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The July 22nd update is titled RuneScape 3, and will move away from the Java format the game was previously tethered to. Using HTML5 specifically allows for a wider range of compatibility with browsers, and ensures smoother graphics processing with better support for GPU hardware. The virtual world of Gielinor enters its sixth age with the new game, receiving several anticipated updates as well. Players can become a more integral part of the world and its inhabitants, changing the course of Gielinor’s history in large-scale events....

It may seem inconceivable to long time players, but this year RuneScape turns 20 years old. One of the most important and noteworthy massively multiplayer online role-playing games of all time, fans both old and new will have plenty to look forward to. RELATED: RuneScape 3: Top 10 Hardest Bosses, Ranked Phil Mansell, Jagex CEO, has announced that to celebrate this historic milestone, this entire year will be dedicated to honoring both the past and future of RuneScape....

These recent comments seem to continue his effort to walk back remarks he made on his show on Friday. During that episode, Limbaugh was discussing comments made by sports columnist Jason Whitlock on Tucker Carlson’s show, in which Whitlock said he hoped that the love President Donald Trump has from his followers would win out over the “hate” that lifted Biden’s numbers up at the voting booths. “The guy that won did not have any kind of massive, pro-support....

But when Wilson was in high school at The Collegiate School in Richmond, Va., he played basketball as well. As it turns out, there was some video footage of him on the hardwood and Rolling Stone recently unearthed it. MORE: Russell Wilson in action | Seahawks’ struggles hope to be temporary It’s umm … interesting? Needless to say, Wilson was never destined to appear on Ball Is Life.

The ambassador said that a Russian mobile patrol was present at a territory that is adjacent to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s largest one, and claimed that they were attacked by a Ukrainian “sabotage group in order to provoke return fire on the building.” “There was a heavy small fire that was opened on Russian troops from the windows of several floors of the training complex that is located just outside the territory of the nuclear power plant,” he said during a U....

With Americans paying record amounts at the pump, Biden is expected to ask OPEC’s de facto leader to increase oil output during his first Middle Eastern trip as president. Biden faces a tricky diplomatic balancing act, having called Saudi Arabia a “pariah state” in 2019 over the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. U.S. intelligence believes Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing, although the royal has denied ordering it....

In a statement published in the influential Russian newspaper Pravda, Foreign Defense Minister Sergey Lavrov said: “There is no ‘Russian invasion’ of Ukraine, which the United States and its allies have been declaring at the official level since last fall, and it is not planned.” “Therefore, the statements about ‘Russia’s responsibility for the escalation’ can only be regarded as part of pressure to devalue Russia’s proposals for security guarantees,” Lavrov continued....

The Russian Soyuz rocket carried a remote sensing satellite called Khayyam from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan on August 9, blasting off at 8:52 a.m. local time. The footage showing the launch was obtained by Zenger News from the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. The Iranian Space Agency released a statement on August 7, saying that the satellite will be controlled by Iranian officials from the moment it is launched....

Ukraine estimates more than 50,000 Russian troops have died during the war and while other tallies put it much lower, the Kremlin has been forced to find new ways to replenish its troops including recruiting from prisons and homeless shelters. In the face of Ukraine’s counteroffensive pro-Kremlin bloggers and some television pundits have upped their calls for mobilization which would force Russian citizens to fight. Putin has so far resisted a full mobilization, which would present a number of challenges....

The Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Saturday morning that, over the previous 24 hours, Russia had lost 810 troops, taking the total death toll since the start of the full-scale invasion to more than 80,000. The update also said that Russia had lost 24 tanks and 34 armored personnel vehicles. Ukraine’s air force had made 16 strikes against Moscow’s military, in which they targeted personnel, weapons and military equipment....

Speaking during a visit to the Cherepovets College of Chemical Technology last Tuesday, Putin suggested that plans were already in motion to expand a high-tech network of supercomputer and data centers that would no longer be limited to the capital city of Moscow. Russia has three of the top 500 supercomputer systems in the world, compared to China (228) and the United States (117), analysis suggests. At last count, two of the country’s top supercomputers—Lomonosov-2 and Lomonosov—were housed at Moscow State University....

Personnel of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet deployed Bal and Bastion coastal defense systems to the Crimean Peninsula as part of “an exercise to destroy a simulated enemy’s surface ship in the Black Sea,” the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. Once in position, crews prepared the launchers to fire, detected the mock target, identified it and locked onto it. “In the course of the exercise, the servicemen practiced the algorithm of measures to deliver missile strikes against a simulated enemy’s warship by electronic launches,” the ministry added....

The ministry said the measures, which are due to take effect in January 2023, are a response to increasing production costs as a result of sanctions imposed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to a draft order, the minimum price of strong alcohol—including vodka—will rise per 0.5-liter bottle from 261 rubles ($4.4) to 281 rubles ($4.8). The minimum price of cognac will rise from 480 rubles ($8.1) to 517 rubles ($8....

“During the Cold War, the tensions were flying high and risky crisis situations often emerged, but there was also a mutual respect,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Russian state television. “It seems to me there is a deficit of it now.” Lavrov said Moscow is ready to improve ties with Washington if the U.S. stops posturing like a “sovereign” rallying its allies against Russia and China....

According to state-affiliated news agency Tass, Roskosmos’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation unveiled a model of a Russian orbital station at the Army-2022 forum, which included multiple research modules, a service platform, and a docked prospective Oryol spacecraft. This comes after Yuri Borisov, the director general of Roscosmos, announced in July that Russia was withdrawing from the ISS after 2024 and planning to build its own station. “The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov said in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin....

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met Monday with Syrian ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad for a discussion in which the two “exchanged views on the current situation in and around Syria,” according to a Russian Foreign Ministry readout. Bogdanov, who serves as special presidential envoy for the Middle East and African countries, emphasized Russia’s “unfailing solidarity with the Syrian people, support to its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, as well as its readiness to continue efficient cooperation in restoring the socio-economic infrastructure of the Syrian Arab Republic....

On Saturday the SBU posted four photographs to its official Twitter account showing a man being searched by two Ukrainian soldiers, the suspect being interrogated and then SBU agents looking through a phone. They said: “The SBU detained a Russian agent who was spying on the positions of HIMARS and long-range M777 howitzers in the southern direction.” The United States has given Ukraine 20 HIMARS, multiple launch rocket systems, since the Russian invasion began with another 18 pledged in September....

The claims were made in a daily briefing posted online at 6 a.m. local time Tuesday by Ukraine’s military, which provided detailed updates about battles on various fronts as the country seeks to repel the forces sent in by Russian President Vladimir Putin back in February. Among the updates, which are provided in Ukrainian and English, an excerpt read: “Due to heavy losses during the hostilities, the level of morale and psychological state in the units formed in the temporarily occupied territories decreased significantly....

Having been released by Netflix three years ago now, many fans of the show have, themselves, felt stuck in time as they wait for season two. This period of time spent waiting has given viewers plenty of time to consider what might, or should, happen in the new season. As a result, now that the second season finally has a release date, fans are eagerly anticipating to see if their theories are correct....

Igor Girkin, whose nom de guerre is Igor Strelkov, is a Russian army veteran and former intelligence officer who played a key role in Russia’s annexation of Crimea and in the conflict in the eastern Donbas region that began in 2014. He served as commander of the separatist-backed forces at the time. In November, he was sentenced in absentia by the Hague to life in prison for his role in shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014, which killed 298 passengers....