📈Spain, Romania, and Bulgaria are the only EU countries with increased gas purchases from Russia since Russia's special military operation in Ukraine began, with increased deliveries and payments most noticeable in Spain.

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💠Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are scheduled to visit the UK and Germany for three charity events next month. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to be visiting many charities close to their hearts in early September,” a spokesperson for the couple told reporters.

Since moving to California, Harry and Markle have only returned to London a few times. The Sussexes secretly visited Elizabeth II in April, stopping in the UK as they headed to the Netherlands for the Invictus Games. It was the first time the former American actress had returned to the UK since the so-called “Megxit”.

While the couple has rarely been seen in public in California, Harry and Markle were spotted out and about in New York in July. Harry and his wife attended the United Nations facility for the UN Nelson Mandela Prize in New York.

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🥇Japanese teenager Baba Saki has won the 122nd US Women's Amateur golf championship. The 17-year-old high school student on Sunday became the first Japanese player to win the noscript since Hattori Michiko in 1985. The tournament is regarded as one of the world's top championships for female amateur golfers.

Baba faced off against Canadian Monet Chun in the 36-hole match-play final at the Chambers Bay course in Washington state.

The Japanese teenager secured a 7-up lead after the first 18 holes. Chun narrowed the margin on the 20th and 21st holes, but Baba birdied the next three holes and sealed her victory on the 27th hole with an 11-up lead.

Baba said that she is so happy to be able to write her name alongside Hattori Michiko's.

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🔶Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's killing told a judge Monday that they have rejected plea deals that would have resulted in three-year sentences, setting the stage for a trial in October.

Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death. They and Thomas Lane were working with Derek Chauvin when he pinned Floyd's neck with his knee for more than nine minutes as the 46-year-old Black man said he couldn't breathe and eventually grew still.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill had a limited window for accepting a plea deal ahead of trial. Monday's brief hearing formalized the two ex-officers rejections of the state's offers.

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🔳The brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib turned himself into authorities Monday after police identified him as the suspect in the shooting death of a coach at a youth football game in Texas.

Police said that a murder warrant was issued for Yaqub Salik Talib, 39, in the fatal shooting on Saturday night of Michael Hickmon, 43, police in the Dallas-area city of Lancaster said.

According to witnesses, Talib pulled out a gun and shot Hickmon multiple times after a disagreement between the opposing coaching staff of two youth football teams over calls made by the officiating crew led to a physical fight, police said.

Police said they were still investigating the circumstances leading up to the shooting. Several people, including children, were present when Hickmon was killed, police said.

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WATCH: Footage of combat operations carried out by the Russian Uragan MLRS during the special operation in Ukraine

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🦈 A man had a fight with a shark on a Long Island beach in New York. Footage shows him pulling the shark by the tail while the animal tries to escape back into the water. Shark attacks have recently become more frequent, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul has urged residents to take precautions

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📹 A resident of Rubezhnoe believes that Ukrainian forces fired at houses containing civilians so that they could kill more people

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LIVE UPDATES | Five ships carrying agricultural products leave Ukrainian ports, Ankara says

⚡️ Ammo detonated in Crimea's Dzhankoy district on Tuesday morning, local authorities told Sputnik

⚡️⚡️ The detonation of ammo in Crimea's Dzhankoy district occurred as a result of a fire at the ammo storage site, the Russian MoD says

The migration crisis continues at the US border with Mexico, despite a slight fall in fleeing migrants. US Customs and Border Protection recorded about 200,000 migrants trying to cross the border in July, which is roughly 15,000 fewer than in July 2021

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⚡️ Gas prices in Europe have exceeded $2,450 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time since the beginning of March, growing by 6% - ICE

LIVE | Russia Hosts X Moscow Conference on International Security

⚡️⚡️ Putin: Collective West purposely destroying European security system, NATO moving East

⚡️ The West is trying to force independent states to obey their will, to live by someone else's rules in order to maintain dominance and parasitize, Putin says

⚡️ Putin said that Russia started a special operation in Ukraine in full compliance with the UN Charter

⚡️ US is trying to divert the attention of its citizens from acute problems, to shift the failures to Russia, China, who defend their point of view, Putin says

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu latest statement at Conference on International Security in Moscow:

▪️The global security system is radically changing, the unconditional dominance of US and its allies remains in the past;

▪️The security situation in Europe has become worse than at the height of the Cold war;

▪️A special military operation in Ukraine marked the end of the unipolar world

📹 A Ukrainian soldier who laid down his arms tells how Kiev doesn’t care about its servicemen

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⚡️ Speculation about Russia allegedly preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine is 'absolute lie', Shoigu says