💎🇿🇼Companies mining highly valued minerals in Zimbabwe, such as gold, diamonds, lithium and the platinum group of metals (PGM), will have to pay half their royalties in refined mineral produce to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ).

According to Zimbabwe's president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the policy, which comes into effect this October, will allow Zimbabwe to build up a national reserve of precious minerals to “augment the country’s credit-worthiness” and help “circumvent and fend off funding limitations caused by illegal sanctions imposed on the country”.

💰The plan to accumulate physical reserves of precious and strategic minerals will also boost the collection of cash revenues for the daily running of state affairs, Mnangagwa wrote in his weekly column for The Sunday Mail.

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🇮🇱The Israeli soldier killed yesterday in the shooting at the Shuafat checkpoint has been identified as Noa Lazar, the Israeli Defense Forces said.

A member of the Military Police’s Erez battalion, Lazar was 18 years old. After her death, she was promoted to the sergeant rank, the IDF said.

Lazar, as well as a civilian guard, were hit in a shooting attack at a checkpoint near the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on Saturday night. She was proclaimed dead in the hospital. Prime Minister Yair Lapid, along with President Isaac Herzog, expressed condolences over Lazar's death and vowed to apprehend the gunman.

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🤔Former US President Donald Trump said that "immediate negotiation of a peaceful end" to the conflict in Ukraine is needed, or else "we will end up in World War Three".

"And there will be nothing left of our planet - all because stupid people didn't have a clue... They don't understand [...] the power of nuclear."

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Amber Heard used the name of a famous Wild West frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary, aka ‘Calamity Jane,’ to rent a luxury Mallorca villa, according to El Mundo.

After losing her widely-publicized defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp, the “Aquaman” actress has been keeping out of the public eye, vacationing with her friend Bianca Butti and daughter Oona Paige.

The multimillion-dollar villa in the municipality of Costitx is said to belong to disgraced politician Maria Antònia Munar, who recently did a sting in jail on corruption charges. It is not clear how Heard is paying for the accommodations, as she reportedly owes her legal team $15 million - more than she does to her ex-husband.

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🐦 WATCH: A video showing a small adorable bird building a nest for her future chicks is circulating on social media.

Netizens were amused by this accelerated version of building a nest and called the bird
"a hard-working mommy".

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of the hidden gaseous "bone" structure of a distant galaxy.

The galaxy, named IC 5332, is more than 29 million light-years away and is almost face-on with respect to Earth which means that its spiral arms can be seen clearly.

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❗️OPEC+'s responsible position balances lawlessness caused by US in global energy market: Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:

▪️The US has begun to lose self-control due to the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production

▪️The EU pays big money to the US for gas, depriving its economy of competitiveness

▪️The situation of energy resources for Europe in the coming 10-20 years will be sad

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Putin will hold a meeting with members of the Security Council on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik

Russian MoD briefing:

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, all enemy attacks were repelled. More than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, and nine armored fighting vehicles were destroyed;

▪️In the Kharkov region, Russian troops destroyed about 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, and three armored vehicles;

▪️In the Krasniy Liman direction, 17 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks with heavy machine guns, and one car were destroyed;

▪️More than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, seven armored fighting vehicles, and 11 vehicles were destroyed in the Lugansk direction;

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, all attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled by Russian troops, and about 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, five armored combat vehicles, and six vehicles were destroyed

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▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces struck at temporary deployment points of units of Foreign Legion mercenaries on the island of Khortitsa and the Bars special forces brigade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine near the city of Zaporozhye;

▪️Ukrainian forces lost more than 80 servicemen, two tanks, 22 armored combat vehicles, and seven infantry fighting vehicles in the Kherson region. A Polish Krab self-propelled artillery mount, two American M777 howitzers, and four vehicles were destroyed;

▪️Attacks by two Ukrainian motorized infantry companies were repelled in the Andreevka direction. Up to 90 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, 12 armored fighting vehicles, and three other vehicles were destroyed;

▪️In the Nikolaev region, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed an ammunition depot of the 61st Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which stored more than two hundred missiles for US HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, as well as Uragan MLRS;

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces fighter aircraft shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 jet and Mi-24 attack helicopter;

▪️Air defense systems destroyed six UAVs during the previous day, including one Bayraktar-TB2

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⚡️🇵🇰 A massive fire breaks out in the Centaurus Mall in Islamabad, Indian media said. Further details are awaited.

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"Two floors were completely demolished": Kherson residents recall how their house burned down after Ukrainian shelling with HIMARS rockets

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🇵🇰 A new video of a fire in a mall in Islamabad has emerged online

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The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces wears a bracelet with what appears to be a swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany.

Twitter users noticed the symbol on a photo that Valery Zalyuzhny posted on his page.

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🇺🇸 The way out of the current situation in Ukraine has to be found through peace negotiations, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said.

💬 "What needs to happen is for the two sides to be able to sit down and negotiate and find a way out of this peacefully and diplomatically," the official told ABC News.

At the same time, the Ukrainian side has either refused or disrupted negotiations, despite Russia’s proposals to hold talks.

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⚡️Ukrainian special services ordered, concocted and carried out attack on Crimean Bridge: Putin

▪️Putin: the Crimean bridge explosion was a terrorist attack aimed at destroying the critical infrastructure of Russia

▪️A terrorism case has been opened on the explosion on the Crimean bridge, head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Bastrykin told Putin

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🇷🇺 A resident of Donbass shared her thoughts on the region joining Russia

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Video of a meeting between Russian President Putin and head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Bastrykin regarding the terror attack on the Crimean bridge

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