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  • CrossTalk: Waning support 

    RT - Oct 4th 2023 2:44am EDT

    The tide appears to be turning against Ukraine. The counteroffensive has been a stunning failure. Future Western funding for the proxy war is in doubt. And European voters have begun to vent their displeasure for a conflict designed and promoted by their elites. Is this the end of the beginning?  CrossTalking with Larry Johnson, Stevan Gajic, and Simeon […]

  • South Korea warns Pyongyang about ‘end of regime’

    RT - Oct 4th 2023 2:08am EDT

    Seoul has vowed to “overwhelmingly” respond to any future attack by the North South Korea has warned that Pyongyang would see the “end of its regime” if it ever launched a nuclear strike, also declaring that Washington would come to its aid in the event of a conflict with the DPRK. Seoul’s Defense Ministry issued […]

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  • Russia not complying with Western oil price cap – deputy PM 

    RT - Oct 4th 2023 1:10am EDT

    The country’s crude is being sold at market prices, Aleksandr Novak has said   Russia is not selling crude under the price cap mechanism introduced by the G7 and EU in an effort to curtail Moscow’s energy revenues, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak stated on Tuesday.    Oil companies are complying with a presidential decree […]

  • Russia to make it harder for foreign companies to leave – Izvestia

    RT - Oct 4th 2023 1:10am EDT

    Departing firms will need to contribute 15% of the value of their business sale to the country’s budget, the newspaper reports Western companies seeking to leave Russia and sell their assets in the country will soon be obliged to make a 15% contribution to the state budget, Izvestia reported on Tuesday, citing the Finance Ministry. […]

  • NATO member offers Armenia weapons

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 8:50pm EDT

    France’s promise of military assistance comes after Azerbaijan reclaimed the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh Paris will deliver unspecified military equipment to Yerevan, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Tuesday while visiting Armenia. She declined to give any details of the arrangement. “France has given its agreement to the conclusion of future contracts with Armenia […]

  • Pakistan gives illegal immigrants 28 days to leave

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 7:14pm EDT

    The authorities in Islamabad have said that undocumented Afghans present a security threat Pakistan’s caretaker government announced on Tuesday that everyone who is in the country without legal documentation has until the end of the month to depart, or face deportation.  “We have given them a November 1 deadline,” Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti told reporters […]

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  • Dianne Feinstein’s replacement cranks her problems up to 11

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 7:00pm EDT

    Laphonza Butler, the senator-appointee, is a corporate union-buster, ticks token diversity boxes, and doesn’t even hail from California US Senator Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving female senator in American history, passed away on September 29 after a long, trailblazing career in politics. With her death, California Governor Gavin Newsom was entitled to make yet another political […]

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  • Ukraine adds Chinese energy giants to ‘war sponsors’ list

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 6:44pm EDT

    Kiev wants the West to pressure Beijing over oil and gas deals with Russia Three major Chinese oil and gas conglomerates were added to a Ukrainian blacklist on Tuesday, after the government in Kiev accused them of helping Moscow’s war effort by having their subsidiaries in Russia pay taxes. Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention […]

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  • Dozens dead in tourist bus crash in Italy

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 6:43pm EDT

    At least 20 people died after a tour bus fell from an overpass in northern Italy and caught fire, the local authorities have said A tour bus veered off the road while crossing an overpass in Mestre – a borough of Venice, Italy – on Tuesday evening, resulting in dozens of fatalities and injuries. The […]

  • Disney ride gave woman ‘painful wedgie’, lawsuit claims

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 5:17pm EDT

    The plaintiff claims she suffered permanent injuries on a water slide in the Florida theme park A woman has sued Walt Disney Worlid after an “injurious wedgie” caused by a five-storey water slide left her with “severe and permanent bodily injury.” The woman is seeking $50,000 from the resort. According to the lawsuit, which was […]

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  • US House Speaker sacked

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 4:55pm EDT

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  • Judge gags Trump in New York trial

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 4:37pm EDT

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  • UK to finally scrap EU ‘bendy bananas’ rule

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 4:22pm EDT

    Brussels’ bizarre food standards were ridiculed by British conservatives in the runup to the Brexit vote The British government will ditch an “absurd” EU rule on the sale of abnormally curved bananas, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey announced during a Conservative Party conference on Monday.  Speaking at the Tories’ annual get-together in Manchester, Coffey declared that […]

  • Reason for Swedish minister’s absence from Ukraine meeting revealed

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 2:40pm EDT

    Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom reportedly forgot his passport and could not travel to the summit in Kiev Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom forgot his passport and could not enter Ukraine for an EU Council summit in Kiev, Austrian newspaper Die Presse reported on Monday. Several European ministers skipped the meeting, which saw the bloc offer […]

  • EU state warns of ‘difficult’ relations with Ukraine

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 2:36pm EDT

    Poland has no desire to meet Kiev’s “expectations,” government spokesman Piotr Muller has said Poland will not sacrifice its national interests for Ukraine, government spokesman Piotr Muller told Polish Radio on Tuesday, commenting on the ongoing row between the two neighbors over grain exports. Relations between Kiev and Warsaw will not necessarily be “bad,” but […]

  • US ‘failing’ at life expectancy – WaPo

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 2:35pm EDT

    Chronic diseases kill more middle-aged Americans than opioids or guns, research has shown The US is dead last among “peer countries” in terms of life expectancy for its population, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Months of research and interviews have revealed a widespread problem with obesity, cancer, heart conditions, and diabetes, as well as […]

  • Beer giant terminates license agreements in Russia

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 1:02pm EDT

    Carlsberg’s business in the country was previously placed under temporary management Carlsberg Group announced on Tuesday the termination of licensing agreements with its former Russian unit, Baltika Breweries, for the production and sale of the group’s products, including international and local brands. According to a statement on its website, the move was in response to […]

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  • Iran warns against betting on ‘losing horse’ Israel

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 12:59pm EDT

    Tehran has called on the Arab world to avoid normalizing relations with the “Zionist regime” Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned the Arab world against normalizing relations with Israel, predicting that the Jewish state will eventually “be eradicated.”  “The definitive stance of the Islamic Republic is that the governments which make the gamble […]

  • NATO country’s ex-intel chief decries ‘insane’ treason charges

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 12:59pm EDT

    The former head of Denmark’s foreign intelligence agency, Lars Findsen, has been charged alongside the ex-defense minister Former Danish foreign intelligence chief Lars Findsen and ex-Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen have spoken for the first time about the criminal case opened against them by Danish prosecutors. Both of the former officials were arrested last year […]

  • Israel demands Canada acknowledge ‘historic sins’ amid Nazi veteran scandal

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 12:50pm EDT

    The resignation of the Canadian House speaker is not enough, Israel’s special envoy for combating antisemitism has told The Jerusalem Post Ottawa has to come to terms with its “historic sin” of excluding Jews while harboring Nazis in the aftermath of the World War II, Israeli Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Michal Cotler-Wunsh told The […]

  • World baffled by EU’s stance on Ukraine – Hungarian FM

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 12:27pm EDT

    Countries outside of Europe want the conflict between Moscow and Kiev to end, Peter Szijjarto believes  Asia, Latin America, and Africa are puzzled by the EU’s double standards and can’t comprehend why they must suffer because of the conflict in faraway Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. “I can say that the world […]

  • UK weapons for Ukraine have ‘dried up’ – Telegraph

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 11:47am EDT

    Britain has sent all it can afford to Kiev, a military source told the newspaper The UK has run out of weapons to send to Ukraine and should encourage other countries to fill the gap, a senior military source told The Telegraph on Monday. However, reports suggest that EU and US stockpiles are just as […]

  • Ruble exchange rate to dollar doesn’t matter – Kremlin

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 11:11am EDT

    Measuring up to other currencies is a “remnant of the past,” Dmitry Peskov has said The Russian currency’s continued backslide against the US dollar is not a reason for concern, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on Tuesday, calling such worries a “remnant of the past.” The comment follows the ruble’s depreciation past the symbolic threshold […]

  • Niger has kicked out the French, but Paris isn’t out of imperialist tricks yet

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 11:10am EDT

    Niamey has won big against neo-colonialism, but its enemies could now resort to a covert technique they already used in Africa before “France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours, our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France. And we will put an end to our military cooperation with the Niger […]

  • France appeals for end to bedbugs ‘panic’

    RT - Oct 3rd 2023 10:25am EDT

    The country has not been “invaded” by the blood-sucking insects, Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau has insisted French Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau has urged the public to remain calm amid an apparent infestation of bedbugs in Paris. Meanwhile, French lawmakers are preparing legislation to tackle the scourge. “There is no reason for general panic, we are […]