Paris Saint-Germain Lionel Messi became a player in the Paris Saint-Germain football club. The parties entered into a contract for two seasons with the possibility of extending another one. Officially, Messi's salary in PSG is not disclosed; The media wrote that it could be 35 million euros per season. Messi moved to PSG from Barcelona, ​​where he played his entire professional career.

Chinese tech company Xiaomi has unveiled its first robot dog. His name is CyberDog. CyberDog is powered by Nvidia's Jetson Xavier NX module designed for standalone devices. The company calls it "the smallest supercomputer with artificial intelligence." Robodog weighs three kilograms, is capable of moving at a speed of three meters per second, and is equipped with sensors and cameras that allow it to move in semi-autonomous mode. CyberDog can be controlled using a special application.

Taliban militants currently control 65 percent of Afghanistan's territory, a European Union source told Reuters and AFP . According to him, the capabilities of Afghan government forces have been significantly weakened due to the withdrawal of American troops from the country. According to Al Jazeera, the Taliban have captured the capitals of eight of Afghanistan's 34 provinces in less than a week. The first capital, Zaranj, was captured on August 6.

Rosfinmonitoring (Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service) has added video blogger Yuri Khovansky to its list of organizations and individuals accused of involvement in terrorism or extremist activities. On the agency’s website, the 31-year-old is included on its blacklist of “Russian individuals” at number eight. As OVD-Info explains , individuals blacklisted by Rosfinmonitoring face banking restrictions.

The founder of RussNeft, Mikhail Gutseriev, who fell under sanctions from the European Union and Great Britain, transferred his share in the company — 37.15% of shares — to his younger brother Sait-Salam. This was reported by RussNeft itself. The transfer of shares took place on June 10, before the sanctions were introduced. In July, Mikhail Gutseriev transferred control over his second key oil asset, the Neftisa company, to Sait-Salam, Kommersant wrote .

Belarusian artist Anastasiya Mirontsava shares poignant drawings and letters from prison There are six sisters in the Mirontsava family. In August 2020, three of them — Viktoriya, Aliaksandra, and Anastasiya — were detained during the opposition protests in Minsk. Aliaksandra managed to flee Belarus, but Viktoriya and Anastasiya were found guilty of “breaching public order” and “using violence against police officers” and sentenced to time in prison.

Even the father of the Prime Minister spoke in defense of the animal. But it seems that this will not change anything Tom Wren Swns / Scanpix / Leta Helen McDonald and Jeronimo Alpak on a farm in Gloucester, August 10, 2021 On August 9, in London, several dozen people conducted an action against the murder of an alpak named Jeronimo, in which they found bull tuberculosis. This is an infectious disease that can be transmitted to other animals and people.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct. It is reported by NBC News. I think the best way to help now, given the circumstances, is to step aside and let government be government again. Cuomo will leave office in 14 days. Until the next election in 2022, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hokul will serve as governor. She will be the first woman to lead the state of New York.

FBK was included in the list of extremist organizations. Lionel Messi has moved to PSG. Why is the historical center of St. Petersburg falling apart Good evening, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day.

In Vladikavkaz, the chief doctor of the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital was detained, where patients died due to a malfunction in the oxygen system. This was reported by the Department of the Investigative Committee for North Ossetia. The suspect's name was not specified in the IC's report. The hospital's website says that its chief physician is Vladimir Pliev. The UK intends to ask the court to arrest the suspect.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The UN released the most important climate report. This crisis can not ignore a single country - otherwise the world will come to an end. But we still have a chance to escape? The intergovernmental group of climate experts at the UN published a large report on global warming caused by human activities. Over the past ten years, the average temperature on Earth has been 1.09 degrees higher than in the second half of the XIX century.

The Latvian government has introduced a state of emergency in the territories bordering Belarus due to the situation with illegal migrants. Delphi reports. A state of emergency has been declared in the Ludza, Kraslava, Augshdaugava regions adjacent to the border, as well as in the city of Daugavpils. It will be valid from August 11 to November 10. For the duration of the emergency in these regions, state institutions will not accept applications for refugee status.

Moscow’s Presnensky District Court rejected Alexey Navalny’s libel lawsuit against Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reported on August 10, citing the court’s press service. The jailed opposition politician attempted to take Putin’s spokesman to court for alleging that Navalny was working with specialists from the CIA. Peskov made this claim in October 2020. At the time, Navalny was in Germany, recovering from chemical nerve agent poisoning.

Olga Smolskaya / TASS Eleven coronavirus patients died in a hospital in Russia’s North Ossetia after the intensive care unit lost its oxygen supply on Monday, August 9. According to the region’s acting head, the oxygen supply was cut off after an oxygen pipe burst underground. The 11 patients who died were reportedly in serious condition and on ventilators.

The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission unanimously overturned the decision of the territorial commission to refuse to register the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, as a candidate for the elections to the city legislative assembly in a single-mandate constituency. This was reported by Vishnevsky himself. Now, within five days, the territorial election commission of the Central District must re-examine the issue of registering Vishnevsky and approve him as a candidate.