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  • German city named ‘sex capital of the world’

    RT - May 21st 2023 10:00am EDT

    Cologne is a gay mecca where “sex is the new religion,” Lust Magazine claims Cologne has been named the world’s most sexually liberated city, with the city’s panoply of gay bars and LGBT events bumping it to the top of a list compiled by a German magazine.  “Cologne is world famous for its carnival and […]

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  • Russian investors are looking to Cuba, deputy PM says

    RT - May 21st 2023 9:33am EDT

    The trend could boost the Latin American island nation’s economy, according to Moscow Russian firms are considering investing in new hotel infrastructure in Cuba, which would further strengthen the growing economic cooperation between the two countries, according to the Russian Deputy Prime Minister. Dmitry Chernyshenko told reporters on Friday that Russia plans to increase the number of […]

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  • Use of euro in global payments shrinking – Bloomberg

    RT - May 21st 2023 8:30am EDT

    SWIFT cross-border transactions in the single currency have nosedived to three-year lows The use of the euro for international settlements declined to its lowest level in three years last month, Bloomberg reported this week, citing data from SWIFT. Statistics from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications reportedly showed that the proportion of cross-border transactions […]

  • Trump’s victory would be ‘the end of Ukraine’ – Clinton

    RT - May 21st 2023 8:10am EDT

    The former presidential candidate also predicted that the ex-president will pull the US out of NATO if re-elected If ex-US President Donald Trump is re-elected in 2024, it would be the downfall of both Ukraine and democracy in America, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned on Saturday. Speaking to the Financial Times, Clinton, who […]

  • Reasons for recent surge in Russian energy exports to Asia revealed

    RT - May 21st 2023 7:32am EDT

    A heat wave in the region is straining power grids and spurring demand for thermal coal and fuel oil, Bloomberg reports Asian imports of Russian energy used for electricity generation have surged in recent weeks due to high demand amid unseasonably warm weather, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing ship-tracking data from Kpler. According to the […]

  • Russians encouraged to ditch dollar for gold

    RT - May 21st 2023 6:41am EDT

    The government had previously scrapped a tax on bullion purchases Gold ingots of up to 20 grams may now be purchased on the Moscow Mint website, the Goznak Joint Stock Company, which operates the mint, announced on Wednesday. The move is part of a broader agenda to encourage Russians to shift away from US dollar […]

  • China replaces Japan as world’s top car exporter – media

    RT - May 21st 2023 4:36am EDT

    The country’s sales in the first quarter jumped by nearly 60% year-on-year, according to Nikkei China became the world’s largest car exporter in the first quarter of 2023, Nikkei news outlet reported this week, citing data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. According to the report, Chinese car exports in January-March soared by 58% […]

  • Germany pours cold water on fighter jets for Ukraine

    RT - May 21st 2023 3:35am EDT

    Berlin does not have any F-16s for Kiev, and the pilot training program is “a long-term project,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said Ukraine should not expect F-16 fighter jet deliveries from the West in the near future, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, while expressing support for a plan to train pilots to fly […]

  • Seized ‘Russian’ superyacht costs Antigua a fortune – Bloomberg

    RT - May 21st 2023 3:01am EDT

    The luxury vessel allegedly owned by a fertilizer tycoon has been piling up huge bills, the outlet reported The sanctioned superyacht Alfa Nero has racked up vast unpaid bills since being moored in Antigua’s Falmouth Harbor last April, Bloomberg reported this week. It reportedly costs tens of thousands of dollars per month just to keep […]

  • At what cost?: The adderall shortage

    RT - May 21st 2023 2:28am EDT

    On this episode of The Cost of Everything we take a closer look at the current shortage of the prescription medication Adderall and others like it. Is there too much Adderall being prescribed, or do we just not have enough? Host Christy Ai discusses with clinical psychologist and specialist Dr. Henry Koch the reasons behind the shortage […]

  • Winning in losing? Ilter Turan, professor emeritus of political science, Istanbul Bilgi University

    RT - May 21st 2023 2:27am EDT

    An old Turkish saying posits that what a man suffers is the punishment of his tongue. This may never have been truer about Turkish politics, in which the firebrand rhetoric of President Erdogan electrifies half of the electoral base, repels the other, and encourages his opponents to do the same. With the second round of […]

  • Global debt balloons to record highs

    RT - May 21st 2023 1:35am EDT

    It’s now $45 trillion higher than its pre-pandemic level and is expected to continue growing rapidly, a top trade body has warned The global debt pile increased by $8.3 trillion in the first quarter of the year to a near-record high of $305 trillion amid an aggressive tightening of monetary policy by central banks, the […]

  • Russia reverses tax-hike plan for workers abroad

    RT - May 21st 2023 1:30am EDT

    Personal income tax for employees who have left the country will remain at 13%, a deputy minister has announced The tax rate for Russian citizens who work outside the country will remain unchanged regardless of their tax residency status, the Finance Ministry announced on Thursday. Personal income tax for employees who have left Russia and […]

  • France investigates posters likening Macron to Hitler

    RT - May 20th 2023 11:53pm EDT

    The offenders will be punished for insulting the president, officials said The authorities of the French city of Avignon have opened an investigation after posters appeared on the streets comparing President Emmanuel Macron to Adolf Hitler, AFP reported, citing the office of the city’s public prosecutor Florence Galtier. According to officials, the offenders would face […]

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  • China questions ‘credibility’ of G7 members

    RT - May 20th 2023 10:02pm EDT

    Beijing has accused the US-led bloc of trying to impose its will on others The international community will not fall in line with the pro-Western rules pushed by the G7 and not allow the US-led group to dominate world affairs, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.  “China will never accept the […]

  • Drug dealer released by Obama charged with attempted murder

    RT - May 20th 2023 7:03pm EDT

    Alton Mills’ life sentence was commuted by then-president Barack Obama in 2016 after 20 years behind bars Convicted crack dealer Alton Mills, who had his life sentence commuted by former US president Barack Obama in 2016, was arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder on Tuesday, according to Illinois State Police.  Mills allegedly […]

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  • Republican donor pushes Tucker Carlson for president

    RT - May 20th 2023 5:37pm EDT

    The Draft Tucker PAC launched its first campaign ad urging the party to pick the news anchor, who doesn’t want the job A political action campaign calling itself Draft Tucker PAC released a campaign ad on Thursday urging the Republican Party to pick former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson as its candidate for President of […]

  • UN warns against splitting the world ‘in two’

    RT - May 20th 2023 4:32pm EDT

    Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a detente between the West and China UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the G7 nations to refrain from dividing the world into Cold War-style blocs aligned with either the US or China. The Western leaders, meanwhile, made Russia and China the focus of a joint statement on nuclear […]

  • Poland wants Zelensky to apologize for WW2 Ukrainian Nazi massacre

    RT - May 20th 2023 1:09pm EDT

    Kiev should take “more responsibility” for the nation’s past atrocities, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman has said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky should assume more responsibility for his nation when it comes to the Volyn massacre, a mass murder committed by Ukrainian nationalists against ethnic Poles during WWII, a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry, Lukasz […]

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  • FBI violated Jan 6 and George Floyd protesters’ rights – court

    RT - May 20th 2023 12:56pm EDT

    The Biden administration is filing for renewal of secretive spying powers it refuses to tell the American public about The FBI repeatedly abused its search powers to query the names of over ten thousand Americans in a database of raw intelligence data, used to confirm suspicions of foreign ties, according to an opinion from the […]

  • US and Israeli envoys clash over Soros

    RT - May 20th 2023 11:49am EDT

    Washington thinks criticizing the financier is anti-Semitic, while the Israeli government thinks supporting him is anti-Semitic The US and Israeli anti-Semitism envoys have taken opposing positions on whether supporters or critics of Jewish financier George Soros is anti-Semitic. The argument kicked off when Twitter CEO Elon Musk compared Soros to a cartoon supervillain. In a […]

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  • China announces major gold discovery

    RT - May 20th 2023 10:43am EDT

    The economic value of the country’s largest single deposit of the precious metal is estimated at almost $28.5 billion Chinese state-run gold producer Shandong Gold Mining announced on Friday that its controlling shareholder had discovered an additional 200 tons of gold resources at the Xiling gold mine in Laizhou in Shandong Province in eastern China. […]

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  • Investor failed to get Russian visa to attend court hearing – lawyer

    RT - May 20th 2023 8:55am EDT

    Michael Calvey had received a five-and-a-half-year suspended sentence US private-equity investor Michael Calvey could not appear at a Moscow court hearing regarding his appeal of a fraud conviction, his lawyer, Larisa Kashtanova, told Interfax on Friday. Calvey’s French associate, Philippe Delpal, also failed to appear in court. His lawyer said the businessman had planned to […]

  • Cost of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral revealed

    RT - May 20th 2023 8:09am EDT

    The UK spent over $200 million to bid a final farewell to its longest-serving monarch, according to the Treasury The British government spent £162 million ($204 million) on Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and related events, the Treasury revealed this week. The monarch’s death on September 8 was followed by ten days of national mourning, which […]

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  • Russia-Saudi agri-trade jumps

    RT - May 20th 2023 6:50am EDT

    The two countries aim to boost annual turnover to $5 billion The volume of mutual trade in agricultural and food products between Russia and Saudi Arabia doubled between January and April, according to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture. The statement was made following a meeting of the ministry’s head, Dmitry Patrushev, with the governor of […]