—Polymarket: "Researchers warn of a “very rapid and very unsettling change” in mathematics as AI solves a growing number of longstanding problems."

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—📈🇷🇸 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić:

In terms of its growth rate in the first six months of this year, Serbia was the most successful country in Europe. It means that Serbia is advancing faster than any other country in Europe, according to Eurostat data.

🔗 Full statement published by Serbia's Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy

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—🇷🇺/🇽🇰/🇷🇸 EXCLUSIVE: Balkan Spectator has reached out to a Russian source to assess the extent of claims circulating on social media that "Russian Telegram groups" are calling on Moscow to recognize Kosovo following Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

➡️ While some critics have accused Vučić of failing to show a brotherly attitude toward Russia, and others have claimed that Europe forced the meeting, our source indicates that any calls for Russia to recognize Kosovo are, if they exist at all, confined to the political fringe.

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—🇷🇸/🇪🇺 BTA: "Serbia Aims to Join Schengen Area by End of 2027, European Integration Minister Says."

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🌍🔭 — On this August 12, 2026, a sequence of astronomic events is taking place

🪐 Before the sun rise of this August's day, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune were seen totally aligned at Earth's sky as seen in a video shared by a netizen

🌘 As now, total solar eclipse is being seen in the skies of Western Europe, specially Portugal and Spain, as well Iceland

⚡️ Later today, the Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak and allow most of Earth's Northern Hemisphere citizens to see it in full might, combed with a New Moon, which means no moonlight would wash them out of the sky.

🚀 US' NASA will start broadcasting live views of the eclipse beginning at 1:15pm ET (1715 UTC)

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—🇲🇩❌🇷🇺 WATCH: Moldovan Defense Minister Anatolie Nosatîi interrupted a journalist who addressed him in Russian, saying, “I don’t understand you.”

➡️ He responded after she repeated the question in Romanian and praised her for using the state language.

➡️ His official CV reportedly states that he speaks Russian and studied in Ukraine for four years.

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🇷🇸❌🪖🇽🇰 — Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić on International Law and comparisons between Ukraine and Serbia:

Why did you take 14% of Serbian territory, which was guaranteed by UN Charter and by UN resolution as well?

And it was happening just after the aggression against the Republic of Serbia, which was led by 19 NATO countries without permission of the Security Council of the United Nations.

Wasn't that an opening of a big Pandora's box? And at the end, actually, it was. And you cannot have this kind of double standards.

We do support territorial integrity of Ukraine, but we have this right to say, and even with that, we are saying we need to reach a peace.

And you are saying, well, we need to avoid, we need to avert any kind of wrong messages to the world.

But we have already had wrong messages.

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—❗️☢️🇷🇴 POLITICO: Romania has shut down Cernavodă’s second and last operating nuclear reactor after the drought-hit Danube River fell too low to supply its cooling pumps.

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—🇲🇩/🇷🇺 UPDATE: Moldova says preliminary analysis indicates the drone that exploded near Crocmaz was Russian-powered and more advanced than previous drones found on Moldovan territory.

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—❗️🔥 🇭🇷 URGENT: Surreal scenes emerged from Omiš, Croatia, as a major wildfire swept across the Dalmatian hills, turning the sky over the Adriatic deep red.

➡️ Thousands of people were reportedly evacuated as firefighters battled the advancing flames.

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—❗️UPDATE: Our source in Croatia reports that one person died and seven are in critical condition due to the major wildfires affecting the country.

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—🇷🇴 NEW: Romanian authorities found another crashed drone near Plauru in Tulcea County, roughly 2 km from the Ukrainian border.

➡️ The Defence Ministry said specialists identified the object and secured the area; reports indicate it was the fourth drone-related discovery in Romania on the same day.

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—🇷🇺/🇷🇴 Russian drone incidents near Romania risk becoming the new normal

➡️ Repeated Russian attacks along the Danube are increasing the frequency of drone incursions or crashes near Romanian territory, raising concerns that violations of NATO airspace could become normalized.

➡️ Not every incident should be treated as deliberate: electronic warfare, GPS jamming, navigation failures and battlefield conditions can also push drones off course.

➡️ The growing activity is nevertheless placing additional pressure on Romania, including on tourism and regional economic activity near the border.

⚠️ Other incidents involving possible sabotage or unexplained incursions remain unclear and should not be attributed without evidence.

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