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  • Energy costs pushing Europeans into food poverty – Bloomberg

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 4:18am EDT

    Higher utility bills are forcing producers to pass increased costs on to consumers Food producers across Europe are contending with soaring energy prices, with that increase quickly felt in the pockets of consumers grappling with a cost-of-living crisis, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. According to the report, citing a Bank of England forecast, a third of […]

  • Police shoot dead knife-wielding man at Paris airport

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 4:00am EDT

    Officers acted with “composure” to eliminate the threat, police say A knife-wielding man was shot dead by officers at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Wednesday, local law enforcement have said. Officers “showed composure” as they neutralized the threatening individual, police said on Twitter. According to local media, the perpetrator was a homeless person. […]

  • China releases paper on Taiwan reunification policy

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 3:53am EDT

    Foreign meddling means Beijing must retain use of force as an option as it seeks peaceful reunification, it said Beijing wants peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but foreign powers meddling in Chinese domestic affairs and encouraging secession on the self-ruled island make it necessary to retain the use of force as an option, a Chinese white […]

  • Japanese PM reshuffles cabinet

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 3:01am EDT

    The move follows a drop in Fumio Kishida’s ratings and public outrage over the ruling party’s links to a controversial religious group Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, removing several ministers linked to the controversial Unification Church, which came into the spotlight after the murder of former PM Shinzo Abe. Abe, […]

  • German economy forecast to shrink

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 2:02am EDT

    The energy crisis and the conflict in Ukraine are expected to take a toll on the country’s GDP The German economy is expected to lose more than €260 billion ($265 billion) in added value by 2030 due to the conflict in Ukraine and high energy prices, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a study by the […]

  • UK becoming ‘emerging market country’ – Saxo Bank

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 1:19am EDT

    The energy crisis and spiraling inflation are crushing the British economy, according to the bank’s analyst The UK is “more and more looking like an emerging market country,” Saxo Bank Head of Macro Analysis Christopher Dembik said in a research note on Monday, CNBC reports. The analyst pointed to political instability, trade disruptions, an energy […]

  • Cuba oil fire under control after 5 days

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 12:48am EDT

    The inferno destroyed nearly half of Cuba’s largest fuel depot and caused blackouts across the island A massive fire at a Cuban oil facility has finally been extinguished after burning for five days, leaving the fuel storage site devastated amid fears the damage will impact the island’s ability to produce electricity. Interior Ministry officials appeared […]

  • Republican says FBI seized cell phone

    RT - Aug 10th 2022 12:12am EDT

    The seizure is reportedly part of a probe into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election Federal agents have seized the cell phone of Representative Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania), the lawmaker said, blasting the agency for “banana republic tactics” amid an investigation into the 2020 presidential race. Perry announced the move in a […]

  • Biden says NATO ‘stronger than ever’ before approving new members

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 10:43pm EDT

    The president said the military bloc is ‘indispensable’ to world peace while ratifying Finland and Sweden’s membership bids US President Joe Biden has approved Finland and Sweden’s applications to join NATO, saying the alliance’s new members will make it as strong as it’s ever been while vowing to challenge Russia and “autocrats” who threaten the […]

  • Activists claim US school lunches are racist

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 6:13pm EDT

    Civil rights groups have called for the federal government to correct “dietary racism” in its subsidized meal program Dozens of US race and food activist groups have reportedly signed on to a letter accusing the federal government of “dietary racism” in its program for free or subsidized school lunches, saying the USDA is forcing millions […]

  • Israeli troops fatally shoot two Palestinian teens – health ministry

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 5:22pm EDT

    Clashes in the West Bank erupted after Israeli special forces killed a suspected terrorist and another gunman Israeli security forces fatally shot two teenage Palestinian protesters during clashes in the West Bank on Tuesday, Palestine’s health ministry and the Islamic Jihad militant group have said. The violence in the streets erupted after Israeli special forces […]

  • Poll shows impact of January 6 probe on US public opinion

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 4:52pm EDT

    The House committee’s televised hearings have failed to change voter views regarding the January 2021 Washington riot More than a year of investigation by a congressional committee and nine televised hearings – packaged expertly by a former ABC News executive – have had essentially zero impact on public opinion about the January 6 US Capitol […]

  • NATO actions raise risk of nuclear conflict – Russia

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 4:34pm EDT

    The US-led alliance’s practice of “nuclear sharing” must end, Moscow’s envoy tells UN atomic conference The deployment of US atomic weapons on the territory of non-nuclear NATO members goes against the nonproliferation treaty (NPT), increases the risk of conflict, and hinders disarmament efforts. This was the message the Russian delegation delivered to the UN conference […]

  • Record rainfall leaves 11 dead in South Korea (VIDEO)

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 3:39pm EDT

    Flooding has devastated parts of Seoul and other areas, resulting in a rising death toll and at least six people reported missing Torrential downpours for two straight days and counting have inundated Seoul with its heaviest flooding on record, leaving at least 11 people dead and six reported missing. The South Korean capital was hit […]

  • Republicans vow to investigate FBI’s Trump raid

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 2:11pm EDT

    The US House GOP leader has decried the “weaponized politicization” of law enforcement after the ex-president’s home was searched US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and other Republican lawmakers have condemned President Joe Biden’s administration for raiding the Florida home of Donald Trump, warning that they will investigate politicization of the Department of Justice […]

  • Johnson compared job to a ‘steel condom’

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 2:02pm EDT

    Tory peer claims outgoing PM used colorful language to describe his Foreign Office term Caretaker UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson once described his job as foreign secretary – the post he held from 2016 to 2018 – as being “imprisoned in a steel condom.” Baroness Davidson, a former Scottish Tory leader and no friend of […]

  • Palestinian official assassinated at Lebanon refugee camp

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 1:22pm EDT

    A member of President Abbas’ Fatah movement was reportedly shot dead while praying at a friend’s home An unknown gunman shot and killed a Palestinian official mere hours after a fresh truce was called between Gaza militants and Israel on Monday evening, a senior party official said. Saeed Alaeddine was a member of Palestinian President […]

  • EU country offers solution to resume Russian oil supply

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 12:34pm EDT

    Hungary’s energy giant MOL has offered to pay Druzhba pipeline transit fees on behalf of Russia’s Transneft The Hungarian oil and gas company MOL confirmed on Tuesday that Russian crude supplies via the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline stopped a few days ago, and said it had initiated negotiations to assume obligations to pay […]

  • EU balks at Russia travel ban

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 11:54am EDT

    Officials in Brussels are skeptical of Zelensky’s demand, now echoed by Estonia and Finland Brussels seems reluctant to close EU borders to all Russian travelers, with one official telling the Financial Times on Tuesday that the bloc did not want a complete ban. This followed calls from leaders of Estonia and Finland to do so, […]

  • Pelosi reflects on her Taiwan trip

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 11:46am EDT

    The US house speaker insists she had “overwhelming bipartisan support” for her controversial visit US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stated that she has no regrets about her recent controversial trip to Taiwan and described it as “totally worth it” in an interview with the Today show on Tuesday. The 82-year-old politician insisted […]

  • Russian envoy predicts US goal in Ukraine

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 11:43am EDT

    The US is not interested in restoring peace in the country, Moscow’s ambassador to Washington says Russia’s Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has accused Washington of “adding fuel to the fire of the Ukrainian conflict” and claimed that the Biden administration is not interested in a peaceful settlement. On Tuesday, the Russian Embassy in […]

  • Kremlin comments on calls to ban Russians from EU

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 11:42am EDT

    Banning Russian tourists from the bloc will achieve nothing, Moscow says Proposals to stop issuing European Union tourist visas to Russian citizens “don’t smell too good” and will not succeed, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. The latest attempt to punish Moscow for its military operation in Ukraine, which is being driven by […]

  • US-Russia trade continues to plunge – Census Bureau

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 11:28am EDT

    The sharpest decline was recorded in shipments of nuclear fuel and palladium Supplies of Russian goods to the US have fallen to their lowest level in 18 years, news outlet RBC reported on Tuesday, citing data from the US Census Bureau. June imports from Russia to the US amounted to $661 million, the lowest since […]

  • Germany’s largest crematorium comes up with plan to cope with high gas prices

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 10:19am EDT

    The undertakers say they’ll keep furnaces running day and night to avoid using gas Skyrocketing gas prices have forced Germany’s largest crematorium to switch to a 24/7 work schedule, its management has said. The head of Rhein-Taunus-Krematorium in Dachsenhausen, Karl-Heinz Konsgen, told Bild on Monday that his establishment has come up with a new way […]

  • Russian exclave exhausts EU’s goods transit limits

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 9:39am EDT

    Kaliningrad needs more products from mainland Russia than Western sanctions allow EU sanctions, regulating the quantity of goods that can be delivered from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad, are preventing the exclave from receiving all the items it needs, the local governor said on Tuesday. “Today we have exhausted the EU limits on transportation of some […]