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CHISINAU, July 30. /TASS/: Moldovan President Maia Sandu has signed an order nominating Natalia Gavrilitsa for the post of Prime Minister.

"Mrs. Natalia Gavrilitsa has been appointed as a candidate for Prime Minister," reads the document, published on the president’s website.

According to the presidential order, Gavrilitsa must submit the program and composition of the new Cabinet for approval by parliament.

MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/: Russia is closely monitoring the wildfire situation in Turkey and is in constant touch with the country’s authorities, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told journalists on Friday.

"We are closely monitoring the situation. The Russian Federation, as you know, provided assistance to the Turkish authorities in order to help them cope with this disaster. Our equipment is deployed there, including Be-200 planes. We are in constant touch with the Turkish government," he said.

MINSK, July 30. /TASS/: Certain circles in the West are mulling the use of force as a way to change the government in Belarus, the BelTA news agency reported on Friday, citing Chairman of the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) Ivan Tertel.

KAZAN, July 30. /TASS/: More than 20 agreements have been signed at the platform of the international economic summit ‘Russia — Islamic world: KazanSummit 2021’ that is taking place from July 28 to 30 in Russia's Kazan.

MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/: The additional measures to strengthen and control the ceasefire in Donbass, signed on July 21, 2020, are the most effective security agreement in the region, but they could become more effective if the Donbass republics are recognized as a party to the conflict. This conclusion is contained in the summary of an expert study carried out by the Institute of Peacekeeping Initiatives and Conflict Studies, a non-profit organization, which included 24 foreign policy specialists from the UK, Australia, Russia, and Ukraine among them.

PARIS, July 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 4 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been administered around the world, eight months after the vaccination drive started, according to latest count Thursday.

Global injections have slowed slightly: this fourth billion was reached in 30 days, while it took only 26 days to reach the previous one. The first and second billion were reached after about 140 and 40 days respectively.

MOSCOW, July 30 (Reuters) - Belarus would not hesitate to invite Russian troops if needed, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday, although he said there was no need for them now.

Russia has maintained close military and economic ties with its ally Belarus, even as Western countries have ostracised the country since Lukashenko cracked down on mass protests following a contested presidential election last year.

DUESSELDORF, July 30 (Reuters) - The fallout from Tuesday's fatal blast at an industrial estate in western Germany did not contain any toxic substances, an official from the regional environmental protection agency said on Friday.

Analysis of particles that fell on a residential area near the Chempark industrial estate in Leverkusen contained no dioxins or polychlorinated biphenyls, environmental protection official Ulrich Quass told a news briefing.

30 July 2021; MEMO: The Supreme Court of Spain yesterday closed the investigation into Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro (Polisario), who had been charged with committing war crimes and genocide. The court said it did not have sufficient evidence to convict Ghali.

30 July 2021; MEMO: Following his recent legal victory against anti-Islam activist and founder of the far-right English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, Syrian schoolboy Jamal Hijazi, has pledged to use the money he won in damages to establish a charity for young people.