• Scotland lowers bar to transition gender

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 3:38pm EST

    Applicants need only to live as their new gender for three months, with no psychiatric diagnosis required, under a new bill Residents of Scotland can now change their gender on official documents after just three months of living as their desired gender, with no psychiatric diagnosis of dysphoria required. The change comes as part of […]

  • Iran responds to Zelensky’s accusations

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 2:57pm EST

    Tehran said it was losing patience with “unfounded” claims by Ukraine’s president Iran has not exported any military equipment for use in the conflict in Ukraine, and will not tolerate such false accusations indefinitely, the foreign ministry in Tehran stressed on Thursday, in response to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s speech in the US Congress. “Once again […]

  • Musk announces new Twitter feature

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 1:58pm EST

    The view counter will prove “how much more alive” the platform is, its CEO claimed Twitter will introduce a view counter showing how many times a tweet has been seen, CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday. Musk’s rapid rollout of new policies and features has come under criticism since he purchased the platform for $44 […]

  • US life expectancy tumbles to 25-year low

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 1:06pm EST

    Official data registered sharp increases in death rates in 2021 for the second straight year The US posted sharp increases in death rates for a second straight year in 2021, driven largely by the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving Americans with their shortest projected life spans in a generation. The average US life expectancy plummeted to 76.4 […]

  • US professor claims he was fired for criticizing ‘critical race theory’

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 12:49pm EST

    David Phillips said in a lawsuit that he had received ‘open hostility’ for speaking out against the ‘racially divisive ideology’ A North Carolina professor has sued a high school for allegedly firing him due to his stance on “critical race theory.” The professor claimed that he was verbally attacked after questioning the liberal ideology in […]

  • Vandals destroy prehistoric aboriginal art

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 12:17pm EST

    South Australian officials have been criticized for failing to secure Koonalda Cave, which was previously vandalized Trespassers have ruined a one-of-a-kind sacred artwork in South Australia’s Koonalda Cave by drawing on it with their fingers, the state’s aboriginal affairs minister and attorney general, Kyam Maher, told local media on Wednesday, demanding a “severe penalty” for […]

  • US blacklists Russian companies

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 12:06pm EST

    Ten entities have been added to the so-called SDN List, according to the Treasury Department The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it was adding ten Russian entities to its so-called Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List). All the companies are related to the shipping industry. According to the Treasury’s Office […]

  • Russia hosts most Ukrainian refugees – report

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 11:58am EST

    Over 2.85 million displaced residents have fled to the country, with Poland a distant second as a sanctuary, estimates by Statista show Ukrainian refugees fleeing their homeland in 2022 have resettled in Russia more than any other country, according to a report by Statista published last week. It revealed some 2,852,395 people had left their […]

  • Zelensky is ‘houseguest who wouldn’t leave’ – Tucker Carlson

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 11:44am EST

    Listening to the Ukrainian president demanding money was a “humiliating scenario” for Congress, the Fox News host said Fox News host Tucker Carlson condemned American lawmakers for applauding Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s demands for more weapons and money. Carlson argued that the US gets nothing in return for the tens of billions of dollars it […]

  • The ‘coming collapse of China’ is still a hope, not a certainty

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 11:39am EST

    US thinkers seem to be certain that the Communist Party is doomed to fail because of ‘bad emperor’ Xi Jinping Over 20 years ago, author Gordon Chang published a book titled ‘The Coming Collapse of China’ – a text which predicted the demise of the country’s ruling Communist Party via an eventual financial implosion by […]

  • France slaps hefty fine on US tech giant 

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 11:24am EST

    The authorities have accused Microsoft of imposing ad cookies on users, with the company now ordered to pay €60 million  US tech giant Microsoft, one of the world’s leading software producers, has been ordered to pay €60 million ($64 million) after the French authorities found it guilty of breaching local regulations. The country’s privacy watchdog […]

  • FTX execs plead guilty to fraud charges

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 11:13am EST

    The collapsed crypto exchange’s co-founder Gary Wang and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison are reportedly cooperating with investigators Two associates of former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried have pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange, US Attorney Damian Williams revealed on Wednesday. He said that former FTX chief […]

  • European NATO members should reduce reliance on US – Macron

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 10:59am EST

    The countries should bolster their own defense to become less dependent on both the bloc and Washington, the French president says French President Emmanuel Macron has said European NATO members should become more autonomous and less dependent on the US-led alliance regarding their own security. He made the remarks late Wednesday, as he spoke to […]

  • More than half of US House Republicans ditched Zelensky’s speech – media 

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 10:39am EST

    A total of 127 GOP lawmakers chose to snub the Ukrainian president, a tally by The Hill says Only 86 out of 213 Republican members of the US House of Representatives showed up to hear Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky address Congress in Washington on Wednesday, according to The Hill. The snub occurred after the House […]

  • US couple faces death penalty in Uganda – media

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 9:03am EST

    Nicholas and Mackenzie Spencer allegedly tortured and trafficked a foster child who lived with them in the East African nation A Ugandan court on Wednesday charged an American couple with aggravated child trafficking, an offense carrying the death penalty, Reuters reports. The two were detained earlier this month and accused of torturing the child, who […]

  • UK worst performing G7 economy – data

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 9:00am EST

    Output remains below pre-Covid levels while other Group of Seven members have pulled ahead, according to the Office for National Statistics The UK economy contracted by more than previously estimated in the third quarter of 2022, lagging further behind other advanced economies, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported on Thursday. The ONS data showed […]

  • The EU’s freeze of Russian media assets is a perversion of its own principles

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 8:48am EST

    There’s a big difference between actual disinformation or misinformation, and information or analysis that you just don’t like Apparently, it wasn’t enough for the European Union to block access to media outlets on TV and radio, and demand that YouTube and all social media restrict access to them across Europe. Now, with a ninth round of […]

  • New Zealand PM auctions off transcript of hot mic insult

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 8:32am EST

    Jacinda Ardern called a liberal opponent “an arrogant prick” in parliament last week A signed and framed copy of the transcript of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern insulting a political opponent on a hot mic was sold at an online auction for NZD$100,100 (US$63,000) on Thursday. The sale was conducted on the bidding platform […]

  • Germany nationalizes Uniper

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 8:28am EST

    Berlin now owns a 99% stake in the struggling energy company The German government has completed the bailout of gas importer Uniper, the country’s Economy Ministry and Finance Ministry said in a joint statement on Thursday. The government now controls 99% of the company’s shares. Uniper’s shareholders greenlighted the company’s rescue deal with the state […]

  • Kremlin assesses Zelensky-Biden meeting

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 8:13am EST

    Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, says both leaders are reluctant to address Moscow’s concerns Washington seems intent on waging a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine as a tool, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said. He added that the main takeaway from Wednesday’s meeting between the two countries’ leaders is that neither the […]

  • EU sanctions on Russia have reached their limit – commissioner

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 7:48am EST

    The energy embargo was the main punitive option that Brussels had, says Virginijus Sinkevicius The EU’s economic restrictions against Russia have exhausted themselves and there’s nothing new the bloc can come up with, the union’s environment commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevicius, told the Lithuanian radio station Ziniu radijas on Thursday. Brussels has so far adopted nine rounds […]

  • Japan set to return to nuclear energy

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 6:43am EST

    Tokyo plans to reverse the nuclear phase-out agenda introduced after the Fukushima disaster A Japanese government advisory panel has approved a plan to revive the country’s nuclear energy sector, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Thursday. According to the draft policy, which is a reversal of the country’s nuclear phase-out plan adopted after the Fukushima […]

  • Selling a war: Report exposes how German media stirs up militancy in society and works to prevent negotiations with Russia

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 4:58am EST

    A shock study exposes how the press is pushing for confrontation with Moscow in the EU’S most powerful state Last week, the University of Mainz published a study of German news coverage of events in Ukraine, and Berlin’s official response to the crisis. The conclusions confirm that since February 24, the media has played a major […]

  • Netanyahu one step away from comeback as Israeli PM

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 4:56am EST

    The former premier from 2009 to 2021, who is on trial for corruption, has formed a right-wing government Benjamin Netanyahu is on course to become Israel’s prime minister for the third time in his political career. Despite facing an ongoing corruption trial, Netanyahu has managed to form a coalition government with far-right and ultra-orthodox political […]

  • Ruble slides to April low against dollar

    RT - Dec 22nd 2022 4:45am EST

    The Russian currency is still up for the year, trading data shows The Russian ruble dropped to a nearly eight-month low against the US dollar on the Moscow Exchange on Thursday, erasing the gains of the previous months amid the sanctions-induced decline in exports and the active recovery of imports. The ruble slipped to 72 […]