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  • South Korea offers North deal to denuclearize

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 3:27pm EDT

    Seoul has offered “audacious” financial assistance if North Korea agrees to denuclearization of the peninsula South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has marked the anniversary of the peninsula’s liberation from Japanese occupiers in 1945 by offering a massive package of economic assistance to North Korea if the rival nation abandons its nuclear weapons program. “The audacious […]

  • Pentagon boss gets Covid again

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 2:10pm EDT

    Quadruple-jabbed Lloyd Austin tests positive again but won’t reconsider vaccine mandate US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tested positive for Covid-19 and is continuing to work from home while experiencing “mild symptoms,” he said in a statement released on Monday. The 69-year-old retired general had a bout with Covid in January, after receiving two vaccines […]

  • China lectures US over Afghanistan withdrawal

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 2:08pm EDT

    More “Kabul moments” await if Washington fails to learn its lesson, said the Foreign Ministry in Beijing The fall of Kabul a year ago was a failure of US hegemony and the strategy of exporting democracy globally, but Washington doesn’t appear to have learned anything from it, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters […]

  • Robot dog wields grenade launcher at Russian army expo (VIDEO)

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 2:04pm EDT

    The domestically-made M-81 robotic system is capable of precision firing and can transport weapons across a battlefield  The Russian company Intellect Machine unveiled the first prototype of the M-81 robotic system during Russia’s Army 2022 expo, which opened on Monday outside of Moscow. The dog-like robot is capable of conducting both military and civilian tasks, […]

  • US refuses to unfreeze Afghan funds – media

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 1:49pm EDT

    Washington has reportedly ruled out releasing any of the $7 billion in the country’s financial assets that it froze after the Taliban takeover US President Joe Biden’s administration has reportedly opted against releasing $7 billion in Afghan Central Bank assets, deciding to keep the funds frozen due to concern that the currently Taliban-ruled country is […]

  • FBI says it’s been threatened since Trump raid

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 1:37pm EDT

    “Claims of government overreach” are fueling domestic terror, the agency said The FBI and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claim that they’ve received threats of bombings, violence, and “civil war,” after federal agents raided the Florida home of Donald Trump. Supporters of the former president say the search was politically motivated. The FBI and […]

  • Cost of keeping Britons from falling into energy poverty revealed

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 1:03pm EDT

    An additional £12 billion will be required to help households cope with the cost-of-living crisis, financial think tank IFS says The UK government will need to spend a further £12 billion ($14.5 billion) on a support package for households to keep pace with higher-than-expected energy prices, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said in a […]

  • France ends military mission in former colony

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 12:45pm EDT

    Invited into Mali to fight terrorism, Paris’ troops soon fell out of favor with the African nation’s government The final French soldiers left the Gao military base in northern Mali on Monday, ending a nine-year counterterrorism mission by France in its former colony. While French troops were invited into Mali to fight Islamism, relations with […]

  • Billionaire sues fellow Russian banker after ‘thief’ claim

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 12:42pm EDT

    The aluminum magnate wants the banker to pay $35 million for libel Billionaire Oleg Deripaska, founder of aluminum giant Rusal and once Russia’s richest man, has filed a lawsuit against banking tycoon Oleg Tinkov, RBC reported on Monday. The lawsuit was filed for offensive remarks that Tinkov, the founder of one of Russia’s largest private […]

  • Quadruple-vaxxed Pfizer CEO gets Covid-19

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 12:31pm EDT

    Albert Bourla is “experiencing very mild symptoms” The CEO of Pfizer has tested positive for Covid-19, he revealed in a series of tweets on Monday. The drug giant’s chief executive added that he was taking his company’s antiviral, Paxlovid, slipping in some free advertising for the pricey new pill. “We have come so far in […]

  • China flexes military muscle near Taiwan

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 11:56am EDT

    The war games come in response to the visit of a US congressional delegation to the self-governing island China’s People’s Liberation Army has deployed its Navy and fighter jets to the Taiwan Strait as part of fresh drills near the island which Beijing claims as its own. The latest show of force is meant as […]

  • Berlin turning off city lights to save energy

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 11:40am EDT

    About 100 public buildings in the German capital now go dark at night, the authorities say Berlin has stopped lighting up around 100 public buildings and historic landmarks since late July in order to save energy, the city’s environmental administration said on Monday. The authorities say that in total, 150 buildings will soon no longer […]

  • EU ‘blatantly lying’ about threat to Zaporozhye nuclear plant – Moscow

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 11:06am EDT

    Brussels’ claim that Russia is the one threatening the facility is allowing Kiev to obstruct an IAEA inspection, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says Accusations that Moscow is jeopardizing the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) contradict the facts and allow Kiev to undermine the International Atomic Energy Agency’s efforts to inspect the facility, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said […]

  • ‘Something worse’ than recession coming – JPMorgan

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 11:01am EDT

    Wall Street bank issues dire warning for the US economy The boss of Wall Street banking giant JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, has warned investors of the likelihood of a downturn in the US economy, saying that “something worse” than a hard recession could be on the horizon. According to a Yahoo Finance report on Saturday, […]

  • Drone attack hits US base

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 10:27am EDT

    The al-Tanf facility in Syria has been targeted before The al-Tanf military base in southern Syria was hit by numerous armed drones on Monday morning, with the US military reporting no casualties. The base, used by American and allied forces, as well as Syrian anti-government militants, has been attacked before, with Washington blaming Iran for […]

  • Cost of Germany’s new gas tax revealed – media

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 10:22am EDT

    Berlin seeks to distribute the high costs of replacing Russian gas among households and industrial consumers Germany’s new gas tax will reportedly cost end-consumers up to €600 ($600) annually, Reuters reports, citing industry and government sources. According to the report, the tax will be set between two and three euro cents per kilowatt hour, which, […]

  • Britain gets ‘sharpened tool’ in Covid fight

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 10:22am EDT

    The UK has become the first country to approve an updated Moderna vaccine that targets both the original and Omicron strains Britain on Monday became the first country to approve an updated Covid-19 vaccine that targets both the Omicron and original 2020 strains in what has been hailed as a significant new addition to the […]

  • EU bank blocks ruble payments to Russia’s Kaliningrad

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 9:41am EDT

    Lithuania’s Siauliai Bank will no longer carry out operations in the Russian currency The Lithuanian bank that facilitates cargo transit payments between mainland Russia and its exclave of Kaliningrad went through with an earlier announced decision to stop operations in Russian rubles on Monday, the newspaper RBC has reported. Siauliai Bank had announced its intention […]

  • Date for verdict in MH17 crash trial revealed

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 9:30am EDT

    A court in The Hague is to rule on the case in November The District Court of The Hague has set November 17 as a provisional date for its ruling in the trial of four suspects in the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, it said in an announcement on Monday. It may take about […]

  • WWI shipwreck found after 105 years (VIDEO)

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 9:06am EDT

    The USS Jacob Jones was the first American destroyer sunk by an enemy The wreck of a US destroyer torpedoed by a German submarine in 1917 was found last week off the Isles of Scilly after being missing for 105 years. The USS Jacob Jones was the first US destroyer sunk by enemy fire. The […]

  • Bloomberg warns of EU recession

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 8:40am EDT

    A downturn is likely next year, according to a survey of economists The risk of a Eurozone recession has reached the highest level since November 2020, economists told Bloomberg, citing energy shortages that threaten to push the record inflation even higher. The report published on Monday shows that the probability of output shrinking for two […]

  • Beijing slams US congressional visit to Taiwan

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 7:54am EDT

    The American delegation’s trip is in “blatant violation” of Chinese sovereignty, the Foreign Ministry has said A US congressional delegation’s two-day trip to Taiwan that started on Sunday is at odds with the ‘One China’ policy and violates Chinese territorial integrity, the Chinese Foreign Ministry claimed on Monday. “This is a blatant violation of the […]

  • US foes could recruit former Afghan military personnel – Reuters

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 7:09am EDT

    Russia, China, and Iran may reportedly exploit those left behind by Washington Former Afghan security personnel with “sensitive knowledge of US operations” left behind following the withdrawal of American forces from the country are vulnerable to recruitment and coercion by Russia, China, and Iran, Republican lawmakers said in an unreleased interim report, as cited by […]

  • Salman Rushdie himself is to blame for attack – Iran

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 7:01am EDT

    The writer crossed “the red lines” of 1.5 billion Muslims, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran said Iran on Monday denied any involvement in the attack on Salman Rushdie and claimed that the award-winning novelist himself and his supporters are to blame for the incident. The Indian-born British-American writer was stabbed on Friday at an education […]

  • Share of UK companies hurt by anti-Russia sanctions revealed

    RT - Aug 15th 2022 6:38am EDT

    Nearly three-quarters of British firms feel the impact of Western sanctions on Moscow, a survey shows The vast majority of UK companies have suffered from Western sanctions imposed on Russia this year in response to the conflict in Ukraine, the Daily Mail reported on Monday, citing a survey by insurance agency Mactavish. According to the […]