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  • Von der Leyen to get her own EU spy unit – FT

    RT - Nov 11th 2025 8:19am EST

    The proposed new intelligence body is facing pushback from the bloc’s existing spy service, sources say The European Commission plans to establish a new intelligence division directly under President Ursula von der Leyen, even as the move faces resistance from the EU’s existing spy apparatus, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The new structure will […]

  • Apple scraps gay dating apps from Chinese market – media

    RT - Nov 11th 2025 6:30am EST

    Blued and Finka have reportedly been removed following a directive from the country’s internet watchdog China’s top gay-dating apps, Blued and Finka, have been removed from the local Apple Store on orders from Beijing’s internet regulator, Wired reports. Launched in 2012, Blued is China’s largest gay-dating app, once boasting over 60 million users worldwide before […]

  • Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1 billion

    RT - Nov 11th 2025 6:18am EST

    The British state-funded broadcaster has been wracked by a scandal over unethical edits of a speech given by the US president   US President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion, according to media reports. He is demanding the retraction of a documentary in which a speech he gave before the […]

  • Car blast in Pakistani capital – media

    RT - Nov 11th 2025 4:28am EST

    At least five people have been killed after a vehicle exploded in Islamabad, according to reports DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • Trump warns of ‘catastrophe’ if tariffs scrapped

    RT - Nov 11th 2025 3:08am EST

    The US would have to pay back $2 trillion to foreign partners if the Supreme Court rules against the president’s use of an emergency powers law US President Donald Trump has claimed that his country faces a “national security catastrophe” if the tariffs he introduced against most trading partners this year are ruled illegal. Trump […]

  • EU sees influx of male Ukrainian migrants

    RT - Nov 11th 2025 1:24am EST

    For the first time since 2022, Eurostat figures indicate that men make up the majority of new arrivals, surpassing women The EU has recorded its largest spike in arriving Ukrainian fighting-age men in September, just a month after Vladimir Zelensky allowed men aged 18 to 22 to leave the country, according to the latest Eurostat […]

  • Syria’s president says he ‘had nothing to do’ with 9/11 attacks

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 8:41pm EST

    Ahmed al-Sharaa has downplayed past affiliation with Al-Qaeda during his first visit to the US Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has downplayed his past links to the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and distanced himself from the 9/11 attacks. Al-Sharaa, who was removed from the US State Department’s “global terrorist” list last week, met with President Donald Trump […]

  • Trump praises Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked leader after White House visit

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 5:17pm EST

    Ahmad al-Sharaa led the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which seized power in Damascus in 2024 US President Donald Trump has praised Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa as a strong leader after hosting him in the White House on Monday. Sharaa, a former jihadist commander with ties to Al-Qaeda who was once blacklisted by the […]

  • Trump praises Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked leader after White House visit

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 5:17pm EST

    Ahmad al-Sharaa led the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which seized power in Damascus in 2024 US President Donald Trump has praised Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa as a strong leader after hosting him in the White House on Monday. Sharaa, a former jihadist commander with ties to Al-Qaeda who was once blacklisted by the […]

  • ‘Woke pro-trans’ BBC staff rebel – media

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 4:15pm EST

    The broadcaster’s staff are reportedly in a “civil war” against its management after the Trump documentary episode The “woke pro-trans” staff at BBC News are “at war” with its governing board over the resignation of top figures over the doctoring of a speech by US President Donald Trump in a documentary, the Daily Mail has […]

  • Belgium sets up anti-drone squad – then forgets to use it

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 3:39pm EST

    Brussels “didn’t even try” to deploy its own specialized police unit to deal with recent UAV incidents, Nieuwsblad has reported Despite having its own specialized anti-drone police unit, Belgium did not deploy it during any of the recent AUV incidents, Nieuwsblad reported on Monday. Instead, Brussels asked fellow NATO members for help in countering what […]

  • US extends pause on Syria sanctions

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 3:33pm EST

    Washington announced the move on the same day as President Donald Trump met with the Middle Eastern nation’s leader at the White House The US has prolonged the suspension of a broad package of sanctions on Syria for another 180 days as President Donald Trump met with the Syrian interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the […]

  • ‘We are not a nation above all nations, we are a nation among nations’ – former U.S. congressman Dennis Kucinich

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 2:35pm EST

    In this episode of RT’s ‘Sanchez Effect’, Rick questions the West’s approach to free speech, as the Italian news agency Nova FIRES its own journalist for asking a question: will the EU demand that Israel compensate Gaza after insisting that Moscow should foot the bill for Ukraine? Rick also dives into Russia’s latest retaliatory attacks on […]

  • Thailand suspends ‘Trump-brokered’ peace with Cambodia

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 1:57pm EST

    The two Southeast Asian nations signed a peace deal last month, which the US president took credit for Thailand has suspended a peace deal with Cambodia reached just over two weeks ago that US President Donald Trump claimed to have helped broker. Bangkok announced the decision on Monday after four Thai soldiers patrolling the border […]

  • The dragon’s dome: China is making a revolution in global missile defense

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 1:19pm EST

    While Washington dreams of a Golden Dome, Beijing is quietly building one that actually works When Donald Trump unveiled the Golden Dome in May 2025, he promised nothing less than a revolution in American security – a $175-billion missile defense shield designed to intercept any threat to the United States. Modeled on Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense […]

  • Olympics body mulls ban on trans women – Times

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 1:13pm EST

    The International Olympic Committee is expected to unveil a new policy early next year, sources have told the outlet The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is poised to bar transgender women from competing in female events at the Olympics under a new eligibility policy, The Times has reported, citing sources. The move would mark a major […]

  • Hard times create strong women: Inside the rise of female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 11:13am EST

    Street vendors, tailors, and young designers are reshaping everyday life, balancing faith, family, and survival “Hard times create strong men,” goes the saying attributed to G. Michael Hopf. Strong women, too – and Afghan women are a remarkable example of that strength. Since 2021, the Islamic Emirate has placed limits on women’s employment. Women are […]

  • Ukrainians lose food assistance in US

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 10:51am EST

    An estimated 300,000 people are expected to be affected after the Trump administration reduced eligibility for SNAP benefits Ukrainians living in the US have been cut off from food benefits after the administration of President Donald Trump redefined eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Around 300,000 Ukrainians currently reside in the US, the […]

  • Polish support for Ukrainians collapsing – Bloomberg

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 9:16am EST

    The polish president and his party has accused migrants of “jumping the queue” for social welfare Polish support for Ukrainian immigrants is collapsing and half the population now view state benefits for arrivals as overly generous, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing a recent survey. Poland, one of Ukraine’s main backers since the conflict with Russia […]

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  • Sarkozy released from prison despite conviction

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 8:31am EST

    The former French president was sentenced to five years for criminal campaign conspiracy three weeks ago Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was granted conditional release from prison on Monday, less than three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence over plot to obtain secret campaign funds from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, […]

  • FBI chief makes secret visit to China – Reuters

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 7:37am EST

    Kash Patel flew to Beijing to discuss the fight against fentanyl smuggling, according to the agency FBI Director Kash Patel made an unannounced visit to China last week to discuss “fentanyl and law enforcement issues,” Reuters reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the trip. According to Reuters, Patel arrived in Beijing on Friday […]

  • Trump pardons election fraud whistleblowers targeted by Biden

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 6:42am EST

    The list includes Rudy Giuliani and 76 others indicted over alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election US President Donald Trump has issued broad pardons to dozens of people targeted by the previous administration for challenging the 2020 election results, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Trump repeatedly claimed election fraud in the 2020 […]

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  • German draft plan triggers mass protest call

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 5:15am EST

    The country “must become capable of peace, not war,” activist groups have declared amid plans for a nationwide day of action in December German activists have announced plans for nationwide protests against the potential return of military conscription, saying the country must become “capable of peace, not war.” Germany is poised to reinstate mandatory military […]

  • Ukraine is too corrupt to join the EU, and the West is too dishonest to trust

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 5:12am EST

    Brussels has noticed the obvious problems with Vladimir Zelensky’s regime, but would still like Ukrainians to keep dying in its proxy war with Russia Long, long ago – almost as if yesterday really – Ukrainians were promised that if enough of them were to die in a Western proxy war against Russia first, then, in […]

  • How the West dismantled the last pillars of nuclear stability

    RT - Nov 10th 2025 4:58am EST

    From ABM to New START: the slow collapse of an era of restraint Diplomacy, like poetry, depends on the precision of language. The stakes are higher, though, because a poorly chosen phrase can accelerate a crisis rather than illuminate a path out of it. Yet here we are: a renewed nuclear arms race may be […]

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