🇷🇺🇨🇳⚓️ Footage of the joint Russia-China "Naval Cooperation 2024" exercises has been released

Sailors visited each other's ships and participated in sports activities, with Russian sailors touring the sights of Zhanjiang. The exercises also included meetings between maneuver leaders, working group discussions on various exercise scenarios, and practical action simulations on maps.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense released a video of Russian soldiers returning from captivity.

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🎥 Gaza’s people are returning home

Gaza Strip residents are trying to rebuild what is left of their homes, destroyed by the heavy fighting during the IDF operation in the territory.

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🎥 Grammy-winning singer butchers pre-All-Star game American anthem in drunken performance

Four-time Grammy nominee Ingrid Andress sang the national anthem so horribly that the singer was savaged by US netizens.

It was later revealed that the singer had been intoxicated during her performance, a fact she admitted to in a public post on her social media page.

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Joint Belarus-China anti-terror drill heats up in active phase

The active phase of joint Belarusian-Chinese anti-terrorist exercises has kicked off in southwest Belarus
Belarusian and Chinese troops are teaming up to tackle sabotage and reconnaissance groups in action-packed exercises. From capturing areas to seizing facilities, these units show impressive coordination and determination.

Running from July 8 to 19, the training drills are a fantastic opportunity for both nations to exchange expertise, enhance unit coordination and strengthen bilateral relations in military training.

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🎥 Security squeezing out public elbow room

In Paris, 44,000 fences were put up ahead of the Olympic Games "for the sake of security", police say.

The public is literally being squeezed as they are forced to walk either along extremely narrow pathways or on the street itself.

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Financial Trojan Horse: Soros' Open Society Foundations stealthy sneaking into Global South

The George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations (OSF) announced on July 16 they would commit $400 million over eight years "to support the development of green industrial policies that contribute to economic growth in the Global South" under the new Economic and Climate Prosperity program.

What's the initiative about?

◻️ The Economic and Climate Prosperity program will facilitate a shift to clean energy and away from carbon intensive industries in the countries of the Global South, according to Binaifer Nowrojee, president of the OSF. "We need new ideas to create fairer, more just societies," Nowrojee stated.

◻️ To that end, money will be disbursed to "civil society organizations" and "independent economic think tanks" in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Southeast Asia. The OSF's website particularly names Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Senegal, Malaysia, and Indonesia, adding that the first grants will be made later this year.

◻️ The newly-unveiled initiative is the first one after a two-year organizational transformation at the OSF, which is believed to be driven by George Soros's son Alex, who was elected as chairman of the foundation’s board in December 2022. Last year, the grant-making body declared it would practically stop funding projects in the EU, and refocus on support for developing countries.

◻️ Founded in 1993, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) is known for creating a web of branches operating in 120 countries around the world. Some of these nations have seen externally funded violent and bloody color revolts since then. Countries like Russia, Hungary, Myanmar, and others have even expelled the OSF over meddling in their sovereign affairs.

◻️ The OSF's Global South initiative appears to be competing with BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Eurasian Economic Union's (EAEU) endeavors to maintain a just world order and enhance political, trade and security ties with emerging economies.

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Moscow’s symbolic ‘Parade of the Vanquished’ German generals & soldiers in WWII marks 80th anniversary

Eighty years ago, almost a year before the end of the Great Patriotic War, a march of German prisoners of war known as the “Parade of the Vanquished” was organized in Moscow at the behest of Joseph Stalin.

On July 17, 1944, 57,600 German soldiers and officers captured during Operation Bagration marched along the Garden Ring and other streets of the Russian capital. Among the prisoners were 19 generals, leading the column in uniforms adorned with medals. Watering vehicles followed the procession, symbolically cleansing the ‘dirt’ from the roads.

The event, showcasing the Soviet Union's strength in WWII, left a lasting impact on the citizens of Moscow and international observers.

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🎥 In the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, a congress of parties and movements advocating for the independence of several French territories, including Corsica, Melanesia, and French Polynesia, has begun.

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🇺🇳 Key statements by Russian FM Sergey Lavrov at the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East:

◻️ By supplying weapons to Israel, the US has become a participant in the conflict in Gaza, just as it has in Ukraine.

◻️ If the US stops supporting Israel, the bloodshed in Gaza will end, but they either do not want to or cannot do this.

◻️ Moscow's proposal for a meeting of all external players who have influence on the groups in Gaza remains in force; if these players speak with one voice, they can help overcome divisions within the Palestinian ranks.

◻️ Israel is not only failing to reduce but is also increasing the construction of illegal settlements in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

◻️ Israel's neighbors, including Lebanon, are under threat of being drawn into a large-scale confrontation with it.

◻️ Russia calls for the principle "nothing about Palestine without Palestine" to guide negotiations on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

◻️ Following the elections in Iran and the statements of the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, there is hope for rapprochement among all the coastal countries of the Persian Gulf.

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