Moscow is helping Pyongyang develop a space program, thus violating international sanctions imposed on North Korea, the local Yonhap news agency reported , citing sources in the South Korean Defense Ministry. According to the agency's source, experts from Russia are taking part in preparing the launch of a North Korean spy satellite.

Brightly coloured plastic decomposes much faster than the same white plastic, a group of British and South African scientists have found. The study on the impact of dyes on environmental degradation and the decomposition of plastic into microparticles was published in the scientific journal Environmental Pollution. Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Cape Town conducted a three-year experiment on multi-coloured plastic lids from the same manufacturer.

Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced at an operational meeting of the regional government that local authorities will stop paying compensation to victims if they were injured or killed in an area where a state of emergency has been declared. This was reported by RBC. According to Gladkov, the authorities will also not pay compensation for damaged property.

Russian electronic warfare systems have rendered ineffective some types of precision weapons supplied by the United States to Ukraine to repel Russian aggression, The New York Times reports , citing Ukrainian military personnel and secret reports from the Ukrainian Armed Forces command. According to the publication, due to Russia's use of new electronic warfare systems, the effectiveness of, in particular, Excalibur 155-millimeter caliber guided artillery shells has significantly decreased.

According to him, people began to lick eggs for the sake of compensation. Now he considers the idea of ​​"idiotic" Several residents of Yekaterinburg were poisoned by the food of the local chain of stores of finished food and products "Logamart". The founder of the network in response promised the victims of compensation - a million rubles to everyone.

Russian federal television showed nuclear weapons being removed from warehouses. As the Agency noted , the footage, previously published by the Russian Ministry of Defense, appeared on the air of the Vesti Nedeli program on the Rossiya 1 channel. We are talking about a video showing preparations for the launch of an Iskander missile, as well as equipping a MiG-31 fighter with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile with a nuclear warhead. "Does this remind you of anything?

The Interior Ministry and the Justice Ministry have approached Vladimir Putin with a proposal to exclude the Afghan Taliban movement from the list of terrorist organizations. This was reported by Zamir Kabulov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's second Asian department, as reported by the TASS agency. "This (the exclusion of the Taliban from the list of terrorist and banned organizations - Kholod's note) is mandatory. Without this, it will be premature to talk about recognition.

The Polish authorities plan to spend about two and a half billion dollars to strengthen the border with Russia and Belarus as part of the four-year Eastern Shield program, Polish radio station RMF24 reports . Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said Eastern Shield, the country's national deterrence and defence programme, was "the largest operation to strengthen NATO's eastern flank since 1945".

The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf sentenced 54-year-old German army officer Thomas H. to three and a half years in prison for spying for Russia, the German publication ZDF reports . The officer was detained in August 2023. According to investigators, the man had been transmitting information to Russia via the consulate in Bonn and the embassy in Berlin several times since May 2023. The prosecutor's office claims that this information constituted a military secret.

Telegram may introduce a Fact Check function that will check information in posts. This was reported by the Telegram channels " Durova Code " and The Bell Tech, citing the beta version of Telegram for Android. The Telegram channel "Durova's Code" notes that the new function allows adding explanatory information to published posts. At the same time, the company will cooperate with agencies that check facts. They can be appointed by the government of the country in which the messenger is used.

Millions of Americans will face record-breaking temperatures this summer, driven primarily by human error and fossil fuel combustion, as well as El Niño and La Niña events and massive forest fires in Canada, the smoke from which is gradually reaching the United States. People who work outside are at particular risk – they spend especially long periods in the sun, and the government is not doing enough to protect them, The Guardian reports .

Zinaida Pronchenko-about the winning film and other results of the 77th Cannes Film Festival The “Golden Palm Branch” of the 77th Cannes Film Festival went to the film by Sean Baker “Anora”, the main male roles in which were played by Russian artists Mark Eidelstein and Yura Borisov, and the secondary ones-Alexey Serebryakov and Daria Yekamasova.

For the first time in 24 years, a French president has arrived in Germany on a state visit. French leader Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are to discuss what Europe needs to do to protect itself from Russia. In particular, they will discuss measures to ensure security in the skies, as there are currently disagreements between the countries, Bloomberg reports .

A British resident has been arrested in Pattaya for hitting a Russian during a party, after which the Russian died, The Pattaya News reports . According to the publication, the deceased is 36-year-old Igor Vasiliev, and the arrested is 35-year-old Briton Ricky Aaron Williams. The conflict between them occurred at a Pattaya villa at three o'clock in the morning - at that time a party was taking place there.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for Ukraine not to be restricted in using Western weapons when striking targets on Russian territory. He said this while speaking at a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He noted that Ukrainian strikes on targets on Russian territory can be seen as self-defense in the context of a new offensive by Russian troops in the Kharkiv region.