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  • Instagram and Facebook apps monitor browsing habits without consent – researcher

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 8:20am EDT

    Meta apps inject a tracking code into websites when people are viewing them Instagram and Facebook apps track what people do when browsing third-party websites without their consent, privacy researcher Felix Krause has warned. Krause, a former Google engineer, wrote on a blogpost on Wednesday that the iOS app injects codes into every website shown […]

  • The US War on Drugs isn’t what it seems – and Colombia’s new president wants to end it

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 8:07am EDT

    Gustavo Petro promises a major blow to US hegemony over Latin America Leftist Gustavo Petro was inaugurated as Colombia’s new president on August 7, ushering in what will likely be an unprecedented political swing for what is a perennially right-wing government. In his first address, Petro mentioned many important issues that face Colombia including climate […]

  • Berlin fails to secure LNG imports from Gulf nation – media

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 7:02am EDT

    Qatar is instead supplying its gas to Italy Germany has so far failed to deliver on promises to secure liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies from Qatar, the newspaper Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten reported on Friday. According to the article, citing a report from the magazine Focus online, none of the major German energy companies including EnBW, RWE, […]

  • US faces shortage of ketchup – Bloomberg

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 6:05am EDT

    Drought and high fuel and fertilizer prices could soon deprive American kitchens of the tomato sauce Rising prices on fuel and fertilizers in the US in tandem with extreme weather conditions could lead to a shortage of tomatoes, thus sending prices on tomato sauces even higher, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing producers. According to the […]

  • Poll reveals clear leader for next UK PM

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 5:44am EDT

    More than 60% of Tories will vote for Liz Truss to be Britain’s next prime minister, a survey finds Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a 22-point lead over former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak in the race to become the next British prime minister, according to a survey by polling firm Opinium Research published on Saturday. […]

  • Jerusalem shooting suspect detained – police

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 5:34am EDT

    The alleged gunman who injured eight people near the Western Wall has turned himself in, the authorities say Israeli security forces have detained a suspected gunman who injured eight people near Jerusalem’s iconic Western Wall, the authorities said on Sunday. According to the police, the man turned himself in after a large-scale manhunt. The police […]

  • Kiev comments on car crash with diplomats in Vienna

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 4:17am EDT

    The driver tried to run from the police and declined a breathalyzer test Ukrainian diplomatic personnel were involved in a traffic accident in Vienna, in which the driver attempted to flee the scene and refused to be tested for alcohol by police. Austrian police said that a car crashed into a vehicle at a red […]

  • British energy bills forecast to go through the roof

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 3:36am EDT

    They are set to cost Britons more than two months’ wages next year, union body warns Energy bills in the United Kingdom are expected to cost more than two months of average take-home pay in 2023, according to a new report published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Friday. The TUC says the average […]

  • Cartel violence engulfs Mexican border cities

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 2:20am EDT

    Gang members are reportedly targeting civilians and blocking roads The cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito, and Ensenada on the US-Mexico border have been besieged by violence as rival drug cartels battle over territory and wage war with police. The violence has been so severe that the US Consulate in Tijuana advised its employees to “shelter […]

  • China drills one of world’s deepest oil deposits – media

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 1:18am EDT

    Drilling wells at the Shunbei reserve are 8,000 meters deep, according to Xinhua news agency China’s largest oil refiner Sinopec has reportedly extracted crude oil and natural gas from a newly drilled oil reserve with wells around 8,000 meters deep, in the Tarim Basin of the Xinjiang region. According to Xinhua agency, citing the company […]

  • Crimea sets grain harvest record

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 1:18am EDT

    The region has reported its best crop since the Soviet era A record grain crop has been harvested in the Russian Republic of Crimea, head of the region Sergey Aksyonov said on Thursday. “Crimean farmers have harvested a record crop of more than 2.1 million tons, which is 700,000 tons more than last year,” he […]

  • Obama kept classified nuclear documents too – Trump

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 4:57pm EDT

    The former president accused his predecessor of doing the same thing that supposedly got his Florida home raided Former US president Donald Trump has decried the apparent double standard at play after the FBI raided his Florida home earlier this week, supposedly seeking classified documents relating to nuclear weapons. Trump argued that his predecessor, Barack […]

  • Macron approves NATO enlargement

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 4:56pm EDT

    More than two thirds of the alliance’s members have now agreed to Finland and Sweden’s accession French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed the official documents approving Finland and Sweden’s applications to become NATO members. While Macron once called the US-led military bloc “brain dead,” he has switched tack since Russia launched its military operation […]

  • Pelosi’s son who joined her on Taiwan trip holds Chinese tech stake – media

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 3:45pm EDT

    The House speaker admitted her son was an unlisted “escort” on the controversial trip House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. is the second-largest investor in Chinese telecom firm Borqs Technologies, a recent Daily Mail report has revealed. The younger Pelosi did not publicly disclose his stake in the $22 billion firm before accompanying […]

  • World reacts to Salman Rushdie stabbing

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 2:53pm EDT

    Amid Western condemnation, conservative Iranian outlets called the author “Satan” and an “apostate” Western authors and officials have strongly condemned the attack on the Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in New York state on Friday. Iranian media and officials, however, reacted by recalling the reasons that prompted the Islamic Republic’s former leader, […]

  • Suspect in ‘Satanic Verses’ author’s stabbing charged

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 12:58pm EDT

    Hadi Matar is accused of knifing the famed author in the neck and torso Prosecutors in New York have charged Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey resident, with attempted second-degree murder on Saturday, after novelist Salman Rushdie was left in critical condition following a stabbing attack a day earlier. “The individual responsible for the attack […]

  • Kissinger explains how the world was brought to ‘the edge of war’

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 12:37pm EDT

    A lack of visionary leadership is to blame, the veteran statesman says Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Wall Street Journal that Washington has rejected traditional diplomacy, and in the absence of a great leader, has driven the world to the precipice of war over Ukraine and Taiwan. Kissinger previously courted controversy […]

  • Ontario premier swallows a bee (VIDEO)

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 12:00pm EDT

    Doug Ford inhaled the insect while discussing privatizing Canadian healthcare Ontario Premier Doug Ford accidentally swallowed a bee in the midst of a Friday press conference in Dundalk, as he discussed the future of Canada’s healthcare system, defusing a potentially tense moment.  After declaring “everything is on the table” regarding the controversial potential privatization of […]

  • Russia boosts gas supply to EU nation

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 10:57am EDT

    Gazprom has sent additional volumes of gas to Hungary via Turkstream Russian energy giant Gazprom has increased gas supplies to Hungary via the TurkStream pipeline, a Hungarian official confirmed on Saturday.  According to Foreign Ministry State Secretary Tamas Menczer, the Russian company stepped up flows to Hungary by 2.6 million cubic meters per day starting […]

  • Women’s rally violently dispersed in Kabul – media

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 10:10am EDT

    Taliban militants fired in the air to scare away protesters who were demanding “bread, work and freedom” The Taliban violently dispersed a women’s protest rally in Afghanistan’s capital on Saturday, several days ahead of the first anniversary of the Islamist group’s return to power, the news agency AFP has reported. Around 40 women were chanting […]

  • ‘Lucky thief’ rescued from underground in Rome (VIDEOS)

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 9:57am EDT

    Andrea Grassi was reportedly part of a gang planning to rob a bank by digging a tunnel to it Firefighters rescued a man who became stuck underground in central Rome while digging a tunnel, the Italian capital’s Fire Brigade said in a statement on Friday. The media says he was part of a gang seeking […]

  • EU ramps up Russian oil imports as embargo looms – data

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 9:33am EDT

    Purchases grew 0.4% from May to June, RBC reports, as European nations brace for tough restrictions European countries increased imports of oil and oil products from Russia in June, compared with the previous month, RBC news outlet reported on Thursday, citing preliminary Eurostat data. The increase came after EU governments approved an embargo on Russian […]

  • Russia’s food safety guaranteed by grain harvest — official

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 8:49am EDT

    Nearly 80 million tons of grains have been collected so far Farmers in Russia have threshed 78 million tons of grain, an amount sufficient to completely ensure the country’s food security, Roman Nekrasov, Director of the Plant Growing Department of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, told RIA Novosti on Saturday.  He highlighted that the pace […]

  • One killed and dozens injured as festival stage collapses (VIDEOS)

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 7:52am EDT

    The accident in Spain’s Valencia region was caused by “an unexpected and violent gale,” organizers of the music event said One person was killed and dozens injured in the early hours of Saturday when strong gusts of wind brought down the stage at a music festival in Spain’s Valencia region. According to the local Emergency […]

  • Salman Rushdie ‘on ventilator’ after stabbing – agent

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 7:34am EDT

    The novelist was attacked Friday during a lecture in the US Award-winning novelist Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after being stabbed at a public event in New York state earlier that day, his agent Andrew Wylie has said. The 75-year-old Indian-born British-American author has long been the […]