The US and the UK had the lowest confidence in their governments’ leadership among G7 countries in 2022

Confidence in the US and UK governments has dropped since 2006, while the rest of the G7’s scores have risen in the same time period, a Gallup poll revealed.

Germany and Canada scored the highest government confidence ratings, with 61% and 51% confidence, respectively, the poll said.

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❗️🇮🇳 Modi wishes the best to the Iranian people and Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi 🇮🇷 as Iran is set to be formally accepted into the SCO

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🇮🇳 Indian PM Modi and 🇷🇺Russian President Putin meet 'screen to screen' during Tuesday’s SCO virtual summit

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Poland does not need additional NATO troops, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said

The Polish leadership regularly says Warsaw would like NATO to deploy as many of its troops as possible in the republic.

Berlin offered Warsaw three of its Patriot units after a Ukrainian missile fell in Poland and killed two people in November 2022.

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❗️LIVE NOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit

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❗️Vladimir Putin at the SCО summit:

▪️ Geopolitical contradictions are becoming more acute in the world, security is degrading

▪️ SCO is committed to establishing a just world order with the UN playing a central role

▪️ A hybrid war is being waged against Russia

▪️ Russia is confidently resisting and will continue to resist sanctions and restrictions, the Russian people are more consolidated than ever, Putin said

❗️ Putin: Russia supports Belarus joining the SCO expeditiously, as it is the nearest strategic ally of the Russian Federation.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 More than 80% of trade between Russia and China carried out in rubles and yuan, Vladimir Putin said

The Russian Federal Security Service apprehended a Ukrainian citizen in the Lugansk People's Republic, accused of espionage

Since October 2022, the individual in custody had been collecting and sharing information about the deployment and movement of LPR and Russian troops to help Ukrainian forces fight Russian service members participating in the ongoing military operation in Ukraine, the FSB added.

An investigation into this case has begun, the authorities also noted.

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Violations of the safe operation of the Zaporozhye nuclear plant were not recorded following its recent disconnection from the Dnepr power line by the Kiev regime

Radiation background levels have been reported as normal, the plant has said.

🗣 Jens Stoltenberg says he will remain as NATO secretary general for another year - until October 2024

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🇧🇾 Belarus stands for the integration of the SCO, the EAEU and the BRICS, Alexander Lukashenko said

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🇮🇷 Iran becomes a full member of the SCO

🇷🇺 🇮🇳 WATCH full speech of Vladimir Putin's at today's 🌐 #SCO summit, which concludes India's presidency in the grouping

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More than 1,000 shops were set on fire and looted during the riots in France, Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said

250 bank offices, 450 tobacco shops, 200 shopping centers and more than 1,000 stores were also attacked, according to the minister.

📹 For a long time, an ‘Anti-Russia’ was cobbled together near Russia’s borders from Ukraine pumped up with neo-Nazi ideology, in order to stifle the development of the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin said at the SCO summit

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❗️Key statements from the New Delhi declaration of the SCO Heads of State Council:

▪️Belarus signs Memorandum of Commitment in order to obtain status of SCO member state;

▪️Unilateral economic sanctions, except those adopted by UNSC, incompatible with international law, negatively affect int'l relations: SCO declaration;

▪️SCO countries confirm organization not directed against other states and international organizations;

▪️SCO countries exclude bloc, ideologized and confrontational approaches to solving international problems;

▪️SCO countries stress importance of destroying all declared stockpiles of chemical weapons as soon as possible;

▪️SCO advocates keeping outer space free of weapons.

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WATCH: Flag-raising ceremony at SCO headquarters after 🇮🇷 Iran officially becomes member of grouping

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Power supply of Zaporozhye nuclear plant through the main external line has been restored, the station is operating normally after its recent disconnection from the Dnepr power line by the Kiev regime