A US decision to greenlight the delivery of contentious cluster munitions to Ukraine may be reached within this week, according to CBS News

Cluster munitions consist of numerous smaller explosive devices that scatter upon detonation. Due to the potential danger they pose to civilians even long after conflicts have ceased, over 100 countries have prohibited their use.

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The Russian Federal Security Service says detained nationalists in Tyumen region who planned terrorist attack on energy facility

🇫🇷 France censors social media

France's digital minister Jean-Noël Barrot tweeted that from August 25, France will introduce mandatory measures censoring the work of social networks in the country.

Such measures will be introduced in the light of mass protests sweeping across France after police shot and killed 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, a delivery driver of Algerian heritage, after pulling over his car.

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📹 The Russian Federal Security Service has eliminated a terrorist (0:17) who had planned to attack an energy facility in Russia's Tyumen Region, on instructions from Ukraine

Security forces safely detonated an improvised explosive device (1:14) found on the terrorists.

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The Swedish authorities have charged climate activist Greta Thunberg with disobeying police orders to leave a climate protest

Thunberg, 20, was apprehended on June 19 for refusing to leave the blockade of an oil terminal in the southern Swedish port of Malmo during a sit-in protest that lasted several days. She was part of the disruption of shipping activities in the harbor organized by the environmentalist group Take Back the Future.

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Western weapons supplied to Kiev used by protesters in France, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says

💬 “The very weapons that the West, NATO and France supply, the very money that they pour in to support nationalists, Nazis and fascists on the territory of Ukraine, like a boomerang, turn out not just on their territory, but hit their own people,” she added.

🇦🇺 An Australian cabinet minister deleted a tweet in which she criticized the son of former US President Donald Trump, calling him a "big baby" and a "sore loser" after his Australia tour was postponed due to visa delays

Donald Trump Jr.'s speaking appearance in Sydney on Sunday was indefinitely postponed earlier this week, with an announcement on the Turning Point Australia Facebook page citing "unforeseen circumstances."

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📹 The Russian military put Armed Forces of Ukraine equipment and personnel out of the action with a preemptive strike, which disrupted an attack on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kherson region

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In this fresh episode of our New Rules podcast, we are joined by former US Marine and geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic. He discusses the Ukrainian counter-offensive, NATO, and US ambitions in the Asia Pacific region.

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Catch our Fault Lines show, where we provide updates and analysis on all the most vital stories! Here's our lineup for today:

🔺To kick things off, we'll be discussing Elliott Abrams being appointed by Biden to the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
🔺Next, we’ll speak about the administration's ban on cooperating with social media giants, which is a direct result of the revelations from Twitter files
🔺Finally, we’ll delve into the Zaporozhye nuclear plant situation and the Afghan withdrawal report

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📹 Russia's Lancet destroys German-manufactured PzH 2,000 self-propelled howitzer in the zone of the special military op

UAV operators uncovered the firing position of a Ukrainian self-propelled gun camouflaged in a forested area. The hit detonated ammunition, resulting in its complete destruction.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian nuclear warheads en route to Belarus will be delivered to the republic before the end of the year, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

🛢 US company Occidental Petroleum will expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its activities in the near future, CEO Vicki Hollub told Sputnik.

Oil and gas operators, including Shell and Occidental Petroleum, have started to use AI to predict possible failures and assess the degree of wear of their equipment. New technologies will allow companies to forego regular scheduled maintenance, which sometimes turns out to be unnecessary due to the good condition of the equipment, and avoid losing profits during downtime.

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Discussions on the Iranian gas hub with Russia are going "very well," Iranian petroleum minister said

The minister said in early June that Iran, with the participation of Russia, Turkmenistan and Qatar, is seeking to create a gas hub in the industrial region of Asaluyeh in the southern Iranian province of Bushehr, located on the coast of the Persian Gulf.

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🐦 Mark Zuckerberg tweeted on Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, following the official launch of his new text messaging app, Threads, purportedly designed to rival Elon Musk's Twitter.

By the way, Sputnik is already on Threads, let's see how Zuck's new app is different from Twitter: threads.net/@sputnik_news

❗️ Fourty-five Russian soldiers were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime today following a process of negotiation, the Russian Defense Ministry said

📹 Russian Aerospace Forces and Syrian Air Force hold the first stage of joint exercises

The exercise will continue until the middle of July.

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