🇮🇳🌳India has exceeded all G20 nations on the Climate Performance Action index, according to a recent study by Observer Research Foundation

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‘Everyone is Getting Ready for War’: Vucic Says Serbia’s Arms Exports ‘Selling Like Hotcakes’

Vucic said recently that Serbian arms are in such high demand around the globe that the Balkan nation must consciously preserve some of its products for its own needs.

“Everyone needs ammunition. Everyone is buying everything, anything we can make gets sold,” Vucic said. “I don’t know how some of this stuff hasn’t ended up on the battlefields of Ukraine yet.”

“Ammunition is selling like hotcakes,” he added.

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📹 Russia's Grad multiple-launch rocket systems in combat as part of the special military operation (video by Russian MoD)

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🇨🇳 🇯🇵 Japan and China expressed their concerns over a number of security issues to each other on Wednesday as part of their first security dialogue since 2019, with a view to boosting mutual trust, Japanese media reported.

▪️ The meeting took place in Tokyo, at the level of foreign affairs and defense officials, according to reports.

▪️ During the talks, Japanese Senior Deputy Foreign Minister Shigeo Yamada expressed concern over Beijing's intensifying military activities in the East China Sea and collaboration with Russia, as well as Chinese "spy balloons," the report added.

▪️ Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, in turn, raised the issue of Japan's recently adopted security and defense documents, as well as warned against Tokyo's "negative moves" related to Taiwan" in collusion with power outside the region,", Japanese media reported.

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🇷🇺 🇨🇳 China and Russia remain strategically determined and committed to a multipolar world, Wang Yi, head of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

💬 “We will have an independent and autonomous foreign policy,” the two senior diplomats said.

▪️ Lavrov stressed the close cooperation between Russia and China, despite the turmoil on the world stage.

▪️ He added that he hopes that new agreements will emerge as a result of today's talks.

▪️ The Chinese official's visit comes as Moscow and Beijing have increased bilateral economic, trade and diplomatic cooperation, in a bid to overcome sanctions and to create more balanced, multi-polar world.

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⚡️ Putin, China's Wang Yi to meet on Wednesday - Kremlin

We Need to Go Deeper: Earth Has One More Layer, And It's Leviathan Iron Core, Study Says

Our planet Earth has five major layers instead of four, a major new study has claimed. There is a ball of iron possibly 400 miles (644 kilometers) wide, lodged deep within Earth’s metallic core, according to the latest research, carried out by scientists in Australia.

In plain terms, Earth is rather like an onion, with multiple layers, which huge strides in seismology have allowed scientists to analyze. If we begin at the exterior, these layers are: the crust (where we live), the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. Each of the layers has its specific properties, composition, and characteristics, with the latter affecting key processes taking place on Earth. There had been speculation regarding the existence of an additional layer as far back as 20 years ago, which the new study by the geoscientists claims to have confirmed.

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Bad Omens: Drought Alert Looms Over Italy as Venice Canals Run Dry

Gondolas, water taxis and ambulances are standing idle, tied up along some of Venice’s iconic canals because of severe low tide, with scientists sending out dire warnings.

We have all become accustomed to the sight of Italy’s famous tourist venue, the city of Venice, inundated, with visitors trudging through flooded St. Mark's square in wellies. But now there are worries that last July's drought - the worst in decades that prompted the government to declare a state of emergency in the north of Italy - will be repeated this summer.

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❗️Russia to keep complying with New START caps on number of nuclear carriers, exchange of information will continue - MoD

❗️LIVE NOW: Vladimir Putin meets China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Moscow
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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Army continues its successful offensive in the Donetsk direction;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Krasny Liman direction amounted to more than 135 servicemen;

▪️Russian troops eliminated over 40 servicemen in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Donetsk direction amounted to 250 people killed and wounded;

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed nine HIMARS rockets and 10 UAVs;

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot in the DPR;

▪️Russian troops eliminated up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen in the South Donetsk direction.

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⚡️ US Embassy in London reportedly evacuated, building cordoned off

📹 ▶️ First footage of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Chinese diplomacy Wang Yi

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❗️Key points of Russian President Putin’s speech during meeting with China's top diplomat Wang Yi:

▪️Cooperation between Russia and China is very important for stabilizing the international situation;

▪️Russian-Chinese relations are developing as planned, reaching new milestones;

▪️Trade turnover between Russia and China will reach $200 billion by 2024;

▪️President Putin conveys best wishes to Xi Jinping, says Russia looking forward to Chinese president's visit to Russia.

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❗️Moscow has provided security guarantees for Biden's visit to Kiev, otherwise it would not have taken place, says Russian diplomat

🗣️“Putin's suspending a Russian participation in the last remaining arms control treaty between our two nations. And anybody who doesn't understand how serious this is probably doesn't appreciate life”, Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector speaking about the New START suspension

💬”We need to pray that the United States gets over its Ukraine fixation and gets into “How do we stop the world from dying in a nuclear holocaust to which we will be singularly responsible for initiating”, he added.

🎧Listen to more of Ritter’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour: Russia Suspends START Cooperation; Anti-War Rally in DC; China's Push for Peace