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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

Moscow, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Russia no longer considers itself bound by self-imposed restrictions on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles (INF), and the conditions for maintaining this moratorium have disappeared, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

“The situation is developing along the path of the actual deployment of American-made land-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region (APR),” the department said in a statement on the issue of a moratorium on the deployment of land-based intermediate-range missiles.

The diplomatic department drew attention to the West's steps to deploy the INF and emphasized that they pose a direct threat to Russia's security. According to the statement, since 2023 Moscow has been recording precedents of transferring American systems capable of ground-based INF launches to European NATO countries to test these weapons during exercises.

“With regard to the Asia-Pacific region, we note that under the pretext of exercises in April 2024, the Typhon medium-range missile system was delivered to the Philippines, which is still on the archipelago. The same system was used in July of this year in Australia for live firing during the Talisman Sabre 2025 multilateral training events,” the statement says.

The ministry recalled that the Russian side made a direct call to NATO countries in 2019-2020 to declare a reciprocal moratorium on the deployment of weapons systems previously banned under the INF Treaty, and to US allies in the Asia-Pacific region to support efforts to prevent a race for such weapons in the region.

“Since our repeated warnings on this matter have been ignored… the Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the corresponding previously adopted self-restrictions,” the Foreign Ministry stated.

The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 in Washington and is of indefinite duration. It prohibits the parties from having land-based ballistic missiles and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5.5 thousand km. The United States has repeatedly accused Russia of violating this treaty. –0–

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Two people were killed and six were injured in a mass shooting that occurred in the early hours of Monday in downtown Los Angeles, California, local authorities said.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident occurred around 01:00 local time /08:00 GMT/ in the Griffith Avenue area, where several parties were taking place.

Late Sunday night, Los Angeles police officers observed someone enter what they believed to be an unauthorized gathering of more than 50 people. Officers broke up the party and arrested one attendee for possession of a weapon.

Hours later, police returned to the same scene after reports of gunfire and found eight people with gunshot wounds. One man died at the scene and a 52-year-old woman died later in hospital.

Police said that of the six injured, aged between 26 and 62, two were in critical condition.

Authorities have not announced any arrests and have not yet established a possible motive for the crime. The investigation is ongoing. –0–

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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Thailand and Cambodia have expressed their firm commitment to ending the conflict during the secretariat-level talks, Malaysian Armed Forces Chief Mohd Nizam Jaffar said in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.

The talks, scheduled for August 4-6 ahead of an extraordinary meeting of the General Boundary Commission on August 7, will also include agreeing on a mandate for the establishment of an ASEAN military attaché monitoring group, he said.

"They [Thailand and Cambodia] are currently discussing the preconditions for the deployment of the group. If everything goes well, we expect a very positive decision as early as this Thursday," the Malaysian military chief told reporters after a meeting with the heads of secretariats of both countries.

He stressed that Malaysia is only acting as a mediator before the extraordinary meeting of the commission. –0–

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Moscow, August 4 (Xinhua) — The Russian government will allocate about 5.7 billion rubles to expand the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the country, the press service of the Russian government reported on Monday.

The subsidy will be used to compensate operators of electric charging stations for part of the costs of purchasing and technologically connecting new equipment to power grids within the framework of the national project “Industrial Support for Transport Mobility”. This will allow for the deployment of about 1.9 thousand new charging stations for electric vehicles in the next 3 years.

According to the Russian government, there are currently more than 2,000 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles operating in the country. –0–

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