🇮🇷🇷🇺 Roscosmos shared a video showing the launch of Russia's Soyuz-2 rocket, which will carry into orbit the Iranian remote sensing satellite Khayyam and 16 other small spacecraft, most of which were developed at Russian research institutes.

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😬 📹 Joe Biden has been roasted online for facing his “biggest challenge yet” after he struggled to put his jacket on while exiting a helicopter, prompting the First Lady to step in and help him.

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📹 The combat operation of the Western Military District’s Orlan-10 multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicle crews carrying out tasks in the special military operation zone.

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❗️ The Biden administration moved on Monday to suspend the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy.

▪️ US District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk earlier on Monday lifted an injunction that required the Department of Homeland Security to resume the policy, formally called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).

▪️ In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it had stopped placing migrants in the Migrant Protection Protocols, a policy colloquially known as "Remain-in-Mexico." It also said it would process migrants already enrolled in the program, and allow them to continue their asylum cases inside the US.

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😮 An Alabama boy admitted that he accidentally shot his mother to death after having initially fabricated a story about how she died, authorities said Monday.

▪️ The family of the 12-year-old boy, who has not been publicly identified, was cooperating with authorities, and his case will be processed in the family court system, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

▪️ The victim was identified as Ayobiyi Cook, 29, the sheriff's office said.

▪️ The shooting occurred just after midnight on Saturday in Forestdale, just north of Birmingham.

▪️ In an initial statement, the sheriff's office said a man was seen fleeing from the house where Cook's body was found shortly before someone called 911. There appeared to be no forced entry, the initial statement said.

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❗️Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad may have a phone conversation on proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish media report

😵‍💫 The terms 'women' and 'girls' have been reportedly omitted from UK NHS-funded guidance about menstruation.

▪️ A website set up by the Welsh government to give advice about periods refers to them as 'people who bleed' and 'half of the population'.

▪️ The use of gender-neutral language has reignited a row over biological females being erased from crucial public health advice.

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🇯🇵 On this day, on August 9, 1945, another atomic bomb was detonated by the US over Nagasaki, after the first bombing took place three days earlier, in Hiroshima.

🔻Nagasaki was hit by a bomb with the codename “Fat Man”, which was even more powerful than the bomb dropped over Hiroshima. The bombing resulted in more than 73,000 fatalities and 35,000 more died due to wounds and long-term health effects.

🔻 The original target of the second atomic bomb was Kokura, which had a larger population and some major military facilities. On arriving at the target, the US plane found the city obscured by clouds and turned south to its secondary target: Nagasaki.

🔻Decades later, the US remains committed to the claim that the bombings were necessary and justified to make Japan surrender, though it was essentially defeated before the bombs were dropped. Historians agree that Americans essentially employed atomic weapons to flex their muscles in order to intimidate the Soviet Union.

❗️If Turkish UAVs production plant appears in Ukraine, Russia will regard it as a military target - Kremlin

⚡️ Ukraine stops transit of Russian oil via southern branch of Druzhba pipeline to Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia

🖥 A group of US defense experts and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) conducted a simulation of a hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The experts believe that Taiwan will be able to repel the invasion, but China will sink most of the United States and Japan’s surface fleets.

🗯 "The results are showing that under most — though not all — scenarios, Taiwan can repel an invasion," CSIS Senior Adviser Mark Cancian said, as quoted in the report.

▪️ The experts conducted 22 rounds of simulation and in 18 of them, Chinese missiles were able to sink a significant part of the US and Japanese surface ships and destroyed hundreds of aircraft, according to Cancian.

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♨️ The UK is braced for drought conditions to last until October, with rivers forecast to be low and exceptionally low in central and southern England, according to the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

▪️ This could have dire consequences for farming, as soil in much of the country is too dry to till, and many crops set to be harvested next year and the end of this year need to be planted by the end of October to be viable.

▪️ South-east England has had 144 days with little or no rain since January, which is the longest dry spell since the 1970s, according to Met Office figures.

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❗️SHOCKING

📹 "We must not take prisoners. We must kill them."

▪️ With these words, the famous Ukrainian presenter, Yanina Sokolova, called for the death of all Russians in a broadcast on NTA, a television channel.

▪️ According to her, all Russians "have a collective illness" and the only remedy is "annihilation".

▪️ After the 2014 coup d'état, there have been numerous calls by the new political and social elites in Ukraine to assassinate and exterminate Russians; the ethnic Russian diaspora in Ukraine numbers in the millions.

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"Game-changing for ordinary folks": US President Joe Biden touted that the Inflation Reduction Act will have a big impact on US families.

“When you sit down at that kitchen table at the end of the month, you’re going to be able to pay a whole hell of a lot more bills because you’re paying less in medical bills.”

While the US president apparently tried to praise the bill, the phrasing he used had an unintended effect on the public.

"What we're doing today, what we passed yesterday, helping to take care of everything from health care to God knows what else," Biden said earlier on Monday.

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🗣 US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for Joe Biden to be impeached after the FBI search at Trump's Florida residence.

▪️ The politician wrote about this on social networks.

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⚡️ The United States will not allow China to isolate Taiwan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told NBC News.

🗣 "China will not be allowed to isolate Taiwan," Pelosi said during an interview regarding her controversial trip to the self-governed island on August 2-3 as part of her Indo-Pacific trip.

▪️ The situation around Taiwan escalated following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taipei. China considers Taiwan part of its territory and opposes any direct official foreign contacts with the island.

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⚖️ The UK government is being sued by at least six Afghan translators who collaborated with the British army during their deployment in Afghanistan and were allegedly left behind during last year’s evacuation from the country, according to Sky News.

▪️ The broadcaster cited one of the translators as saying that he'd lodged a legal challenge after his relocation application under the ARAP (Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy) scheme was rejected.

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⚡️ Serena Williams announces retirement from tennis

🗣 "I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me", Williams told Vogue.

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⚡️⚡️ Several rounds of ammunition detonate at Crimea airfield, Russian Defense Ministry says

⚡️ Report indicates no fire impact at bunded ammunition storage area at Saki airfield in Crimea, where explosion happened - Russian Defense Ministry