Two hundred believed to be Amazon workers caused rail chaos at a station on the outskirts of Bremen, in northwestern Germany, after coming late for train and running on tracks in an attempt to hold it up.

Bremen police said a large crowd of people stopped a regional train bound for Bremen in its tracks at Achim station on Wednesday afternoon. This caused a domino effect that affected 11 trains and led to a cumulative delay of over 4 hours.

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Prominent Russian natural gas producer Novatek moves to roll out the first line of its new massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.

The floating LNG facility in question is now being prepared to be moved out from the dock at Novatek’s LNG Construction Center in Belokamenka near the port city of Murmansk.

Once all preparations are complete and the facility is afloat, it is going to be towed some 2,000 kilometers along the Northern Sea Route to its final destination – the Arctic LNG 2 project located at the Utrenneye natural gas deposit at the Gyda Peninsula.

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Experts told Sputnik that Western policies have created a "toxic" work environment for many European researchers who are more interested in science than in politics, helping drive their migration to China.

Beijing could capitalize big on this with more incentives to relocate, but it could bring China and Europe closer together, too.

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🗣️ On the West’s chances of ‘defeating’ the Russians by way of Ukraine:

“We just heard the Pentagon admits that the F-16s, no matter how many are sent, no matter when they are sent, it's going to make absolutely no difference, because the training, which would take so long that it would be impractical… And this was the same that was said about the main battle tanks, the Western main battle tanks, all of these artillery systems, the Himars, absolutely everything, these wonder weapons. Everyone talked about how impractical this was, but the Western media said otherwise. Now they're finally beginning to grasp the reality,” Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine Corps and independent geopolitical researcher, told Sputnik.

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Hundreds of Iraqi citizens gathered in the center of Baghdad on Thursday to protest against acts of Quran burning in Sweden

The demonstration was held in Tahrir Square in the center of the Iraqi capital. Protesters were said to have brought copies of the Quran, banners, portraits of Islamic religious leaders and Iraqi flags.

Earlier Thursday, the Iraqi government condemned Quran burning in Sweden and retaliated against the act by opting to expel its Swedish ambassador.

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Beijing rejected US accusations that Chinese-backed hackers breached the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns recently

Earlier in the day, US media reported, citing sources, that Chinese-linked hackers allegedly accessed the email account of Burns, compromising hundreds of thousands of government emails.

Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu highlighted the importance of having enough evidence when identifying cyber-related incidents, rather than make groundless speculations and allegations.

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The US still has a moral obligation to support health care, clean-up efforts and environmental restoration across the islands of the Central Pacific where it carried out more than three score nuclear tests after World War II, US Presidential Envoy Joseph Yun said 

US compensation for the health problems and environmental damage caused by nuclear tests are currently being negotiated as part of the current compact talks with the Marshall Islands, Yun noted.

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests including many ultra-powerful thermonuclear ones in the Marshall Islands.

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📹 The crews of the missile boats of the Black Sea Fleet fired (0:42) (0:47) cruise anti-ship missiles at surface targets during the exercise, the Russian MoD says

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Some of the Western-provided weapons intended for Ukrainian troops was stolen by arms traffickers, criminals, and volunteer fighters before being recovered last year, a US military news outlet that obtained a Pentagon report has claimed

The report does not specify whether the weapons and equipment that were stolen were American, some examples are outlined in a highly redacted section of the document that deals with Ukrainian tracking of US-provided arms, according to the US media outlet.

Last year, the US delivered a wide array of weapons to Ukraine, including Stinger and Javelin missiles, howitzers, grenade launchers, as well as millions of rounds of small-arms ammunition.

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The Israeli police used water cannons to disperse protesters on the highway, which was blocked by hundreds of protesters rallying against controversial judicial reform

The protest comes as part of the mass protests which have been going on in Israel for 28 consecutive weeks and included the blocking of roads, clashes with the police, arrests and riots.

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📹 During the joint Russian-Chinese naval exercise "North / Interaction - 2023", the sailors of the two countries destroyed a floating sea mine and repelled the attack of a small target

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Yesterday, a teenage girl was killed as a result of Ukrainian strike against Crimea's northwest

A few days earlier, a 14-year-old girl was injured in an attack on the Crimean bridge, which also resulted in the death of her parents.

These are not isolated cases when children have become victims of the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Watch Sputnik's story of two Russian girls who suffered from Ukrainian aggression

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Qatar's Foreign Ministry summoned Swedish Ambassador to hand him a note of protest over the repeated desecration of the Quran in Sweden

The ministry noted that Doha expresses "its strong dissatisfaction and denunciation of the repeated permission to attack the Holy Quran in the Kingdom of Sweden, and the failure of the authorities there to stop these practices," adding that "allowing continued attacks against the Quran under the pretense of freedom of expression inflames hatred and violence, threatens peaceful coexistence, and reveals objectionable double standards."

In July, media reported that Swedish authorities had issued permits for several more acts of burning religious books.

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📹 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed (0:20) a Ukrainian warehouse with ammunition in the zone of the special military op using an Ovod kamikaze drone

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Divers discovered more than a dozen unexploded bombs and artillery projectiles in a US Navy shipwreck off the coast of Newfoundland, the Royal Canadian Navy announced 

The Canadian government has warned that unexploded ordinances can be more ubiquitous than what is found amongst a World War II shipwreck.

“Unexploded Explosive Ordinances (UXO) can also move or be exposed over time. Freeze-thaw cycles, flooding, forest fires, and storms can uncover buried ordnance or move it from place to place. It can also become more unstable and more dangerous over time” the Canadian government explained.

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⚡ There are no results of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, Vladimir Putin says

Vladimir Putin's key statements on Kiev's counteroffensive:

▪️ It is clear that Kiev's Western handlers are much disappointed with the outcome of the counteroffensive;

▪️ Kiev does not benefit from being helped by arms supplies and foreign mercenaries and advisers to break through the front of the Russian army;

▪️ Ukrainian Armed Forces formations suffered huge losses, tens of thousands of people;

▪️ Production capacities in the West aren't able to replenish the consumption of equipment by Kiev, they need resources and time;

▪️ The opinion of Ukrainian people is slowly and gradually changing, sobering up, just like in Europe;

▪️ The fire of war is being intensively stoked, using the ambitions of eastern European leaders;

▪️ Unleashing aggression against Belarus by Ukraine will mean aggression against Russia;

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Turkish President Erdogan said that he is counting on talks with Putin on the grain deal in the near future

He added that the Western countries must take action on the deal, otherwise it will lead to famine and a wave of migration.

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📹 "Have our friends in Warsaw forgotten that?": Vladimir Putin reminds Poland where it got its Western territories from

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Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK had been dismissed, with Kiev's Foreign Ministry giving no official reason for his sacking, British media reported

One British news website claimed that the ambassador had been on the receiving end of a "very strong" telephone call from Kiev.

A diplomatic source told a UK news agency that the reprimand was over his public criticism of Zelensky's response to British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace's comments at last week's NATO summit.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

◾️ The Russian Armed Forces repulsed three attacks in the Krasny Liman direction and stopped the actions of a sabotage and reconnaissance group. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 100 military personnel;

◾️Russian troops destroyed two ammunition depots in the Zaporozhye region;

◾️Russian troops destroyed the ammunition depot of the 123rd territorial defense brigade in the Kherson region;

◾️Russian troops destroyed the ammunition depot of Ukraine's 1st Special Forces Brigade in the Kharkov region;

◾️Russian troops carried out a night attack on facilities where terrorist attacks against Russia were being prepared using drones, the goal was achieved;

◾️Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 175 soldiers in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

◾️Russian air defense systems intercepted 16 HIMARS shells and destroyed 14 drones, including near Artemovsk and Mariupol;

◾️Russian troops hit the command post of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR.

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