The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed a new Strategy for Counteracting Extremism, in which it proposed creating a register of people who have left Russia. The text of the Strategy has been published on the Federal Portal of Draft Regulatory Legal Documents.

A new study by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has found that southern Africa has ceased to lead in new HIV infections in the past year, with cases down 56% compared with the 2010s. Globally, cases have fallen by an average of 39% in the same period, The Guardian reports . Despite the successes in the fight against the virus in Africa, the researchers note that, according to their data, the fight is not being carried out as successfully in the rest of the world.

Poachers living near Mount Terbol in northern Lebanon are killing birds migrating from Africa to Eurasia. Every year, 2.6 million birds flying over Lebanon are killed by them, according to wildlife conservationists. The poachers post videos of themselves shooting the animals on social media, particularly TikTok, which animal rights activists believe is the reason for the killing of the birds, The Guardian reports .

The number of requests to tarot readers and fortune tellers regarding the end of the war in Ukraine and the fate of military personnel turned out to be a record since 2022. The Telegram channel "We Can Explain" drew attention to this. The Telegram channel relies on Yandex statistics, according to which Russians began to take an interest in esotericism and ask questions related to the war after the start of a full-scale invasion.

Customs officers at Vnukovo Airport confiscated volcanic sand from India from a 42-year-old Russian woman, which turned out to be radioactive. This was reported by the Federal Customs Service (FCS) on its Telegram channel. The woman, whose name has not been released, was flying from India via the United Arab Emirates when she was stopped while passing through the "green corridor" due to the activation of the Yantar radiation monitoring system, the press release said.

The Berlin Regional Court has sentenced 56-year-old Russian oppositionist Dmitry Bagrash, who attempted to set fire to a building where RIA Novosti employees lived. The Russian was found guilty of attempted murder with aggravating circumstances and attempted arson, and was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison. The German publication Deutsche Welle writes about the essence of the case.

About 300 fighters of the Georgian National Legion fighting for Ukraine have been declared wanted in their home country, the unit's commander Mamuka Mamulashvili told The Insider. Lasha Chigladze and Nadim Khmaladze, who fought in Ukraine, have already been summoned for questioning by the State Security Service of Georgia. Anti-Occupation Movement activist Chigladze has become a defendant in a case of attempted overthrow of the government, the Rustavi2 TV channel reported .

In the new episode of the program "BesogonTV" Nikita Mikhalkov commented on the accusations against him regarding the denunciation of director Zhenya Berkovich. The "Agency" drew attention to this. "I have never steamed in a bathhouse with Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin, although I love the bathhouse and would be happy to steam with him. I have never laid eyes on Mrs. Berkovich in my life, I have never seen her plays, to my shame, probably. I have not read her poetry," Mikhalkov said.

The European Union will begin negotiations with Armenia on introducing a visa-free regime. Information about this was confirmed by the head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Ararat Mirzoyan, Reuters reports . “This is a very important milestone in deepening the partnership between Armenia and the EU, based on common values ​​and principles,” Mirzoyan said. The exact timeframe for visa liberalization negotiations has not yet been determined. The process could take years.

A group of scientists led by oceanographer Andrew Sweetman has found that oxygen can be produced on the ocean floor in the absence of sunlight, CNN reports . The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paper says that oxygen production at a depth of four thousand meters in the ocean was first noticed in 2013. However, Sweetman decided that his equipment was faulty.

Ukraine managed to reach an agreement with the Eurobond Holders Committee on a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign debt in the amount of 20 billion dollars. Thus, Ukraine managed to avoid a default, which would have had to be declared on August 1. This was reported by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko. The restructuring involves changing the terms of the agreement.

"Autism can be reversed." This was the headline of an article in the British newspaper The Telegraph about how American scientists had managed to "reduce to an indistinguishable level" the symptoms of severe autism. This publication, as well as the study itself, outraged the National Autistic Society of Great Britain. According to The Telegraph, two fraternal twins in the US were diagnosed with autism at the age of 20 months.

The head of the "Safe Internet League" Ekaterina Mizulina called Chechen blogger Askhab Tamaev a scammer in her Telegram channel and said that he does not respect Islam. Chechen Minister for National Policy Affairs Akhmed Dudayev spoke in his defense. Mizulina accused Tamaev of fraud on the Internet after the blogger forced the host of the Ministry of Truth project, Astemir Gergov, to apologize for publishing an investigation about Tamaev.

I am ashamed that I hid the bookmarks, but the conclusion has straightened my brains Vladislav Izhel was born and raised in Kirov. At 16, he contacted, as he himself says, with a bad company that suggested hiding his bookmarks. He was detained with drugs in his pocket, for which he was later convicted of three and a half years of the colony.

Producer Maxim Fadeev said that he intends to deprive Natalia Chistyakova-Ionova of the right to use the pseudonym Gluk'oZa and sing his songs. He wrote about this on his Telegram channel after the singer's performance at a concert in honor of Metallurgist's Day in Krasnoyarsk. "We have officially stated that she is no longer part of the Gluk'oZa group.