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  • Pyongyang fires more ballistic missiles – Seoul

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 9:58am EDT

    North Korea has launched at least four more projectiles, as massive US-South Korea military drills continue North Korea fired four short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry. The rockets are said to have flown some 130 kilometers, reaching an altitude of 20 kilometers. The launches bring the total […]

  • Russia seeks sanctions waiver to facilitate grain exports – Reuters

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 9:35am EDT

    Russia’s Rosselkhozbank seeks to re-establish ties with foreign banks in order to process grain payments, the news outlet reports Russia has asked the EU and other Western nations to lift sanctions on state lender Rosselkhozbank, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing sources. According to the news agency, such a move would allow the bank to restore […]

  • India’s largest lender reaps record profit

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 9:34am EDT

    The State Bank of India’s net profit surges by more than 70% on loan growth and improved asset quality The State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s biggest lender, has seen an almost 74% surge in quarterly net profit, the bank said in a press release on Saturday. According to the statement, net profit soared […]

  • Russia-Iraq trade turnover soars

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 8:24am EDT

    The figure exceeded $300 million in the first eight months of the year, according to the Russian embassy The trade turnover between Russia and Iraq between January and August 2022 amounts to $313.1 million and has exceeded the figure for all of last year, $282.7 million, an economic adviser at the Russian embassy in Baghdad, […]

  • Japan keeps stake in Russian energy project

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 7:48am EDT

    Tokyo says the move will help maintain Japan’s energy security Japanese energy company SODECO has decided to retain its 30% stake in the new entity that will manage the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East, Japan’s Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura announced on Friday. “It’s an extremely important project,” he said, […]

  • Global bankers ‘very pro-China’ – UBS

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 6:44am EDT

    Investors are looking forward to the Chinese market reopening after the zero-Covid lockdown, the world’s largest fund manager says International investment bankers are bullish about the Chinese economy despite worrying reports by the Western media, the chairman of UBS Bank, Colm Kelleher, said on Wednesday. Kelleher was speaking at the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit […]

  • Chinese spacecraft releases mystery object in orbit – US

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 5:42am EDT

    The UFO is believed to be part of a reusable transport system being developed by Beijing A Chinese reusable rocket orbiting Earth has released another object into orbit, according to the US Space Force, which detected the unknown craft on Monday. According to the Orbital Focus website, the second object is probably traveling less than […]

  • Twitter confirms 50% of staff laid off

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 5:23am EDT

    The job cuts mainly affect communications, content curation, human rights, and machine learning ethics teams Social media platform Twitter has made good on its warnings and slashed 50% of its workforce, the company’s head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth announced in a tweet on Saturday. “Yesterday’s reduction in force affected approximately 15% of our […]

  • Eurozone factory activity sinks – S&P Global

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 4:50am EDT

    The key PMI index has plunged to a 29-month low, data shows Manufacturing activity across the Eurozone declined to the lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic, amid weakening global demand for goods, according to a study by S&P Global. The report shows that the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for manufacturing dropped to 46.4 in October […]

  • US airline blocks out seats because passengers get heavier – report

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 4:41am EDT

    United Airlines has reportedly been forced to keep some seats vacant to comply with weight restrictions due to America’s obesity epidemic United Airlines, the third-largest US air carrier, is reportedly not able to sell some seats on its flights due to the increased weight of the average American passenger.  The carrier began blocking off three […]

  • Biden lashes out at Twitter and Musk

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 3:52am EDT

    “There’s no editors anymore in America,” the US president complained By acquiring Twitter last month, Elon Musk took charge of a social media platform that “spews lies all across the world,” US President Joe Biden said on Friday. The comment came shortly after reports emerged that Musk had fired thousands of Twitter employees across the […]

  • Türkiye becoming one of Russia’s top trade partners

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 3:17am EDT

    It may overtake Germany in terms of exports volume, statistics show Trade between Moscow and Ankara has been expanding rapidly, with the volume of goods supplied to Russia hitting a monthly record of $1.1 billion in September. According to the RBC business daily, citing data from the Turkish Institute of Statistics, that’s 2.3 times more […]

  • UK expands ban on Russian gold

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 2:42am EDT

    It is now prohibited to import Russian gold processed in third countries and gold jewelry made in Russia Britain has expanded its ban on the import of Russian gold, according to a document published on the UK government website. According to the document, the ban targets “gold jewelry originating in Russia where the jewelry was […]

  • South Korea scrambles fighter jets

    RT - Nov 5th 2022 1:13am EDT

    Seoul’s armed forces said nearly 200 North Korean military flights were detected on Friday South Korea scrambled dozens of fighter jets after spotting a significant number of North Korean warplanes on radar, the country’s military said. The incident comes amid ongoing air exercises by Seoul and Washington, which have prompted several shows of force by […]

  • Top White House official visits Kiev

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 10:13pm EDT

    The trip came as the Pentagon announced $400 million in additional military aid to Ukraine US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev during a surprise visit on Friday, reiterating Washington’s support for the country’s armed forces while discussing details of the latest security package. The previously unannounced trip […]

  • Rishi Sunak seeks to score easy political points by closing down Chinese institutes

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 6:36pm EDT

    The Chinese-sponsored Confucius Institutes have been accused of being influence operations British Minister for Security Tom Tugendhat, a member of the newly formed Rishi Sunak cabinet, recently responded to a question from anti-China MP Iain Duncan Smith regarding the future of China’s Confucius Institutes (CI) in the UK. Smith, the biggest cheerleader of the anti-China […]

  • FBI is ‘rotted at its core,’ Republican lawmakers say

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 6:04pm EDT

    The agency has been politicized, corrupting America’s top law enforcement entity, a GOP report has claimed America is no longer a country where citizens are afforded equal justice under the law, as guaranteed by their Constitution, because the nation’s top law enforcement agency has been corrupted by politicized leadership and a “woke, leftist agenda” being […]

  • Biden promises to shutter US coal power plants

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 5:29pm EDT

    The US president wants to see “wind and solar” replace coal-fueled power plants Speaking at an event in California on Friday, US President Joe Biden said his government intended to shut down coal-fueled power plants “all across America” and replace them with wind- or solar-powered generators. Biden was in San Diego as part of a […]

  • Ancient Christian monastery found in Arabia

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 5:25pm EDT

    The site, discovered on an island off the coast of the UAE, could predate the advent of Islam Archaeologists in the United Arab Emirates have unearthed the ruins of a Christian monastery on an island off the coast of the Umm al-Quwain emirate. Hidden for more than a millennium beneath a sand dune, the monastery […]

  • NATO country beefs up ‘disinformation’ bureau

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 5:21pm EDT

    Slovakia seeks AI software to counter “pro-Russian narratives” on the Ukraine conflict as polls reveal half of the population trusts Moscow more than Washington Accusing Russia of waging a “disinformation campaign” on Facebook, the government of Slovakia said it would invest in artificial intelligence programs to help its Hybrid Threats division cope with social media […]

  • Climate protesters blamed for patient’s death

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 5:03pm EDT

    A German minister has called for a ‘crackdown’ on activists for disrupting the work of rescue services German Interior Minister Nancy Fraser has called for a police “crackdown” on climate activists who block roads as part of their protests after a female cyclist died in a traffic accident in Berlin while emergency services were stuck […]

  • UK spies build secret ‘terror army’ in Ukraine – Grayzone

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 4:40pm EDT

    British intelligence agents are reportedly working to train a covert force to conduct “sabotage and reconnaissance operations” in Crimea UK military-intelligence operatives are reportedly working to create and train a covert terrorist force in Ukraine assigned to attack Russian targets in Crimea on behalf of the Kiev government. Working through a private British intelligence services […]

  • ‘Activist groups’ tanking Twitter profits – Musk

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 3:42pm EDT

    The billionaire met this week with activist groups to promise the site’s moderation policies would stay for now Twitter owner Elon Musk has accused “activist groups” of “trying to destroy free speech in America” by pressuring advertisers to boycott his platform even though he hasn’t changed any policies. The billionaire took to Twitter to complain […]

  • Pentagon threatens ‘end of Kim regime’

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 2:38pm EDT

    The US warned that the use of nuclear weapons by North Korea would spell the end of its government US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared on Thursday that any nuclear attack against the US or its allies by North Korea “is unacceptable, and will lead to the end of the Kim regime.” With the US […]

  • White House explains Biden’s regime change comment

    RT - Nov 4th 2022 2:12pm EDT

    The US president’s comment about “freeing Iran” was merely “expressing solidarity” with protesters US President Joe Biden’s comments about freeing Iran were not meant as a statement of policy but an expression of solidarity with anti-government protesters, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Friday. Biden’s off-the-cuff remark at a Democrat […]