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:
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Amid global trade tensions, China has updated its export controls on certain raw materials, a move that could reshape long-term supply dynamics.
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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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🚨🇵🇸 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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💔 Al-Awda Hospital director: "80% of our children now skeletal from starvation"
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“Very soon I won’t be needed, for example, as chief editor. Because artificial intelligence will make decisions more accurately, faster, and with more information than any person,” Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent company, says.
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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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🔹 Russia must use such methods to cool down the heated heads in NATO countries.🔹 In today's realities, it is inappropriate to use the term "détente" in relations between Russia and the US.🔹 What we need now is not détente, but political will to begin lowering the temperature in international relations.🔹 Everything Moscow does in terms of weapons deployment is a reaction to the steps taken by the Americans and their allies.🔹 Apart from the Oreshnik systems, Russia also has other advanced weapons.🔹 The first signs of common sense are appearing in Russia-US relations, which were absent for several years before.🔹 The risk of nuclear conflict in the world is not decreasing.🔹 Russia sees the risk that after the expiration of the New START Treaty, nuclear arms control will be completely absent.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
◻️ Russia's Armed Forces struck a critical railway hub in the Dnepropetrovsk region, disrupting Ukrainian troop transfers to Donbass
◻️ A Ukrainian M577 armored personnel carrier destroyed in the Donetsk People's Republic
◻️ Air defense superiority: two Neptune missiles and 372 fixed-wing drones intercepted over the past day
◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,375 militants in the past 24 hours
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💸💰 Alaska’s hospitality industry cashing in ahead of Putin-Trump summit
Hotel rooms in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, have nearly doubled in price ahead of the Putin-Trump meeting scheduled for August 15.
For example:
🟠 Hilton Anchorage jumped from $347 to $657/night after the meeting was announced
🟠 Wyndham Garden Anchorage Airport surged from $499 to $609/night
🟠 Hampton Inn Anchorage skyrocketed from $352 to $616/night
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Hotel rooms in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, have nearly doubled in price ahead of the Putin-Trump meeting scheduled for August 15.
For example:
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The message was sent by senior European and Ukrainian leaders during a recent high-level meeting near London, the NYT reported, citing two European officials.
They said that:
Previously, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov confirmed that a summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will take place in Alaska on August 15 and that the settlement of the Ukraine conflict will top the agenda.
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Regardless of the outcome of the upcoming Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska, Ukraine will face consequences, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has pointed out.
💬 Ukrainian authorities are responsible for these consequences because they backed “the unsuccessful Western strategy of damaging Russia through comprehensive support for Ukraine in the military conflict,” he added.
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In a video, a van swerves to block a cyclist, and within seconds, five draft officers from Lvov’s military recruitment center forcefully drag him inside.
No summons, no discussion — just straight to the front.
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His counterparts from the CIS and BRICS:
🇨🇳 President of China Xi Jinping
🇮🇳 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
🇿🇦 President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
🇧🇷 President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
🇧🇾 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko
🇺🇿 President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev
🇰🇿 President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
🇹🇯 President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon
🇰🇬 President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov
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Donald Trump chose Alaska as the place to hold his meeting with Vladimir Putin for two reasons, argues Tiberio Graziani, chairman at Vision & Global Trends - International Institute for Global Analyses:
The negotiations will not focus on Ukraine alone but will likely also encompass “establishing a security architecture” that would both assuage Russia’s “existential concerns regarding the intentions of Brussels and London” and recognize the US’ interests in the continental Europe.
💬 “They are working towards a reconfiguration of the world order,” Graziani says.
He did note, however, that the two world leaders pursue different goals: whereas Trump wants to “maintain his primacy in the new polycentric international system,” Putin seeks to “define the new global order by bringing the countries of the Global South into the discussion and decision-making process.”
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🇪🇬🪖 Egyptian Defense Minister inspects elite troops
Abdel Mageed Saqr, Egypt's Defense Minister visits airborne & special forces units, checking combat readiness and morale.
⚔️ Mission: Boost efficiency & ensure top-tier security for Egypt.
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Abdel Mageed Saqr, Egypt's Defense Minister visits airborne & special forces units, checking combat readiness and morale.
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First, they flatten the dunes—stopping sandstorms dead in their tracks.
Then, they plant millions of super-trees with roots so deep they can survive a year without rain and lock the desert down.
Result: 930 sq. miles of desert ERASED yearly—transformed into forests, grasslands, and farmland.
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🌧 Japan issues highest heavy rain alert for Kumamoto – NHK
According to NHK World Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its top-level heavy rain emergency warning for Tamana City and Nagasu Town in Kumamoto Prefecture, warning that serious flooding may have already occurred.
Record rainfall from a stationary rain front is drenching Kyushu, with the risk of disasters expected to rise rapidly. Authorities urge residents to take immediate action to protect themselves.
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According to NHK World Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its top-level heavy rain emergency warning for Tamana City and Nagasu Town in Kumamoto Prefecture, warning that serious flooding may have already occurred.
Record rainfall from a stationary rain front is drenching Kyushu, with the risk of disasters expected to rise rapidly. Authorities urge residents to take immediate action to protect themselves.
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