News From RT, Page 1242

RSS

  • China ‘highly appreciates’ Putin’s stance on Pelosi’s Taiwan trip

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 12:11pm EDT

    The Kremlin’s criticism of the US representative proves ties between Moscow and Beijing are solid, China says China “highly appreciates” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s critical remarks about US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “provocative” visit to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday. Wang noted that Putin’s position reflected the high-level strategic cooperation […]

  • Top RAF official quits over woke policies – media

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 12:08pm EDT

    A policy restricting the recruitment of white men in a bid to meet diversity goals will hurt fighting strength, she said The head of recruitment and selection for the UK’s Royal Air Force has resigned in protest over hiring restrictions on white males in a bid to meet “impossible” diversity goals, defense sources told Sky […]

  • Ukraine likely to be put on ‘ammo diet’ – US military expert

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 11:52am EDT

    Michael Kofman says Europe may already have given Kiev most of the weapons it’s willing to provide Ukraine’s European backers may be about to put the country on an “ammunition diet”, an American military analyst has claimed in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel. Michael Kofman said these nations may already have reached their limit […]

  • European banks restart Russian bond trading – FT

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 10:15am EDT

    DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • NATO ready to intervene in Kosovo – Stoltenberg

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 10:09am EDT

    Secretary-General pledged the bloc’s support in the event that “stability” in the province was jeopardized DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • US must ‘challenge’ Chinese missiles – admiral

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 9:55am EDT

    The commander of the US Seventh Fleet denounced Beijing for firing missiles into international waters The United States must “contest” the launch of missiles over Taiwan by China, a top US military officer said on Tuesday. Seventh Fleet commander Vice Admiral Karl Thomas warned that such acts by Beijing could become the norm if allowed […]

  • Major airline bets on supersonic travel

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 9:54am EDT

    American Airlines has ordered 20 supersonic Overture planes US carrier American Airlines announced on Tuesday that it will purchase up to 20 Overture jets from aircraft maker Boom Supersonic, with an option for an additional 40 planes. The deal is the second firm order in the past two years for Boom, which is still years […]

  • Turkish official calls for UN Security Council reform

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 9:43am EDT

    The country’s communications director brands the United Nations Security Council structure “unfair” The United Nations and its Security Council should be reformed to better tackle current events, Turkey’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on Tuesday. “The UN failed to develop concrete solutions to prevent the great humanitarian disasters, particularly in the post-Cold War period, and […]

  • ‘Kremlin-friendly’ politicians may grab power in West – The Spectator

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 9:10am EDT

    “Russia would win” if the public is allowed a mood swing on Ukraine, the magazine claims Public disquiet over sanctions on Moscow could propel pro-Russian politicians to power in Western countries, Czech writer Josef Bouska said in an opinion piece for the Spectator magazine. Support for punishing Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine through economic means has […]

  • Israel and Turkey announce normalization of ties

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 8:47am EDT

    The Israeli prime minister’s office says the two nations will restore full diplomatic relations, which were downgraded in 2018 Israel and Turkey will soon reappoint ambassadors to each other’s countries and restore full diplomatic ties, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday. Relations between the two nations were downgraded back in […]

  • Greens offer solution to UK energy crisis

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 8:06am EDT

    The party proposes nationalizing the country’s major energy providers The UK’s Green Party has proposed permanently nationalizing the country’s five major energy companies to ease the current cost of living crisis, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, citing party leaders. “By bringing the big five energy retail companies into public ownership, setting the price of energy […]

  • West eyes branding Russia exporter of ‘blood diamonds’ – NYT

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 7:21am EDT

    Moscow has previously criticized efforts to politicize its diamond trade, branding it “political demagogy” Western powers including the US, EU and Canada are pushing to have Russia labeled an exporter of conflict diamonds, arguing that the gemstone trade is filling the pockets of the Kremlin and allowing it to continue its military offensive in Ukraine, […]

  • Germany issues energy warning

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 7:17am EDT

    Natural gas reserves will last less than three months if Russia cuts off supply, the regulator said Germany’s energy regulator has warned that the nation will struggle to have enough natural gas to get through the coming winter, even if reserves are topped up in line with government targets, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The Federal […]

  • Australia terminates Russian embassy lease

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 6:39am EDT

    Canberra claims Moscow wasn’t building its new diplomatic headquarters fast enough Australia has terminated the lease for a new Russian embassy in Canberra, the National Capital Authority (NCA) announced on Wednesday. Russia has been given 20 days to vacate the “premium site” in Yarralumla, not far from the Australian parliament, the NCA said in a […]

  • Scientists aim to resurrect extinct species

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 6:30am EDT

    A project to recreate the Tasmanian tiger from old and modern genes is underway in Melbourne Australian scientists want to use advanced genetic engineering techniques to make an artificial living cell of a Tasmanian tiger and then produce in a tube new members of the extinct species. The project is being pursued by a lab […]

  • UK inflation smashes 40-year high

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 6:13am EDT

    Food and energy led the 10.1% price spike The UK’s consumer price inflation surged to a new high of 10.1% per annum in July, up from 9.4% in June, according to new estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure is rapidly drawing closer to the Bank of England’s expectations for October, when […]

  • Japan resumes Russian oil imports

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 5:41am EDT

    Crude purchases restarted in July after falling to zero in the previous month Japan resumed its purchases of Russian oil in July, according to information released on Wednesday by the country’s Finance Ministry. In the previous month, imports fell to zero as local refiners started to phase out Russian crude amid Ukraine-related sanctions. While the […]

  • Germany wants to retake Polish soil — official

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 5:15am EDT

    Berlin wants to subjugate Eastern Europe and regain lands it lost, the head of the Polish central bank claimed Berlin has plans to subjugate Eastern Europe and has designs on the lands that it lost in the past, Adam Glapinski the head of the National Bank of Poland has claimed, adding that his country stands […]

  • German energy provider faces huge losses amid gas crisis

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 4:54am EDT

    Bailed-out Uniper blames shrinking gas flows from Russia for its disastrous financial performance German electric utility Uniper suffered a €12.3 billion ($12.5 billion) net loss in the first half of 2022 due to a sharp decline in natural gas supplies from Russia, according to the company’s earnings statement released on Tuesday. “Uniper has for months […]

  • Apple diversifying production away from China – media

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 4:17am EDT

    The US tech giant has been in talks with Vietnam to manufacture more items, according to Japan’s Nikkei news agency Apple is in talks to produce watches and MacBooks in Vietnam as it tries to diversify production away from China, Japan’s Nikkei news agency reported on Wednesday. The company’s Chinese suppliers Luxshare Precision Industry and […]

  • North Korea fires two cruise missiles – media

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 2:06am EDT

    It’s allegedly the first test of such weaponry by Pyongyang since January North Korea fired two cruise missiles off its west coast into the Yellow Sea early on Wednesday, a South Korean military source told Yonhap news agency. The alleged missile test coincided with a press conference by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, marking 100 […]

  • Labor shortages hit UK harvest

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 2:05am EDT

    The value of food wasted could be more than £60 million, a farmers union warns Around £60 million ($75 million) worth of crops may have been wasted in the UK in the first half of the year as a result of labor shortages, according to a National Farmers Union (NFU) survey. Fruit and vegetables are […]

  • Russian regions report rising revenues – RBK

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 1:21am EDT

    The overall budget intake among the country’s top ten regions surged 27% in the first half of the year Russia’s leading regions reported sharply higher revenues in the first half of 2022, despite Western sanctions, the business daily RBK reported on Tuesday, citing data from the National Credit Ratings (NCR).  Revenue growth in the top […]

  • Top Trump critic loses Congress seat

    RT - Aug 17th 2022 1:02am EDT

    GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming was ousted in the state’s primary race Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has lost her bid for another term in Congress after a poor showing in the Wyoming state primary, according to several outlets that called the race, with her opponent, the Donald Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, appearing to win by […]

  • Panicked train passengers jump into wildfire

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 10:38pm EDT

    Up to 20 people were injured as their train stopped amid a wildfire in Spain Multiple people were injured after smashing windows and attempting to flee for safety as their train was stopped by a raging forest fire in northeast Spain on Tuesday. Three passengers reportedly suffered serious burns, including a little girl around the […]