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  • Sri Lankan president to resign – media

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 1:07pm EDT

    Gotabaya Rajapaksa will leave office amid mass protests and economic turmoil Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign, effective next week, local media reported on Saturday. Rajapaksa earlier left his residence in Colombo as thousands of protesters laid siege to the compound. Rajapaksa’s resignation was announced by Sri Lankan news outlet Newsfirst, which cited Speaker […]

  • Ukraine dismisses ambassador to Germany

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 12:00pm EDT

    Kiev has sacked envoy Andrey Melnik, who been entangled in multiple scandals over the past few months Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky relieved Ambassador Andrey Melnik from his post in a decree signed on Saturday. In recent months, the diplomat has sparked multiple high-profile scandals and even branded German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “offended liverwurst.” No […]

  • Turkish inflation on course to win unwanted first prize – Fitch

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 11:26am EDT

    The rating agency has cut Ankara’s credit rating deeper into junk territory International rating agency Fitch has slashed Turkey’s debt rating to B from B+, citing government policies that have reportedly contributed to “spiraling inflation” and discouraging capital inflows. The agency also forecast annual inflation to average 71.4% in 2022, the highest of any country […]

  • China tells US to stop ‘smearing and attacking’

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 10:59am EDT

    During a meeting of top-level diplomats, Washington once again tried to press Beijing into backing its anti-Russia position Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday that China wants the US to respect its foreign and domestic policies, drop economic sanctions, and “abandon the Cold War mentality.” Blinken told […]

  • Possible motive behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination revealed

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 10:59am EDT

    The suspect believed the former PM had been promoting the interests of a certain religious group Shinzo Abe’s suspected assassin had a “grudge” against the former Japanese prime minister but his motive was likely not political, initial findings by local police suggest. Tetsuya Yamagami, the 41-year-old suspect who was arrested at the scene, believed the […]

  • Training for thousands of Ukrainian soldiers begins in UK

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 10:19am EDT

    The first group out of what will become nearly 10,000 service members has been welcomed by UK Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace The first cohort of Ukrainian troops has arrived in the UK to undergo specialist military training, with up to 10,000 service members expected to take part in the program in the coming months. […]

  • Energy crisis hitting US industrial complex – Bloomberg

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 9:39am EDT

    Soaring bills are forcing companies to scale back industrial operations Operational challenges arising from soaring energy bills have put the entire US industrial complex at risk of partial shutdown, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The country’s second-biggest aluminum mill, which accounts for 20% of the national supply, reportedly laid off 600 workers in late June after […]

  • Sri Lankan PM to step down amid economic meltdown

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 9:26am EDT

    Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders that he’ll resign immediately, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his palace Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders on Saturday that he is willing to step down and allow a new government to be formed. His decision came after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his residence before a mob […]

  • Sri Lankan PM to step down amid economic meltdown

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 9:14am EDT

    Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders that he’ll resign immediately, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his palace Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders on Saturday that he is willing to step down and allow a new government to be formed. His decision came after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his residence before a mob […]

  • Four injured in hospital stabbing spree

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 8:03am EDT

    A knife-wielding man attacked patients and doctors at Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital Four people sustained injuries as a knife-wielding man attacked patients and doctors at Shanghai’s renowned Ruijin Hospital on Saturday. Police reportedly shot and wounded the assailant after arriving at the scene. Officers have cordoned off the area, with footage circulating on social media showing […]

  • Snubbed president got tough on Zelensky in tense phone call, report claims

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 7:04am EDT

    Der Spiegel has claimed Frank-Walter Steinmeier demanded an explanation from Volodymyr Zelensky after his visit had been axed German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier pressed his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, for an explanation as to why his visit in mid-April had been canceled by Kiev at the last minute, Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine has claimed. In its […]

  • Global economy alarm issued

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 5:59am EDT

    Recession cannot be ruled out, the IMF warns The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, said on Wednesday that the outlook for the global economy had “darkened significantly” since April. She told Reuters that a global recession next year could not be ruled out, given the elevated risks. “It’s going to be […]

  • Decision reached on stuck Russian turbine – media

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 5:53am EDT

    Germany signals positive shift on Nord Stream 1 equipment that’s trapped in Canada due to sanctions Canada and Germany have reportedly come to an agreement on delivering a Siemens gas turbine that wasn’t sent back from Canada to the operator of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in time due to Ottawa’s sanctions on Moscow. A […]

  • Sri Lankan president flees residence – media

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 4:04am EDT

    Gotabaya Rajapaksa was reportedly escorted to safety as protesters tried to storm his compound in Colombo DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • Europe’s scramble for gas hurting poorer nations – media

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 2:18am EDT

    The EU is pricing developing countries out of the LNG market, the Wall Street Journal reports European countries are actively buying up liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative to Russian pipeline supplies, depriving poorer countries that cannot compete for the fuel due to high prices, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. According to […]

  • Poland alleges German pressure to adopt euro

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 1:24am EDT

    Berlin has been urging Warsaw to join the common currency, Poland’s regulator says Poland’s central bank governor Adam Glapinski on Friday said that Germany is pressuring his country to adopt the euro currency. According to Bloomberg, the regulator vowed to prevent this as long as he’s in charge of monetary policy. The publication said that […]

  • US state outlaws filming cops too close

    RT - Jul 9th 2022 1:01am EDT

    Arizona will now charge those who record officers from closer than 8 feet away Arizona has passed a law banning residents from filming police officers at close range, threatening misdemeanor charges for violators with a few exceptions. Republican Governor Doug Ducey signed the bill into law on Friday, after it was introduced earlier this year […]

  • ‘UFO whistleblowers’ offered protections

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 10:12pm EDT

    A GOP-backed amendment would offer ‘whistleblower-like’ safeguards for UFO leakers Legislation making its way through the US Congress will grant immunity to government employees who leak information about “unidentified aerial phenomena” – commonly known as UFOs – seeking to create a formal process for such disclosures.  Introduced earlier this month by Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin), […]

  • US general frets over Chinese weaponry

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 8:31pm EDT

    Beijing is acquiring weapons five times faster than the US and at a far lower cost, a Pentagon official has warned China is building its arsenal of new weapons five to six times faster than the US and at a small fraction of the cost, gaining a strategic advantage that Washington can’t afford to leave […]

  • Twitter vows to sue Elon Musk

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 6:59pm EDT

    After Elon Musk sent notice the $44 billion deal was off, Twitter said it would enforce it in court Twitter will sue in Delaware to enforce the $44 billion merger agreement, the social media company’s board chairman said on Friday, after Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced he was backing out, citing misleading information […]

  • Border guards punished for ‘whipping’ incident

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 6:48pm EDT

    US Border Patrol agents did not whip Haitian migrants, but will be suspended for “offensive language” US Customs and Border Patrol will punish several agents who sought to block migrants from illegally crossing from Mexico last fall, for “unprofessional or dangerous behavior” and “denigrating and offensive language,” the agency said on Friday. However, the nine-month […]

  • China scraps vax mandate after 2 days

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 6:06pm EDT

    Beijing has reversed course on what would have been the country’s first vaccine mandate following popular outrage Beijing has ditched a proposed vaccination mandate that would have limited access to its public places to jabbed residents only, the city announced on Thursday, citing public pushback. The Chinese capital had only announced the rule on Wednesday. […]

  • Musk cancels Twitter deal

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 5:33pm EDT

    Elon Musk has notified Twitter the $44 billion buyout is off, citing “false and misleading representations” DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • UK energy bills seen soaring

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 4:00pm EDT

    The average British household will be paying more than £3,300 a year to keep lights and heating on, a forecaster has predicted UK consumers will soon be paying an average of more than £3,300 annually in household energy costs, a 71% increase from the record-high utility rates they’re currently incurring, as wholesale natural gas prices […]

  • France urges monkeypox jab for sex workers

    RT - Jul 8th 2022 3:34pm EDT

    French health authorities are calling for ‘at-risk’ groups to vaccinate after cases of the disease rose 77% in a week France is urging gay and bisexual men, trans people with multiple sex partners, sex workers, and other ‘at-risk’ groups to get vaccinated against monkeypox even if they don’t think they’ve been exposed, health authority HAS […]