🇫🇷 Protesters against pension reforms have blocked roads to the Constitutional Council in Paris by building “barricades” from waste containers

Tomorrow the Council will announce its decision on France’s pensions.

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Danish Bankruptcies Soar To Highs Not Seen Since Last Financial Crisis

During the first three months of 2023, 837 companies filed for bankruptcy in the Nordic country, marking a 40-percent increase on the previous year, Statistics Denmark said. The bankruptcies in March alone cost the nation 2,222 full-time positions – 50 percent more than in February.

Local experts offered two major explanations for the wave of companies going out of business.

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Key points from the fourth meeting of MFA Heads of Afghanistan's neighboring countries 🇦🇫

🔸 Afghan authorities should take steps to protect the rights of foreign organizations and citizens, Russia, Iran, China and Pakistan declare

🔸 The Russian, Iranian, Chinese and Pakistani foreign ministries have said that they don't want the US and its allies to re-establish military bases in and around Afghanistan.

🔸 The foreign ministries called on Afghanistan to take visible steps to fight terrorism and forbid militants to use the country.

🔸 The ministries called on Afghan authorities to create an inclusive government and emancipate women and national minorities

🔸 The world wants Afghanistan to be a peaceful and stable land and not an arena of geopolitical rivalry.

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⚡️ Cyberattacks against Russia being prepared with direct participation of Pentagon, FSB says

The US and other NATO countries use Ukraine for mass hacker attacks on Russia, the FSB added.

What to Expect From German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s Visit to China?

Baerbock will visit China in the wake of the backlash generated by remarks that the French President made after his own trip to Beijing. Emmanuel Macron had suggested that Europe should stay out of the feud between the US and China over Taiwan, and that the continent needs to "wake up" to its own interests.

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🐍 Police are looking for a young man who entered the St. Petersburg subway with a boa snake and even let it go for “a walk”

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❗️ Latest statements by Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The Black Sea will never be NATO's sea; it is a common area, and there should be indivisible security;

▪️Moscow has taken note of Kiev's Black Sea and NATO remark, but considers alliances and demilitarization to be mutually exclusive concepts;

▪️Provoking China with the Taiwan issue is unacceptable;

▪️Moscow will analyze The Hague Tribunal's decision to oblige Russia to pay Naftogaz $5 billion in compensation for damage from asset loss in Crimea.

▪️There are currently no plans to hold phone talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping;

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❗️Iran calls for international probe into reports of US military biolabs in Ukraine, elsewhere

💬 "Published reports about US military biological laboratories in Ukraine and in some other countries cause serious concern. This activity is contrary to the international obligations of the United States in the issue of the Biological Weapons Convention and poses a threat to humanity. An impartial international investigation is needed," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said.

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❗️The US is trying to drag citizens of post-Soviet republics into the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev says.

The West is behind the calls for riots and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus, he added.

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🇫🇷 Protesters against the pension reform in Paris have occupied the LVMH company building and are setting off flares, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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'Chilling and Frightening': US Bioweapons in Ukraine Pose Massive Risks

Russian lawmakers have concluded an inquiry into US-backed biological activities in more than 50 Ukrainian laboratories using dangerous pathogens, summarizing their findings in a 200-page report.

💬“World peace groups should pay more attention to this serious issue and pressure their governments to make sure all the nations of the world adhere to the Convention and world governments should sit back and acquiesce in these crimes. But we can expect little in this regard from the West or NATO countries who have turned a blind eye to the danger or by their action or inaction in condoning the American actions,” Christopher Black, a Toronto-based international criminal lawyer, said.

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🇮🇪🇺🇸 “Just like the White House”: Biden suddenly says he is staying in Ireland “and not going home”

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⚡️🇮🇳 India did not invite Zelensky to G-20 summit in New Delhi

🗯 India has not made any changes to the list of invited countries for the G-20 summit on 9-10 September in New Delhi, MEA spokesman Arindam Bagchi told reporters on Thursday.

Ukraine's president wanted to woo non-Western nations, including India and China, to back his "peace formula", but so far, with little success.

Ukraine is also not a member of the G-20 grouping.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 35 Ukrainian troops and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Ukrainian losses during the day amounted to 20 servicemen, two armored fighting vehicles, one Msta-B howitzer, as well as one ammunition depot;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces destroyed more than 300 Ukrainian troops, six armored fighting vehicles, one armored personnel carrier, as well as a D-20 and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 servicemen, one D-20 howitzer, and two armored fighting vehicles as well as one ammunition depot;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored fighting vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted nine HIMARS missiles, as well as six Ukrainian UAVs in the LPR, DPR, and Kharkov region.

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🇷🇺🎬 First Russian Film Shot on ISS to Be Released Abroad

💭 "I know that Central Partnership [a Russian film distribution and production company] is selling the international distribution. I know that there are already a number of countries that will show it. I do not have a complete list [of these countries]," film director Klim Shipenko told reporters at the premiere of Russian film 'Vyzov' (The Challenge).

▪️The crew of The Challenge, including actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, became the first film crew to go to space and stay on the International Space System

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Brian Berletic, writer and YouTube host, joins us to discuss whether Europe will distance itself from the US and stand up for its own national interest

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🇫🇷 📹 Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in Paris as thousands protest against the pension reforms

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🇮🇪🇺🇸 “As they say, animals can feel people”

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🗣️“While they [the US] are trying to depict this as 'China is eager for some sort of conflict,' it is very obvious the United States is the one eager for this conflict,” Brian Berletic, writer and YouTube host, is speaking about the double game the United States is playing, not recognizing Taiwan as an independent state, but trying to supply the island with ammunition

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