🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian Foreign Intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin speaks out on relations with the West in an interview with Solovyov LIVE YouTube channel:

▪️The Russian intelligence is aware that the West is plotting provocations ahead of the September parliamentary elections in the country;

▪️The US allegations of Russia's meddling in the 2022 midterm elections are meant to justify a possible failure of the Democratic Party;

▪️The Foreign Intelligence Service knows a part of the truth about the alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny;

▪️President Biden's remark about President Putin's alleged problems was likely prepared by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, not by the US intelligence service;

▪️Cyber allegations against Russia are a part of the US quest for an external enemy.

Donald Trump says new 2020 election fraud evidence will be made public soon.

🗣 "There is massive and unconditional evidence that the election was shattered with fraud and irregularities at a level that our Country has never seen before. Much of it is already public, and a great deal more is coming out in the very near future," the former president said in a Sunday statement.

Are you excited?

🇮🇷🇮🇱 US, UK reportedly gave a "green light" to Israel to carry out a "response" to Iran for a Thursday attack against the Mercer Street tanker.

❗️A gasoline tanker truck exploded Sunday afternoon in Florida, killing the driver, according to Davie Fire Rescue.

🤔 A social distancing reflex?

🏀 A video shows the Lakers star LeBron James pushing an eager fan away from himself after the latter tried to approach him at an Usher concert.

👑 Royally served

After a debate over the payment method, for some reason, a Burger King employee pointed a gun at his three customers at the drive-thru window. The events took place in Detroit.

The customers quickly realised that the Whopper would be served today only with a taste of lead, so they quickly drove away and called the police. The worker, Dustin Rocheleau, 24, was later arrested.

🇺🇸🦠📱The White House has engaged an "influencer army" in its personality-driven campaign to promote COVID-19 immunization among youth as well as combat misinformation about the vaccines that has flooded the internet, The New York Times reports.

The US authorities invited over 50 Twitch streamers, TikTokers and YouTubers, as well as the 18-year-old pop star Olivia Rodrigo, with enormous audiences to encourage their fans to get the COVID-19 shot.

Have you ever seen so many migrants at once?

According to journalists, there are about 1,000 people in the video. It was possible to film what is happening under the bridge in the city of Mission, Texas only using a drone.

❗️The leadership of the Taliban "must be held accountable" for recent suspected war crimes in Kandahar province, the US Embassy in Kabul says.

🎥American investment firm Blackstone Group and real estate investment trust Hudson Pacific Properties plan to invest £700 million pounds ($972 million) to build an overseas branch of Hollywood's Sunset Studios in the UK.

The new project, which will be located in the southern city of Broxbourne, is expected to generate more than 4,500 permanent jobs and contribute more than £300 million annually to the local economy.

“The creative industries are at the heart of our plans to build back better. This will be a hub for both UK and international productions, showcasing home-grown talent on the global stage,” said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Reformed murderer wins office

Joel Caston, who is coming to the end of a 26-year sentence for a murder, is making history right now. He has won the race to become advisory neighborhood commissioner in Washington, DC, thus becoming the first inmate in the city to do so.

The 44-year-old who has spent his time behind bars taking all sorts of courses, starting a prison newspaper and teaching financial literacy, will represent his district in Ward 7, where he will monitor the Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter, luxury apartments, and a city jail – the one in which he is incarcerated.

‘Cancel your party, Mr. President’

English journalist Piers Morgan has criticised the former US President Barack Obama for planning to hold a massive birthday party as the Delta variant of COVID continues to spread in the country.

"It only takes one infected person to turn big events into super-spreaders. And we know the Delta variant is far more contagious than the original COVID. If one person at the party turns out to have it, then inevitably many more will catch it and take it back to their homes, families, friends, and communities," Morgan mused.

About 475 guests, including celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, and Steven Spielberg, are reportedly expected to attend, with about 200 staff handling the catering.

💉New York Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested private businesses should ask customers for proof of vaccination against coronavirus before being serving them.

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🇺🇸 A third police officer who responded to the Capitol riots in January has committed suicide, the DC Metropolitan Police told US media.
Gunther Hashida, who had served on the police force since 2003, was found dead by apparent suicide at his home on Thursday.
Two other officers had died by suicide in the months after the January 6 insurrection while one officer suffered strokes and died of natural causes the following day.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Second Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, told Sputnik that in the Arctic, the American and Russian navies have “adequate cooperation, but there’s areas we can cooperate more in which to be more respectful, but also for the greater good."

He added that the US “would welcome any opportunity to engage positively with our military counterparts."

✈️ Imagine you are flying in a Boeing 747, drinking champagne, thinking about your upcoming vacation in Los Angeles, when suddenly you notice a flying man in the window. No, this is not a superman or an iron man, but just a man in the air with a jetpack.

According to an FBI investigation, one air traffic alert warned, “Use caution, the jetpack guy is back”.

A new phobia has been activated.