🚀 The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov has returned to Earth.

According to Roscosmos, a recovery vessel will pick up the crew members from the splashdown site.

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🔸 Trump and Putin could discuss more than just Ukraine in Alaska

🔸 Russia to examine US statements at Armenia-Azerbaijan summit regarding regional transport links

🔸 Vladimir Putin and Lula da Silva agreed to hold a high-level cooperation commission meeting this year

🔸 ‘New Chersonesos’ is colossal and amazing – Simonyan

🔸 Trump and Putin could lay the groundwork for end of Ukrainian conflict in Alaska

🔸 Many people in the West see Russia as salvation for their families – Simonyan

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📹⚔️ Russian defense minister inspects Baltic Fleet’s combat readiness

In a video released by Russia’s Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov is seen observing military drills that involved Baltic Fleet warships, air defense units, and mobile fire groups based in the Kaliningrad region.

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🗣 Trump names Tammy Bruce Deputy US Representative to UN

Tammy Bruce has been serving as the State Department’s spokesperson.

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🇵🇸☠️ Aid airdrop claims another life in Gaza Strip

An aid package has “struck a starving child on the head, killing him instantly,” wrote Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif who shared this video online.

“This isn't humanitarian aid; it's a new way to kill the people of Gaza,” he added.

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📹 Motorbike rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs — reports

Large groups of motorcyclists carrying Hezbollah flags rode through Beirut’s southern suburbs, protesting the government’s plan to limit weapons possession to state forces, local media reported.

Footage from social media

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia, US could become friends again – Errol Musk

Errol Musk, father of US entrepreneur Elon Musk, told Sputnik he believes Russia and the United States could one day develop friendly relations again.

💬 "I would say so," Musk said when asked if he thinks people in both countries will eventually realize they can be friends again.

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🇮🇷 Iran CONDEMNS Israeli plan to seize Gaza City — reports

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denounced Tel Aviv’s plan for the complete military occupation of Gaza City and the forced displacement of its residents, calling it proof of Israel’s “clear intention” to commit genocide, Tasnim News Agency reported.

Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei warned that the move — approved by Netanyahu’s security cabinet — is part of a broader scheme to carry out ethnic cleansing in Gaza, where more than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. He accused the US and other Western powers of “shameful complicity” in the atrocities.

Baqaei urged the UN, world governments, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — including Saudi Arabia and Turkiye — to take urgent joint action to stop the bloodshed and deliver humanitarian aid to the “starving people of Gaza.”

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✅Russia intercepts 121 Ukrainian drones overnight – MoD

Over the past night, Russian air defense forces shot down 121 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones, most of them (29) over the territory of Krasnodar region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

More drones were shot down over:

◻️ The Republic of Crimea - 15

◻️ Bryansk region - 13

◻️ Belgorod region - 12

◻️ Voronezh region - 9

◻️ Saratov region - 8

◻️ Stavropol region - 8

◻️ Kaluga region - 7

◻️ Tula region - 6

◻️ Rostov region - 5

◻️ Ryazan region 4

◻️ The Sea of Azov - 2

◻️Smolensk region - 1

◻️ Oryol region - 1

◻️ Tver region - 1

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📉 Germany’s military ambitions stalled by China’s raw material grip

Amid global trade tensions, China has updated its export controls on certain raw materials, a move that could reshape long-term supply dynamics.

What’s happening

◻️ China controls ~90% of global rare earth supplies – vital for modern weapons

◻️ China has tightened export rules, requiring government licenses for key materials

◻️ Deliveries to German companies are slowing down or stopping entirely

Impact

◻️ Many German firms report they only have materials for a few weeks

◻️ Production halts are now a real possibility for defense manufacturers

◻️ Small and medium-sized businesses are hit the hardest

Official response

◻️ German Ministry of Economic Affairs says it's “deeply concerned”

◻️ Companies are being told to report shortages to the EU for coordinated “diplomatic pressure” on China

◻️ Experts say Germany must urgently diversify its raw material sources

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📹 Russian surgeons operate through earthquake – then evacuate

Doctors in the maxillofacial surgery department of a Kamchatka hospital were caught in the powerful July 30 earthquake in the middle of an operation.

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◻️ Iran CONDEMNS Israeli plan to seize Gaza City — reports

◻️ ‘We have NO PLANS to recognize a Palestinian state’ – JD Vance

◻️ Trump names Tammy Bruce Deputy US Representative to UN

◻️ Russian defense minister inspects Baltic Fleet’s combat readiness

◻️ Russia, US could become friends again – Errol Musk

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🚨🇵🇸 GAZA CRISIS: LATEST UPDATES

◻ 3 KILLED at food lines near Netzarim corridor

◻ 98% OF FARMLANDS destroyed (UN satellite data)

◻ 4 DEAD in drone strike on Khan Younis this morning

◻ 8 MORE slaughtered in dawn shelling across Gaza

◻ 40 PALESTINIANS gunned down waiting for aid since Saturday

💔 Al-Awda Hospital director: "80% of our children now skeletal from starvation"

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🔊Putin briefs Tajik counterpart Rakhmon on Russia-US contacts - Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmon.

Putin informed his Tajik counterpart about the main results of his recent meeting with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow.

Rakhmon voiced support for efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis.

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