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#viral | 'Paw-ferential Fare': Two Dogs Try to Sneak Onto Transit — One Succeeds, the Other Gets Stuck
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❗️Russian Troops Have Liberated Ryzhevka in Sumy Region & Zarnitsa in Zaporozhye Region: MoD
👉 The Russian army has continued advancing across all areas of the special military operation zone since the start of 2026, liberating settlements one after another in Donbass and beyond, while steadily expanding security buffer zones in border regions.
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Senior RSF Field Commander Killed During Clashes With Sudanese Army-Aligned Forces in West Darfur
🇸🇩 The commander was killed on Tuesday in heavy clashes north of El Geneina, dealing a fresh blow to the rebel paramilitary group in the western region.
Key details:
🟠Brigadier General Mahdi Jebel Moon, who led RSF operations north of West Darfur's capital, died during fighting in the areas of Hajar Marfain and Bir Saliba.
🟠Minni Arko Minnawi, Darfur Governor and general supervisor of the Joint Forces—an alliance of armed groups fighting alongside the Sudanese army—confirmed the "battlefield victory," and pro-RSF media later acknowledged Moon's death.
🟠Jebel Moon had recently taken command of the RSF's 128th Group after being promoted to brigadier general. He previously commanded RSF artillery forces in Khartoum and had led combat units across several axes in Darfur in recent months.
Clashes have escalated north of El Geneina as Joint Forces attempt to block RSF advances toward Tine, a key border town in North Darfur State.
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Malian Army Presses Forward With Multiple Operations Across Country
🇲🇱 The FAMa, supported by the Russian Africa Corps, struck terrorist targets across several regions over the past three days, focusing on logistics sites, bases, and regroupment areas, the army said in a statement.
Key highlights from the operations:
🟠Near Timbuktu, forces struck a truck carrying logistical equipment destined for terrorist groups.
🟠In the Fina forest, a terrorist base was "successfully dealt with."
🟠A regroupment site for terrorist groups, which also housed equipment for clandestine mining, was destroyed.
🟠At Kouakourou, a terrorist base was destroyed.
🟠At Tessalit, a gathering of suspected terrorist leaders and a depot of war materials were detected and destroyed.
📹 The video shows an Africa Corps strike on a major terrorist camp in the Mopti region
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Nearly All Migrants Who Crossed Into Ceuta Returned to Morocco: Spain's Authorities
Around 72,000 people entered Spain illegally, and 70,000 have already left the country, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters.
👉For its part, Spain's Foreign Ministry insisted its immigration laws remain unchanged: illegally entering Spain through Ceuta or Melilla does not grant migrants the right to stay, reach the mainland, or move freely across Europe.
Moreover, a dual border control system remains in place, the ministry noted.
Spain's authorities reported at least 88 deaths, while 11 casualties are reported by Morocco following the mass border crossings into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
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Ceuta Migration Surge Driven by Social Pressures and Political Tensions, Says Moroccan Expert
🇲🇦🇪🇸 The recent migration wave toward the Spanish enclave represents an unprecedented level of pressure, surpassing that of the 2021 crisis, according to Dr. Ahmed Dardari, a professor at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University and the head of the International Center for Crisis Monitoring.
The crisis stems from a combination of socio-economic factors and widespread misinformation on social media that created false expectations of entering Europe, he told Sputnik.
🟠The ongoing Morocco-Spain dispute over Ceuta and Melilla has further complicated the situation, Dr. Dardari added.
🟠Most migrants have since returned to Morocco after realizing that reaching Ceuta does not guarantee passage to the EU.
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#viral | Putin Flaunts Wonderful Football Skills With Absolute Ease
🇷🇺⚽️ The Russian president showcased his football passing abilities during the opening ceremony of the "Big Change" contest in Russia's Krasnoyarsk.
The event supports talented schoolchildren from Russia and beyond, helping them hone their abilities and choose future career path.
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Kenyan Fish Farmers Use AI Tech to Predict Oxygen Crises in Lake Victoria
🇰🇪🐠 Smart sensors monitor water conditions in real time, detecting dangerous oxygen drops before they can kill thousands of fish.
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#viral | Parrot Interrupts Youth Copa do Brasil Match
The game was briefly halted when a macaw flew onto the pitch, forcing a player to drop to the ground while trying to avoid the bird.
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Sudan's Security Council Announces New Measures to Combat Organized Crime Amid Military Gains
🇸🇩 The Council, chaired by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, praised recent battlefield successes and reviewed broader security challenges.
Key outcomes of the meeting:
🟠The Council decided to form special courts to handle cases related to drug trafficking, human trafficking, weapons smuggling, and gold smuggling.
🟠It also issued a ban on the presence of regular and supporting forces' personnel in mining areas, ordering the confiscation of weapons and military vehicles found in violation.
The army has secured full control of a strategic export road linking Khartoum to North Kordofan, with al-Burhan visiting frontline troops in the recently liberated areas as part of ongoing operations against RSF rebels.
The Council reaffirmed the state's commitment to protecting national security, strengthening the rule of law, and confronting all security threats.
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🔥🇷🇺 Russian drones destroy Ukrainian supply depots
Russia's Dnepr battlegroup has struck camouflaged positions of Ukrainian forces packed with fuel, ammunition, and tactical gear.
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China Develops AI to Track Dirty Bitcoin with Nearly 90% Accuracy
🇨🇳🤖 Researchers from China's national police academy have created an AI-powered system capable of identifying illicit Bitcoin transactions with 89.1% precision, according to local media.
How it works:
🟠The system combines a graph neural network, a memory module, and a large language model to analyze blockchain activity.
🟠It compares new transfers with historical money laundering patterns to spot evolving criminal techniques.
🟠Beyond flagging suspicious wallets, it generates a risk score, supporting evidence, and an explanation for each alert.
🟠Tested on the public Elliptic Bitcoin dataset, the model achieved 89.4% overall accuracy.
The system reflects China's growing push toward AI-powered policing, making blockchain investigations more automated, explainable, and harder for criminals to evade.
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Fruits of Russian Education: Angolan Student Develops AI Model for Predicting Malaria
"With this model [for predicting epidemics in Africa], we can predict which kinds of cities and which kinds of provinces will have more number of malaria; [...] it helps the Angola Ministry to know how to behave when malaria is coming. So, it saves a lot of people," Joaquim Timóteo, a student at the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, told Sputnik Africa.
"We have launched a grant program to support African scientists who are implementing their projects in the field of artificial intelligence," Sergey Erokhin, rector of the university, explained to Sputnik Africa.
"There is real scientific potential and interesting developments, and most importantly, there is a practical need," according to Erokhin.
Russian Forces Strike Ukrainian Ports & Vessels Serving Armed Forces of Ukraine: MoD
The ministry reported the following targets:
🟠Fuel storage tanks were hit at the port of Odessa;
🟠A sea tugboat was struck at the port of Nikolaev after being modified for the use of unmanned boats.
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#viral | Damascus Highway Fire: Flames Engulf Trees & Grass, Firefighters Prevent Spread
No injuries were reported, and the cause remains unknown.
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🤝 Putin holds meeting with Defense Ministry leadership
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a working meeting with top Defense Ministry officials on Wednesday.
Defense Minister Andrei Belousov participated in the event.
🔊 "At the Defense Minister's suggestion, we have consolidated all logistics services under a single command. In modern conditions, this is also combat work — fully combat work", Putin said.
🗣 The Defense Ministry's structure is being further refined based on the experience received during the special military operation, the Russian president also said.
Global Peace Walk Arrives in Tanzania as Guinness World Record Attempt Continues
📹 Watch how Saddam Suleiman Ali Alaya's initiative promotes peace and global unity while showcasing Tanzania's tourism potential.
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Private Sector to Drive Tanzania's Vision 2050 as Government Takes Enabling Role: Expert Commenting on Its Implementation
🇹🇿 Entrepreneurs already have the experience and capacity to manage key sectors such as agriculture, mining, tourism, and the blue economy, Tanzanian political and economic analyst Reeves Ngalemwa told Sputnik Africa.
His remarks came as President Samia Suluhu Hassan unveiled the implementation framework for Tanzania's Vision 2050 and met with private sector leaders, with the government reaffirming its expectation that businesses will drive the country's long-term development.
ℹ️ Tanzania Development Vision 2050 is a long-term roadmap to transform Tanzania into a competitive, resilient, upper-middle-income nation. The framework aims to build a $1 trillion economy and elevate the country's average GDP per capita. It prioritizes nine core transformation sectors—including agriculture, manufacturing, and the blue economy—driven largely by private sector investment.
📹Ngalemwa elaborated more on the government's role in strengthening growth. Watch the video to hear what he had to say.
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Tanzania Unveils 24 Measures to Achieve $1 Trillion Economy by 2050: Media
🇹🇿 The commitments are grouped into three categories: eight government commitments, eight private sector commitments and eight joint actions.
The agreement provides a framework for:
▪️ improving the investment environment;
▪️ creating jobs;
▪️ promoting industrialization;
▪️ expanding exports;
▪️ strengthening local businesses over the next 25 years.
While the private sector will shoulder about 70% of the implementation effort, the government is committed to maintaining macroeconomic stability and investing in infrastructure, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.
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Djibouti Acquires Land in Ethiopia's Mojo for Logistics Terminal
📹 Watch how the project will ease congestion at the Mojo Dry Port and boost bilateral trade.
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Africa’s First Underground Science Lab Could Change Who Shapes Global Discovery
"We want to be at the forefront where we are not just users of different technologies but also producers of the knowledge behind those technologies and also of the design and possibly the manufacturing component of that."
Afreximbank Invests $22.4 Billion in 2025 to Boost African Trade & Industry: Report
The bank achieved 88.9% of its five-year strategic targets, advancing intra-African trade and industrialization despite global challenges, according to its Annual Development Effectiveness Report.
🟠Trade Finance: Cut Africa's $120 billion trade finance gap by 18.7%, providing $4.8 billion in credit lines to 26 countries and nearly 59,000 SME sub-loans.
🟠Industrialization: Invested in 14 Special Economic Zones across 11 countries, creating 42,000 jobs.
🟠SME Support: Approved $52 million in factoring facilities across five countries and completed its first international factoring transaction.
🟠Risk Mitigation: Through Afrexinsure, supported $1.9 billion in trade, including $601 million in intra-African trade.
Continued investment, stronger partnerships, and deeper AfCFTA implementation will be essential to sustain Africa's trade and industrial growth, the report said.
📹The video shows how Afreximbank's investments help African companies expand across both continental and global markets.
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#viral | Chillest Intruders: Capybaras Tour Legislative Assembly Building in Brazil
Two capybaras strolled into Brazil's Mato Grosso Legislative Assembly through the main entrance and browsed the halls—until the turnstiles blocked their path and the calm pair headed back out.
The videos are going viral on social media.
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Ceuta Migration Crisis is a 'Result of Organized Action,' Not Spontaneous: Moroccan Authorities
The late July migration tensions in Ceuta were sparked by online misinformation and human trafficking networks, Moroccan Interior Ministry spokesman Rachid El Khalfi said.
Investigations are underway into the "misinterpretation of legal and administrative data aimed at creating the illusion of easy access to European space," he noted.
▪️ The Moroccan ministry reported 40,000 attempted border crossings in late July.
▪️ 11 people died during the attempts: one from a fall and ten by drowning.
▪️ Moroccan and Spanish authorities are jointly verifying reports of additional deaths. Spanish authorities have reported 50,000 arrivals and 72 fatalities.
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Russian Northern Fleet Hits Targets Over 300 km Away
🇷🇺 The Russian Northern Fleet has carried out a large-scale exercise in the Barents Sea, successfully destroying mock enemy ships.
Air reconnaissance detected a simulated enemy group at a distance of over 300 kilometres and transmitted coordinates to the command post.
The targets were hit by:
▪️ The frigate Admiral Golovko (Kalibr cruise missile)
▪️ The missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov (Vulkan cruise missile)
▪️ A Bastion missile battalion (Oniks supersonic anti-ship missile)
▪️ The nuclear submarine missile cruiser Orel (three Granit cruise missiles)
⚓️Objective control footage confirmed the defeat of the "enemy" ships.
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Zimbabwe's Fiscal Discipline Anchors Economic Stability, Data Shows
🇿🇼 A mid-year budget review shows the government has kept spending within approved limits, marking a departure from past expenditure overruns and reinforcing macroeconomic stability, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said.
Key details from the review:
🟠In the first half of the year, the government utilized ZiG123 billion ($4.85 billion)—equivalent to 42.5% of the annual budget.
🟠Inflation averaged 4.2% during the six months to June—the lowest level in nearly three decades.
🟠The economy expanded by 6.8% in Q1 2026, surpassing the government's initial 5% full-year forecast.
Despite external headwinds, including the Middle East crisis and revenue losses exceeding $74 million from fuel tax deferrals, Treasury says the approved budget remains adequate without the need for a supplementary budget.
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Kenya's Foreign Exchange Reserves Hit Record $15.4 Billion: Central Bank
The surge is driven by capital inflows from the government's partial divestiture of the country's leading telecommunications company Safaricom, according to the bank's financial markets update on Friday.
🇰🇪 The reserves now cover 6.4 months of imports—up from 5.9 months the previous week—exceeding the statutory requirement of at least four month, the update said.
ℹ️ Kenya's dollar reserves have stayed above $12 billion since January 2026, supporting the shilling's stability against major currencies.
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Spanish Army Placing Strategic Installations in Ceuta Under Surveillance Amid Migration Crisis
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Aerial Seeding Campaign Begins in Mauritania to Tackle Desertification on 84% of Territory: Media
“Through this campaign, three tons of carefully selected native seeds will be dispersed to help restore ecosystems and promote sustainable environmental development,” Environment and Sustainable Development Minister Messouda Baham Mohamed Laghdaf was quoted by media as saying.