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Hilarious: Kamala Harris's Most Inspiring Moments

 

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What can you say about the vice president? It's hard not to laugh when you see a video like this one. Kamala Harris doesn't have much to say, does she?

Sunday 30 July 2023

Putin says Russia does not reject peace talks

 Ukraine war: Putin says Russia does not reject peace talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not reject the idea of peace talks on Ukraine.

Speaking after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg, he said African and Chinese initiatives could serve as a basis for finding peace.

But Mr Putin also said there could be no ceasefire while the Ukrainian army was on the offensive.


In the hours after he spoke, Russia said a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow had damaged two office blocks.

Flights were briefly suspended from Vnukovo Airport, south-west of the city centre, and one person was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported.

Ukraine has not commented on the drone incident.

One eyewitness, who only gave her first name as Liya, told Reuters she could see fire and smoke."We heard an explosion and it was like a wave, everyone jumped," she said. "Then there was a lot of smoke and you couldn't see anything. From above, you could see fire."

On peace talks, both Ukraine and Russia have previously said they will not come to the negotiating table without certain preconditions.

Kyiv says it will not concede any territory but Moscow says Kyiv must accept its country's "new territorial reality". Russia invaded its neighbour last year and is occupying territory in the country's south and east.

Mr Putin told the late-night press conference on Saturday that there were no plans to intensify action on the Ukrainian front for now.

He also defended the arrest of critical voices, claiming some people were harming Russia from inside.

Criticism of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is outlawed and most prominent opposition members are behind bars or in exile.

In the wide-ranging briefing, the Russian president also told reporters that Moscow carried out some "preventive strikes" after an explosion on a Crimean bridge earlier this month.

Following the bridge incident - which left two people dead - Mr Putin vowed to respond to what he claimed was a "terrorist" act by Ukraine. Kyiv did not officially say it was responsible for the blast on the bridge, which links the occupied peninsula to Russia.

The Russia-Africa summit comes after an African contingent including leaders and representatives from seven countries met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mr Putin last month.

President Zelensky has in recent days been visiting Ukrainian special forces near Bakhmut, the city where some of the fiercest fighting of the war has been taking place.

Ukrainian authorities have said Kyiv's troops are gradually moving forward near the eastern city, which Russian forces seized in May.

Overnight the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy was hit by rockets, killing one person and injuring five others, the country's interior ministry said.

The ministry said on Telegram that a Russian missile hit an educational institution on Saturday evening. The BBC has not verified this information.

Elsewhere, two people were killed and another was injured after a missile hit "an open area" in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, an official said.

Anatoliy Kurtiev, secretary of the city council, said the blast wave caused by the "enemy missile" blew out apartment windows and damaged an educational institution and supermarket.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66351867

Fresh fears of WW3 - Russia's latest threat to NATO

 Russia's latest threat to NATO - and the world: Strikes just 600ft from Romania spark fresh fears of WW3 amid warning WAGNER could be sent to disrupt vital grain supplies


In the dawn hours of July 24, the skies over the sleepy towns of Reni and Izmail on the Danube river suddenly lit up with gunfire and explosions.

Over the next four hours a dozen Russian suicide drones slammed into the ports, injuring seven people and flattening warehouses used to ship Ukrainian grain to the world's poorest.

A new global food crisis looms off the back of the attack but, perhaps just as chillingly, it came within only a few hundred feet of hitting NATO territory.

FULL ARTICLE AT:  https://mol.im/a/12345023 via https://dailym.ai/android 

Islamic Iran is engulfed by sex tape scandal

 Islamic Iran is engulfed by sex tape scandal: Senior regime official is suspended after video is leaked 'showing him having sex with a man'

  • Iran official in charge or promoting Islamic values suspended after sex tape leak
  • Video shows a man alleged to Reza Tsaghati him having sex with another man

  • Iran has been engulfed in a sex tape scandal after a senior government official responsible for promoting Islamic values was suspended after a video was leaked of a man alleged to be him having sex with another man.

    The video which has been shared online reportedly is of a man said to be Reza Tsaghati, the head of culture and Islamic guidance in the northern Gilan province.

    However the identities of the two men in the video and its authenticity have not been verified, the BBC reports.

  • FULL ARTICLE AT:  https://mol.im/a/12351999 via https://dailym.ai/android