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The Russian Embassy in the United States sent a note of protest to the State Department because of problems with the US visa issuing tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova, the press service of the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington said.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine completed the counting of votes in elections to the Verkhovna Rada. Founded in 2016 by Vladimir Zelensky, the “Servant of the People” party won 43.16% of the vote.

The UK introduces an additional provision on the control over the export of underwater vehicles to Russia, reports July 26 RT.

Memorial events will be held on January 27, 2020 in the museum, created on the site of the former concentration camp

The Society for the Study of Human Rights of the People’s Republic of China on Friday released a report stating that the existence of racial discrimination in the United States testifies to the futility of the American government’s policy on the protection of human rights.

In Japan, presented a wearable conditioner that can be placed in the pocket of a special T-shirt. The creation of the device involved specialists from Sony.

Children of Russian tourists most often get sick while on holiday in Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain are also in the top three, AlfaStrakhovanie reported, having calculated where parents most often applied for medical aid on travels in 2017 and 2018.

The chimpanzee, still famous for its good temper, in front of the visitors of the zoo in the French department of Loire, bit off the hand of an employee who looked after it, the newspaper Progres writes.

Major retailers in the UK, including Tesco, Asda and Iceland, have announced they are not using plastic bags in their stores. This measure, as reported by The Times, is aimed at combating plastic waste in the kingdom.

American influential senator Lindsay Graham said that at the request of US President Donald Trump he asked Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Chavushoglu not to put into operation Russian S-400 air defense system, then the United States would not impose sanctions.

The plane from Chisinau, which carries the crew of a Russian tanker detained in Ukraine, landed in Moscow.

Astronomers discovered an elderly star in the constellation Ursa Minor, which began to "cough" and shed its outer shells in the last moments of life. 

An international group of scientists from Russia, Ecuador and Japan discovered fragments of ceramic vessels, which date from 4640-4460 BC and were created by an unknown civilization. 

Experimental spaceship Starhopper caught fire during the test, according to Space.com.

In Moscow, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of European cities from the Nazi invaders, they will hold 17 holiday fireworks in 2019–2020. This was reported on July 25 on the website of the Moscow City Hall.