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Against the background of the situation around the Gaza Strip, China, France, the UAE, Norway and Ireland are calling for a closed meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday, the UAE state news agency WAM reported, citing the country’s Foreign Ministry.

As reported, the UAE Foreign Ministry expresses deep concern about the aggravation of the situation and calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint.

It is planned to discuss the latest developments and ways to achieve a “just and comprehensive peace” at a closed meeting of the UN Security Council, the statement said.

On Friday, the Israeli military launched Operation Dawn against the militants of the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip. The military strikes the enclave, a state of emergency has been imposed in the Israeli rear. Earlier, the central and southern regions of Israel, including the cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod, were shelled from the Gaza Strip. The victims of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip were 24 people, including 6 children and 2 women, 203 are also reportedthe wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that the country is not interested in prolonged hostilities in the Gaza Strip, but is not afraid of them. Israeli Defense Minister Beni Gantz said that the IDF will act “until its goals are achieved.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday called on the parties to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to show restraint and return to the ceasefire regime. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip condemned in Turkey.

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Alexey Pushkov, chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy, questioned the readiness of Western countries to declare a political war on Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan over rapprochement with Russia.

“Turkey is such a valuable member of NATO for the Western alliance, holding the keys to the Near and Middle East, which raises great doubts about the readiness of Western countries to declare a political war on Erdogan,” Pushkov wrote in his Telegram channel.

According to him, in the event of an aggravation of the confrontation with Turkey, the West may “remain in the balance”, and the real split between the NATO member countries causes the leadership of the alliance great fears.

On Friday, following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan in Sochi, an agreement was reached to increase the volume of bilateral trade, develop cooperation in the fields of economy, energy, transport, agriculture and tourism, industry, finance and construction.

In addition, according to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, following the talks between Putin and Erdogan, an agreement was reached on partial payment in rubles for Russian gas supplies. Russia supplies Turkey with 26 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

The meeting of the leaders of Russia and Turkey lasted more than 4 hours.

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The Russian Government has approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Russian Federation and Turkey on the development of trade and economic cooperation. The document is fully posted on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

It says about the adoption of the proposal of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, agreed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and other interested federal executive authorities, as well as previously worked out with the Turkish side.

It is clarified that the Minister of Trade and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak was instructed to sign the memorandum on behalf of the Russian government, while allowing “changes that are not of a fundamental nature” to be made during the signing negotiations.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that Turkey and Russia signed a roadmap for economic cooperation and intend to increase trade turnover between the countries to $ 100 billion.

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that international disarmament treaties signed at the end of the last century were under threat.

“We are witnessing a new arms race,” the Secretary General said during a visit to Hiroshima on the anniversary of the nuclear bombing.

Guterres expressed hope that the conference of States supporting the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, held at the UN headquarters, will have positive results. The Secretary General noted that he sees “movement in the right direction.”

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the wiretapping and surveillance of the leader of the PASOK-KINAL political party Nikos Androulakis an “unforgivable mistake.” The prime minister apologized to the politician in the Sunday edition of the newspaper “To Vima”, saying that he knew nothing about the surveillance.

A political scandal is developing in Greece related to the wiretapping of the mobile phones of an opposition politician, MEP Androulakis and journalist Kukakis. In connection with the scandal, the head of the Greek intelligence service Kontoleon and the Secretary General of the Prime Minister Dimitriadis were dismissed.  

“This is a big and unforgivable mistake, I was not informed,” Mitsotakis said. “I would never allow that.”

The newspaper writes that, according to the statements of the prime minister’s office, the head of the special service Kontoleon did not notify anyone about the surveillance of Andrulakis.

The audition lasted three months and was interrupted when the politician was elected president of the PASOK party, informed sources revealed the details. At the same time, Vima reported that the surveillance was conducted at the request of the special services of Armenia and Ukraine, which “in itself raises new reasonable questions.”

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi, with a story from her childhood, answered the question of how her visit to Taiwan could affect relations between the US and China.

“When I was a little girl, they told me on the beach that if you dig a hole very deep, you can get to China,” Pelosi shared. “So we in Washington have always felt a connection with Beijing.”

Users in social networks criticized such a speech by the speaker, dedicated to the results of the Pacific tour that excited the whole world.

Commentators accused Pelosi of hypocrisy, noting that it is unlikely to improve relations with China by making trips to Taiwan.

“All you have succeeded in is escalating tensions. The world needs leaders fighting for peace,” one user wrote.

“Troublemaker No. 1,” another “fan” designated the speaker’s place in his rating.

“Taiwan residents download the app to find shelters in case of an air raid. They were obviously happier before you made this visit,” another commenter noted.

“You did it just for the sake of PR, to increase your prestige,” another reader addressed Pelosi.

Commentators stated that the politician will bring more benefits to people around the world if he resigns immediately.

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The words of the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK Vadim Prystaiko, who demanded that Moscow return part of the foreign assets of the USSR, have no basis. The statements are populist in nature, the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry told RBC.

The Russian Foreign Ministry noted: from the point of view of international law, the USSR as its subject continued to exist. “The state under the name of the USSR did not cease, but continued its international legal personality under the name of the Russian Federation,” the department said and explained that in international law, the concept of “continuance” is used to designate such phenomena.

Earlier, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, Vadim Prystaiko, said that Russia should return to Ukraine “at least” a third of the USSR’s foreign property. In particular, the diplomat was referring to premises that are located in Britain and were illegally, in his opinion, “registered to the Russian Federation.”

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The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that on the morning of Saturday, August 6, “an attempt of sabotage was stopped at the Kursk airfield, where the military is based.”

According to the official, there are no injuries or damage.

“Specialists are working on site now”, – he added.

Starovoit asked the residents of the region to “understand the current situation and abandon the use of quadrocopters and other unmanned aerial vehicles”.

“Our specialists are forced to land them”, – said the governor, asking citizens “to conduct explanatory work with children” on this topic.

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, having studied the situation around the Gaza Strip, gave a new order to continue the operation against the Islamic Jihad group. The Minister’s order is reported by the Times of Israel.

The decision was made by Ganz after discussing the current situation with the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Aviv Kohavi, and other defense representatives.

“The command ordered to continue offensive actions against the Islamic Jihad, paying attention to repelling missile attacks against Israel,” the defense ministry said in a statement.

The Israeli army on Friday launched Operation Dawn against Palestinian radical groups from the Gaza Strip. Thus, it was reported that one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad was killed as a result of an Israeli strike.

According to doctors in the Gaza Strip, 11 people were killed and 80 injured as a result of the operation.

It was estimated that up to 160 rockets were fired from the territory of the enclave towards Israel.

On Saturday morning, as the newspaper notes, air raid sirens went off in settlements bordering the Gaza Strip. The country’s authorities recorded rocket launches from the Gaza Strip also in the city of Sderot.

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The head of the Center for International Security of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Alexei Arbatov, said that the United States, without admitting guilt for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, could repeat the strike with atomic weapons.

“For more than five months we have been on the verge of a direct armed clash between Russia and NATO…” the academician said.

According to him, Washington does not consider the bombing of Japan an act of aggression, but only an act of retaliation, as it blames Tokyo for the escalation – the attack on Pearl Harbor. The academician believes that “if there is a further escalation of the Ukrainian crisis,” the use of nuclear weapons will become possible.

“This is the last measure, but it is not excluded,” he believes.

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