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  • US has a new murder capital

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 2:31pm EDT

    New Orleans has overtaken St. Louis for the highest homicide rate, with murders more than doubling from pre-pandemic levels New Orleans, one of the most popular US cities for tourism, has achieved an unwanted title: America’s murder capital. Surging crime and breakdowns in law enforcement have given the ‘Big Easy’ the highest US homicide rate, […]

  • France proposes filling countryside with migrants

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 2:31pm EDT

    Asylum seekers can be resettled in rural areas under a new policy proposed by Paris French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed an overhaul of immigration and asylum policies that would include redistributing migrants to rural areas facing population decline. He condemned the current policies as “inefficient and inhumane,” announcing on Thursday that the matter would […]

  • Ukrainian grain prices undercut EU farmers – WSJ

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 12:33pm EDT

    Europeans can’t compete with cheap grain imports from Ukraine, which never make it to food-starved regions, the paper writes An influx of cheap Ukrainian grain and poultry is making it difficult for farmers in the European Union to break even, according to a report published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Meanwhile, the grain-starved […]

  • Germans could be ‘left without a country’ soon – Trump

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 11:33am EDT

    Ex-president says he warned Angela Merkel that Berlin’s dependence on Russian energy could lead to a “surrender” Germany could soon cease to exist as a country amid the escalating energy crisis, former US president Donald Trump has suggested.  During a rally in Youngstown, Ohio on Saturday, Trump tore into his successor in the White House, […]

  • US liberals love illegal aliens, just not in their own posh neighborhoods

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 11:25am EDT

    Florida Governor DeSantis shipped dozens of migrants to an affluent Democrat neighborhood, sending the White House into a frenzy American progressives are having a full-blown conniption fit this week after Florida airlifted illegal migrants to an island off the coast of Massachusetts. The response from the left was every bit as hysterical as it was […]

  • Hungarian PM warns Ukraine could lose up to half of its territory – media

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 11:09am EDT

    The conflict between Moscow and Kiev could last for years, Viktor Orban reportedly said in a speech behind closed doors The Ukraine conflict could last until 2030 and the West is to blame for making it global rather than local in nature, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said, according to Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL). […]

  • EU to deprive Hungary of billions in funds

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 9:56am EDT

    Brussels moves to punish Budapest for alleged corruption The European Commission on Sunday proposed withholding $7.5 billion of funds allocated to Hungary, due to corruption concerns. The suspension is aimed at protecting the bloc’s budget, according to Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn. “Today’s decision is a clear demonstration of the Commission’s resolve to protect the EU […]

  • Russia and China aren’t trying to rule the world – Kremlin

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 9:53am EDT

    Both nations share a similar stance on US “provocative actions,” President Putin’s spokesperson added Neither Moscow nor Beijing are seeking to rule the world – unlike some other countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “In implementing their bilateral relations, Russia and China do not lay claim to ruling the whole world,” he told Russia’s […]

  • Italy fears France may halt power supply – reports

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 8:52am EDT

    Paris denies the claims, saying it will honor its commitments Italy fears that France may stop exporting electricity amid dwindling output from nuclear power plants, la Repubblica reported on Saturday. According to the paper, French energy authorities wrote to their Italian counterparts to notify them of an upcoming two-year halt in supply, with a spokeswoman […]

  • European country launches firewood distribution website

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 8:19am EDT

    Kindling has become scarce in Moldova as the population seeks cheaper ways to heat their homes The Moldovan government has launched a special website which will help citizens find firewood to heat their homes, authorities announced this week. “The site provides information about the nearest forestry, thus facilitating the process of providing the population with […]

  • Germany to send more howitzers to Ukraine – media

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 7:50am EDT

    The first of the self-propelled guns can only be delivered in two and a half years, according to Die Welt Germany has agreed to provide 18 self-propelled RCH-155 howitzers to Ukraine, on top of the heavy weaponry that Berlin has already pledged to hand over, Die Welt has claimed. However, the first shipment is at […]

  • Best-selling cars in Moscow revealed

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 7:33am EDT

    Chinese automobiles topped sales in August Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors sold 854 Havаl Jolion vehicles in Moscow last month, marking an eightfold year-on-year growth, according to data from analytical agency Avtostat. For the first time ever, a car produced by a Chinese company became the top-selling one in the Russian capital. According to Avtostat, […]

  • Russia’s richest man unveils employee share-ownership scheme

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 6:04am EDT

    Nornickel’s top shareholder says the mining giant is to raise its staff’s stake Russian mining giant Nornickel is planning to raise the equity holdings of individuals, including its employees, to 25% of the company from the current 10%, the company’s largest shareholder –and Russia’s richest man, as per Bloomberg Billionaires Index– Vladimir Potanin, said on […]

  • France to reap worst corn harvest in decades – Bloomberg

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 5:51am EDT

    This season’s crop is expected to fall to the lowest in 30 years due to adverse weather French farmers are harvesting their smallest corn crop in more than three decades, following the worst drought in at least 500 years that has hit the continent, Bloomberg reported this week, citing the country’s agriculture ministry. According to […]

  • US quietly stepping up efforts to shut down Guantanamo – WSJ

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 5:09am EDT

    A senior diplomat has been appointed to oversee transfers of detainees from the prison facility, the outlet reports The Biden administration has quietly stepped up efforts to close the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Despite being one of Joe Biden’s campaign promises, the White […]

  • EU ports signal readiness to let Russian fertilizers through – UN

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 4:29am EDT

    Secretary-General Guterres says he spoke with EU leaders this week about lifting sanctions on Russian fertilizer exports Major European ports have signaled their readiness to facilitate the export of Russian fertilizers, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with RIA Novosti, published on Saturday. “We are… in contact with the ports. We have received […]

  • Uranium price soars due to power supply crisis

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 3:13am EDT

    Investors are reportedly bullish on nuclear power amid the worsening energy crisis in Europe Uranium prices have surged to their highest level in a decade, reflecting investors’ optimism in relation to prospects for nuclear fuel demand as the energy crisis keeps raging across Europe, the FT reported this week. According to nuclear fuel market research […]

  • China slams Czech visit to Taiwan

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 2:54am EDT

    Prague should stop sending the wrong signals to separatist forces on the island, Beijing warns The Czech Republic is damaging its ties with Beijing and violating China’s sovereignty by sending an official delegation to Taiwan, the Chinese embassy in Prague has said. Beijing “firmly opposes” the visit as “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s […]

  • Caught in the middle? Maya Mirchandani, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 2:26am EDT

    Back in 1955, when Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was visiting India, he told his hosts that Moscow and New Delhi were so close that if the Indians were to call from the mountain tops, the Russians would be at their side. Fast-forward almost 70 years and the Russian-Indian partnership is still going strong, despite […]

  • Canadians’ wealth suffers biggest drop on record

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 2:00am EDT

    Household net worth plunged 6.1% in the second quarter of 2022, Statistics Canada reports Canada’s households saw a decline of almost $1 trillion Canadian dollars ($775 billion) in net worth in the second quarter amid sliding real estate costs, Statistics Canada reported this week. That was the largest decrease since at least 1990, according to […]

  • Washington targets China’s tech sector – Reuters

    RT - Sep 18th 2022 1:45am EDT

    Restrictions on semiconductor shipments could reportedly be introduced next month The US government plans next month to tighten restrictions on the country’s shipments of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence, along with chipmaking tools, to China, Reuters reported this week, citing its sources. People familiar with the matter told the news outlet that the Commerce Department […]

  • Iran sees no difference between Biden and Trump

    RT - Sep 17th 2022 10:09pm EDT

    President Ebrahim Raisi has no interest in meeting his US counterpart Joe Biden Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi does not believe that a face-to-face conversation with Biden on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York would be of any benefit to his country or could somehow help revive the landmark 2015 nuclear […]

  • Swiss leaders shrug off referendum on F-35 deal

    RT - Sep 17th 2022 8:41pm EDT

    Lawmakers in Bern have approved a controversial purchase of US fighter jets without waiting for a public vote on the issue Swiss legislators have given final approval for the country’s controversial  purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the US, ignoring a successful petition drive that was supposed to force a public vote on the issue. […]

  • UK’s new PM snubs Biden

    RT - Sep 17th 2022 6:49pm EDT

    Liz Truss has canceled a meeting with the US president despite keeping other heads of state on her calendar UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has called off a planned meeting with US President Joe Biden in London, even as she keeps Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other world leaders on her calendar […]

  • NATO admits it’s been preparing for current situation for years

    RT - Sep 17th 2022 6:42pm EDT

    Admiral Rob Bauer said that the alliance’s forces will be more integrated and capable of faster deployment NATO Military Committee Chair Admiral Rob Bauer declared on Saturday that the alliance’s efforts to overhaul its command structure have been underway for “several years,” before Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine. Speaking at the NATO Military […]