Several American researchers have said they have identified the likely location of a nuclear-tipped Burevestnik cruise missile in Russia, Reuters reports . Researchers examined images taken on July 26 by Planet Labs, a commercial satellite communications company, and found construction sites near a nuclear warhead storage facility in the Vologda-20 military town, located nearly 500 kilometers from Moscow in the Vologda region.

Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 148 teachers have been persecuted for their anti-war views. A third have been victims of denunciations, including by children, according to a study by the OVD-Info project. Denunciations were the reason for persecution in 51 out of 148 cases, the authors of the study write. Most often, the informers were either students or their parents - in 22 cases.

Sweden's Public Health Agency has issued recommendations that children under two years of age should be completely shielded from digital media and television, RFI reports . The new guidelines also say that children aged two to five should limit their screen time to one hour a day, while children aged six to 12 should spend no more than an hour or two a day in front of a screen. The Swedish agency says that teenagers aged 13 to 18 should limit their screen time to two to three hours a day.

Turkey has officially applied to join BRICS, Bloomberg reported, citing its sources. The bloc is set to discuss its expansion and inclusion of new countries at a summit scheduled for October 22-24 in Kazan, Russia, the publication's sources said. Turkey's leadership is frustrated by the lack of progress on its path to the European Union and is seeking to strengthen its global influence and forge new ties beyond the West, Bloomberg sources explained the decision.

In addition to traditional services, the Samara funeral home offers its clients an unusual service — coffin therapy. It was first presented last year at a funeral forum in Moscow by the owner of the Funeral Services Center “Blessings of Memory” Ekaterina Kostyleva. She told Kholod that she has conducted several such sessions since then.

Pre-orders for a book by Alexei Navalny, who died in February in a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle, have opened. A corresponding message appeared on the Telegram channel "Team Navalny". "On October 22, 2024, Alexey's autobiography will go on sale in 36 countries in 26 languages. You can pre-order the book in Russian here," it says. The pre-order site says the book is called "Patriot" and is the politician's autobiography, which he began writing after surviving Novichok poisoning.

British citizen Magomed Abubakarov told the Anti-Torture Team that after arriving in Chechnya, where he was born, he was shot by security forces during his arrest. The man was tortured and forced to confess to collaborating with British intelligence. According to human rights activists, the man came to Chechnya in May 2023 for family reasons. He lived with relatives, but a few weeks later the police began looking for him in connection with a 2010 conviction for banditry.

South Korean police have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the Telegram messenger for distributing pornographic content produced using deepfake technology, Yonhap news agency reported . National Investigation Bureau Director Woo Jeong-soo said that from August 26 to 29, police received 88 reports of deepfakes being used to create porn, and identified 24 suspects.

In June, the Ministry of Health sent letters to Russian research institutes demanding that they report on their developments related to the fight against aging, according to a joint investigation by Meduza and Sistema . The authenticity of the letter was confirmed to journalists by two doctors who work in scientific research medical centers (NMIC) and an employee of one of the academic institutes.

The Finnish authorities are considering introducing a complete ban on most Russians purchasing real estate in the country due to a possible threat to national security. The corresponding bill will be presented to parliament before the end of the year. This was reported by Yle, citing the author of the initiative, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen.

A beluga whale named Hvaldimir, dubbed Russia's "spy whale," was found dead in Risavika Bay in southern Norway, local television channel NRK reported . The first to spot the whale's body floating on the surface were a father and son fishing nearby on the afternoon of August 31. "At first I thought the boat had capsized, so my dad and I went there to check. By then there was already a boat with biologists monitoring the whale," Storm Carolius Christiansen, 16, told reporters.

During the lesson “Conversations about the Important”, which took place in Kyzyl, Vladimir Putin admitted the possibility of starting peace talks with Ukraine and linked this to the presence of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region, writes “Agency”. "People are going through difficult trials, especially in the Kursk region. But the main task that the enemy set for itself - to stop our offensive in Donbass, it did not achieve. Moreover...

A man has been arrested in St. Petersburg on charges of murdering a girl. This was reported by Mediazona, citing the press service of the city courts. According to the investigation, on the afternoon of August 28, the accused Artur Kurshev "struck the girl twice with an unidentified object" in the chest. It is reported that the girl died immediately after stab wounds to the chest. The murder took place in St. Petersburg behind the abandoned Nevsky Palace of Culture.

In Japan, a 17-year-old schoolgirl jumped from a shopping mall and fell on a 32-year-old passerby who was walking with her friends. Both died, the BBC reports . The incident occurred on August 31 in a crowded shopping area in Yokohama. Both victims were taken to hospital at around 6:00 p.m. local time. According to the BBC, the schoolgirl died an hour after being hospitalized. The woman on whom the girl fell also died shortly after. As the BBC notes, a similar incident occurred in Japan in 2020.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won the regional elections to the Landtag (parliament) in the eastern state of Thuringia, ZDF reported . This is the first time since the fall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime that the far-right has won an election of this level in Germany. AfD won 32.8% of the votes, which provided it with 32 seats in the local parliament out of 88.