🇬🇧 🇫🇷 UK and France are aiming to strike a deal that will help both countries coordinate their efforts to fight illegal migration. Agreement implies the creation of joint control center and an increase in the number of officers and volunteers operating on the English Channel beaches.

▪️ According to British media, about 40,000 migrants have already crossed the Channel this year. It is an almost 400% increase compared to 2020, when only about 8,000 people made the crossing to Britain from France. Migrants commonly enter the Shengen area via the Mediterranean coast and then head to the UK. The majority of migrants come from Albania (18%), Afghanistan (18%) and Iran (15%).

▪️ Britain is facing a wave of uncontrolled migration over The Channel and this flow is growing. This issue sparks political controversies, since one part of British society regards migrants with direct hostility and another one believes that it is moral duty of UK to help these people.

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing how SU-35S aircraft conduct air patrols as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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The US's going to impose new sanctions against a transnational procurement network engaged in the purchase of technology for the Russian military-industrial complex, according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. At the same time, Yellen said that ending the conflict in Ukraine is the best way to help the global economy.

🗣"This is part of our larger effort to disrupt Russia's war effort and deny equipment it needs through sanctions and export controls," Yellen told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

🗣"As I’ve said before, ending Russia’s war is a moral imperative. And it remains the single best thing we can do to help the global economy," Yellen said at a Sunday meeting with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, as quoted by the US Treasury Department

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😨 Netizens shared a really weird video of lights in the sky in Homestead, Florida. At the beginning it might have looked like shooting stars, but something went wrong when the lights began to separate and become immobile...

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📈 Britons will face a double financial blow: their annual electricity bills will increase by an average of £900 ($1,060) next year, and a council (property) tax hike is expected to be unveiled in the budget this week.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is ready to cut government subsidies and allow average annual bills to reach 3,000 pounds ($3,530) from April, British media reported, quoting Whitehall sources. The new level is £500 higher than the current £2,500 ($2940) energy price "guarantee" set by Liz Truss, which was originally supposed to be in effect for two years and is almost three times the average of £1,042 ($1,225) in April 2020

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⚡️Xi Jinping arrives in Bali to attend the G20 summit

Follow our LIVE UPDATES on how Ukrainian forces hit school in LPR with HIMARS

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⚡️Putin told Erdogan that Russia confirm its readiness for close cooperation with Turkish partners in the fight against all forms and manifestations of terrorism – Kremlin

⚡️Russia’s President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to President Erdogan in connection with the terrorist attack in Istanbul

⚡️Putin not planning yet talks with UN head before making decision on grain deal - Kremlin to Sputnik

❗️Istanbul police have launched a large-scale investigation into the terrorist attack on Istiklal Street, as a result of which 6 people were killed and 81 people were injured.

📹 Watch the footage of the operation to detain alleged organizers of the terrorist act

🇺🇬 Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni stated that the dismantlement of a wind farm in Germany to build a new coal mine instead reflects a reprehensible double standard

🗣 “It makes a mockery of Western commitments to climate targets,” the president tweeted, adding that such a decision is no surprise for Africans.

▪️The president underlined that Europe’s reinvesting in its fossil fuels is happening amid the West criticizing Africa for initiatives to develop conventional energy sources.

🗣 “This is the purest hypocrisy… If Africa was to increase electricity production just by using her known reserves of natural gas, the continent’s share of global emissions would rise from 3% to just 3.5% ,” Museveni pointed out

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⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman slams reports of Lavrov hospitalization as 'fake':

🗣"Here with Sergei Viktorovich [Lavrov] in Indonesia we are reading the news and we can’t believe our eyes: it turns out that he is hospitalized. This is, of course, top-class fake news," she said

▪️Previously, unconfirmed media reports suggested that the Russian diplomat was hospitalized after his arrival at the upcoming G20 summit.

⚡️⚡️⚡️Several news agencies shared information about 🇷🇺Russian FM Sergey Lavrov allegedly being taken to hospital after his arrival to Bali, which is fake news, according to Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik

⚡️Turkish Interior Minister rejects US condolences following Istanbul terrorist attack:

🗣"We have understood the message that they are trying to convey to us. Allies who seem like friends to us, who either hide all terrorists in their own countries, or give life to terrorists in the territories they occupy, in the territories they control, and send them money officially from their own senates. We do not accept the condolences of the American Embassy. We know from where and how the preparations for the terrorist attack were coordinated. We will deliver a very strong response to this attack"|

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🇷🇺Russian FM Sergey Lavrov appears to be well, preparing for tomorrow's G20 summit on the video posted by FM spokesperson Maria Zakharova, says he just spoke with Indonesian FM Retno Marsudi over the phone. The minister appears to be surprised by the news of himself being taken into hospital in Bali, says "this game is not new", wishes western journos to "stick to the truth", thanks Russians for support of the country's foreign policy. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik