🇿🇼 BRICS Offers 'Promising Ideology' for African Nations: Zimbabwe's Information Minister

One of the main reasons for the interest of developing countries in joining the BRICS group lies in the policies it pursues with mutual respect among the members, openness and transparency in trade and other areas, said Monica Mutsvangwa, Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting of Zimbabwe in an exclusive interview with Sputnik Africa.

💬 "So clearly, collaboration among the countries that make up BRICS will really create a balanced global order," she explained.

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⚡️ On the night of July 5, Kiev plans to attack the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant using high-precision weapons and kamikaze drones, an adviser to the head of Russian nuclear company Rosenergoatom said

🗣️ On the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine:

“Look at the history of the Biden administration's actions, well, their entire modus operandi has been endless escalation. It's been to send the weapons that they weren't going to send before. It's been to encourage attacks within Russia proper that they used to not before,” Bryce Greene, contributor to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Greene’s analysis in our podcast By Any Means Necessary

🎙 Check out the latest #AfroVerdict episode featuring Zimbabwe's information minister to hear what she has to say on the "illegal" western sanctions, cooperation with Russia, the grain deal, and technological exchange.

China to restrict export of semiconductor manufacturing metals

China's Ministry of Commerce will impose export restrictions on gallium and germanium, along with products containing them, starting from August 1. These elements play a crucial role in semiconductor manufacturing and have applications in defense. Companies wishing to export these materials must obtain appropriate licenses by applying to the Ministry of Commerce, subject to review by relevant departments.

The move is seen as a potential response to US efforts to control microchip exports to China. China is currently the dominant global producer of gallium and germanium.

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Czech Republic may lose 1mln tonnes of harvested grain in 2023

"This year, farmers will not have free space for a part of the harvest. Our estimates stand at about almost a million tonnes of grain. There are about two million more tonnes in storage facilities from last year's harvest that had not been sold," a representative of the Czech Agricultural Association, Vladimir Pycha said.

The Czech Statistical Office data showed that the prices on plant crops in the republic had dropped by 24.4% from 8,325 korunas ($382) to 5,767 korunas per 1 tonne of grain year-on-year, according to the report.

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🇺🇸🇭🇰 US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller criticized Hong Kong police for offering an international bounty to arrest eight pro-democracy activists residing outside the city.

The United States is calling on the Hong Kong government to immediately withdraw the reward and "respect other countries’ sovereignty," he added.

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Has China just checkmated the US by banning rare earth exports?

China's ban is a response to the West's not-so-well thought out strategy of economically decoupling from the People's Republic, Asia-Pacific consultant Thomas W. Pauken told Sputnik.

Why didn't team Biden see this coming?

📹 The crew of Russia's Ka-52 helicopter destroyed enemy armored vehicles in the zone of the special military op

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Russian Export Center (REC) invites industrial companies on business mission to China

"The REC invites Russian producers from the following industries to participate in the mission: energy, oil and gas sector, chemical industry, metallurgical industry, precious metals," the center reported.

Targeted negotiations with interested Chinese buyers will be organized for participants, during which companies will be able to establish business contacts and negotiate cooperation.

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🇺🇸 An African climate advocate warns that President Biden's plan to combat global warming by reducing sunlight through geoengineering could lead to disastrous consequences.

The advocate suggests considering other alternatives like reforestation and carbon dioxide removal to avoid unpredictable and harmful effects on ecosystems, agriculture, and weather.

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📹 Footage showing the destruction of the observation post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdeevka by the Russian FPV drone

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The son of the current US President, Hunter Biden, was in the White House shortly before a white substance was found there, according to preliminary data. The substance - a powder - turned out to be cocaine, a New York-based newspaper reports

The powder was uncovered in the White House library on Sunday, an investigation is presently underway.

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Romanian Prime Minister Ion Marcel Ciolacu admitted that Europe knows it is impossible to end the Ukraine conflict with Kiev’s much-touted counteroffensive

The PM said that the conflict would be a long one, adding that open-source information shows that the ‘counteroffensive’, long awaited in the West, has failed to live up to expectations in Europe.

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The US is cracking down on anyone expressing an alternative opinion about the special military op in Ukraine, a Russian human rights activist, Alexander Ionov, told Sputnik

Americans today do not have any legal, or appropriate ways to fight the ongoing information battle for common sense on the issue of Ukraine, he contended.

Ionov added that police in the US could knock on the doors of those who express a different viewpoint, put them in handcuffs and cart them off to the police station, and in some cases threaten them with up to 10 years in prison.

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Belarus offered to host monks faced with eviction by Ukraine from the historic monastic complex of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

The Belarusian Orthodox Church urged Ukraine to protect the cave monastery from being plundered and its clergy from being evicted after living there for decades.

Access to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in Kiev will be limited from July 5, and people will be allowed to visit the territory of the Lavra from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to the official website of the monastery.

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South Korea believes the extracted wreckage of North Korea's military satellite, which Pyongyang attempted to launch in late May, had "no military utility"

The military raised several key parts of the satellite and the rocket during the operation that was launched on May 31, the day the rocket with the satellite crashed, and ended earlier on Wednesday, the national news agency reported.

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📹 Russia's artillerymen unleashed Krasnopol precision-guided munitions against the Kiev regime’s positions, decimating a Ukrainian command post and equipment in the special military operation zone

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📹 Russia’s Federal Security Service has thwarted a terrorist attack plot targeting an energy facility and a military registration and enlistment office on Sakhalin Island, in Russia’s Far East

Footage showing the arrest of the Ukrainian perpetrator was released by the federal agency.

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📹 Footage revealing "Rapira" anti-tank guns’ firepower in action in the special military operation zone

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NATO is bound to reaffirm its anti-Russia policy at the upcoming Vilnius summit, Russia's top diplomat says

At the summit in Madrid last year, NATO leaders adopted the 2022 Strategic Concept where Russia is declared "the most significant and direct threat" to security of the alliance and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area.

The NATO summit will be held from July 11-12 in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.

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