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  • US lawmakers to probe Biden’s ‘secret’ Saudi oil deal

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 2:24pm EST

    A top Republican says the House will investigate the president’s alleged bid to get Riyadh to drive down fuel prices before midterm votes The top-ranking Republican on the US House Oversight and Reform Committee has announced an investigation into whether President Joe Biden forged a secret agreement with Saudi Arabia to help Democrats in November’s […]

  • UK govt issues warning on Parthenon Marbles

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 1:53pm EST

    Downing Street has “no plans” to change the laws preventing a return of the ancient sculptures to Greece The British Museum is legally forbidden from sending the ancient Parthenon Marbles back to Greece, despite reports that such a transfer may be underway, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office declared on Monday.  While the British Museum’s trustees […]

  • Top general blames jab mandate for US recruiting woes

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 1:43pm EST

    The commandant of the Marine Corps has claimed that “myths and misbeliefs” about Covid-19 vaccines have deterred enlistments The highest-ranking general in the US Marine Corps has argued that “misbeliefs” about Covid-19 vaccines are contributing to the military’s manpower shortfalls because many would-be recruits are balking at being forced to take the jabs. “You talk […]

  • Protesters storm government palace in Mongolia (VIDEOS)

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 12:54pm EST

    The unrest was triggered by an alleged corruption scheme that involves supplying stolen coal to China Mass riots hit Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar on Monday, when protesters broke into the government palace and attacked law enforcement officials. Protests have been going on in the city for three days now, as the authorities investigate an alleged massive […]

  • Schoolgirl dies after stabbing attack in Germany 

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 12:24pm EST

    According to Bild, a man who also seriously injured another victim was apprehended by police in a local refugee shelter   A man stabbed two schoolgirls in the town of Illerkirchberg in southern Germany on Monday. One of the girls, 14, later succumbed to her injuries, police have confirmed. Local media reports suggest the authorities apprehended […]

  • Another German energy firm sues Gazprom – Handelsblatt

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 12:20pm EST

    RWE reportedly wants more than $400 million in compensation for missing gas supplies German energy company RWE has launched arbitration proceedings against Russia’s state-owned oil and gas giant Gazprom over allegedly undelivered volumes of gas, the firm’s spokesman told the Handelsblatt newspaper on Monday. Although RWE’s reliance on supplies from Gazprom was relatively low and […]

  • US Supreme Court hears landmark LGBTQ case

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 12:01pm EST

    A web designer is arguing she shouldn’t be forced to create sites celebrating gay marriage The US Supreme Court is hearing the case of a Christian web designer from Colorado who claims it’s her constitutional right not to work on projects promoting same-sex marriage. The ruling could finally determine whether civil rights law trumps Americans’ […]

  • FBI investigating shooting attacks on power stations

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 11:21am EST

    More than 37,000 people in North Carolina lost electricity over the weekend when a gunman disabled major equipment A gunman opened fire on two Duke Energy power stations in Moore County, North Carolina, destroying several expensive pieces of equipment and leaving some 37,000 people in the region still without power as of Sunday night. Repairs […]

  • Stromboli volcano eruption triggers tsunami

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 11:08am EST

    The Italian authorities have reported 4.6-magnitude earthquakes near the Aeolian Islands Earthquakes and tsunami waves have been registered in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Sicily after a volcano violently erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli on Sunday.  According to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the tsunami was caused by […]

  • Russia and China shift further away from dollar

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 10:28am EST

    The transition to national currencies in mutual settlements is speeding up, according to PM Mikhail Mishustin Russia and China are increasingly switching to their national currencies in trade, with nearly half of the two countries’ transactions carried out in rubles and yuan, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has revealed. The statement was made during a video […]

  • India explains position on Russia-Ukraine talks

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 10:27am EST

    This is not an era for war, so dialogue should be the answer, New Delhi’s top diplomat has said Ukraine and Russia are the only parties that should decide when and how they resume peace talks, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said.  “The Indian position articulated by my Prime Minister [Narendra Modi] is […]

  • Finnish parliament to vote on NATO membership

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 9:47am EST

    Helsinki’s bid to join the US-led military bloc is still pending ratification by all members of the alliance The Finnish government has submitted a bill on NATO membership for parliamentary approval. As Helsinki took another step to become a fully-fledged member of the US-led bloc, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto insisted that the country had not […]

  • Scholz reveals vision for Germany’s role in Europe

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 9:28am EST

    Berlin is seeking to become the guarantor of the continent’s security, the chancellor stated in a piece for Foreign Affairs magazine With the world undergoing tectonic changes, Germany’s role must be to ensure Europe’s security, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has written in an article for Foreign Affairs magazine. The beginning of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine […]

  • Sudan’s military and political rulers sign deal

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 9:16am EST

    The agreement ends a standoff that began with a coup in 2021 and involved the US and Russia The Sudanese military and political parties have agreed to work towards a democratic government, ending a crisis that began when the army seized power in a coup last year.  Signed on Monday by Sudan’s two ruling generals, […]

  • Indo-Pacific power plays

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 8:44am EST

    US interests in Asia have been renewed by the Indo-Pacific Economic framework that brings Asian nations closer to the West. However, China has been expanding its influence in the region as well. On this episode of the Modus Operandi, Manila Chan explores why the US has found it harder to dominate Asia, including the tiny […]

  • OPEC+ puts oil production plans on hold

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 8:13am EST

    The energy alliance has opted against further output cuts amid Western sanctions on Russia The OPEC+ alliance of major oil-producing nations, led by Russia and Saudi Arabia, has decided to maintain output at current levels, according to a statement published on its website. Analysts say the group is putting its production plans on hold while […]

  • Close Putin ally unveils new role in Russia’s top tech firm

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 7:56am EST

    Aleksey Kudrin, who resigned as the head of Russia’s Audit Chamber last week, says he will now serve as an adviser at Yandex Russia’s former finance minister and presidential adviser, Aleksey Kudrin, announced on Monday he had accepted an offer from the country’s top technology giant Yandex to become an adviser on corporate development. According […]

  • Russian gas production slowing – media

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 7:33am EST

    Energy major Gazprom reported lower output amid falling EU consumption Natural gas production in Russia declined by 11.6% in November compared to the same period last year and totaled 612.9 billion cubic meters (bcm), Vedomosti newspaper reported on Sunday, citing sources in the Energy Ministry. The decline announced earlier by state-owned energy giant Gazprom has […]

  • As Russia launches more nuclear ice-breakers, how global warming could lead to a new hotspot in the Arctic

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 6:44am EST

    With Moscow strengthening its presence in the region, will the global north become the theater for a new showdown between Russia and the US? Exactly 65 years ago, the world’s first nuclear icebreaker, the ‘Lenin’, was launched in the USSR. With this event, Moscow loudly announced its ambitions to develop the northern seas. Though the […]

  • Tory chairman tells UK nurses to ‘send a message’ to Putin

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 6:32am EST

    Now is “not the time” to ask for higher wages when Russia is using “energy as a weapon,” Nadhim Zahawi has said UK unions should “send a message” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and stop “chasing inflation” with their demands for pay hikes in the public sector, Nadhim Zahawi, the chairman of the Conservative Party, […]

  • Germany to miss NATO spending target – study

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 6:20am EST

    Berlin has, however, managed to earmark €10 billion ($10.5 billion) to buy American F-35A fighter jets, Bloomberg reports Despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s earlier pledge that Germany’s annual defense spending exceeds 2% of its Gross Domestic Product, it will likely fail to reach the NATO-defined target for years to come, a recent study has found. Meanwhile, […]

  • Ivan Timofeev: What does the West’s ‘oil price cap’ mean for Russia and how will Moscow respond?

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 5:35am EST

    After months of back and forth, the scheme finally begins as questions remain about how it will work in practice Monday is D-Day for the West’s attempt to place a price cap on Russian oil exports. In building up pressure on Moscow, the US and its allies will use their considerable experience of restrictions against […]

  • US funded Chinese lab for intelligence op – whistleblower

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 5:31am EST

    America’s technology transfer to China resulted in the Covid-19 pandemic, a former EcoHealth Alliance executive claims US-funded bioresearch on foreign soil appears to be a “giant intelligence operation” for assessing biowarfare capabilities, according to a whistleblower. Collecting and tinkering with bat coronaviruses in China ultimately resulted in the accidental release of SARS-CoV-2, the infection that […]

  • Western sanctions on Russian oil come into force

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 4:48am EST

    Moscow has reiterated it will not sell oil to countries that support a price cap An EU embargo on seaborne Russian crude officially began on Monday. At the same time, the bloc and its allies have also imposed a $60 price cap on oil exports. The EU embargo was agreed in June, amid the sixth […]

  • France must change its role in Ukraine – ex-presidential candidate

    RT - Dec 5th 2022 4:30am EST

    The EU needs to avoid “suicide” from dragging itself deeper into the conflict, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan says France must act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia instead of imposing sanctions on Moscow and sending weapons to Kiev, legislator and former presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has said. He also criticized Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and urged […]