Cover photo: A view of the State Duma building, the lower house of Russia's parliament, in central Moscow on October 27, 2022. Source: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images Lawmakers in Russia’s State Duma voted on Tuesday to broaden the scope of the country’s “undesirable” organization law to include any entities affiliated with foreign governments.

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, CNN reports , noting that the agency is continuing to investigate how the shooter managed to get close to the former president and shoot him. In a statement, President Joe Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden were grateful for Cheatle's decades of public service and said he would soon appoint a new head of the Secret Service, a position that does not require Senate confirmation.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation has adopted amendments to the Tax Code in the second and third readings, which significantly increase the amount of state fees when applying to the courts, Interfax reports. The maximum fees in arbitration courts are increasing from 200 thousand rubles to 10 million rubles, and in courts of general jurisdiction - from 60 thousand to 900 thousand rubles.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet Security Service (Shin Bet) have collected an archive of Hamas documents on how the terrorists prepared the attack after the October 2023 terrorist attack on Israel and during the war in the Gaza Strip. This was reported by the Walla publication, which published information from this archive, citing senior IDF and Shin Bet officials. The archive itself has not yet been published.

On July 23, French police arrested a Russian in Paris who is suspected of preparing actions to “destabilize” the situation during the Olympics, AFP reports , citing informed sources.

Singer Charlotte, accused of rehabilitating Nazism, insulting the feelings of believers, inciting hatred and damaging documents, was added to the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring, RBC reports . In early 2023, Charlotte left Russia for Armenia. A few months later, he posted a video on his Instagram account in which he tore up a paper letter Z in the colors of the St. George ribbon.

The Insider News July 23, 2024 Representatives of 14 Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Fatah, held talks in Beijing and signed a declaration on ending divisions and strengthening Palestinian unity, CNN reported , citing Chinese state television company CCTV. The negotiations have been ongoing since July 21.

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Rumors about the death of French soldiers in Ukraine have arisen before, but not a single name has been given. In May 2024, France 24, debunking these rumors, traced their origins to the American far-right conspiracy theorist Hal Turner. According to another French channel, TF1, he had only one “proof” of it: a large number of Western planes landing at the Polish airport of Rzeszow near the Ukrainian border.

Ukrainian drones attacked a ferry in the port of Kavkaz in the Kerch Strait on the morning of July 23. According to the head of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, "among the crew members and port employees there are injured and one dead." Emergency services are putting out the fire that broke out. Port Kavkaz is located 12 km north of the Crimean Bridge, from where passenger ferries run 24 hours a day to annexed Crimea.

In the capital of Montenegro, Podgorica, police arrested Russian Inga Pelinagra, who received political asylum in Italy, and now she faces deportation to Russia, where she will likely be arrested. This is what human rights activist Gera Ugryumova and Podgorica MP Aleksandar Zekovic write . According to Ugryumova, Pelignagru has been wanted by Interpol since 2012 at the request of the Russian side.

The EU Council Press Service announced the official start of negotiations with Armenia on the visa-free regime, as well as on additional measures to assist the Armenian armed forces in the amount of 10 million euros.

“The Project” released an investigation into how the head of the Presidential Security Service, Alexey Rubezhnoy, and the head of the Russian Boxing Federation, Umar Kremlev, make money on betting. As the publication found out, Kremlev owns shares in bookmaking companies, which are among the five largest by revenue in 2023. They account for more than half of the Russian bookmaker market. At the same time, he controls the supervision of bookmakers and the accounting of bets.

The Moscow City Court overturned the sentence of former police officer Semiel Vedel (Sergey Klokov), who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for disseminating military "fakes". As reported by SotaVision, the court sent the case back for a new trial. Vedel's lawyer petitioned to study the psychological and linguistic examination conducted by the defense and to question its authors: linguist Igor Zharkov and psychologist Valeria Konstantinova. The court granted this petition.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with ATV Hirado that military aid from the EU will be blocked for Ukraine until it resumes operation of the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline branch leading to Hungary and Slovakia. According to him, the Ukrainian side "threatens" the energy supply of Hungary and Slovakia, because 33% of Hungarian and about 40% of Slovak oil imports come from Lukoil supplies that transit through Ukrainian territory.