🇳🇦🏜 Mystery behind Namibia's 'fairy circles' unraveled

▪️The Namib Desert grasslands are covered with millions of weird circles ranging in size from 2 to 10 meters with no grass or any other vegetation on them.

▪️For nearly half a century, scientists have been puzzled over the origins of these Namibian "fairy circles."

▪️There were originally two major theories about the appearance of these mysterious spots. One theory claimed that the circles were caused by termites, while another suggested that grasses self-organized to maximize water availability.

▪️A new study has revealed that the circles were caused by plant water stress, rather than termites.

▪️“By forming strongly patterned landscapes… the grasses… benefit directly from the water resource provided by the vegetation gaps… [as they have] no other chance to survive,” one of the researchers explained.

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⚡️Kiev, London sabotaged Grain Deal to add food crisis to nuclear blackmail, Moscow says

🤬 Netizens have reacted angrily to UK media reports that former British Prime Minister Liz Truss's personal cell phone “was hacked by agents suspected of working for the Kremlin”.

▪️ Social media users also unanimously berated the shortest-serving British PM for reportedly using a personal mobile for workrelated purposes.

▪️ The British government has yet to confirm the reports, which in particular claimed that the purported hack was detected during the Tory leadership campaign this summer, and that the details were suppressed by then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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📢Bolsonaro and Lula supporters sing in polarized elections in Portugal

Voters of Bolsonaro and Lula sang verses in support of their candidates at one of the polling stations in the city of Porto, in Portugal.

The episode is one of many that demonstrate the polarization of voters.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 250 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian tank, six infantry combat vehicles, four armored carriers and eight vehicles in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian tank, two infantry combat vehicles and one Ukrainian armored carrier in the LPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed Ukrainian tanks, three armored combat vehicles and six pick-up trucks and captured one Ukrainian tank in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 180 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed eleven Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and 21 other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces hit 68 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated a MARS -2 multiple rocket launcher system and a warehouse depot with rocket and artillery weapons in the Nikolayev region, as well as destroyed an AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed ten Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 32 HIMARS rockets, one Olkha rocket and six HARM rockets.

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❗️An unknown man threw several Molotov cocktails into the building of the British Border Service office in Dover, England, and then he committed suicide - Report

🇸🇩 🇺🇳 👊 Thousands of Sudanese protest "foreign interference"

▪️ About three thousand people have taken to the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to protest UN mediation efforts between civilian and military rulers.

▪️ The rally occurred in front of the headquarters of the UN mission in Sudan. The crowd reportedly set photos of UN envoy Volker Perthes on fire.

▪️ The demonstrators described the UN-led efforts as "foreign interference" and claimed that the UN envoy "defiled" the country.

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❗️Key points from Russia's MoD on the terrorist attack in the Black Sea:

▪️The results of the examination of marine drones involved in the attack on Sevastopol showed that they were launched from the Odessa region;

▪️Specialists arrived from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after the attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet; they conducted an examination of Canadian–made navigation modules installed on marine UAVs;

▪️After the attack on the ships of the Black Sea fleet and civilian vessels was repelled, the wreckage of the used marine drones was raised to the surface;

▪️The coordinates of the movement of one of the marine drones indicate the starting point in the water area of the security zone of the "grain corridor" in the Black Sea;

▪️During the attack on the Black Sea Fleet, the UAVs moved through the security zone of the "grain corridor", then changed course and went to the ships' base in Sevastopol;

▪️One of the drones involved in the attack on Sevastopol could have been launched from a ship chartered by Kiev for the export of agricultural products.

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📹Video allegedly showing the aftermath of the explosion at Dover migrant center in the UK after an unknown man threw Molotov cocktails at it

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⚡️Ankara continues negotiations on the situation with the grain deal, raises the issue of the need to continue the process, the Turkish Defense Ministry says

In addition, the Ministry reports that Russian staff is still at the grain coordination center in Istanbul

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