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  • Powerful quake strikes Pacific nation

    RT - Sep 11th 2022 2:24am EDT

    Casualties and damage are unclear following an earthquake in Papua New Guinea A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning, with tremors felt widely in the Pacific nation of 9 million. The epicenter was at a depth of 90km (around 56 miles), not far from the town of Kainantu in the eastern […]

  • India mulls boosting coal imports – energy minister

    RT - Sep 11th 2022 2:22am EDT

    Stockpiles at the country’s power plants have dropped some 11% since mid-August, causing supply concerns India may increase coal imports due to supply concerns, despite a longer-term policy to curb purchases from overseas, the country’s power and renewable energy minister, Raj Kumar Singh told Bloomberg on Friday. “We are watching the situation anxiously. Availability of […]

  • German recession ‘inevitable’ – Deutsche Bank

    RT - Sep 11th 2022 1:02am EDT

    Soaring energy costs are hurting EU’s largest economy, according to CEO Christian Sewing The engine of European economic development, Germany, is set for a contraction, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing warned this week, as cited by CNBC. According to the media outlet, Sewing said in a speech at the Handelsblatt Banking Summit in Frankfurt that the […]

  • 160 arrested in US human trafficking sting

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 6:49pm EDT

    A Disney employee, a cop, a prison guard, and two teachers were among those nabbed Polk County Sheriff’s Office and other authorities in the US state of Florida have rounded up 160 people in a week-long human trafficking sting operation dubbed Fall Haul 2, County Sheriff Grady Judd announced on Friday in a press conference.  […]

  • Poland claims to be ‘locomotive of development’ in Europe

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 4:00pm EDT

    Germany, on the contrary, has delivered “tremendous damage” on the continent, Polish PM insists Poland has become the “locomotive of development” for the whole of Europe, and its “importance” is ever growing, the country’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has declared. Unlike Warsaw, Berlin has been too shaky in its stance on Ukraine, while its energy […]

  • Spain will train troops from Ukraine – media

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 2:10pm EDT

    Ukrainian soldiers will ‘soon’ be arriving in Zaragoza for training by their Spanish counterparts The Spanish Army will soon begin training Ukrainian combat troops, military sources confirmed to El Mundo on Friday, revealing the troops have been preparing to train their counterparts from Kiev in the use of battle tanks, missile systems, military medicine, and […]

  • Five dead in ‘whale attack’

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 2:00pm EDT

    A boat carrying birdwatchers capsized off New Zealand after “colliding” with a whale A boat with 11 on board capsized off Kaikoura, New Zealand, according to local authorities. Police described the accident as an “unprecedented” and “tragic” event, confirming five dead, while six others were rescued from the waters. Local mayor blamed the accident on […]

  • West pressuring Serbia over Kosovo – president

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 11:51am EDT

    Aleksandar Vucic said the West wants the conflict between Belgrade and Pristina resolved as soon as possible to focus on Ukraine Western European powers backed by the US and Turkey are trying to railroad Serbia into signing an agreement with the breakaway province of Kosovo as soon as possible, the country’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, has […]

  • Biden extends 9/11 emergency

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 11:30am EDT

    The ‘terrorist threat’ behind the attacks continues to menace the country, the US president warned US President Joe Biden has renewed the national emergency declared by former president George W. Bush in the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 for another year. The “terrorist threat” behind the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people […]

  • Europe has run out of energy – Orban

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 10:57am EDT

    The Hungarian prime minister says his country will not experience any fuel shortages, despite Europe’s energy crisis Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed Europe’s energy shortfall on bureaucrats and environmentalists, saying his own country is protected from the crisis. “If we want to dig to the bottom of the problems, we always end up […]

  • US satellite threatens other spacecraft, Russian scientists warn

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 10:46am EDT

    The craft is apparently partially disintegrating in orbit An American satellite is partially disintegrating in orbit, endangering other spacecraft circling Earth, Russian scientists have said on Saturday. The craft in question is the US geostationary communications satellite Galaxy 11, operated by satellite services company Intelsat, according to the Moscow-based Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics at […]

  • EU country’s citizens saving on food to pay for energy – survey

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 9:47am EDT

    Seven out of ten Greeks are being forced to buy less food due to rising energy costs A growing number of Greeks are cutting back on food to pay their taxes and energy bills, a survey by the General Confederation of Greek Workers and the Labor Institute has shown. When asked if rising prices had […]

  • Germany is ‘prepared’ for Russian gas halt – Scholz

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 9:09am EDT

    The chancellor says Berlin has taken abundant precautions to cope with the energy crisis Germany can cope with the current energy crisis, and is ready to deal with a potential Russian natural gas shutdown, the Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday. “We live in serious times… But we are prepared. Prepared, for example, for Russia […]

  • China boosts exports to Russia

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 7:49am EDT

    Shipment of goods in August jumped by more than a quarter year-on-year Chinese exports to Russia soared in August despite Western sanctions targeting the Russian economy, the news outlet RBK reported this week, citing official Chinese customs data. According to the report, shipments from China to Russia last month reached roughly $7.9 billion, an increase […]

  • Serbian leader explains why LGBTQ event must be canceled

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 7:18am EDT

    Security situation remains “difficult” in Serbian capital, President Aleksandar Vucic says The international EuroPride parade, set to be held in Belgrade this year, isn’t going ahead, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has reiterated, citing safety concerns as reasons for the decision. The security situation regarding the march of LGBTQ activists in the capital remained “difficult,” Vucic […]

  • Exposed: The vast pro-Ukrainian ‘bot army’ designed to influence Western policy makers

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 7:14am EDT

    An investigation has exposed a vast coordinated network online Researchers at the University of Adelaide have published a landmark paper on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in Ukraine. These Australian findings are truly staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the social media network from February 23 to March […]

  • German foreign minister visits Kiev

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 6:28am EDT

    This is Annalena Baerbock’s second visit to the Ukrainian capital since the start of Russia’s military operation Germany’s top diplomat, Annalena Baerbock, arrived in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday on a surprise visit. She stated that the trip is meant to demonstrate that Berlin is set to continue supporting Kiev for “as long as necessary.” […]

  • US to sanction buyers of Russian oil who pay above price cap – US Treasury

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 6:27am EDT

    Washington has published guidance on the price cap, but its level remains unknown US companies will be allowed to buy seaborne Russian oil if they adhere to the price ceiling agreed by allied countries, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in preliminary guidance published on Friday. According to the document, the […]

  • Power prices in Finland skyrocket – grid operator

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 5:13am EDT

    Fingrid says it was forced to use two backup power plants to prevent blackouts Electricity prices in Finland have reached record highs, according to the country’s power grid company Fingrid. “The price of adjustment electricity is currently exceptionally high at approximately €5,000 per megawatt-hour,” Fingrid said in a statement on Thursday, noting that it has […]

  • FBI conducted mass raids against Trump supporters – ex-presidential adviser

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 4:24am EDT

    Steve Bannon claims the searches, targeting 35 individuals, happened on the same day he was charged with fraud The FBI conducted raids targeting dozens of senior Donald Trump supporters this week, Steve Bannon, who served as adviser to the former US president, has claimed. Speaking on the conservative Charlie Kirk Show on Friday, Bannon said: […]

  • Iran looks to boost trade with Russia

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 4:11am EDT

    Trade turnover is expected to grow due to Tehran’s efforts to ramp-up exports Tehran’s efforts to boost exports to Russia should help trade turnover between the two countries increase by some 60% by the end of the year, Bahman Abdollahi, the head of Iran’s Chamber of Cooperatives, told the news outlet RBK on Thursday. “Today, […]

  • Germany’s energy plan could cost more than it saves – media

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 4:10am EDT

    Adding timers and heaters to advertising signs could prove more expensive than keeping the lights on, an advertising group warns Germany’s newly approved directive to turn off outdoor advertising at night to save energy might end up costing more than leaving the illumination on, Die Welt newspaper reported on Saturday, citing the German Association for […]

  • Hungary on ‘edge of abyss’ in EU — Czech minister

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 3:10am EDT

    Budapest could theoretically end up quitting the bloc, Prague’s European affairs minister warns Hungary’ stance on Russia and the conflict in Ukraine could potentially see it exiting the EU, the Czech European affairs minister has warned. The EU is “a unity of many voices” that always finds common ground despite any disputes, Mikulas Bek told […]

  • World’s largest rice exporter restricts shipments

    RT - Sep 10th 2022 3:09am EDT

    India has banned sending broken rice abroad and imposed a 20% duty on other varieties, Reuters reports India has banned the export of broken rice and imposed a 20% duty on outbound shipments of other various grades, Reuters has reported. The South Asian nation cited food security concerns in making the move, which was announced […]

  • Mossad chief warns US during visit

    RT - Sep 9th 2022 6:23pm EDT

    The Israeli spy agency shared ‘sensitive intelligence materials’ with US agencies in a bid to spike the agreement Mossad chief David Barnea warned his US counterparts against joining a restored nuclear deal with Iran, Israel revealed on Thursday, after the spy chief returned from Washington. During his trip, he met with the heads of the […]