📹 “They leave their positions, refusing to fight”: A captured Ukrainian soldier speaks out about the mood of his comrades.

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⚡️ Top Taliban* ideologue Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani reportedly killed in a suicide attack in Kabul

* The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

📹 A video allegedly showing the aftermath of the attack.

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📌 Check out OPEC's latest information:

▪️ OPEC has slightly upgraded its forecast for oil production for 2022 outside the organization by 65,000 barrels per day and expects it to be 65.8 million barrels per day.

▪️ OPEC has downgraded its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2022 by 300,000 barrels per day to 3.1 million barrels per day.

▪️ The commercial oil storks in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rose by 20.9 million barrels in June month-on-month, and were below the 5-year average by 261 million barrels.

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❗The Ukrainian Army has again fired at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. No casualties were reported, a member of the main council of the regional administration said, also publishing a video.

👮 A police officer who watched and laughed as her male colleague broke an elderly woman's arm and dislocated her shoulder, has been jailed.

▪️ Daria Jalali was sentenced to 45 days in jail followed by three years of probation for a case the presiding judge described as “incomprehensible.”

▪️ The 28-year-old officer was using a body-worn camera and the judge watched the 12 minute footage showing how Karen Garner, who had dementia, was treated during the arrest in 2020.

▪️ Policeman Austin Hopp twisted the arm of Mrs Garner and pushed her to the floor as she picked flowers, after she had left a Walmart store without paying for goods valued at $14 - equivalent to around £10.

▪️ The case in the city of Loveland, Colorado in the USA saw officer Hopp sentenced to five years in prison in May after pleading guilty to second-degree assault.

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❗️Kiev is trying to strike concrete storage facilities at the Zaporozhye NPP, where thousands of tons of radioactive waste are stored, the head of the regional administration says.

Indian Ambassador to Russia Shri Pavan Kapoor personally attended India Day opening ceremony in Moscow.

🇹🇷 🇸🇪 Sweden has decided to extradite a Turkish citizen convicted of fraud in Turkey in 2013 and 2016 for the first time after signing off a deal with Ankara on NATO membership, according to the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

The Swedish Ministry of Justice did not specify whether the individual involved was included on the list of persons whose extradition was demanded by Turkey.

❌🇷🇺 A UK research institute has apologized to a Russian scientist who was told that her application to study was rejected because of her nationality. She has now been offered a place.

The Beatson Institute reportedly sent a rejection message to the applicant, saying that "very recently the Beatson has established a new policy upon which I am unable to appoint you because you are Russian... really hope that you can find a place to do your PhD!”

Commenting on the criticism that the rejection caused, Director Owen Sansom said in a statement: “Applications are considered on a case-by-case basis and offers are always reviewed against external checks, such as visa requirements or UK government sanctions. In this case, there was an initial misunderstanding of these restrictions, which has been addressed.”

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🇬🇧 What's behind the medicine shortage in the UK?

Dr. Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer at The University of Exeter's Medical School, told Sputnik that the recent shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and some other drugs was because of the UK leaving the European Union.

"Trade between the European Union and the United Kingdom is affected and it is affecting supplies of essential radioisotopes as well as antibiotics and cancer treatments, as well as other medicines," Pankhania said, "This is a consequence of Brexit."

The senior medic blamed the government for refusing to address the big issue, which is UK trade with EU, and warned that the lack of HRT could affect patients "across the board" in the National Health Service.

🔻However, the Daily Express offered a different explanation, reporting that the lack of HRT since April this year is caused by a shortage of material imported from the Far East.

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❗️ The UN says it will stand against discrimination regarding Estonia's PM’s call to deny Russians visas.