✝️ 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.

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📹 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

❗️Ukrainian drone downed in Moscow, mayor says

No one was injured in the fall of debris in the area of Karamyshevskaya embankment, there was no serious damage, Sergey Sobyanin said.

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❗️Russian MoD on Ukrainian drone downed in Moscow:

▪️An attempt to carry out a terrorist attack on Moscow by the Kiev regime was foiled.

▪️The Ukrainian UAV crashed in a forest area in the west of Moscow, after being disabled by using electronic warfare.

▪️No casualties or damage as a result of the attack.

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🇷🇺🛢 The International Energy Agency (IEA) suggests that Russia's oil exports in July remained at the same level of 7.3 million barrels per day, but it received the largest revenue since November 2022, the agency's fresh report said on Friday.

Russia cut oil production in July by 50,000 barrels per day to 9.4 million barrels per day, which means that Moscow is complying with the announced voluntary reduction of 500,000 barrels per day, the report said.

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📹 Left to their own fate: Ukrainian recovery team abandons wounded soldiers, drives away

A Ukrainian emergency recovery team exhibited serious “weakness” and low morale, deputy commander of the Tsar's Wolves brigade code named "Okhota" (Hunt) told Sputnik, providing video footage of these events.

In the video, a detachment of Ukrainian servicemen can be seen moving through a forest belt (0:16), who then come under Russian mortar fire from a BARS-1 volunteer battalion. According to “Okhota”, the scene took place in the Zaporozhye Region this July.

Later in the clip, a Ukrainian evacuation armored vehicle is seen arriving (0:29) and releasing a smoke screen (0:33), but only takes those on board who manage to run to it, while leaving more seriously wounded servicemen behind (01:00). Such instances are common among Ukrainian troops on the battlefield, Okhota stressed.

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🇧🇾 Lukashenko says Belarus might get second nuclear plant

The Belorussian president said he had a "crazy idea" to build one in the country's east.

The first one, the Astravets NPP, located in the country’s north-west, was launched in 2020.

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🚀 Russian lunar mission passes ten hour point, flight is normal

▪️On August 11, at 02:10 Moscow time (+03 GMT), a Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying the Luna-25 probe lifted off from the Vostotchny Cosmodrome

▪️Nine minutes later, the Fregat upper stage carrying the module separated from the rocket and reached Earth's orbit

▪️One hour and ten minutes later, the Luna-25 separated from the upper stage and entered the flight path to the Moon, after which the station was taken into direct control from the ground

▪️In five days, the spacecraft will reach lunar orbit at a height of 100 km

▪️The first soft landing near the Moon's South Pole in history is expected to take place on August 21

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

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled three attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the Zaporozhye area.

▪️ Russian troops successfully repelled two attacks by UAF assault detachments in the LPR.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces in the area of the city of Zaporozhye hit the deployment point of foreign mercenaries.

▪️ The UAF lost up to 115 soldiers in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces thwarted the UAF's attempt to conduct reconnaissance by fighting in the DPR.

▪️ The UAF lost over 165 servicemen in the Kupyansk area.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces successfully repelled five attacks by UAF assault groups in the Donetsk region.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled three attacks by UAF assault groups in the DPR.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 180 Ukrainian troops in Donetsk in a day.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four ammunition depots of UAF brigades in Kharkov, Zaporozhye regions, and the DPR;

▪️ Russian air defense intercepted two HIMARS MLRS shells and shot down 16 Ukrainian drones.

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