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  • Is the Polish government secretly funding a Twitter account notorious for spreading disinformation about Eastern Europe?

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 6:14am EST

    One of the largest media outlets in Eastern Europe is pushing out fake news, now a bombshell report suggests it’s sponsored by Warsaw Chances are that any active Twitter user over the past year will have seen a tweet or two from an account called  Visegrad24 and, most likely, the information contained in those tweets will have […]

  • Dozens arrested in Paris after World Cup quarterfinals

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 6:05am EST

    Fans rioted following wins by the Moroccan and French squads Rioters clashed with police on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Saturday night, following the victories of France and Morocco in the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Football fans, some of whom were wrapped in red-and-green Moroccan flags, set off fireworks in the […]

  • Poland doubles down on demanding WWII reparations from Germany

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 5:25am EST

    The Ukraine conflict should not stand in the way of resolving the issue, Warsaw’s ambassador in Berlin has said Poland has no plans to put the matter of Germany’s WWII reparations to rest, Dariusz Pawlos, the nation’s new envoy in Berlin, stated on Saturday. Earlier this autumn, Warsaw presented its neighbor with a restitution bill […]

  • China wants to drop dollar in oil trade – Reuters

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 5:05am EST

    President Xi Jinping says his country will work to pay for fuel in yuan Beijing will work to make energy purchases in yuan instead of US dollar signalling another step towards shifting further away from the greenback, China’s President Xi Jinping told Gulf Arab leaders as cited by Reuters. China’s leader highlighted the necessity of […]

  • Western price cap disrupting global oil markets – economist

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 4:52am EST

    The embargo on Russian crude may lead to unexpected results for most industrialized nations, an energy economist warns The latest EU sanctions on Russian oil exports will fail to strip the country of its revenues, but are already causing global oil supply disruptions, a senior energy economist at CER-Centro Europa Ricerche told Sputnik news agency […]

  • Merkel’s Ukraine remarks show breach of trust – Serbia

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 4:23am EST

    The former chancellor’s statement on the Minsk accords is a “lesson” for Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent comments on the 2014-15 Minsk agreements have cast the Ukraine conflict in a new light, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday. Merkel stated that Kiev used the ceasefire to rearm […]

  • Sanctions on Russia are backfiring – former Austrian vice-chancellor

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 3:28am EST

    Europeans are bearing the brunt of the crisis, while Moscow’s economy is doing fine, Heinz-Christian Strache has said Western sanctions imposed on Moscow have failed to make a dent in Russia’s economy and ultimately only hurt Europeans, former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said on Saturday. He also accused European policymakers of turning a blind eye […]

  • Twitter Files show blitz to contain Trump threat

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 1:33am EST

    Internal communications reveal how executives were bending the rules to justify banning Trump permanently The overwhelmingly left-leaning executives at Twitter were virtually unanimous in their belief that then-President Donald Trump must be banned from the platform permanently – their only concern was finding a pretext, the latest installment of the ‘Twitter Files’ has revealed. Bestselling […]

  • No security, no cooperation? Thomas Greminger, director of the Geneva Center for Security Policy

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 1:32am EST

    The conflict in Ukraine has given rise to a new security paradox in Europe. Many in the West argue that, until Russia is truly democratic, Ukraine will need Western security guarantees. For its part, Moscow insists that until the world is multipolar and global governance is authentically democratic, NATO and the expansion of Western military […]

  • Bitcoin may have nasty ‘surprise’ in store for investors – media

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 1:07am EST

    The top cryptocurrency could plunge 70% next year from the fallout of the FTX exchange collapse, Standard Chartered warns The price of Bitcoin could drop to as low as $5,000 next year in a market surprise that investors are underpricing, UK-based multinational bank Standard Chartered has said as cited by Decrypt, a website that covers cryptocurrency. […]

  • Dutch food prices soar as economy weakens

    RT - Dec 11th 2022 12:31am EST

    Economists no longer expect an “impressive recovery” and blame high inflation for weak performance Food prices in the Netherlands have jumped by 15.7% in November compared to last year, data shared on Thursday by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) shows. The consumer price index (CPI) was 9.9% up in November from the same month last year. Experts […]

  • Scholz explains why he keeps talking to Putin

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 5:14pm EST

    Maintaining the dialogue is the only way to eventually resolve the ongoing conflict, German Chancellor believes Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he keeps talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin because he wants to see the day when finding a solution for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine would finally be possible. Such a moment would […]

  • Republicans say they’ll ‘roll out red carpet’ for Elon Musk

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 4:01pm EST

    The GOP wants Twitter’s new owner to testify about politically-driven censorship, Rep. James Comer told the New York Post House Republicans want Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk to testify before the Oversight Committee next year. By revealing how his predecessors censored stories damaging to the Biden family, Musk has already done “a great service” […]

  • Germany explains why it denies Patriots to Ukraine

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 3:06pm EST

    Berlin has said it cannot freely decide the fate of the US-made systems as they are part of NATO’s collective defense Berlin has explained why it turned down Warsaw’s proposal to deliver US-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to Ukraine instead of sending them to Poland. Germany lacks the authority to go it alone, a […]

  • Serbia to request troop deployment in Kosovo

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 2:40pm EST

    As ethnic Albanian forces crack down on the province’s Serb minority, Belgrade expects NATO to ignore its concerns Serbia will request that its forces be deployed to Kosovo amid an Albanian-led crackdown on the province’s Serb population, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday. Vucic added that he expects Kosovo’s NATO backers to reject the request. “We […]

  • ‘You have to have forgiveness when you understand your own anger’ – Viktor Bout

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 12:45pm EST

    In his first TV interview after 11 years in US prison, Russian businessman Viktor Bout told RT about the emotions he experiences upon returning home.

  • German city to house Ukrainian refugees in ‘Z’ trailers – Bild

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 12:02pm EST

    Hamburg faces a refugee housing shortage as tens of thousands of people there need accommodation, the outlet reports The northern German city of Hamburg is about to offer asylum seekers, including Ukrainians, “tiny” trailer houses as accommodation, Germany’s Bild tabloid reported on Saturday. Hamburg is facing an acute refugee housing shortage as tens of thousands […]

  • EU nations multiply trade with Russia – RIA

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 10:25am EST

    Some member states have boosted trade turnover by more than 200%, the news agency says Three quarters of EU member states boosted their trade turnover with Russia in the first eight months of 2022, RIA Novosti is reporting on Saturday, citing data collected from the bloc’s various national statistics departments. Russia’s trade with Bulgaria and […]

  • French energy major makes costly exit from Russia

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 9:25am EST

    TotalEnergies will lose billions of dollars as it is unable to sell its stake in a Russian gas giant French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies has announced on Friday it is giving up its stake in Russian gas producer Novatek and withdrawing its two representatives from the company’s board. The exit will result in a […]

  • FBI agent blows whistle on politicized investigators

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 8:52am EST

    The highest stakes in whistleblowing are often for those in the national security realm. It takes a great deal of fortitude to take on the power and authority of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and in some cases, the White House itself. Oftentimes, the whistleblower pays with his or her career, and in some cases, with […]

  • The world has enough food to feed everyone, so why is hunger increasing? (E1124)

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 8:52am EST

    In this episode of Going Underground, we speak with Chris Hegadorn, former Secretary of the Committee for World Food Security. As 828 million people around the world go to bed hungry every night and global hunger increases year by year, we investigate why nutrition continues to worsen in the context of a deepening climate crisis, […]

  • EU to import ‘huge volumes of LNG’ to replace Russian supplies – Trafigura 

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 7:57am EST

    The region’s gas demand is projected to soar EU countries will need to dramatically increase their imports of liquified natural gas (LNG) in 2023 to grapple with probable shortages arising from severely curtailed Russian flows and growing demand, analysts from commodities trading giant Trafigura Group predict.  Prices for gas in the region will need to […]

  • Gazprom boss outlines main outcome of Türkiye talks

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 7:53am EST

    CEO Alexey Miller and President Erdogan discussed the prospects for a Turkish natural gas hub The head of Russian state-run natural gas monopoly Gazprom said on Saturday that plans for a natural gas hub in Türkiye are the main outcome of his meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. CEO Alexey Miller discussed the creation of […]

  • The Last UN War: Why peacekeepers were sent to Somalia 30 years ago and how the operation’s legacy still haunts policymakers

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 7:53am EST

    The ambitions of a Soviet-backed African leader led to a bloody conflict which still resonates today Exactly 30 years ago, on December 9, 1992, US Marines landed in Mogadishu. Thus began the largest UN peacekeeping mission in history – Operation Restore Hope. Its goal was to bring order to Somalia, to cope with a humanitarian catastrophe, […]

  • The EU demands that the Balkans pick the ‘right’ side

    RT - Dec 10th 2022 7:23am EST

    Ursula von der Leyen has framed the Balkan nations’ choice of potential partners as a question of ‘democracy’ vs. ‘autocracy’ The last Balkan country to actually ascend to European Union membership was Croatia, in 2013. And this year, the Balkans have had to contend with the spectacle of Brussels gushing over Ukraine and rushing to […]