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  • Von der Leyen’s rule ‘not good’ for EU – ex-commissioner

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 7:16am EST

    The bloc’s heavy-handed president has no strategic vision and fails to stand up to the US, Nicolas Schmit has said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen runs a system that silences those working under her, a former commissioner who served during her first term has claimed. Nicolas Schmit, who represented Luxembourg as the commissioner […]

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  • France wants EU to talk to Russia

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 6:44am EST

    The bloc should assert its interests without delegating responsibility to others, Jean-Noel Barrot has said   The European Union needs a direct channel of communication with Russia, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said. The bloc has refused to communicate with Moscow for four years, folllowing the escalation of the Ukraine conflict.  The remarks echo […]

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  • Kremlin reveals timeline for new Russia-Ukraine-US talks

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 5:31am EST

    The negotiations had been planned for Sunday but were moved due to scheduling issues, Dmitry Peskov has said The second round of trilateral talks between Russian, Ukrainian, and US delegations will take place in Abu Dhabi later this week, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday that the meeting […]

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  • Peace with Russia? Not until the EU changes its political class

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 3:54am EST

    Brussels can’t make peace with Moscow until it breaks its habits Relations between Russia and the European Union are now at their lowest point since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The economic and cultural ties that once connected us were largely severed in 2022. Today, our neighbors are effectively finishing the job. They are […]

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  • US not ready to strike Iran – WSJ

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 3:24am EST

    An attack is not imminent, American officials have told the outlet The US is not ready to strike Iran as it needs to deploy more air defenses to the Middle East to be able to repel a possible retaliation, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unnamed American officials. Over the past few weeks, Washington […]

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  • Trump ‘jokes’ about adding three new US states

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 1:55am EST

    The president has floated the idea of expanding the country to include Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela US President Donald Trump has said he plans to expand the country by adding Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela as new states, later describing the remarks as a joke, the Washington Post has reported, citing eyewitnesses. Trump reportedly made the […]

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  • CrossTalk Bullhorns: War and self-harm

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 1:48am EST

    It would appear the question is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ the US will attack Iran. The real question is why? Also, Europe is addicted to self-harm. Banning the import of Russian energy is destroying the European economy. Is the political system next? CrossTalking with George Szamuely and Mark Sleboda.

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  • German calls for nukes are ‘madness’ – veteran politician

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 1:24am EST

    Sahra Wagenknecht has warned that nuclear rearmament would violate international law and make the country a target German politician Sahra Wagenknecht has condemned growing calls for her country to take part in nuclear rearmament, calling the proposals “madness.” Germany is prohibited from developing nuclear weapons under international law, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons […]

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  • Between NATO & US annexation: What is Greenland’s future? (Greenland Minister Naaja Nathanielsen)

    RT - Feb 2nd 2026 1:06am EST

    On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s Minister of Business, Mineral Resources & Energy. She discusses the US betrayal of Greenland following Donald Trump’s plans to annex Greenland, her policies on banning uranium mining and natural resource extraction, Greenland’s NATO membership and the accusation that it makes Greenland a target […]

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  • British MP resigns over Epstein links

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 10:47pm EST

    Lord Peter Mandelson is seeking to avoid “further embarrassment” after documents suggested that the late child sex offender sent him $75,000 Former British ambassador to the US Lord Peter Mandelson has resigned from the Labour Party after newly released US documents revived scrutiny of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, who was […]

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  • ‘We’ll find out’: Trump responds to Khamenei’s warning

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 8:05pm EST

    Iran’s Supreme Leader has accused Washington of seeking to “devour” Iran and seize its oil President Donald Trump has said the world would soon “find out” whether Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was correct in warning that a US attack would ignite a regional war, adding that there is still time to make a […]

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  • Top Israeli general secretly visits Pentagon

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 6:03pm EST

    Israel is reportedly concerned that President Donald Trump could reach a deal with Tehran without ordering military strikes A senior Israeli military delegation led by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir made a secret visit to Washington over the weekend amid intensifying tensions over Iran’s nuclear and missile programs and a growing US […]

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  • Iran designates EU armies as ‘terrorist organizations’

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 3:56pm EST

    Tehran has mirrored the bloc’s move after it slapped the same label on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Iranian Parliament has designated the armed forces of EU member states as ‘terrorist organizations’, mirroring the bloc’s recent decision to blacklist the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In December, mass protests erupted across the Islamic […]

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  • German defense chief gives pep talk on ‘happy farts’

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 11:45am EST

    Boris Pistorius has urged his compatriots to “stand up for democracy” at home and abroad, saying that costly support for Ukraine must continue Germans should adopt a tough stance against “enemies of democracy” at home and uncomplainingly embrace the continuation of costly aid for Ukraine, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has insisted, invoking a maxim on […]

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  • Dr. Steve Turley: The liberal order’s legitimacy collapsed not from external attack but from internal hollowing

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 11:02am EST

    The future belongs to civilization states and an alliance between technology and tradition, says the popular American scholar Dr. Steve Turley, an American scholar and public intellectual, has become one of the most widely recognized analysts of the political and cultural realignments shaping our time. Trained as a classical guitarist and later earning a doctorate […]

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  • Cornered dog bites feeding hands

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 10:11am EST

    In this episode of Moscow Mules, Chay Bowes and his crew untangle Zelensky’s humiliation as his EU masters put the ukrofuhrer in his place; also in the episode: obligatory AI slop about Macron, Keir Starmer trying to use humor and failing miserably, as well as the GOP eating the Greenland cake and having it too. Tune […]

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  • Kiev’s ‘open manhunt’ for conscripts must stop – Budapest

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 10:11am EST

    Another ethnic Hungarian has been killed in Ukraine’s forced mobilization drive, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said Another ethnic Hungarian man living in Ukraine has died as a result of forced mobilization, Budapest’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said, describing the situation as an “open manhunt” for conscripts. The recruitment drive has grown increasingly brutal […]

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  • US doesn’t want Libya scenario in Iran – NATO envoy

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 7:32am EST

    Donald Trump is not looking to destabilize the country, Matthew Whitaker has said The US does not want a Libya-style collapse in Iran as it weighs possible military action against the country, Washington’s ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, has stated. Libya remains divided and unstable more than a decade after a NATO-backed uprising toppled longtime […]

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  • ‘I call it self-defense’: Jewish terror surges as Palestinian attacks decline

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 6:16am EST

    Growing Jewish extremist attacks in the West Bank are testing the boundaries between law enforcement, intelligence, and political influence in Israel While Israel’s security forces are celebrating a dramatic collapse in Palestinian terror attacks, a different and far more uncomfortable trend is taking hold in the West Bank. Jewish extremist violence against Palestinians has surged […]

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  • Trump issues ultimatum to Cuba as humanitarian crisis looms

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 4:21am EST

    Things are looking “very bad” for the Caribbean nation now that it has lost access to Venezuelan oil, the US president has said The Cuban authorities would have to reach an agreement with Washington if they want to avoid a humanitarian crisis, US President Donald Trump has warned. Earlier this week, Trump signed an executive […]

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  • Thousands of mutilated kids will sue ‘Mengele’ gender surgeons – Musk

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 2:11am EST

    The Tesla and X owner reacted to a US jury verdict in favor of a woman who underwent a mastectomy at 16 US surgeons who perform ‘gender transition’ procedures on minors could face thousands of lawsuits, Elon Musk has said. He likened them to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who carried out sadistic medical experiments on […]

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  • All fouled up? Jose Zorilla, Spanish diplomat and author

    RT - Feb 1st 2026 1:22am EST

    For the last couple of years, peace in Europe has seemed all but a lost cause, with all the links connecting Russia with the other continental nations being methodically severed over the conflict in Ukraine. But as the American appetite suddenly shifts to Greenland, does it leave an opening for a policy reversal? To discuss […]

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  • Trump orders feds not to help Democrat-run cities with riots

    RT - Jan 31st 2026 11:03pm EST

    The US president has said the agents will only protect federal properties US President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stay away from protests in Democrat-run cities amid nationwide demonstrations against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The “National Shutdown” was called on Friday, with organizers urging Americans to abstain […]

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  • Trump orders feds not to help Democrat-run cities with riots

    RT - Jan 31st 2026 11:03pm EST

    The US president has said the agents will only protect federal properties US President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stay away from protests in Democrat-run cities amid nationwide demonstrations against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The “National Shutdown” was called on Friday, with organizers urging Americans to abstain […]

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  • Pentagon wants killer AI without safeguards – Reuters

    RT - Jan 31st 2026 8:49pm EST

    The US Department of War has reportedly clashed with contractor Anthropic over ethical limitations built into its tech The US Department of War is locked in a dispute with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over restrictions that would limit how the military can deploy AI systems, including for autonomous weapons targeting and domestic surveillance. The disagreement has […]

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