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Russia has the right to view the UK's declared direct participation of its missile forces in strikes against Russia as direct participation in a war, with all the ensuing consequences, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.

The Russian armed forces struck a dry cargo ship carrying military equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces in the Black Sea southeast of Odessa, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Ukraine has derailed the planned August 20-21 visit of IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and the town of Energodar, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Russian forces have liberated Orekhovatka and Krasnopodolye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

A Russian citizen who collected and passed information on Russian Defense Ministry facilities and the region's defense-industrial and fuel-and-energy complexes to Ukrainian military intelligence has been detained in the Ryazan Region, the Russian Federal Security Service's Public Relations Center said.

Ukrainian armed formations, ignoring the norms and principles of international humanitarian law, carried out deliberate strikes against medical facilities and medical transport in Russia on August 10-16, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said.

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The head of a Taiwanese technology company has been detained on suspicion of violating the National Security Act by using Chinese-made components in drones supplied under a military procurement contract, the Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office said Tuesday.

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A Chinese national was sentenced today in the Western District of North Carolina by U.S. District Judge Susan C. Rodriguez to 15 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $25 million for his role in a Chinese money laundering organization (CMLO) that laundered over $92 million in illicit funds, including proceeds from the importation and distribution of illegal drugs into the United States, primarily through Mexico.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet session held today in Jeddah

The Russian state corporation Rostec's engine division has completed the design documentation and approved the mock-up of a brand-new turboprop engine - the VK-1600S, the company said.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin with President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, who arrived in Russia on an official visit.

Russia is beginning to implement agreements on construction of small modular reactor nuclear power plant in Myanmar, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Tuesday.

While Libya has made strides in advancing its ambitious political road map - aimed at unifying the country's divided institutions and paving the way for elections - widespread electricity shortages, economic turmoil and security flareups are driving public frustration at the slow pace of progress, the senior United Nations official in Tripoli warned the Security Council today.