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China will create funds worth $ 10 billion intended for the implementation of global development initiatives, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the BRICS summit.

At the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, it was decided to invite six more countries to join the association - Argentina, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

The magistrate of the judicial district of the Tagansky district of Moscow on Thursday fined Telegram messenger 50 thousand rubles for refusing to delete data about an employee of Rosaccreditation

Ottawa has expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions. This is reported in a document published on the official website of the Canadian Foreign Ministry.

Two tankers carrying liquefied natural gas collided in the Suez Canal, according to the Marine Traffic vessel tracking service on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

Eight states have joined the new package of sanctions introduced earlier against Belarus by the European Union, the press service of the Council of Europe reported.

The Ukrainian government has allocated almost 7.5 million dollars to the Ministry of Defense of the country to support the activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including personnel training

The commander of the Lithuanian army, General Valdemaras Rupshis, warned that the republic is preparing measures to respond to the case of unpredictable actions of Russia and Belarus on the border

Boris Titov, the presidential Commissioner for the Protection of the rights of entrepreneurs, suggested using prisoners more often to close vacancies at factories, since they are a "permanent, disciplined workforce," Interfax reports.

The American Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with the crew of the Crew-6 mission will detach from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 1 to return to Earth

The first vessel used the temporary corridor opened by Kiev in the Black Sea, a container ship with more than 30 thousand tons of cargo left the port of Odessa, said the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexander Kubrakov.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleynik will represent Minsk at the events of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg next week, the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaze told RIA Novosti.

Economic sanctions against Russia imposed by the European Union and the United States have caused Moscow much less harm than initially expected.

The airline Red Wings linked the delay of Russian tourists in Turkey for two days with Western sanctions in the aviation industry.

Norwegian international technology group Kongsberg Gruppen will supply Ukraine with an anti-UAV system worth 740 million Norwegian kroner ($70.8 million), the Norwegian government reports.