📹 Russian Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu held a meeting with Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Akbar Ahmadian

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🎥 RFK Jr. admits his part in Central Park dead bear cub mystery

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed in a video posted on X on Sunday how he drove a dead bear cub from upstate New York and dumped it in New York City’s Central Park 10 years ago – as a grotesque prank.

“I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was gonna skin the bear,” after seeing it run down by another driver, he boasted. “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator."

But he changed his mind when he needed leave his car at the airport. Not wanting to leave the carcass rotting inside, he thought it would be funny to ditch it in Central Park.

Kennedy said the bear’s discovery appeared on “the front page of every paper,” prompting media speculation and a police probe, which he said “worried” him because he’d left behind fingerprints. But the heir to the Kennedy dynasty has never been officially charged over the bizarre incident.

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❗️ A landing airfield for F-16 fighter jets received by Ukraine has been hit in Ukraine's Nikolaev region, an underground group told Sputnik

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🎥 A futuristic accident became a modern reality in the center of Moscow

A delivery robot collided with a car right on a pedestrian crossing in the center of Moscow. The robot itself is reportedly unharmed, as there is no visible damage, according to social media

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London's police chief snatched a microphone from a journalist after a government meeting when asked about “two-tier” policing of riots across Britain

Metropolin Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley snatched the reporters microphone as he stormed past, throwing it on the ground, Sky News reports.

Anti-immigration protests have been going on for several days, triggered by the murders of three little girls in a knife attack by Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year-old Rwandan origin, at a dance class in Southport.

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📹 Hungarian patrol boat runs full speed into the guide cable of a ferry on the Tisza River bordering Ukraine – and sinks

Only one Hungarian policeman was reported to be on the boat. He survived and swam to shore unaided.

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US stock markets crash

▪️ Dow Jones index down 2.8%, NASDAQ down 5.8%, S&P 500 down 4%.

▪️ Apple shares down 9%, Nvidia down 12%, Fox Business reports*.

Are you proud of Bidenomics now, Kamala?

*data at market opening

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Why did the global stock market crash and who is to blame?

"Political mismanagement of debt, politicized fact-spinning, and resulting inflation" led to serious market volatility, as the recent global market plummet has shown, Paul Goncharoff, a veteran financial analyst, told Sputnik.

1. Decline of G7 economies

“Neither the US, EU or Japanese economies are doing well. The US manufacturing sector contracted for the 4th consecutive month in July, with the Manufacturing PMI registering 46.8%, signaling a technical recession,” he said.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index plunged 12.4%, prompting a chain of share dumps as investors fretted over the state of the US economy and fears of a recession. The knee-jerk global market response is triggered by the grim report showing that US unemployment had surged to reach 4.3%.

2. US debt-morphed economy
Goncharoff said that “the world's financial flows are based on debt,” and the US economy has long “morphed” into a debt economy. “How do you attract new buyers of US debt? By increasing yields earned, which leads to all the problems.”

Though government bonds are assumed to be safe, if their value experiences volatility “because of politicized fiscal policy or extreme geopolitical positions,” then those who borrowed against them may be forced to sell, starting off a chain reaction, he noted.

3. Inflation
Inflation can prompt holders of government bonds to request a yield to compensate for the fact that when the bond is finally paid back, the money will not be worth what it was originally, Goncharoff explained.

4. Middle Eastern “geopolitical cauldron”
Developments in the Middle East could further feed into the “crowded geoeconomic and geopolitical cauldron,” stressed the pundit, forcing it to “boil over.”

“We are witnessing a massive loss of trust among the international community as to the true intentions and goals of the US government, which just increases volatility and uncertainty,” he concluded.

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Change of political power in Bangladesh is an internal matter of the country – Russian Foreign Ministry

"Russia proceeds from the fact that the change of political forces in power in Bangladesh is an internal matter of this country, at the same time counting on the speedy return of internal political processes in our friendly state in the constitutional direction," the ministry stated.

According to the Russian embassy in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, no Russian citizens were injured during the recent riots that led to the overthrow of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the Russian Foreign Ministry's website reported.

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❗️Iran resolved to launch an attack on Israel – Israeli FM

The warning from Iran was conveyed to Israel by Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who contacted Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz directly after receiving the information from acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri.

"Iran has informed us that it intends to attack Israel,” Katz stated.

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📹 Russian Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu held a meeting with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, Tasnim News Agency reports

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