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Главное из заявлений Лихачева об атаках на Запорожскую АЭС

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-08-02T13:29:02+00:00

Минувшей ночью украинский дрон поразил галерею, соединяющую все шесть энергоблоков Запорожской АЭС и предназначенную для перемещения персонала. Место удара находится всего в нескольких метрах от реакторного отделения третьего энергоблока. 30 июля ВСУ предприняли попытку атаковать площадку сухого хранилища отработавшего ядерного топлива. «Ведомости» собрали основные заявления главы «Росатома» Алексея Лихачева о ситуации на ЗАЭС и в городе-спутнике Энергодаре.

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Gold and silver lacked lustre in July

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-02T13:22:43+00:00

Gold and silver prices remained subdued in July due to geopolitical tensions and interest rate concerns, with negative short-term trends expected

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WHO warns of intensifying Ebola outbreak in DR Congo as cases spread to five provinces

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-02T13:22:00+00:00

The outbreak, which was initially confined to the Mongbwalu health zone in Ituri province, has spread over the past two months to 49 health zones across five provinces namely Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uélé and Tshopo.

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Western Europe’s wildfire crisis retreats as Greece evacuates hundreds near Athens

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T13:19:53+00:00

High winds prevent firefighting aircraft from collecting seawater as flames spread through AtticaEurope’s wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts on Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain’s major fires finally stopped advancing.The centre of immediate danger was Greece. Gale-force winds drove flames deeper into western Attica, the administrative region that includes the capital, threatening villages and an industrial dist

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Take dedicated insurance cover for your travel

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-02T13:18:12+00:00

Most travellers assume they covered their bases once they buy the standard travel cover; when it comes to risks specific to adventure sports, dedicated cover will protect against them

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Satellite portfolio to the rescue

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-02T13:13:12+00:00

Transferring from satellite to a core portfolio will reduce trading capital. You can transfer the amount from the core back to the satellite once you create buffer capital in the core portfolio

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Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T13:11:56+00:00

People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospectsFour days ago, Youssef El Abbas saw an opportunity to reclaim the life he had lost years seven earlier. News was circulating that about 400 people had swum from Morocco to the neighbouring Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north African coast, approximately 12 miles (19km) across the strait of Gibraltar from mainland Spain.Here was a chance for the 44-year-old Moroccan father of four to return to Spain, from which he had been deported when his residency expired after the loss of his jo

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EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : les membres de l’OPEP+ augmentent les quotas de production de pétrole pour septembre

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-08-02T13:05:28+00:00

Donald Trump a par ailleurs affirmé suspendre les frappes contre l’Iran, à la demande de Téhéran, dans l’attente d’un accord rapide. Selon le président américain, l’accord doit inclure « l’ouverture immédiate complète et totale du détroit d’Ormuz, ainsi que la fin de la menace nucléaire iranienne ».

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‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T13:00:23+00:00

Volunteers painstakingly gather plastic pellets washing up on beaches after ship collision on 19 July“You’ve got a local community that really cares about the coastline,” said Alice Laverty, reflecting on the huge army of volunteers who had taken to crisis-hit beaches in north-east England with passion and only the most basic tools. “They’ve all got a dustpan, a brush, a bucket, a kitchen sieve.”On beaches from Cambois in Northumberland to Seaburn on Wearside, up to 2,000 dedicated volunteers have been painstakingly sifting through sand to find tiny, lentil-sized pellets of plastic. Continue r

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EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T12:42:40+00:00

After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens are being told they have no right to remain The UK Home Office has started stripping some EU citizens of their post-Brexit residency rights, in a move that has raised concerns about Britain’s compliance with its withdrawal agreement with Europe.The UK internal affairs authority has told at least 100 people that they were given residency rights “in error”, disrupting their lives just as they come to the end of their five-year “pre-settled status” and prepare to upgrade to the permanent “settled status”. Contin

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New UG institution with IIMB a major milestone: Noel Tata

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-02T12:27:56+00:00

He said Tata Trusts is moving beyond its traditional role of funding NGOs and individual development projects towards creating institutions

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Israel’s influence industry in the US

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-08-02T12:02:04+00:00

Abdul El-Sayed's hardline campaign exposes a party, a media ecosystem and a debate over Israel in the US.

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‘He’s a narcissist’: could Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger win a new trial?

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T12:00:22+00:00

Convicted killer seeks to withdraw guilty plea and go to trial – but that could put death penalty sentence back in playCould Bryan Kohberger, convicted 13 months ago of the murders of four University of Idaho students, now find himself on death row? That’s one potential outcome of a perplexing petition he filed last week in which he claimed he was misled by his defense attorneys into pleading guilty.A new trial could grant the wishes of family members who hoped to see the 31-year doctoral criminology student convicted by a jury in open court and sentenced to death. Or is Kohberger simply follo

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Trump is determined to pursue his trade war – and he may be difficult to stop

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T12:00:22+00:00

The president’s minions have trawled the statutes to restore roadblocks to trade. The invocation of Smoot-Hawley looks especially dangerousDonald Trump may have found the killer weapon to punish countries at will: by imposing tariffs on their exports to the United States.The president has been looking for a new tool since February, when the supreme court struck down tariffs he slapped on virtually all of America’s trading partners based on the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, or IEEPA, on the spurious grounds that the US faced a variety of national emergencies. It’s become a parlor

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For most US small businesses, Trump’s tariffs aren’t the big issue they were

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-02T12:00:21+00:00

Tariffs are annoying and disruptive, but this round is less impactful – and business owners are taking them in their strideRebounding from his defeat at the supreme court in February, Donald Trump has recently announced a new round of tariffs, invoking sections of various trade acts to levy amounts on industries and countries based on reasons ranging from “forced labor” to “excess capacity”.And how are small and medium-sized businesses in the US reacting? One word: snoozefest. Continue reading...

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Felwine Sarr, écrivain : « Les budgets des nations africaines pourraient être orientés vers la dignité »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-08-02T12:00:12+00:00

Dans un nouvel essai, « La Fabrique du présent », l’auteur sénégalais réfléchit à ce qui pourrait permettre l’essor en Afrique de sociétés davantage tournées vers la dignité de chacun. Il est nécessaire, explique-t-il dans un entretien au « Monde », de repenser les politiques publiques et de les redéfinir en fonction des philosophies et des ressources locales.

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