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  • Ukraine military aid critic becomes Czech prime minister

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 12:43pm EST

    The country’s new government will be headed by Andrej Babis, who has opposed continued arms provision to Kiev Right-wing Euroskeptic Andrej Babis, who campaigned on a promise to curtail military aid to Ukraine and focus on domestic concerns, has been sworn in as the new prime minister of the Czech Republic. Babis’ ANO party won […]

  • Meta to change policy on ads after EU fine – Brussels

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 12:28pm EST

    The US tech giant has been forced to allow users to opt out of personalized advertising to comply with the bloc’s digital regulations Meta has been forced to change its advertising policy in the EU, the European Commission has announced. The move comes after the Facebook and Instagram owner received a €200 million ($233 million) […]

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  • To defeat the colonizer’s execution

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 12:08pm EST

    On today’s episode of Lumumba’s Africa, Professor PLO Lumumba examines the colonial project’s relentless assault on African sovereignty, culture, and self-perception. He argues that African resistance often lies not in frontal assault, but in the sacred, stubborn acts of remembering and reinterpretation.

  • UK Navy needs more cash to ward off Russian ‘advantage’ – commander

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 11:16am EST

    Britain must increase military spending as Moscow invests billions in its northern fleet, Gen. Gwyn Jenkins has claimed The British Royal Navy needs significantly more investment and closer ties with arms makers in order to retain its “advantage” in the Atlantic over rivals such as Russia, First Sea Lord Gen. Gwyn Jenkins has said. Addressing […]

  • ‘Under Von der Leyen leadership the EU has become less safe, less competitive’ – Peter Szijjarto

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 10:54am EST

    In an exclusive interview with Rick on the latest episode of Sanchez Effect, Hungary’s top diplomat pulls back the curtain on the liberal mainstream’s tight grip, where anything short of extreme liberalism meets swift intolerance in the EU. Step out of line and prepare for a barrage of being “cornered, accused, lectured, judged, and pushed away.” But Hungary […]

  • Major Italian bank winding down Russian operations – Kommersant

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 10:41am EST

    UniCredit Group has reportedly sold the assets of its leasing company in the country as part of its exit strategy Italy’s UniCredit Group, one of the last major Western banks still operating in Russia, has begun scaling back its business, Kommersant reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Operating in Russia since 1989, UniCredit […]

  • Orban vows to defy ‘outrageous’ EU migrant quotas

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 9:56am EST

    The Hungarian prime minister has denounced a pact that forces the members of the bloc to take in newcomers or pay €20,000 per refusal Hungary will not comply with new EU requirements to take in immigrants starting from next year, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said, blasting Brussels for launching “an absurd and unjust attack” […]

  • Trump’s comments a ‘provocation’ – EU’s Kallas

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 9:47am EST

    The foreign affairs chief has rejected the US president’s critique of the bloc’s cultural and political trajectory, insisting “Europe is free” The criticisms of the European Union laid out in the new US National Security Strategy are “not true,” EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has insisted. Addressing a European Parliament committee on Tuesday, she […]

  • Western Europe doesn’t know what to do ⁠–⁠ Trump

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 8:31am EST

    America’s Transatlantic allies are “weak” and failing to control migration, the US president has said US President Donald Trump has denounced Western Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” leaders, accusing its governments of mishandling migration and failing to help end the Ukraine conflict. In an interview with Politico published on Tuesday, […]

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  • ‘It’s time’ for Ukraine to hold elections – Trump

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 7:03am EST

    Vladimir Zelensky’s presidential term expired last year but he has refused to hold a vote due to martial law US President Donald Trump has urged Ukraine to hold elections, questioning the country’s democratic credentials in an interview with Politico published on Tuesday. He appeared to issue a new challenge to Vladimir Zelensky, whose presidential term […]

  • Why the loudest Russophobes aren’t the ones steering EU policy

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 6:31am EST

    Kaja Kallas may be the face of EU hostility to Russia, but she’s not its author It has become fashionable to claim that the Baltic States are the driving force behind the European Union’s hostility towards Russia. The spectacle of Estonia’s Kaja Kallas, now the EU’s foreign policy chief, sermonizing about the country only reinforces […]

  • Japan rejects EU plan to steal Russian assets – Politico

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 5:43am EST

    The bloc wants to use Moscow’s funds immobilized in the West to cover Ukraine’s budget deficit Japan has reportedly dismissed a European Union initiative to tap frozen Russian sovereign assets to help finance Ukraine’s massive budget shortfall. Brussels hopes to issue a so-called “reparation loan” backed by Russian funds immobilized in the West – a […]

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  • NATO suspends contracts with Israeli arms giant – media

    RT - Dec 9th 2025 4:36am EST

    Elbit Systems is suspected of bribing officials from the bloc’s procurement agency NATO’s main procurement agency has suspended multiple contracts with Israel’s largest weapons producer, Elbit Systems, amid an expanding corruption probe that has already triggered multiple arrests across Europe, several investigative media outlets have reported. The decision was made over the summer in response […]

  • Mass immigration undermining American Dream – Vance

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 11:52pm EST

    The US vice president said those claiming otherwise were “getting rich off of the old system” Mass immigration is ruining the American Dream, US Vice President J.D. Vance has said amid the government’s increase in ICE raids and deportations of illegals. Vance made his remarks while responding to a video by a construction company owner […]

  • Britain ‘incapable’ of running nuclear submarine program – ex-Royal Navy chief

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 6:29pm EST

    The UK should focus on more “cost-effective” systems like drones, retired Rear Admiral Philip Mathias said The UK is no longer capable of running a nuclear submarine program after years of mismanagement, retired Rear Admiral Philip Mathias has said. The former director of nuclear policy at the Ministry of Defense sharply criticized the state of […]

  • German parliamentary commissioner calls for anti-Lenin campaign

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 5:36pm EST

    The names of Communist-era leaders should be erased from city streets, Evelyn Zupke said Germany’s parliamentary commissioner has called for renaming streets bearing the names of Vladimir Lenin and Cold War–era socialist leaders. Streets in multiple cities still carry the names of politicians from Soviet-aligned East Germany, which reunified with pro-US West Germany following the […]

  • US must not threaten EU democracy – Brussels

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 2:43pm EST

    European Council President Antonio Costa has urged Washington to respect its allies despite differing worldviews The US must not threaten to interfere in the EU’s “democratic life,” European Council President Antonio Costa has declared, adding that Brussels and Washington no longer share a common worldview. His comments came in response to the recently unveiled US […]

  • Israel sharply hikes propaganda budget

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 2:29pm EST

    West Jerusalem is expected to allocate nearly $729 million to “public diplomacy” efforts in the next fiscal year The Israeli cabinet has allocated a massive 2.35 billion shekels (almost $729 million) to “public diplomacy” in its next budget, constituting a sharp, almost five-fold hike in spending on fixing the country’s heavily dented image.   Foreign Minister […]

  • Poland exempt from EU migrant quota – PM

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 1:57pm EST

    The EU Council has freed Warsaw from its obligations under the bloc’s solidarity mechanism starting from 2026, Donald Tusk has claimed The European Council has exempted Poland from the requirement to take in migrants starting from next year, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has claimed. The EU has been grappling with mass immigration over the past […]

  • Elon Musk and the EU jokers deserve each other

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 1:02pm EST

    X has become a for-profit digital insane asylum and there’s no need to waste European taxpayers’ cash regulating it The American tech broligarchy is fighting with Brussels Euligarchs again. When can they all just blast off to Mars already? Brussels fined multi-billionaire tech titan Elon Musk’s social media platform X €120 million for failing to […]

  • ‘The EU has turned Europe into a continent that’s brain-dead’— Adriel Kasonta, political risk consultant and lawyer

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 12:19pm EST

    In the latest episode of Sanchez Effect, Rick and Adriel dive into the recent messages from the White House. The takeaway is clear: ready or not, the EU is on its own now. Mr. Kasonta explains that the signs have been there for a while, but Europeans have grown comfortable as America’s welfare darlings. Trump is […]

  • Ukrainians ‘with spy equipment’ arrested in EU state

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 9:54am EST

    The suspects were unable to explain the nature of the seized devices and were taken into custody in Poland Police in Poland have detained three Ukrainian nationals allegedly found in possession of spying and hacking equipment. The suspects were apprehended during a routine traffic stop in Warsaw, police said in a statement on Monday. The […]

  • EU’s X fine a ‘violent attack’ on free speech – French party leader

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 9:46am EST

    The €120 million penalty imposed on Elon Musk’s platform exposes the “real face” of the bloc’s “censorship,” Florian Philippot has told RT The fine imposed by the EU on social media platform X constitutes a “violent attack” on freedom of speech, the leader of France’s Patriots party, Florian Philippot, told RT in an exclusive interview […]

  • China’s trade surplus exceeds record $1 trillion

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 9:28am EST

    Beijing’s General Administration of Customs has estimated that exports grew 6.2% year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2025 China’s trade surplus has for the first time exceeded the $1 trillion mark – a level unmatched by any other nation in the world, the country’s General Administration of Customs has announced. Statistics for the first […]

  • China weighs in on Putin’s India visit

    RT - Dec 8th 2025 9:08am EST

    Beijing has said its good ties with both Moscow and New Delhi contribute to security, stability, and prosperity globally China said on Monday that good relations between Beijing, Moscow, and New Delhi are beneficial for global stability and prosperity. Responding to a query about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement on ties between the BRICS countries, […]