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  • 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 […]

  • EU carrier to resume flights to Russia from UAE

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 8:40am EDT

    Wizz Air says it will restart flights from Abu Dhabi to Moscow in October Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air said on Thursday it will resume flights from Abu Dhabi to Moscow from October. The announcement comes more than five months after the carrier suspended all services to Russia. The airline’s Abu Dhabi-based joint venture, Wizz […]

  • Kirill Teremetsky: Why Hungary’s Viktor Orban is hated by US Democrats but loved by Donald Trump and conservative Republicans

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 8:37am EDT

    There are few international political figures as divisive as the right-wing leader in Budapest After the 1998 victory of a coalition of parties led by Fidesz, Viktor Orban formed a centre-right government in Hungary. In the same year, he visited Washington on a working visit as prime minister. However, the further centralisation of power in […]

  • Buyer rejects Ukrainian grain cargo – media

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 7:40am EDT

    The shipment was reportedly refused in Lebanon due to a five-month delivery delay, Bloomberg reports The first grain cargo to leave Ukraine’s newly reopened ports has been rejected by a buyer in Lebanon due to a five-month delay in shipment, Bloomberg reported on Monday. According to the outlet, citing Ukraine’s embassy in Beirut, the Sierra […]

  • Erdogan and Assad may hold Putin-brokered talks – Turkish media

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 7:23am EDT

    The telephone conversation could take place very soon, a state news outlet reports The leaders of Turkey and Syria – Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar al-Assad – could hold telephone talks after it was suggested by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish state media reported on Tuesday citing sources within the Ankara government. The news comes […]

  • Poland to deploy ‘all cannons’ to get money from Brussels – top official

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 7:23am EDT

    Warsaw will square up to EU leadership in a row over funding, a ruling party politician said Senior officials in the Polish conservative Law and Order (PiS) party have blasted the EU for what they perceive as a broken obligation to release billions of euros in funding, which had been frozen by Brussels as pressure […]

  • UK power supply under threat – media

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 7:01am EDT

    Electricity exports from Norway may be slashed in the coming months due to a hydropower shortage Norway may reduce electricity exports to the UK due to low water levels that threaten domestic hydroelectric power output, The Guardian newspaper reported on Monday, citing Oslo’s Petroleum and Energy Minister Terje Aasland. According to the report, Aasland told […]

  • Ukraine halts Russian oil supply to EU

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 6:18am EDT

    Crude transit through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline has been stopped, RIA Novosti news agency reports DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • Ukraine halts Russian oil supply to EU

    RT - Aug 9th 2022 6:18am EDT

    Crude transit through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline has been stopped, RIA Novosti news agency reports Ukraine’s state oil pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta has stopped pumping Russian crude through the southern branch of the Druzhba system to the EU, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Monday, citing Russia’s Transneft. According to the report, transit […]