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  • First French fighter killed in Ukraine – media

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 8:35am EDT

    Dozens of French citizens have reportedly joined the Ukrainian military amid the Russian offensive A French fighter who joined the Ukrainian forces amid Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine has been killed in Kharkov Region, the radio station Europe 1 reported on Friday .According to the radio station’s sources, the fighter was “mortally wounded by artillery […]

  • Liverpool boss slams disgraceful French politican over UCL final remarks

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 8:25am EDT

    Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan did not approve of French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin taking aim at his club’s supporters Premier League club Liverpool FC’s chief executive Billy Hogan has reacted to “disgraceful” comments made by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin this week in relation to lamentable scenes that occurred before and after last weekend’s […]

  • Inflation in Turkey soars to 73.5%

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 8:14am EDT

    The spike is the biggest in nearly a quarter century, according to data Turkish inflation hit a 24-year high in May amid pressure from skyrocketing food and energy prices. Official data showed on Friday that consumer prices rose 73.5% in year-on-year terms last month, up from 70% in April. The latest figure surpassed the 73.2% […]

  • Elon Musk warns of major layoffs at Tesla

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 7:35am EDT

    The head of the electric carmaker says he has a “super bad feeling” about the economy Tesla owner and CEO Elon Musk plans to cut 10% of the company’s jobs due to a “super bad feeling” he has about the economy, Reuters reported on Friday, citing Musk’s email to executives titled “pause all hiring worldwide.” […]

  • Nuclear war can’t be ruled out – ex-Russian president

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 7:32am EDT

    Issuing a stark warning, Dmitry Medvedev said everyone must work to prevent “the end of humanity” Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said “nobody should forget” about situations that could force Russia to use nuclear weapons, but stressed that “no one wants nuclear war.” Since the launch of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine in late […]

  • Tennis bad boy pulls out of boxing match and shames rival

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 7:05am EDT

    Nick Kyrgios will not entertain a bout with fellow Australian tennis pro Bernard Tomic Tennis motormouth Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of a potential boxing match with “dead broke” nemesis Bernard Tomic.  A war of words between the two spanning years has reached its peak in recent weeks, with world number 417 Tomic first offering […]

  • Ukraine stages battle scenes, Russia claims

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 6:57am EDT

    The propaganda footage was allegedly sponsored by the British government The Russian Defense Ministry released on Friday what it claimed to be staged combat scenes filmed on behalf of the Ukrainian government and paid for by Britain. The two short clips appear to be raw footage of some sort of war movie. The filming of […]

  • Sri Lanka seizes Russian plane

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 6:57am EDT

    Aeroflot was forced to cancel a flight from Colombo to Moscow after the local authorities barred the plane from leaving the country The authorities in Sri Lanka have grounded a civilian aircraft belonging to Russian carrier Aeroflot, and arrested the plane, local newspaper News First reported on Friday. The Colombo High Commercial Court reportedly issued […]

  • Ex-CIA director called to testify on US plot to kill Assange — media

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 6:50am EDT

    A Spanish court has summoned Mike Pompeo, according to ABC A Spanish court has summoned former CIA Director Mike Pompeo as a witness to testify about whether the US government planned to abduct or even assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ABC has reported on Friday citing its sources.  “The judge of the National Court Santiago […]

  • Russia ramps up oil output, exports – media

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 6:14am EDT

    A full recovery of the industry following the sanctions will depend on the successful redirection of supplies, analysts say Russian oil production rose by 5% last month after a sharp decline in April, the newspaper Vedomosti reported on Friday, citing a source in the industry. May output amounted to 10.2 million barrels per day, up […]

  • Biden challenges Congress on guns

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 6:08am EDT

    Lawmakers obstructing “common sense reforms” should be wiped out at the ballot box, the US president said The US government can no longer “do nothing” about gun violence in the country, President Joe Biden said in a speech on Thursday, citing the latest mass shootings. He proposed a number of gun control reforms and said […]

  • Journalists reported injured as car comes under fire in Donbass

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 5:52am EDT

    A driver was killed and two Reuters reporters injured, an RT correspondent says Two Reuters reporters were wounded and a driver was killed as their car came under fire near the embattled town of Severodonetsk in the Donbass on Friday, RT’s Igor Zhdanov reported. Zhdanov said that he was in the car right behind the […]

  • US sanctions will affect food security – Moscow

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 5:30am EDT

    The Russian envoy to the US says the new restrictions placed on Russia could backfire on Washington The continued Western sanctions on Russia will hurt the global economy and could exacerbate problems in the US, Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, has said. Antonov was responding to the latest round of restrictions unveiled by the […]

  • Grim consequences of child poverty revealed

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 5:18am EDT

    New research establishes a direct link between low-income rates and the additional children in care in England Rising child poverty in England contributes to the increase in the number of kids going into care, Liverpool University researchers said in a paper published in the June edition of Lancet Public Health. They compared data from the […]

  • Turkey suggests alternative gas transit route to EU

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 4:31am EDT

    The country could become a transmission point for the Russian fuel, the energy ministry says Turkey can serve as a transit point for the supply of Russian gas to the European market, Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar said on Thursday during a speech at the Baku Energy Forum. “Turkey wants to […]

  • Business center in Moscow on fire, people feared trapped inside

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 3:37am EDT

    Rescue services assess the blaze at the highest danger level A large blaze erupted inside the Grand Setun Plaza office building in Moscow on Friday morning. Emergency services have been deployed to the site. According to media reports, an evacuation is underway. Up to 15 office staffers are unaccounted for, Interfax news service reported, citing […]

  • White House to set date for youngest age group vaccination

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 2:30am EDT

    Coronavirus shots for toddlers and babies could be authorized within a matter of weeks, a senior US official says US regulators will soon approve Covid-19 vaccines for children under five, a top White House health adviser told reporters, suggesting the green light could come as soon as this month.  Speaking during a press briefing on […]

  • Republicans slam ‘misinformation’ tool used in schools for ‘left-wing bias’

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 2:24am EDT

    GOP lawmakers have demanded answers about a pact struck between a teachers’ union and a tool which rates media ‘credibility’ Republicans in Congress are sounding alarms over a partnership agreement between the NewsGuard ‘disinformation’ service and a major teachers’ union, arguing the tool is prone to bias and the union is deliberately politicizing American students. […]

  • Global food crisis is result of policy mistakes by US and EU, Putin’s aide tells RT

    RT - Jun 3rd 2022 2:07am EDT

    Food prices started rising long before Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, a senior Russian official says The looming global food crisis that could result from skyrocketing food prices was enabled by a series of policy mistakes by Washington and Brussels in recent years, Maksim Oreshkin told RT. The conflict in Ukraine alone could not have […]

  • Tulsa shooting was ‘not random,’ authorities reveal

    RT - Jun 2nd 2022 6:17pm EDT

    The man who allegedly shot up a Tulsa hospital deliberately targeted a doctor he blamed for his back pain Michael Louis, the man who allegedly shot up Saint Francis Hospital on Wednesday, deliberately targeted surgeon Preston Phillips, whom he blamed for “ongoing pain” following a surgery the doctor had performed on his back, Tulsa authorities […]

  • Rights groups accuse French arms makers of war crimes complicity

    RT - Jun 2nd 2022 5:30pm EDT

    Three NGOs are suing France over supplying arms to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen Three human rights organizations have sued French arms manufacturers Dassault Aviation, Thales, and MBDA France for selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, charging that the sales amount to complicity in alleged war crimes committed by the […]

  • As sanctions fail and Russia advances, Western media changes its tune on Ukraine

    RT - Jun 2nd 2022 5:18pm EDT

    Western media outlets, once cheerleaders for Kiev, are increasingly warning sanctions are failing and Ukraine needs to make peace Even as the collective West continues to insist – against all observable reality – that the conflict in Ukraine is going well for Kiev, major media outlets are becoming increasingly uneasy with the situation on the […]

  • Weapons sent to Ukraine could get into wrong hands – Interpol

    RT - Jun 2nd 2022 4:58pm EDT

    Arms the West delivers to Ukraine could end up in the hands of criminals, the head of Interpol has warned Weaponry that Washington and its allies in Europe and beyond send to Kiev are likely to end up in the global black market, Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock said on Wednesday. Various criminal groups already […]

  • Detained female basketballer has communication with fellow players

    RT - Jun 2nd 2022 4:27pm EDT

    Brittney Griner can contact her friends in the WNBA via e-mail and through letters Jailed WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner can contact her fellow professionals in the league via letter or e-mail, her colleagues have confirmed. Griner has already passed 100 days in Russian custody after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage […]

  • Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia’s role in the global economic order has turned out to be more significant than the West believed

    RT - Jun 2nd 2022 2:22pm EDT

    Western sanctions against Russia are speeding up the end of globalization as we’ve known it. A new economic order awaits. After weeks of intensive negotiations, the European Union has agreed on a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow. Its main element is the cessation, by the end of this year, of oil imports from Russia […]