📹🔥Footage showing how fireballs lit the streets of the town of Nejapa during the annual fireball festival. In the time of the festival participants pelt each other with rags drenched in gasoline that had been rolled into tight flaming balls.

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❗Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev discussed the situation in the South Caucasus in a phone call, Kremlin says.

▪️Both presidents stressed the importance of coordinated efforts to ensure stability and security on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border;

▪️President Aliyev informed Putin about his meeting with Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan and the president of the EU Council Charles Michel.

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📹 “It was the Russians who saved us”: A Ukrainian soldier who laid down his arms contacts his relatives and describes how he’d been abandoned by his command.

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😧 The UK’s soaring energy bills may result in the closure of at least 60% of all factories in the country, a new survey has revealed.

▪️ The report conducted by the lobby group MakeUK said that “the current crisis is leaving businesses facing a stark choice - cut production or shut up shop altogether if help does not come soon.”

▪️ The survey added that 13% of factories now have reduced hours of operation or are avoiding peak periods, while 7% are halting production for longer stretches.

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❗Russia’s MoD briefing:

▪️Russian Air Forces destroyed two Ukrainian Su-25 assault fighters in the Kherson region, as well as a Ukrainian MiG-29 assault fighter converted for launching HARM anti-radar missiles nearby, in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️The Ukrainian Army has lost 23 tanks, 27 infantry combat vehicles, 14 other kinds of armored combat vehicles, 9 pick-ups with large-caliber machine guns and over 230 servicemen, as a result of its unsuccessful attempts to consolidate in several areas towards Nikolayev and Krivoy Rog;

▪️Russian Air Forces neutralized the provisional base of a Ukrainian company tactical force from the 95th Air Assault Brigade in the DPR. As a result, more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 14 armored and motor vehicles have been eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces performed concentrated fire attacks, neutralizing the provisional bases of units from the Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized Brigade in the DPR. Up to 120 Ukrainian troops and 11 Ukrainian vehicles have been eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces hit 53 Ukrainian artillery units, as well as 157 areas where Ukrainian Army manpower and military equipment are concentrated;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed 6 Ukrainian munitions depots in the Nikolayev region, Zaporozhye region, Kharkov region and in the DPR, as well as destroyed 1 Ukrainian fuel depot near Kramatorsk;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian launching ramp for a US-manufactured HIMARS multiple-rocket launcher with ammunition resupply vehicle, as well as eliminated up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen in the DPR;

▪️Russian anti-aircraft means have shot down three Ukrainian UAVs, as well as destroyed 3 Tochka-U tactical missiles and 60 projectiles from multiple-rocket launchers;

▪️Russian Air Forces eliminated 20 Ukrainian cutters and boats;

▪️The unsuccessful provocation of Ukrainian Neo-nazis near in the Zaporozhye region has resulted in the elimination of 47 militants, including 10 foreign mercenaries, as well as wounding 23.

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👏 A 14-year old boy has cracked four levels of an encrypted coin in just over an hour, a feat so impressive a top Australian cybersecurity agency is now looking to recruit him. 

▪️ The teenager decrypted multiple layers of code imprinted on a commemorative 50-cent coin released by Australia's foreign intelligence cybersecurity agency on Thursday.

▪️ Australian Signals Directorate director-general Rachel Noble reportedly said in a speech at the Lowy Institute on Friday that she was hoping to meet and possibly recruit the boy 'soon’.

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⚡US to move unfinished bio-weapons programs from Ukraine to Eastern European states, the Russian Ministry of Defense says.

Russia to present next week in Geneva documented evidence of violations by US, Ukraine of convention on bioweapons, the Russian Ministry of Defense says.

There is evidence of tissue samples, dangerous pathogens transfer from Ukraine abroad, it poses threat to those regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense says.

📹 Footage showing a graduate of a school in Severodonetsk recalling how students had been summoned to the director for speaking in Russian.

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⚡Moscow has evidence Kiev requested Turkey's bayraktar manufacturer equip UAVs with aerosol spray systems carrying over 20 liters, the Russian Ministry of Defense says.

📹 A resident of Severodonetsk recalls how she survived when the Ukrainian authorities turned off the electricity, water and gas.

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⚡Police in Mississippi say pilot threatening to crash plane into a local Walmart; store evacuated

⚡Mississipi Police: Pilot threatening to crash plane into local Walmart in Tupelo, store evacuated

📹🚁Footage showing a firefighting helicopter crashing in Portugal

▪️According to the preliminary findings of the investigators, the main cause of the accident was the fact that the extinguishing machine hit a power line.

▪️Portuguese Civil Defense reported that the helicopter pilot survived, but his condition is severe.

❗Zimbabwe banned government ministries and local authorities from charging fees and levies in US dollars, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Finance says.

“Treasury notes with concern that some government agencies, as well as local authorities are now advertising in the media prescribing payment for some services exclusively in foreign currency,” George Guvamatanga, the finance secretary, said.

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French prosecutors opened a judicial investigation after Paul Pogba said he was the target of extortion and threats from an organized gang.

Following a preliminary investigation last month, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau says the judicial investigation will examine allegations against as yet unknown person including "blackmail by an armed gang, kidnapping and membership of a criminal conspiracy".

Earlier, Pogba's brother Mathias posted videos online promising to publish "great revelations" about the player.

Family matter?

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❗🚀 NASA's 2nd attempt at launching moon rocket was ruined by fuel leak

▪️New moon rocket from NASA suffered another dangerous fuel leak, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies.

▪️Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team did they best to stop the leak: stopping and restarting the flow of super-cold liquid hydrogen in hopes of removing the gap around a seal in the supply line. They tried that twice, in fact, and also flushed helium through the line. But the leak persisted.

▪️After four hours of futile effort, launch director Blackwell-Thompson finally halted the countdown.

▪️The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA.

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⚡️Plane that threatened to crash into Mississippi Walmart "is down", governor says.

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