📹 Takeoff footage of the Luna-25 spacecraft

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🛰 Russia's Luna-25 automatic landing module to make soft landing at moon's south pole on August 21, the head of Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos, Yury Borisov, said

🇵🇰 The Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for an independent investigation into the role played by the US in last year's vote of no-confidence that led to Khan's removal.

The call comes a day after independent US media published a leaked cable confirming Khan's repeated accusations that the US engineered his ouster from power in 2022 to be true.

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🇷🇺 The next three Luna stations will be launched in 2027, 2028 and 2030, Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov has revealed

🚀 Luna 25 is on its way to the moon!

The automatic station was put on a flight path to the moon and separated from the upper stage.

The launch of the automatic station into a circumlunar circular orbit is scheduled for August 16, with a touchdown on the lunar surface expected on August 21.

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📉 The rate of US inflation increased in July for the first time in more than a year, despite the Federal Reserve’s steady march into the highest interest rates in decades. However, some economists are pointing to other data in the new economic report that they say is more promising.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released on Thursday, the aggregate cost of consumer goods rose by 3.2% in July 2023 as compared to July 2022. With June’s 3% increase a month prior, it was the first time in 13 months that inflation tacked upward.

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⚛️ Fact Box on Rooppur, Bangladesh's 1st Nuclear Power Plant

🇷🇺 🇧🇩 Russia is helping Bangladesh to build its first-ever nuclear power plant, paving way for Dhaka's entry to the nuclear club of countries that exploit energy of the peaceful atom.

Rooppur nuclear power plant is being built 160 km from the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in accordance with a Russian project design.

🗓 The construction started back in 2021, and the NPP is expected to be put into operation in 2024.

🟧 Learn more about the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Sputnik's infographic!

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🇺🇸 US Congressman Matt Rosendale in a statement questioned the Biden administration’s request for billions of dollars in new assistance for Ukraine amid a lack of accurate accounting for funds already provided to Kiev.

"We still don’t have an accurate accounting of the $113 billion we have already sent to Ukraine. With the disaster that is taking place on our southern border, why are we even considering this?" Rosendale said on Thursday, in response to the funding request.

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A wildfire that has been raging in Hawaii for several days has left devastation in its wake, including claiming dozens of lives and destroying many settlements. The latest death toll provided by officials has since risen to 53.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington and Tehran have reached a deal to exchange prisoners held in Iranian jails for frozen assets, Iranian diplomats confirmed to Sputnik on Thursday.

A spokesperson for the US National Security Council confirmed to US media that the five Iranian prisoners had been transferred from prison to house arrest.

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🇷🇺 Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers performed a scheduled flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean (video by Russia's MoD)

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Western pressure on Central Asia over Russian sanctions jeopardizing projects abroad

💬 "Such actions of the US and its satellites are a gross interference in the bilateral relations of our states that, in fact, violate the free right to build an independent foreign policy and foreign economic line and jeopardizes the implementation of mutually beneficial projects in the region of Central Asia," Dmitry Birichevsky, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's economic cooperation department, told Sputnik.

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✝️ FBI memo linking Catholic faith to 'extremists' drafted by several offices – GOP lawmakers

💬 “This new information suggests that the FBI’s use of its law enforcement capabilities to intrude on American’s First Amendment rights is more widespread than initially suspected and reveals inconsistencies with your previous testimony before the Committee,” several Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Given this startling new information, we write to request additional information to advance our oversight.”

The lawmakers also noted that in his testimony before the committee last month, Wray claimed that a January 2023 memo on the potential of right-wing activists motivated by “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” to pose a violent threat to certain minority groups had been the sole product of the field office in Richmond, the Virginia state capital.

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🗯 “The #US has no right to dictate to 🇵🇰 #Pakistan, or for that matter any other sovereign nation, this matter,” Sudheendra Kulkarni former Prime Ministerial advisor, told #SputnikIndia.

🌐 “Interference by a big power in the internal matters of another country, to the extent of influencing who should or should not be its prime minister, undermines a stable and democratic world order,” Kulkarni highlighted.

👉 Read full story on Sputnik India!

📹 Russian Tunguska-M1 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun crew’s work in special military op zone

The crews continue to protect Russian troops from air attacks, destroying Ukrainian missiles and UAVs, and conducting reconnaissance.

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🇮🇳🚀 #ISRO congratulates Roscosmos on the successful launch of #Luna25 🌑

🇷🇺 Russia's Luna-25 automatic landing module has separated from the Fregat upper stage and has been put on the flight trajectory to Earth's only natural satellite, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Friday.

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📹 Russian FPV drone operators continue to destroy Ukrainian military equipment in Zaporozhye direction

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🇨🇳🏚🇺🇸 US role in China's real estate crisis: What Western media isn't telling you

Western business media have barely been able to conceal their delight in reporting on China's real estate downturn, meticulously detailing losses taken by the Asian nation’s property developers.

But what has the West's role been in blowing up the bubble in the first place?

👉 China expert Thomas W. Pauken II told Sputnik what’s really going on