📢Chileans rejected a proposal for a new constitution to replace the one adopted during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. With 98.43% of the votes processed, the new, left-leaning constitution was supported only by 38.10%, while 61.90% of Chilean citizens voted against the draft text. The constitution was drafted after political and social unrest swept Chile in 2019.

Unlike previous elections, the vote is mandatory for more than 15 million eligible voters. The dwindling support for the new law could at least partly be blamed on the prominence given to Chile's Indigenous population, which makes up almost 13% of the country's 19 million people. It offers them greater autonomy, particularly on judicial issues.

There are also concerns that it will legalize abortion in a country where half of the population is Roman Catholic. In addition, it puts the environment on center stage in a country that is the world's top copper producer.

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🇺🇸A great contrast: both Donald Trump and Joe Biden held rallies in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania this week, but one of them had several times more participants than the other.

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A rainy, but very good morning here in Vladivostok. I will be at the Eastern Economic Forum for the next 3 days, stay tuned!

🐯 Russian state corporation Rostec contributed a tiger sculpture made of Baltic amber for the 2nd Intl Tiger Forum, which is being held together with the main event.

#EEF2022

"I speak Russian a bit, but I speak Arabic even better": Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl spoke to journalists in Russian at the EEF

#EEF2022

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 A highlight from a Russia-China joint exercise within Vostok 2022 drills (footage by Russian MoD):

▪Combat ships have repelled mock enemy's aircraft attack using air defense artillery systems

▪Taking off and landing: shipborne helicopters have operated with carrier ships

▪Low-caliber artillery weapons have eliminated a simulated waterborne mine

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⚡️A "drop tower" attraction collapsed in an amusement park in Punjab’s Mohali.

A video showing the cabin with people falling to the ground and hitting the platform is making the rounds on social media. At least 16 were injured in the incident.

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⚡An explosion occured near the Russian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan - report

📹 Night launch: Russia's Iskander crews fire missiles at Ukrainian army infrastructure during special military operation (video by Russian MoD)

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🇬🇧 At 11:30 GMT, a new Prime Minister of Britain will be named: the results of the election of the leader of the ruling Conservative Party will be summed up.

▪According to the polls conducted over the past few weeks and betting data, Foreign Minister Liz Truss is likely to win in the race against former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak;

▪The UK press say that the new PM will face the biggest challenges in decades; one of them is inflation, while UK citizens are experiencing a rising cost of living and energy bills;

▪You can check the details on how the UK Prime Minister is being chosen in our explainer article

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📹 Russia's S-300 at Vostok 2022 exercises: the military personnel of the air defense units located in Russia's Buryatia region (in the south of Eastern Siberia) detected and destroyed air targets of a mock enemy at a distance of up to 150 kilometers (footage by Russian MoD)

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❗A Russian diplomat and a Russian embassy guard were injured in an explosion at the gates of the mission in Kabul, a source told Sputnik

⚡️⚡️ Two embassy staffers have been killed in the suicide bomber blast at the Russian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed.

🇬🇧 Journalists gather in Downing Street: the results of the election of the leader of the Conservative Party will be announced soon

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🫡 Boris Johnson has arrived at the place with a red suitcase

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