⚡️ Moscow hopes the US understands that if Congress declares Russia a "sponsor of terrorism," then they can forget about relations between the two countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

⚡🇺🇸Man drives car into barricade near US Capitol, opens fire before killing himself

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🇺🇸🤨 Kamala Harris tests the laws of logic: "Equity as a concept says recognize that everyone has the same capacity, but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that capacity, well, we must pay attention to this issue of equity."

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📹 When choosing a location for a hospital, Ukrainian soldiers for some reason preferred the apartment of a man from Gorskoye, LPR. The man was told to leave and had to live at his mother’s flat and hide in basements.

After the liberation of the LPR, he was able to return to his apartment and found boxes with American food and medicine

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❗2 dead after explosion in Yerevan - Ministry of Health

Dog catches monkeypox after sharing bed with a Parisian gay couple

▪“Two men who have sex with men,” one aged 44 and the other aged 27, discovered monkeypox symptoms in themselves. They are “non-exclusive partners,” with one of them being HIV-positive, researchers at Sorbonne University in Paris report;

▪12 days after the couple discovered the symptoms, their four-year-old male Italian greyhound also tested positive for the virus. It turned out that the dog had been sleeping in the same bed with the men;

▪According to the researchers, this is the first registered case of transmission of the disease from a human to a pet

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📹 “West can end fighting in Ukraine tomorrow if the US and weapon manufacturers wanted it,” Pink Floyd's Roger Waters says in an interview with RT.

...but NATO and Joe Biden will fight till the last Ukrainian, he underlines.

Ukraine's President Zelensky promised to adhere to the Minsk agreements and stop the civil war in Ukraine, which has been going on since 2014 after the illegal coup d'etat, Waters says.

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📹 "They want to rule the world," Roger Waters says regarding American foreign policy. He also commented on Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, touching on the topic of national self-determination.

Waters further said that his interview with CNN was heavily edited and thus it didn't represent his "real views."

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🇦🇫 "I was the last to leave": The former Afghan president has explained why he fled the country despite promises not to do so. Ashraf Ghani said he didn't want to "give the Taliban* the pleasure of humiliating another Afghan president."

*The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

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❗️Ukraine’s president said in a statement that the Ukrainian Army will target Russian troops at the Zaporozhye nuclear plant

The Ukrainian Army has shelled the Zaporozhye nuclear plant several times, with Russia calling it an “act of nuclear terrorism.” Foreign journalists also slammed Kiev's strikes at the NPP, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has previously warned that any attack on a nuclear plant is "suicidal."

🌊Over 72,000 people were evacuated due to typhoons in Shizuoka, Japan. The prefecture of the Japanese city of Shizuoka, located in the center-south of that country, ordered the evacuation this Sunday due to typhoon Meari.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (AMJ) reported that the tropical storm passed through that territory at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 72 kilometers, causing heavy rainfall and intense waves.

Likewise, the authorities have been notified of landslides in areas of the Izu peninsula, very close to Tokyo (capital), which have left houses surrounded by mud, and five others isolated.

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▪️A bipartisan group of five US congressional lawmakers is in Taiwan. The trip comes less than two weeks after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan prompted China to react sharply.

The delegation, led by Senator Ed Markey, arrived in Taiwan by plane on Sunday. Taiwan's foreign ministry says the legislators will meet President Tsai Ing-wen and other figures to discuss security, the economy, and trade during their two-day stay.

The ministry said that the visit highlights Washington's strong support for Taiwan and demonstrates a friendship that is not afraid of China's threats. Pelosi visited Taiwan on August 2 and 3, becoming the first incumbent US House speaker to travel there in 25 years.

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