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  • 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 […]

  • Germany mulls drastic nuclear decision – WSJ

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 9:04pm EDT

    Facing an unprecedented energy crisis, Berlin will reportedly delay shuttering its last nuclear power stations Facing a potentially cold and dark winter without enough energy sources to heat homes and businesses, Germany is poised to postpone the long-planned shutdowns of its last three nuclear power stations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified German government officials. […]

  • Social media algorithms come under scrutiny

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 8:36pm EDT

    Tech giant Oracle is auditing TikTok’s algorithms in search of manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party American tech corporation Oracle is auditing ultra-popular social media platform TikTok’s algorithms and content moderation rules to check for manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party, Axios reported on Tuesday. The probe is part of parent company ByteDance’s ongoing efforts […]

  • EU seethes over Turkish trade with Russia – FT

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 8:18pm EDT

    Ankara rushed into the vacuum created by US-EU embargoes against Moscow, and Brussels is angry The value and volume of Turkey’s exports to Russia rose dramatically from 2021 levels, as Turkish companies rushed to service the market abandoned by US and EU corporations. Officials in Brussels told Financial Times on Tuesday that this is “not […]

  • Meta steps up information control ahead of US elections

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 7:13pm EDT

    The social media giant is imposing strict controls on information related to the upcoming midterm elections Social media behemoth Meta is beefing up its information-control tactics as the US heads into the 2022 midterm elections, tightening rules on voting misinformation and advertising. The changes were announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The company will […]

  • German troops return to Bosnia

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 6:57pm EDT

    Berlin sends 50 soldiers over Serb protests and Russian criticism of “creeping NATOization” Germany has ordered some 50 soldiers to join the EU-led peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, after pulling out almost a decade ago. The Bosnian Serbs objected and the Russian embassy warned of NATO power games as the first […]

  • Water cuts coming as drought hits US West

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 5:27pm EDT

    Washington has ordered Arizona and Nevada to slash their water use as extreme drought conditions dry up the Colorado River Basin With parts of the US Southwest suffering their worst drought conditions in more than a millennium, the federal government has ordered reductions in Colorado River water allotments to the states of Arizona and Nevada, […]

  • Turkish airstrike kills three Syrian soldiers – media

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 4:58pm EDT

    Damascus reportedly targeted Turkish military sites in response Turkish airstrikes killed three Syrian soldiers in the countryside near Aleppo on Tuesday, Syria’s SANA news network reported. Syrian forces responded by striking Turkish military sites, causing an unknown number of casualties, the outlet said. Three soldiers were killed in the strikes and six others wounded, SANA […]

  • ‘Dirty bomb’ in Ukraine would affect nine countries – nuclear expert

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 4:37pm EDT

    A former top inspector of the USSR’s nuclear watchdog has warned it’s hard to predict where else the wind would blow the particles A total of nine countries could be contaminated if the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is hit by multiple launch rocket systems, a former chief inspector of the USSR’s nuclear […]

  • US may ‘sleepwalk’ into war with China – Asian leader

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 3:55pm EDT

    Washington and Beijing are leading the world into “dangerous territory,” Singapore’s future PM has told Bloomberg News US-China tensions are rising in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this month, and the two countries are at increasing risk of stumbling into an unintended war, Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting has warned […]

  • Trump team doesn’t know what was seized in FBI raid – lawyer

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 3:25pm EDT

    The ‘inventory list’ supplied by the FBI was ‘borderline worthless,’ the former president’s lawyer says Former US President Donald Trump and his attorneys are still uncertain about what was taken during the FBI’s raid on his Florida home last week, according to Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who told Fox News on Monday that the list […]

  • Taiwan accuses China of ‘exaggerated tricks’

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 2:42pm EDT

    Defense officials have denied a claim that Chinese aircraft flew near the Penghu islands, saying Beijing uses “cognitive warfare” Taiwanese defense officials have characterized China’s latest saber-rattling over visits to the self-governing island by US politicians as “cognitive warfare,” saying Beijing exaggerated the proximity of its latest military drills in the region as an intimidation […]

  • Macron calls for IAEA mission to Zaporozhye nuclear plant

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 2:41pm EDT

    During a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, the French president also called on Russian troops to leave the facility French President Emmanuel Macron said he supports experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) being sent to Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Moscow, which accuses Kiev of repeatedly shelling the Russia-controlled facility, has stated […]

  • Poland wants Ukraine to admit genocide

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 1:54pm EDT

    A deputy culture minister says the 1943 Volhyn massacres fit the definition of genocide and Kiev will have to recognize that The mass murder of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War meets the definition of genocide and the government in Kiev will have to recognize this sooner or later, Poland’s Deputy Minister […]

  • Drug raid yields stolen Picasso – police

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 1:51pm EDT

    Iraqi law enforcement claimed that a painting worth untold millions of dollars turned up in a narcotics bust Iraqi police got more than they bargained for in a drug raid over the weekend in Diyala province, recovering what they claim is a stolen painting produced by the legendary Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The artwork was […]

  • Biden’s anti-inflation legislation to backfire – budget office

    RT - Aug 16th 2022 1:50pm EDT

    The Inflation Reduction Act will cost middle-class taxpayers billions The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by US President Joe Biden on Tuesday will saddle middle-class Americans with about $20 billion in added taxes over the coming decade, the Congressional Budget Office has revealed.  Specifically, taxpayers making less than $200,000 would pay $16.7 billion more, […]