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Major retailers in the UK, including Tesco, Asda and Iceland, have announced they are not using plastic bags in their stores. This measure, as reported by The Times, is aimed at combating plastic waste in the kingdom.

The CERN leadership signed an agreement with officials of the French commune Ferney-Voltaire on the use of hot water from the Large Hadron Collider for heating residential houses, according to the CERN website.

Special repair and evacuation regiments began to be created as part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the repair of failed equipment. 

Sea trials of Autonomous tracked platform "Token" passed at a special test site in Magnitogorsk.

A trailer of a Russian serial about the events in Chernobyl, filmed by the NTV channel, has appeared on the network. 

The Philippine ambassador to the Russian Federation, Carlos Sorreta said that his country wanted to cooperate with the Russian side in the field of energy.

Russia has begun deliveries to China by sea of ​​the second regimental anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 "Triumph".

China adheres to the policy of non-first use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances. 

The representative of the President of Ukraine in the government, Andrei Gerus, said that in the near future we can expect negotiations with Moscow on gas supplies and gas transit.

Scientists from ITMO University are trying to create biological additives for food based on chitin, which is extracted from locust shells, "Izvestia" reports.

The road map of cooperation between Russia and China in the field of science and technology was signed by the presidents of the academies of science of the two countries Alexander Sergeev and Bai Chunli, July 19, TASS reports.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill aimed at stimulating the extraction of rare metals.  The document was developed by the Ministry of Environmen.