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  • US firms seek to bypass anti-Russia sanctions – media

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 8:26am EDT

    American businesses reportedly want to resume trade with Moscow via Turkey US companies that have pulled out of Russia due to Western sanctions pressure are now looking for a way to trade secretly with Moscow via Turkey, the newspaper Yeni Safak reported on Tuesday. The article highlighted that a number of firms want to circumvent […]

  • Powerful Iraqi cleric orders supporters to leave Green Zone

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 7:50am EDT

    Muqtada al-Sadr threatened to disavow his people unless they withdrew, after deadly clashes An influential Iraqi politician, whose supporters were engaged in deadly clashes with his political opponents this week, ordered his activists to leave Baghdad’s Green Zone on Tuesday. During a media conference in Najaf, his power base in central Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr threatened […]

  • French officials using AI to map and tax

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 7:26am EDT

    Authorities took in an additional $10mn in tax revenue amid severe drought across the country Tax officials in France are using a new AI program to find thousands of undeclared private swimming pools and have reportedly generated $10mn in additional tax revenue thanks to the tech. France’s Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) told AFP […]

  • EU weighs in on Ukraine military training

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 7:25am EDT

    Josep Borrell says that such a program for Kiev could be approved on Tuesday The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has expressed hope that a bloc-wide training mission for Ukrainian troops will be approved at a ministerial meeting on Tuesday. Some member states, meanwhile, have voiced skepticism about such a move. EU countries have been […]

  • German MP calls for Kiev’s envoy to be kicked out

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 7:24am EDT

    The outgoing ambassador should be declared persona non grata, the opposition lawmaker says Kiev’s outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, who infamously called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “offended liverwurst,” should be banned from the country, a conservative German lawmaker has said.  A diplomat representing Ukraine in Germany should acknowledge how much humanitarian, economic and […]

  • Pacific nation bars US warships

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 7:02am EDT

    The Solomon Islands won’t allow foreign military vessels in its ports until new protocol procedures are adopted The Solomon Islands have temporarily barred US Navy vessels from entering its ports months after the country signed a security and cooperation agreement with China, the US embassy in Canberra, Australia has said. “On August 29, the United […]

  • Russia to cut gas supplies to France – Le Figaro

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 6:38am EDT

    Gazprom is reportedly set to reduce deliveries starting on August 30 Russian energy giant Gazprom has informed French energy major Engie about a reduction of gas deliveries starting August 30, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing Engie’s press release. The reason for the immediate supply cuts is reportedly due to disagreements between Gazprom and […]

  • EU states oppose full Russian visa ban – Politico

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 5:28am EDT

    Germany and France argue that the move would only alienate people from the West, according to a memo EU member states are expected to reach a deal to slow the issuing of visas to Russian nationals and to make the process more expensive, rather than introducing a full ban, Politico reported on Monday, citing an […]

  • US urges shutdown of nuclear plant slated for IAEA inspection

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 5:25am EDT

    The Russian military had earlier suggested that taking the Zaporozhye facility offline could be necessary due to Ukrainian attacks Senior US officials have urged a full shutdown of Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control. A “controlled shutdown” of the facility “would be the safest and least risky option in the near-term,” […]

  • Germany will not help gas ‘freeloaders’ – Habeck

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 5:10am EDT

    The Economy Ministry says it will reevaluate the aid package offered to energy companies Berlin will not help domestic energy firms that make record profits during the energy crisis and therefore have no need of government aid, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio on Tuesday. “What we of course […]

  • Paris and Berlin want TikTokers deployed against Moscow – media  

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 4:02am EDT

    France and Germany have reportedly formulated plans on how the EU could influence Russians TikTokers and YouTubers could help the EU drive a wedge between the Russian government and the people, Germany and France reportedly told other members of the bloc. Ideas on how the EU could influence Russian citizens were formulated in a document […]

  • US must ‘pay the bill’ for Afghanistan – Russia

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 3:43am EDT

    Washington should not deflect responsibility for its own mistakes, Moscow’s top UN diplomat says The US should focus on compensating the Afghan people for the 20 years of “pointless occupation” rather than accusing others of not chipping in, Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said. The US sent troops into Afghanistan in 2001 […]

  • French industry must reduce energy consumption – PM

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 3:17am EDT

    Start saving energy or face blackouts, Elisabeth Borne tells businesses France will be forced to introduce energy rationing this winter if Russia halts gas supplies to Europe and businesses don’t take steps to reduce consumption, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne warned on Monday.   Speaking at a conference in Paris held by the Movement of the […]

  • Russia rakes in more oil revenue than ever – WSJ

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 3:09am EDT

    New buyers and traders, as well as overriding demand for crude, help Moscow shrug off sanctions Mounting oil demand from some of the world’s biggest economies has helped Russia to export almost as much crude as it did before the conflict in Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. On […]

  • Brits told to brace for recession

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 2:03am EDT

    Goldman Sachs sharply cuts UK growth forecasts Goldman Sachs economists expect a recession in the UK to begin later in the year, as record-high inflation hitting household incomes is dragging consumption down. Strategists expect Britain’s economic decline to begin in the fourth quarter of the current year, and project the nation’s GDP to contract by […]

  • EU facing decade of terrible winters – minister

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 1:30am EDT

    The Belgian energy minister has called for an immediate gas price cap The EU could suffer “terrible” winters in the years ahead if the bloc’s leaders don’t take immediate steps to impose a price cap on uncontrolled gas prices, according to Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten. “The next 5 to 10 winters will […]

  • Beijing warns Biden against arming Taiwan

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 12:58am EDT

    Washington must stop arms sales to Taipei, China’s embassy in the US says China will respond with “decisive and firm measures” if Washington continues military cooperation with Taiwan, the spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said on Monday. The statement came after Politico reported that the Joe Biden administration is planning to ask […]

  • India considering aid for Pakistan – media

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 12:41am EDT

    High-level discussions are reportedly underway in India to extend humanitarian aid to Pakistan Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered condolences to the victims of deadly floods in Pakistan, which have killed more than 1,000 and devastated much of the country, amid reports that New Delhi could soon offer assistance to its neighbor. Modi took […]

  • US artillery stockpiles ‘uncomfortably low’ after Ukraine aid – WSJ

    RT - Aug 30th 2022 12:17am EDT

    The Pentagon is conducting a review to determine how to meet its own supply needs while still arming Ukraine The US military is running low on some types of ammunition after the White House approved and delivered billions of dollars in “lethal aid” for Ukraine since February, several military officials told the Wall Street Journal […]

  • Neighbors react to deadly unrest in Iraq

    RT - Aug 29th 2022 10:24pm EDT

    Iran shuts border crossings while Kuwait urges citizens to leave Iraq The Iranian government has decided to close the country’s border with Iraq on Monday in response to violent clashes in Baghdad. Dozens of people have been injured and killed in clashes between the followers of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, rival militias and security forces, […]

  • EU’s energy policy leading towards collapse – Hungary

    RT - Aug 29th 2022 6:23pm EDT

    Unlike oil and gas, ideological convictions won’t keep Europeans warm in the winter, Peter Szijjarto cautioned Western Europe’s policy of rejecting Russian energy even in the absence of suitable alternatives could lead to the countries’ collapse when their people are left without heat in the winter, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a meeting of […]

  • Powerful cleric announces hunger strike as fighting escalates in Iraq

    RT - Aug 29th 2022 5:35pm EDT

    Muqtada al-Sadr called for the end to violence as his followers clashed with rival militia in Baghdad Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced a hunger strike on Monday evening, calling for an end to political violence. More than a dozen people have been killed in clashes between Sadr’s followers and rival militias in Baghdad, after no […]

  • Joe Rogan reveals ‘lesson’ of pandemic

    RT - Aug 29th 2022 4:31pm EDT

    The top Spotify podcaster advised Americans to ‘vote Republican’ in the upcoming midterm elections Americans who lost jobs, money, and businesses during the Covid-19 shutdowns should vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, Spotify’s top podcast host, Joe Rogan, told his guest, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers during his Saturday show. Rogan reasoned that […]

  • US oil reserves near four-decade low

    RT - Aug 29th 2022 4:30pm EDT

    President Joe Biden has eaten into America’s’ emergency stocks to bring down gas prices The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1984, according to recently-published figures from the Department of Energy. While Biden has relied on emptying the US’ reserves to bring down gas prices, his administration has no plans to […]

  • Climate scientists call for civil disobedience

    RT - Aug 29th 2022 3:40pm EDT

    The Nature Climate Change journal has published a piece urging climatologists to engage in civil disobedience to save the planet Climatologists around the world should leave their labs and not just take to the streets but engage in acts of civil disobedience to focus attention on the looming climate disaster, a group of scientists has […]