🎥 The moment of the grain silo's partial collapse.

⚡️⚡️ Russian court finds US basketball player Brittney Griner guilty of drug smuggling.

The court is yet to announce her sentence.

❗️ Canada's defense minister authorizes the deployment of Canadian Armed Forces to train new Ukrainian military recruits.

🇹🇼 🇨🇳 The Taiwanese Defense Ministry has said that 22 Chinese military aircraft entered the island’s air defense zone.

❗️Russian court sentences US basketball player Brittney Griner to 9 years in prison for drug smuggling

❗️ NATO fully supports New START Treaty agreement between Russia and US, representative says

🎥 US basketball player Brittney Griner after the verdict. When asked how she feels, she replied, "I love my family."

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🗣 In an exclusive comment to Sputnik, Alexander Vinnik's lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou speaks about his case and his extradition to Greece.

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❗️ US delays the Minuteman III missile test amid tensions over Taiwan - reports

🔭 French astronomer apologizes for "planet" photo that was really...chorizo

Last Sunday, French scientist Etienne Klein posted a tweet claiming to contain the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun.

💬 “This level of detail… A new world is revealed every day,” the joke tweet reads.

👀 While most Twitter users recognized the sausage in the picture, others were more gullible, which started a backlash - with users accusing Klein of spreading misinformation.

Later, Klein acknowledged that the joke went out of hand and wrote his apology on Wednesday: “Given some of the comments, I feel compelled to clarify that this tweet containing an alleged snapshot of Proxima Centauri was entertainment.”

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 EXCLUSIVE | President of the Indian National Cultural Center Sammy Kotwani says that India Day Festival would be impossible without "the love of Russian people".

❗️ The coordination center in Istanbul is planning the departure of 3 carrier tankers with grain from Ukrainian ports - the Turkish Defense Ministry.

❗️ EXCLUSIVE | Sputnik has discovered how Ukrainians sell US- and NATO-supplied weapons on the dark web.

🚀 A SpaceX team is currently heading to Australia to check recent reports of debris from the space capsule Dragon’s trunk that was found on a farm.

❗️ US to declare monkeypox a public health emergency - HHS secretary

👊 Ro Malabanan, a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, reportedly stopped an attacker after witnessing him hit another man in an unprovoked attack in New York City.

The MMA expert was heading to work when he saw a homeless man, later identified as 28-year-old Samuel Frazier, sucker-punch a construction worker in SoHo and reportedly assaulted six men along Broadway.

The New York Police Department eventually arrested the attacker, who has been charged with two counts of assault.

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🦠 The Biden administration on Thursday declared monkeypox a public health emergency, with cases on the rise across the US. The administration has been criticized at times for its handling of the outbreak, and some have called on the government to declare a national emergency without delay.

Since the first US monkeypox case was identified in mid-May, more than 6,600 probable or confirmed cases have been detected in the United States. Cases have been identified in every state except Montana and Wyoming.

President Joe Biden named Robert Fenton as the White House's national monkeypox response coordinator. The CDC has said since June it has made a concerted effort to do extensive education and outreach to the LGBTQ community.

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