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  • Trump under arrest in New York

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 1:38pm EDT

    The former US president has entered a Manhattan courthouse to face what he calls “politically motivated” charges Former US President Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Tuesday afternoon, to be placed under arrest and face a series of charges his attorneys have denounced as a politically motivated “witch hunt” by the […]

  • NGO decries last-minute ban on visiting Assange in prison 

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 1:04pm EDT

    Reporters Without Borders were turned away for “spurious reasons,” its director has claimed Two senior members of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have been barred from seeing WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange at a London prison despite having prior approval to visit him, the organization has claimed.   In a statement on Tuesday, RSF said Secretary General Christophe […]

  • EU’s largest party raided by cops

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 12:32pm EDT

    Officers stormed the headquarters of the center-right European People’s Party in Brussels Belgian and German police officers raided the headquarters of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Brussels on Tuesday over an ongoing corruption inquiry in Germany, the party said in a statement. The search “is connected to an ongoing inquiry in Thuringia, Germany,” the […]

  • US tech edge ‘totally gone’ in some areas – Australian intel chief

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 12:29pm EDT

    If Washington hopes to regain its edge over China, it must pool resources with the UK and Australia, Andrew Shearer has said The US is losing ground to China on technological innovation and must pool its resources with the UK and Australia if it hopes to regain dominance in the region and globally, the director […]

  • German mortgage lending collapses

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 12:19pm EDT

    February’s 54% year-on-year decline is the worst on record, according to data published by a consultancy The volume of new homeowner’s loans in Germany more than halved in February compared to the same month last year, according to data by Barkow Consulting.  The consultancy’s latest report shows mortgage lending in the Eurozone’s biggest economy nosedived […]

  • EU leader declares support for Trump

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 11:30am EDT

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged the embattled ex-president to “keep on fighting” as he prepares to face trial in New York Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took to Twitter on Monday to show his support for former US President Donald Trump, who will appear in court in New York on Tuesday. “We are with […]

  • Paris votes to ban two-wheeled ‘nuisance’

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 11:29am EDT

    Residents of the French capital have voted overwhelmingly to rid the streets of rental e-scooters Nine out of ten Parisians have voted in favor of banning rental electric scooters from the city’s streets. Once seen as a pioneering form of green transport, the scooters rapidly became a scourge as users flouted traffic laws and caused […]

  • Sanctions kick-started Russian agricultural boom – Putin

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 11:20am EDT

    Restrictions imposed after the reunification with Crimea have become a catalyst for domestic farming, according to the president Russia’s agricultural sector has benefited from Western sanctions, President Vladimir Putin stated on Tuesday during a meeting with the State Council. The sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 have become a catalyst for the development of domestic […]

  • Most Russians working abroad want to return home – Forbes

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 11:00am EDT

    Over half of the job seekers reportedly see better career opportunities at home The majority of Russians working abroad are eager to return to the country, Forbes reported on Tuesday, citing a survey by research company Yakov & Partners and staffing agency HeadHunter. According to the findings, 62% of respondents are ready to return to […]

  • Putin approves payment to Shell over Russia exit – Kommersant

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 10:22am EDT

    The British energy company walked away from the Sakhalin-2 LNG project last year Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a request by Novatek to transfer 94.8 billion rubles ($1.21 billion) to Shell for its stake in the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, business daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. […]

  • Finland officially joins NATO

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 9:00am EDT

    The announcement comes after the Turkish parliament approved Helsinki’s bid Finland has officially become the 31st member state of NATO. Helsinki’s accession was made possible after the Turkish parliament approved the step last Thursday, making it the last country to ratify the expansion of the US-led military bloc. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto signed the […]

  • French tycoon leapfrogs Musk on Forbes list

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 9:00am EDT

    The CEO of LVMH, Bernard Arnault, has topped the 2023 World’s Billionaires ranking Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man, according to Forbes. The top spot on the magazine’s 2023 World’s Billionaires list, published on Tuesday, belongs to French luxury goods tycoon Bernard Arnault. The 74-year-old founder and CEO of LVMH Group is […]

  • Swiss bank faces shareholder wrath

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 8:37am EDT

    The boss of Credit Suisse has said he is ‘truly sorry’ about the collapse of the 167-year-old firm Credit Suisse Chairman Axel Lehmann apologized to shareholders on Tuesday for failing to contain the crisis which led to the lender’s downfall. The ailing Swiss banking giant was taken over by rival UBS last month. In an […]

  • German vice chancellor apologizes to Zelensky

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 7:29am EDT

    Robert Habeck has expressed regret for Berlin’s apparent failure to provide weapons to Kiev sooner Germany should have delivered weapons to Ukraine much earlier, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has claimed. Berlin adopted a more cautious approach than some of its NATO allies during the initial months of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, before eventually […]

  • German insurers renew Nord Stream coverage – Reuters

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 6:47am EDT

    The move suggests that restoring the pipeline has not been ruled out, sources say Two major German insurance companies have renewed coverage of the damaged Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing sources. The pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea and is capable of carrying 55 billion cubic meters of gas […]

  • Charges against Trump ‘bumped up’ – media

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 5:48am EDT

    More than 30 counts in the indictment have been classified as potential felonies, Yahoo News reports Former US President Donald Trump is facing a total of 34 criminal charges over his alleged role in paying hush money to an adult film actress, Yahoo News reported on Tuesday. According to a source familiar with the matter […]

  • NATO seeking to quell Ukrainian ‘irritation’ – FT

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 5:30am EDT

    Extra funds are intended to compensate for the lack of an accession plan, diplomats have told the newspaper NATO members could offer Ukraine an additional €250 million ($273 million) a year in an effort to quell discontent about the lack of a specific timeframe for it to join the US-led military bloc, the Financial Times […]

  • Richard Branson’s rocket firm files for bankruptcy

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 5:30am EDT

    Virgin Orbit failed to secure the funding it needed to recover from the failure of its last mission Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings, a California-based satellite launch company and a subsidiary of his Virgin Group, announced on Tuesday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. According to CEO Dan Hart, […]

  • Sweden’s housing crisis deepens – Bloomberg

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 5:00am EDT

    The Nordic country’s property market is among the worst-hit globally, the outlet says Swedish home prices continued to slide in March as stubborn inflation and surging borrowing costs extend a housing market crunch in the country. Residential property prices in the largest Nordic economy declined by 0.8% last month, data from the state-owned mortgage lender […]

  • One dead and dozens injured in passenger train crash

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 4:24am EDT

    Dutch officials have suggested a construction crane may have caused the accident An overnight train crash in the Netherlands has claimed at least one life and left dozens of people injured, some of them seriously, local officials and media have said. The incident happened on Tuesday at around 3:25am (01:25 GMT) local time, as the […]

  • The death of tech

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 2:25am EDT

    Many big tech companies are laying people off. Why? They say the next big recession is coming. Elon Musk is laying people off because of the plethora of TikTok videos showing Gen Z employees not working. Facebook is fighting legal battles. Amazon might have bit off more than it can chew. Are tech companies the […]

  • Russia-Africa reset

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 2:25am EDT

    Russian President Vladimir Putin offers to send free grain shipments to Africa after writing off more than $20 billion in debt. While decades of Western assistance have amounted to nothing but poverty and crippling debt, the Russia-Africa reset is welcomed as a real commitment to helping the continent address its problems. This week, the Africa Now team […]

  • To use and be used? Hasan Unal, professor of political science & international relations at Maltepe University

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 2:24am EDT

    Whenever the Russians discuss their historical and contemporary relations with Türkiye, the suggestion of keeping your friends close and enemies even closer almost invariably makes its way into the discussion. Moscow and Ankara have indeed been quite sophisticated in managing both their grievances and their mutual interests. Can this approach make the world, if not […]

  • Germany to boost oil imports through Russia

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 2:00am EDT

    Kazakhstan will increase crude supplies via the Druzhba pipeline, a state operator has said Kazakhstan plans to increase the supply of oil to Germany via Russia’s Druzhba pipeline to 100,000 tons this month, the Central Asian country’s state pipeline operator, Kaztransoil, announced on Friday. According to the company, it has thus far successfully delivered two […]

  • US House speaker to meet with Taiwan’s leader

    RT - Apr 4th 2023 1:22am EDT

    Beijing condemned the upcoming meeting as a “disastrous” mistake and vowed to retaliate US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen in California later this week, his office said in a statement. China has repeatedly urged against the sit-down, saying it would take tough countermeasures in response.  McCarthy confirmed the meeting […]