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📹 New world record

8100 drones flying at the same time in Shenzhen, China

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📹 Fast and Furious: Egging on Danger with the Rostov Drift

A stuntman from Russia's Rostov-on-Don slides under a moving semi-trailer truck on a scooter.

Don’t try this! Risk of serious injury or death

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'They poisoned our land, water, and air': Serbs hold NATO responsible for depleted uranium pollution

"NATO must pay compensation,” Serbian lawyer Srdjan Aleksic told Sputnik. “By bombing Serbia and the Republic of Srpska with depleted uranium (DU) shells, despite knowing DU's long-term effects—such as its half-life of 4.5 billion years—the alliance poisoned our land, water, and air. Depleted uranium entered the food chain."

The North Atlantic Alliance deployed DU weapons during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1995, and then again during the aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999.

In September 1995, NATO forces had fired off 4.5 tons of DU penetrators in the territory of BiH, according to the Commission of Inquiry into the Consequences of the Use of Depleted Uranium.

The Serbian Ministry of Defense said the Western military bloc dropped 15 tons of DU munitions on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999.

Aleksic follows in the footsteps of his Italian counterpart, Angelo Tartaglia, who won more than 300 cases for Italian soldiers who served in the NATO KFOR mission in Kosovo and later fell ill or died of cancer.

"Currently, 35 lawsuits against NATO have been filed in courts in Belgrade, Nis and other cities in Serbia,” Aleksic said. “50 biopsy results of Serbian military and police officers who served in Kosovo and were diagnosed with cancer have been sent to Italian laboratories."

Aleksic called on residents of the Republic of Srpska (part of BiH) suffering from cancer to establish a causal link between their condition and the bombing with depleted uranium shells.

"The biopsy results show the presence of heavy metals and depleted uranium, which is 100 percent proof that we are right," he stressed.

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Six UNRWA employees killed in airstrikes on school in Gaza - organization

Six employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were killed in two airstrikes on a school and its surroundings in the Nuseirat Camp in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA said in a statement on social media.

"No one is safe in Gaza. No one is spared," the agency said, expressing its sorrow.

"Schools and other civilian infrastructure must be protected at all times, they are not a target," UNRWA emphasized, urging all parties to avoid using schools for military or fighting purposes.

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📹 Video of "spectacular save" by Iran national team defender goes viral on Iranian social media

After the match between Iran and UAE ended one-nil, fans of the losing team started throwing objects at their players.

Iranian defender Ali Ghalizadeh blocked one of the bottles flying from the stands, preventing it from hitting an Emirati player.

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🇰🇵 North Korea has launched an unidentified ballistic missile towards the Sea of ​​Japan, the Yonhap news agency reported

At the same time, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the ballistic missile presumably fell outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.

In July, the Voice of Korea broadcaster reported that North Korea carried out a successful test-launch of a new type of tactical ballistic missile, Hwasongpho-11Da-4.5.

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🚀 A Soyuz MS-26 Spacecraft with two Russian and American cosmonauts on board docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, according to a broadcast by the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos.

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur space center at 16.23 GMT on September 11 and a little less than nine minutes later, put it into Earth orbit. During the flight to the ISS, Soyuz MS-26 made two revolutions around the Earth.

During their mission, Russian cosmonauts will perform more than 40 scientific experiments, three of which have not been previously conducted on the station. They are also scheduled to perform a spacewalk in December 2024.

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Roscosmos, NASA to agree on continuation of cross-flights to ISS after 2025 - heads

Russia's state space agency Roscosmos and the US space agency NASA will agree and continue cross-flights of integrated crews to the International Space Station (ISS) after the spring of 2025, Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov said.

NASA is working to reach an agreement with Roscosmos to continue integrated space flights to the International Space Station (ISS) beyond 2025, a NASA spokesperson told Sputnik.

"We are working on a continuation of reciprocal flights of astronauts in Soyuz and cosmonauts on commercial crew vehicles," the NASA spokesperson said.

In July 2022, Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on ISS cross-flights of Russian cosmonauts on American Crew Dragon spacecraft and American astronauts on Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft. The first such ship was the Soyuz MS-22, which flew with Rubio on board.

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Russia's Uranium One signs deal with Bolivia to build lithium plant - reports

The mining company Uranium One Group, part of Russia’s Rosatom, has signed a contract with Bolivia to build a lithium carbonate production plant. The launch of the facility is scheduled for the second half of 2025 with a planned capacity of 14,000 tons per year, Russian media reported.

At the event the President of the South American country Luis Arce highlighted the importance of the agreement, stating that Bolivia has decided to move to the stage of industrial lithium extraction. According to the head of state, Bolivia's lithium reserves are estimated at 23 million tons.

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China’s global economic juggernaut status could get major boost through power of petroyuan

Saudi Arabia is ready to “do what’s in its best interest” and “try new things,” including as far as the possible use of the yuan in settlements for crude oil is concerned, Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Al-Khorayef told media this week.

The comments, made on the eve of Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to discuss expanded cooperation with the oil rich Gulf kingdoms, signal a “new dawn” in relations between China and the Gulf, Dr. Wang Zhimin, director of the Institute of Globalization at China’s University of International Business and Economics, told Sputnik.

“In energy cooperation between China and the Middle East, settlements using the yuan have become an important topic. The expansion of the use of the currency in settlements for energy transactions is a gradual and long-term process that requires step-by-step reforms, opening up, and natural market selection. In addition, given the relationship with the United States, the process of using the yuan to settle cross-border oil transactions by countries such as Saudi Arabia may encounter certain difficulties,” Wang said.

Commenting on the broader trend of “dedollarization” in China-Middle East trade, Wang cited the currency swap agreement reached between Beijing and Riyadh last year, and cited interest in the yuan for oil payments as a reflection of a “growing trend of diversification of the international monetary system, including the decline of the dollar’s share in international payments.”

Russian economist Nikita Maslennikov says the petroyuan has good prospects as a major alternative to the petrodollar, despite “strong pressure, including political pressure, from other market players.”

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