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  • Zelensky sets out what security guarantors need to do

    RT - Apr 30th 2022 5:38am EDT

    Ukrainian leader views speed of providing help as a key condition for future arrangements Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that security guarantees for his country should empower guarantor countries to make a decision within a day. During the last in-person meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Istanbul, Kiev had proposed penning […]

  • France shuts down 50% of nuclear reactors amid energy crunch

    RT - Apr 30th 2022 5:18am EDT

    French utility giant confirms 28 nuclear reactors are offline as Europe grapples with energy crisis France, one of Europe’s leading electricity exporters, has taken 28 of its 56 atomic reactors offline due to defects or maintenance. The step comes amid a months-long energy crunch, one of the worst in European history. The 1,300-megawatt Golfech-2 reactor […]

  • Freedom Convoy flashbacks as biker rally hits Canada’s capital

    RT - Apr 30th 2022 4:58am EDT

    The mayor said authorities want to avoid a repeat of the previous disturbances Canadian police said seven people were arrested and 24 vehicles were towed at a motorcycle rally in downtown Ottawa on Friday. Bikers rolled into the country’s capital, while a group of anti-Covid mandate protesters on foot gathered outside the parliament building, some […]

  • Ukrainian warplane shells Russian region – governor

    RT - Apr 30th 2022 4:17am EDT

    A violation of Russia’s airspace was averted, but several projectiles made it through, Bryansk Region Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz says Russia’s Bryansk Region has sustained yet another attack from Ukraine, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz has said. Early on Saturday, Russian air defenses detected an attempt by a Ukrainian military plane to violate the country’s airspace, Bogomaz wrote […]

  • World on brink of commodities shock – study

    RT - Apr 30th 2022 2:58am EDT

    Food and energy prices are expected to soar, according to the World Bank Global energy prices are projected to rise dramatically, culminating in the biggest price jump in commodities in nearly half a century, the World Bank has warned. According to the bank’s April Commodity Markets Outlook report, global energy prices, which have already seen […]

  • North Korea’s Kim issues nuclear warning

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 11:26pm EDT

    The supreme leader vowed to preempt any nuclear threat to his state North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to take preemptive action against any “nuclear threat” imposed by foreign powers, just days after saying Pyongyang would advance its own atomic arsenal “at the fastest possible speed.” Speaking after a meeting with senior officials involved […]

  • FBI spying on Americans nearly triples

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 9:22pm EDT

    The FBI looked up almost 3.4 million Americans in 2021 under foreign surveillance powers The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made queries into almost 3,4 million Americans between December 2020 and November 2021, the US intelligence community admitted in the annual transparency report released on Friday. The FBI said it was looking for foreign hackers, […]

  • UK seeks direct control of ex-colony

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 8:19pm EDT

    Arrest of British Virgin Islands leader on US drug charges prompts London to act Shortly before the premier of the British Virgin Islands appeared before a US judge on charges of cocaine smuggling and money laundering, a commission of inquiry in London hurriedly published a report urging the UK to take direct control of the […]

  • Crisis in Ukraine result of US desire to build unipolar world – Russia

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 8:05pm EDT

    Washington’s concept of a US-centric world is a neocolonialist project based on racism and American exceptionalism, Moscow believes The conflict between Moscow and Kiev, as well as the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, is the direct result of the West’s push to create a unipolar world, one which involved NATO’s unabated eastward expansion, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey […]

  • Israel put on notice Iran may ‘attack directly’

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 6:10pm EDT

    During Beirut speech, Hezbollah leader warns Tel Aviv against continued attacks on Syria  If Israel continues attacking the Iranian presence in Syria, Tehran may retaliate directly, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday. He also warned Tel Aviv that the Shia militia will be on high alert for the upcoming Israeli military exercises near Lebanon. […]

  • EU prepares Russia oil embargo – media

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 4:35pm EDT

    Brussels intends to reject a US tariff proposal and instead embargo oil imports from Russia, press reports claim Snubbing US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s proposal to impose tariffs and thereby mitigate a global price spike, the European Union is preparing to embargo all imports of oil from Russia sometime next week, the New York Times […]

  • Kremlin accuses US of trying to justify ‘expropriation’

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 2:14pm EDT

    The White House’s plan to ‘streamline’ seizure of Russian private assets goes against all legal norms, Moscow believes Washington’s plan to expand its authority to “seize and forfeit” the assets of the Russian “oligarchs” to provide financial aid to Kiev is nothing but “expropriation” that tramples on the very right to private property, Kremlin spokesman […]

  • US should rejoin JCPOA if it really cares about a nuclear Iran

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 2:00pm EDT

    The prospect of a nuclearized Middle East underscores the need for more diplomacy, not less The White House on April 26 expressed concern that Iran is allegedly accelerating its nuclear program, saying Tehran could obtain sufficient fissile material for one nuclear bomb within weeks. The remarks echoed those previously coming from the Department of State, […]

  • Ukraine lend-lease proposed before war

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 1:45pm EDT

    US senators drafted a weapons scheme for Kiev weeks before Russia sent troops into Ukraine The scheme to send US weapons to Ukraine, using the “lend-lease” formula pioneered during WWII to skirt neutrality laws, was officially approved by Congress this week. However, it was put together all the way back in January – more than […]

  • Russian energy giant to quit foreign exchanges

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 12:59pm EDT

    Gazprom says it will delist its depository receipts to comply with a new law Russia’s state-owned gas company Gazprom said on Friday it was delisting its depository receipts from international stock exchanges after the Russian government refused to agree on their further circulation. According to a statement on the company’s website, holders will have the […]

  • US government is running out of cash for Ukraine

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 12:38pm EDT

    The White House only has $250mn to spend on military support for Kiev and is therefore eagerly waiting for the requested $33bn The US government needs Congress to approve its $33 billion request as soon as possible because it only has $250 million remaining from the previous package of assistance for Ukraine, White House spokeswoman […]

  • More EU nations reject Moscow’s gas-supply terms

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 12:19pm EDT

    The Czech Republic and Denmark refuse to pay for Russian energy in rubles Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Friday that Prague has no plans to pay for Russian gas deliveries in rubles, as demanded by Moscow. He was quoted by media after speaking at a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart, saying: […]

  • Ruble hits two-year high against euro

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 12:15pm EDT

    The Russian currency also strengthened its position against the dollar, climbing back to pre-conflict levels The Russian ruble rose to its strongest position since March 2020 against the European single currency, paring some gains after the Bank of Russia cut interest rates. On Friday, the ruble hit over 74 to the euro, and headed towards […]

  • Berlin called on to stop sending weapons to Ukraine

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 11:37am EDT

    Arms supplies to Kiev only prolong suffering of Ukrainians and risk WWIII, an open letter by German artists says Germany should consider the risks of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev spreading beyond Ukraine’s borders and plunging the world into a full-scale Third World War, dozens of German cultural figures have told Chancellor Olaf Scholz, […]

  • Report reveals extent of Poland’s military aid to Ukraine

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 11:37am EDT

    Warsaw has handed half of its tanks over to Kiev, a local outlet claims Poland has provided neighboring Ukraine with a whopping $7 billion worth of military aid since the outbreak of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, Polskie Radio has reported. The weapon deliveries to Ukraine included 200 Soviet-designed T-72 tanks, dozens of Gvozdika […]

  • Russia makes sovereign bond payments

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 11:35am EDT

    Moscow’s Ministry of Finance says dollar payments on foreign bonds previously stuck by sanctions are progressing Russia has finally managed to make dollar payments on two foreign bonds after sanctions introduced on the country’s financial system over its offensive in Ukraine had been holding transactions up for weeks. The country settled the $564.8 million payment […]

  • NATO ready to support Ukraine ‘for months and years’ of fighting

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 11:07am EDT

    The bloc also aims to move the country to “more modern NATO standard weapons,” the alliance’s Secretary General said NATO is preparing to support Kiev “over a long period of time”, for as long as the military conflict in Ukraine will last “for months and years,” the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. […]

  • Tennis icon Becker jailed for 2.5 years in London

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 10:57am EDT

    Becker has learned his fate after being found to have disregarded terms of a 2017 bankruptcy German tennis icon Boris Becker has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail by a UK court after he was found to have violated terms of his 2017 bankruptcy.  The former world number one was found guilty earlier this month in […]

  • Chelsea takeover takes stunning late twist

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 10:42am EDT

    British magnate Jim Ratcliffe has made a sensational late bid to buy the Premier League giants One of the UK’s richest men, Jim Ratcliffe, has made a dramatic eleventh hour bid to buy Premier League club Chelsea in what is a sensational twist in the ongoing saga as several suitors attempt to position themselves to […]

  • Russia cuts interest rate

    RT - Apr 29th 2022 10:27am EDT

    The Bank of Russia flags more cuts in 2022 Russia’s central bank cut its key interest rate on Friday, saying that it saw room for further decrease this year, as the regulator tries to tackle soaring inflation and support the country’s shrinking economy. The Central Bank of Russia lowered the key rate to 14% from […]