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  • EU country proposes full ban on Russian goods

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 10:09am EDT

    The bloc should suspend all trade, especially in natural gas, Romanian Prime Minister Ion-Marcel Ciolacu believes The EU should stop buying Russian natural gas and other goods, Romanian Prime Minister Ion-Marcel Ciolacu has said, even though the drastic measure would cost the bloc “a bit of comfort” as a result of higher prices. Speaking to […]

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  • UK accuses China of targeting officials in spy operation

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 8:06am EDT

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is “acutely aware” of alleged threats posed by Beijing China is offering lucrative contracts to British officials in sectors such as politics, defense, and business as part of a “prolific” espionage campaign designed to gain knowledge of the inner workings of the UK government, Downing Street claimed on Thursday. […]

  • US imposes sanctions on Russian automakers

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 8:01am EDT

    Over 100 entities and 20 individuals have been included into Washington’s blacklist The US authorities have expanded Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia, adding 20 nationals and more than 100 companies to its updated blacklist. The latest list released by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury on Thursday includes Russian automakers AvtoVAZ, […]

  • US is ‘going to hell’ – Trump

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 8:00am EDT

    The 2024 election will be the most important in American history, the ex-president says Former US President Donald Trump has said America is in rapid decline, and re-electing him would give the country a last chance to turn things around. “Our country’s going to hell. Our country’s going down,” Trump told journalist Megyn Kelly in […]

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  • EU nation threatens permanent ban on Ukrainian grain 

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 7:52am EDT

    Poland will close off its market to protect its farmers, officials have warned   Poland has threatened to introduce an indefinite embargo on supplies of Ukrainian grain if the EU does not extend its own bloc-wide import ban. Warsaw’s minister of economic development and technology, Waldemar Buda, said the measure could enter force at midnight […]

  • US to redirect millions of dollars in military aid to Taiwan – WSJ

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 7:42am EDT

    The Biden administration has told Congress it will withhold $85 million in aid to Egypt over alleged human-rights abuses Washington plans to withhold some of the foreign military aid allocated for Egypt and redirect it to other countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing sources close to the matter. According to the outlet, […]

  • US school shootings doubled last year

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 7:06am EDT

    Mass shooter incidents have surged in the country over the last decade School shootings in the United States soared to a new high in 2021-2022, doubling the previous record tallied the previous year, according to newly released federal data. The startling findings were outlined in the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) latest annual crime […]

  • Spain sets out whether Russians risk property seizure

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 6:30am EDT

    Madrid’s take on sanctions enforcement, according to media, is that only direct arrivals require luggage scrutiny under EU rules The Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT), which is also responsible for the nation’s customs controls, has no intention of confiscating the personal possessions of Russian travelers, Russian news agency TASS reports. Last week, the EU urged member […]

  • British oil boss quits over ‘relationships’

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 4:43am EDT

    BP’s CEO was not fully transparent about his romantic affairs with colleagues British energy giant BP has revealed that its CEO Bernard Looney has resigned with immediate effect after failing to fully disclose past personal relationships with co-workers, the company announced in a statement on Wednesday evening. Looney will be replaced on an interim basis […]

  • CrossTalk: Stoltenberg’s confession

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 2:57am EDT

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has acknowledged that Vladimir Putin’s decision to enter Ukraine last year was to prevent NATO from expanding into the country. The claim that it was an ‘unprovoked invasion’ is propaganda. The West’s Ukraine narrative is unravelling. CrossTalking with Aaron Good, Matthew Crosston, and Yves Engler.

  • Russian businesses repatriating billions from EU – Bloomberg  

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 2:27am EDT

    At least $50 billion has been pulled from Western countries since last year, the outlet has calculated Russian businessmen squeezed by sweeping Western sanctions have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars in assets from the EU since the start of the Ukraine conflict, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.    Wealthy Russians have started repatriating their assets […]

  • China announces massive cross-border project with Russia 

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 1:48am EDT

    A large fuel storage terminal will be built in the Far East, says Xuanyuan Group CEO   China’s Xuanyuan Group Industrial Development plans to build a massive logistics hub in the Amur Region in Russia’s Far East, as freight turnover between the two countries has more than doubled over the past year, the group’s CEO, […]

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  • European states refuse to end Iran sanctions

    RT - Sep 15th 2023 12:28am EDT

    France, Germany and the UK urged Tehran to scale back its nuclear energy program Paris, Berlin and London have said they will not lift certain sanctions imposed on Iran due to its alleged “severe non-compliance” with the 2015 nuclear pact signed with world powers. The three countries previously vowed to end the penalties by late […]

  • German leader compares Ukraine conflict to Yugoslavia

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 8:22pm EDT

    Olaf Scholz drew attention to the 1999 NATO bombing, Germany’s first war since 1945 Germany’s involvement with Ukraine is a “turning point” comparable to Berlin’s intervention in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. It was the first time Germany decided to use its own military since the Second World War, […]

  • US Vice President ‘doesn’t do much’ – Pelosi

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 6:22pm EDT

    The former House Speaker hesitated to say Kamala Harris was the “best” running mate for Joe Biden in 2024 Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stated that the person occupying the position of the country’s vice president doesn’t get to do much. Her comments came in response to a question about whether current VP […]

  • British royal holds hands with Neo-Nazi veteran (PHOTO)

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 6:05pm EDT

    The duchess of Sussex appeared at at Invictus Games with notorious Azov member ‘Taira’ A photo of Meghan Markle holding the hand of Yulia ‘Taira’ Paevskaya at the Invictus Games in Germany has attracted attention of the British and American press, though they treated the former Ukrainian POW as a suffering hero rather than a […]

  • Ivan Timofeev: Will EU border guards really force Russian citizens to undress?

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 5:48pm EDT

    Russian tourists are brave – they travel to more extreme jurisdictions, but walking around Western Europe naked may be a bridge too far In Russia, news of the European Commission’s clarifications on the import of sanctioned goods by our citizens has caused a stir.  Now it appears that a notional Russian entering an EU country […]

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  • UN reveals what replaced Afghan heroin

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 5:03pm EDT

    A watchdog warns that methamphetamine manufacturing is expanding despite Taliban ban The Taliban ban on drugs in Afghanistan has decreased the production of heroin, but the production of crystal meth appears to be ramping up to take its place, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in a recently published report. The cultivation […]

  • No evidence of ‘extraterrestrial’ visitors – NASA

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 2:18pm EDT

    The US space agency admitted that unexplained phenomena may, however, pose a ‘risk to airspace safety’ A panel of independent scientists and experts tasked by NASA with probing the origins of numerous reports of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, known as UAP or UFOs, said on Thursday that no evidence has been found to suggest […]

  • Hunter Biden indicted on federal charges

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 2:02pm EDT

    The US president’s son faces three counts in firearms case A federal grand jury in Delaware has charged President Joe Biden’s son Hunter with unlawful possession of a gun and lying about his drug habit to obtain a firearm, according to the indictment published on Thursday. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • English banished from press conference in China

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 1:39pm EDT

    Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro told a reporter to speak Mandarin because “it’s a new world” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro brushed off a question asked in English at the end of his visit to Beijing, telling the reporter to speak Chinese instead. “Speak Mandarin, there’s no English interpreter,” Maduro cut off a reporter from Hong Kong. “It’s […]

  • US to sanction companies in NATO state – Reuters

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 12:18pm EDT

    Five Türkiye-based firms and a Turkish national are accused of helping Moscow to evade Ukraine-related penalties The US government is planning to impose secondary sanctions on five Türkiye-based enterprises and one Turkish national accused of helping Russia bypass Western penalties, a senior Treasury official told Reuters on Thursday. The restrictions are expected to feature in […]

  • Global youth increasingly doubt benefits of democracy – Soros poll

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 12:05pm EDT

    Ineffective governance has eroded young people’s faith in governments’ ability to tackle pressing issues, a survey has found A survey of more than 36,000 people in 30 countries has found that younger people increasingly believe that democracy is incapable of producing solutions to the issues that affect them most. The results of the wide-ranging poll, […]

  • Brussels stops branding Russian businessmen ‘oligarchs’

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 11:32am EDT

    The EU Council lifted sanctions on three entrepreneurs from the country this week The word ‘oligarch’ – commonly used by EU officials to refer to Russian entrepreneurs targeted by sanctions – has been replaced with the more neutral ‘leading businessperson’ in the bloc’s latest documentation related to the issue.  The EU Council has also changed […]

  • German defense minister uses old imperial name for Russian city

    RT - Sep 14th 2023 11:27am EDT

    Boris Pistorius referred to Kaliningrad as ‘Konigsberg’ when discussing NATO’s presence in the Baltic states German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has been accused of ignorance after using the pre-1945 name ‘Konigsberg’ when referring to the Russian city of Kaliningrad. A local official was quick to criticize Pistorius for his remarks.   Appearing at an event organized […]