Donald Trump demanded to pay a share from the forced Tiktok sale to the American budget The purchase of Microsoft Corporation of the American unit of the Chinese Tiktok is rapidly becoming the most crazy business historium of the year. Donald Trump, whose threats of a video service ban in the United States forced Tiktok to negotiate a business, said that he was ready to approve the deal - but if the buyer pays the commission for a successful deal to the US budget.

Not only Microsoft, but also Apple is interested in buying the Chinese TikTok app, say Axios sources . The company itself denied this. In addition to Microsoft, which has already confirmed talks to buy TikTok, Apple and at least one other strategic investor are interested in the app, writes Axios.

In the port of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, two huge explosions occurred, the cause could be a fire in a pyrotechnics warehouse. The governor of the capital compared the incident to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. At least 10 people were killed, hundreds were injured. According to Al Arabiya, the explosion was so strong that the cotton, according to numerous eyewitness reports , was heard in Cyprus - at a distance of over 200 km from Beirut.

The cut-off price for Urals oil under the budget rule this year is $42.2 per barrel, but due to the effects of the OPEC+ deal and falling oil and gas revenues, the real filling of the budget will only begin at a higher oil price. This follows from the calculations of Raiffeisenbank analysts available to The Bell. According to analysts, shortfall in oil and gas revenues in August will be reduced compared to June to 15 billion rubles.

Booking Holding, a global hotel booking giant with a website of the same name, has announced a massive staff reduction - the company is going to lay off a quarter of its 17,000 employees, according to Reuters. The cuts could be up to 25% of the total workforce, the company said on Tuesday. The statement of the company's CEO Glenn Vogel was sent in video format to Booking Holding employees. Booking said they would try to keep as many jobs as possible.

U.S. President Donald Trump has made it conditional on the U.S. company's approval of the purchase of video app TikTok from China's ByteDance to transfer "a substantial amount of money" to the treasury, writes the WSJ. "This use of presidential power is unprecedented," the newspaper notes. "Whether it's Microsoft or anyone else... the US Treasury should get a very significant percentage of this amount because we made this deal possible," he told Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Garmin, one of the largest manufacturers of smartwatches, fitness bracelets and navigation equipment, paid a multi-million dollar ransom to hackers who blocked the company's access to its own servers for almost a week. The Garmin brand paid millions of dollars in ransom after a hack put many of its products and services out of business and out of the company's control, sources told Sky News.

Since May 12, 42,000 passengers have been fined for violations of the mask and glove regime in Moscow in the amount of more than 210 million rubles. This was announced by the deputy head of the State Institution "Organizer of Transportation" Oleg Ivanov on the air of "Russia 24". Ivanov's data means that approximately 5,000 passengers were fined in a week: by July 29, there were 37,000 fined. For non-compliance with the rules, a fine of 5,000 rubles is provided, the official recalled.

Vladimir Putin announced plans to withdraw from agreements to avoid double taxation with Russians popular with offshore jurisdictions - Cyprom, Malta and Luxembourg. In the Bell Professional report prepared specially at The Bell Professional, experts of the GSL Law & Consulting Law Company Alexander Alekseev and Marina Haritidi understand what consequences this threatens. You will find a report here .

Andrey Vorobyov, Governor of the Moscow Region, has asked President Putin to extend mortgage benefits that end in November. According to him, for the construction industry, real low rates on housing loans have become a "breath of air." “We are asking, we are working with the government, so that the measure that you proposed on preferential mortgages be continued, it is now until November,” Vorobyov said.

The crisis undermined not only the economy, but also changed the humanitarian sphere of society. Svetlana Mironyuk, Vice -Rector of the Moscow School of Management of Skolkovo, spoke about these changes with the People’s Artist of Russia and the founder of the Life Foundation Chulpan Khamatova . This dialogue is the continuation of our joint with the Charitable Fund of Vladimir Potanin of the project “Approaching the Future” .

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, in the course of his message, announced another detachment of militants deployed to the south of the country, and questioned the stated goals of the first one, reports . Belta “Today we received information about another detachment that has been deployed to the south. We must, when cleaning is in progress, run, catch them in the forests! We will catch them all,” Lukashenka said during the appeal.

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's DST Global investment fund is going to invest $400 million in Indian online education startup Byju's, writes Bloomberg. The deal, which values ​​the company at $10.5 billion, could be closed as early as this weekend, the source said. If this happens, Byju will become the second largest startup in India after fintech Paytm, in which Chinese giant Alibaba Group Holding invested in 2018.

Russian hackers hacked and several times gained access to the mailbox of the British ex-minister of trade Liam Fox. It is from him that the Prime Minister's revealed secret documents about the American-British trade agreement come from the election, Reuters found out . In 2019, the publication of classified agreements was called the “Russian” way to undermine the chances of the current Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The incumbent President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko today delivers a message to the people of Belarus and the National Assembly. Today, he and other registered candidates, less than a week before the August 9 presidential election, released campaign programs. Lukashenka's message was scheduled for April, but was postponed twice. “Russia is afraid of losing us, because it has no allies but us,” Lukashenka said today.