shanghai Cooperation Organization nations should abandon American currency like Moscow does, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov says the US dollar is becoming increasing unreliable, SCO countries could see it for themselves, adds SCO considers increases in trade using national currencies within the bloc.

❗Lavrov speaking about Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan: Our position on a united China remains unchanged

A Mariupol resident tells how he was used as a football by Azov neo-Nazis.

“This room was the football pitch. It was here they beat us up and then played football with our bodies. They’d push you into the middle, knock you down and start kicking, passing you around. For 15 or 20 minutes [the Azov battalion neo-Nazis] played ‘football’,“ he said.

❗Belarus has recalled its ambassador from the UK "because of a number of unfriendly measures"

📹A missile attack on Ukraine army reserves in the Kiev and Chernigov regions (Russian MoD video)

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A Severodonetsk (LPR) resident describes how Ukrainian soldiers used civilians as a human shield: they wouldn't allow exhausted children and their mothers to leave the Azov plant

❗Tensions around Taiwan are destructive, the world is overflowing with scores of conflicts, Kremlin spokesman Peskov says

🥴 "Zelensky poses for war journal 'Vogue'": Fox News' Tucker Carlson jokes about the Ukrainian president and his wife appearing in the fashion magazine

Mocking Zelensky and his wife's war-themed photoshoot in Kiev, Carlson says: "So, pretty insulting to thousands of Ukrainians who have died, and to the US taxpayer, who's funding all of this".

"We need Russian oil on the market": US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland explains the so-called oil price cap

“Russians would make a tiny bit of profit; enough to keep their oil on the market - because we need Russian oil on the market, otherwise the shortage drives the price up - but not enough to fund the war”, Nuland said.

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🇺🇦🇺🇸“Ukrainian leaders are not really hiding anymore: they just want our money. They don’t care about the United Stated even a little bit", said Tucker Carlson, concluding that Ukraine’s leaders have 'total contempt' for the US.

💬Carlson said this in response to the Ukrainian president's comments about inflation in America: “Inflation?! Who’s thinking about inflation? We’re fighting for absolute communal values. These things are secondary", Zelensky said.

📊Reacting to Zelensky’s comments, Carlson mentioned that polls show that the number one issue for actual Americans is inflation.

❌"Really? Maybe to you, Mr Zelensky, but to Americans, [inflation is] actually kind of meaningful because our countries are not the same.”

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💸 Colombian superstar Shakira may be faced with a stiff sentence in a 14.5Mln euro ($14.8Mln) tax fraud case as a Spanish prosecutor has asked her to be handed a prison sentence of more than eight years and a fine $23.5Mln

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🎰📹New footage of flooding in Las Vegas: Caesar’s Palace is sinking

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❗️Russian MoD briefing:

▪️Russian forces performed a high-precision sea, air and ground-based weapons strike at military reserves in Kiev and Chernigov regions on 28 July, with the result that the 30th Ukrainian mechanized brigade fully lost its combat potential and the 57th motorized brigade was critically damaged;

▪️Russian forces struck one Tochka-U missile launcher, a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons and the ammunition depot of the 81st air-mobile brigade of the Ukraine army in the DPR;

▪️Russian aviation destroyed a Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the Kharkov region and a self-propelled anti-aircraft rocket launcher Buk-M1 in the DPR;

▪️Russian anti-aircraft means destroyed 6 UAVs in the Kharkov region and in the territory of the DPR;

▪️12 Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher projectiles were intercepted in the territory of the LPR and one Tochka-U ballistic missile was intercepted in the Kharkov region by Russian anti-aircraft forces

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⚡️ Bank freezes personal account of Russia’s Envoy to UN Geneva Office, Permanent mission says

📹 Is the US economy now in a recession after two consecutive quarters of falling GDP?

Bill Clinton answers the question

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⚡️An explosion reportedly rocks the Kabul International Cricket Stadium.

⚡️ US Fed's preferred inflation gauge up for the first time in three months, rising 6.8 percent in the year to June