🇫🇷 30% of the 2,400 participants detained in the disorder in France are underage

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🇬🇧 Discriminated against for being normal

Center for Global Development researcher Maya Forstater was let go from her job in 2018 after tweeting that "male people are not women" and that "a man’s internal feeling that he is a woman has no basis in material reality." In a ruling by the UK Employment Tribunal this week, she won £106,404 ($135,200) in compensation from her former employer for lost earnings and emotional distress.

Forstater said the ruling in her favor has provided her a measure of "closure and vindication," and that her case had exposed "routine abuse and smearing of, people with perfectly ordinary believes about the material reality of sex."

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🗣️ On duplicitous policy of the US towards China:

“In Secretary of State Blinken's recent visit in his conversations with Wang Yi, Chen Gang, and President Xi Jinping, he again verbally reiterated this idea that 'Oh, we want to get the relationship back on track…' And then they turn around and they say one thing, and then they do quite the opposite. President Biden called Xi Jinping a dictator and they announce these further impositions of restrictions,” Dr. Kenneth Hammond, writer and professor of East Asian and global history, told Sputnik.

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CIA wants to use conflict in Ukraine to recruit agents in Russia

"That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at CIA - at our core a human intelligence service. We're not letting it go to waste," CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday.

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Army aviation in action (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

The crews of Mi-35 multipurpose attack helicopters, accompanied by fire support groups on an Mi-8, head towards their combat mission.

The Mi-8 is carrying gunners, machine gunners, and a medic. In the event of an emergency, the soldiers will have to provide fire cover for the Mi-35 crews and evacuate them.

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🗣️ On the core of ‘Bidenomics’

“We can put Bidenomics with the guy who's cutting down the trees… I mean, we're in a recession now, whether anybody wants to admit to it or not. Prices are going through the roof. Inflation is nowhere near being under control”, Todd Bubba Horwitz, Chief Market Strategist of BubbaTrading.com, told Sputnik.

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🇪🇹🇷🇺 'High Time' for Russians to Work on Economic Issues in Africa: Ethiopian Ambassador

Sputnik Africa sat down with Uriat Cham Ugala, ambassador of Ethiopia to Russia to explore Russia's engagement with the East African country, the challenges facing the African continent, and the emerging new world order

💬 "You see, the world now is changing, right? And because of the sanctions imposed on Russia, because of the war in Ukraine. Russia now is looking forward to work with Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans. So I think it is the high time now for Russians to come to Africa and work on economic issues," Cham Ugala stressed

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Ukraine orders monks to leave Kiev-Pechersk Lavra by July 4

The Ukrainian Culture Ministry has created a commission for sealing off the premises of one of the most prominent Orthodox monasteries, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, urging the monks of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to vacate the compound before July 4, allegedly for violating lease terms, the clerics' legal adviser Nikita Chekman said on Saturday.

Earlier, Ukraine’s culture minister said the monks could stay if they join the non-canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine; the monks have said the eviction is illegal without a court decision.

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Astronomical intrigue: NASA's Webb telescope reveals Saturn's new look

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has revealed Saturn’s awe-inspiring realm of dark elegance - an unusual dark silhouette, dramatically offset by its brilliantly luminescent icy rings - in a photo.

This phenomenon presents Saturn as a dark sphere in the boundless universe, while the planet's icy rings shine magnificently. At the same time, the image also captured three of Saturn's numerous moons, further adding to its celestial charm.

Scientists anticipate discovering new ring structures and possibly faint moons hidden in Saturn's vicinity.

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🇫🇷Macron postpones visit to Germany amid unrest in France

French President Emmanuel Macron has informed German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier that he will not be able to visit Berlin as scheduled next week due to unrest continuing in France, the German Presidency said on Saturday.

The visit will be rescheduled as soon as possible, the German president's office added.

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🇦🇫🇺🇸 State Department review blames Biden for Afghan withdrawal debacle

The report indicated that the Biden administration’s nod on accelerating the evacuation of Afghans who had assisted US and NATO forces over the course of the 20-year occupation of the country helped trigger a domino effect which ultimately led to the Western-backed government’s disintegration.

The accelerated withdrawal of US troops which began in April 2021, after Biden gave the go-ahead to proceed with Trump’s promised exit, had "serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security," the report said, noting that "during both administrations there was insufficient senior-level consideration of worst-case scenarios and how quickly those might follow."

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Russian forces destroy Starlink communication station near Artemovsk

The Russian Defense Ministry told Sputnik that Russian troops have repelled an attack by a Ukrainian assault group near the village of Berkhovka in the Artemovsk area.

Russian artillery also destroyed a Ukrainian control center for unmanned aerial vehicles together with a Leleka-100 drone, a communication center and a pickup truck with an infantry group.

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Ukraine preparing for second stage of counteroffensive in Zaporozhye region

Ukrainian forces are currently trying to confuse Russian intelligence and hide their presence, so along the entire line of contact on the Zaporozhye front, they are constantly maneuvering and transferring troops, a senior official of the regional administration told Sputnik.

The official added the Ukrainian troops have conducted the maximum number of attempts at reconnaissance in combat, offensive options, breakthroughs, studying our reaction and interaction of units, plus regular shelling of our rear in order to hit infrastructure facilities.

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🇺🇸 Biden’s actions and policies push the world to the brink of a nuclear war, Tulsi Gabbard says

💬 “To protect our loved ones, to protect our children, to protect our world, we have to - regardless of our political party - stand up to these cowardly, war-mongering politicians who exist in both parties now,” the former congresswoman and Iraq War veteran emphasized.

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🇫🇷📹 Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of the southern Paris suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses, said that there was an assassination attempt on his family.

Jeanbrun said that his wife and one of his children were injured while fleeing from unknown assailants, who rammed his house with a car and then torched the vehicle.

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🇨🇴 Two military aircraft collide while training in Colombia

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🇸🇩🇷🇺 Sudan Supports UN Reform, Highlights Russia's Role: Senior Sudanese Official

Russia is spearheading UN reform, a process to forge an "inclusive" institution that Sudan backs, Malik Agar, deputy chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, told Sputnik Africa in an exclusive interview

💬 "Russia was leading the reformation of the UN," Agar said. "And I believe most of the countries [...] support the expansion of the UN and reform of the UN."

Currently, as the senior official noted, the inclusion of some regions in the work of the UN Security Council "is not visible."

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🇫🇷 Protests in France ignite two other European countries

🇨🇭Swiss police have detained seven people, including six minors, during riots in the city of Lausanne after more than 100 rioters attacked shops and police officers, according to local media. The unrest was sparked by calls on social media to take to the streets as protests continue in neighboring France.

🇧🇪 In Belgium's capital Brussels, protests began on 30 June and proceeded quite peacefully, with police monitoring suspicious activity on the streets. Belgian protesters reportedly named social media as the reason for taking to the streets “like in France".

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