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  • Plurality of Americans agree with Trump indictment – poll

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 12:04pm EDT

    However, 47% of those polled also believe the charges filed against the former president are politically motivated Nearly half of Americans – 45% – believe former US President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime following his indictment last week on charges relating to his alleged payment of hush money to porn star Stormy […]

  • Iran warns off US spy plane – media

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 11:29am EDT

    The electronic surveillance aircraft was turned back after it violated Iranian airspace, state media reported The Iranian navy turned back an American surveillance plane after it entered the country’s airspace on Sunday, the IRNA news agency reported. Iran has previously shot down American spy aircraft. A US EP-3E reconnaissance plane was identified by the Iranian […]

  • Tornado death toll rises in US

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 10:47am EDT

    At least 26 people have died across eight American states, authorities have reported  A devastating series of tornadoes that swept through the Midwestern, Southern, and Northeastern US has claimed the lives of at least 26 people and injured dozens more, with hundreds of thousands hit by power outages, according to local officials. An estimated 60 […]

  • Eurozone core inflation hits record high

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 10:29am EDT

    Food, tobacco and alcoholic drinks were 15.4% more expensive in March than a year earlier The Eurozone’s core inflation accelerated in March to a new all-time high of 5.7% from 5.6% recorded last month, preliminary figures from EU’s statistical agency Eurostat showed on Friday. The reading excludes food, tobacco and alcoholic drinks in the countries […]

  • Nashville school shooting: A violent new phase of America’s victimhood culture is only going to get uglier

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 10:02am EDT

    Constant hyping of make-believe demons and fake fears has spawned loose cannons, perhaps including a transgender school shooter Police say Audrey Hale had “some resentment” about having been made to attend a Christian elementary school as a youngster growing up in Tennessee, which may have been the reason she returned nearly two decades later to […]

  • EU nation increases sales of wine to Russia

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 8:53am EDT

    Italian winegrowers outpaced Spain and Georgia to become the country’s top supplier in 2022 Exports of wine from Italy to Russia saw a year-on-year increase of 16% in 2022, surging to a record high of €172 million ($187 million) in monetary terms, the Italian association of agricultural producers, Coldiretti, announced on Saturday. Sparkling wines accounted […]

  • ‘High activity’ detected at major North Korean nuclear site – US think tank

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 8:49am EDT

    Pyongyang could soon commission a new Experimental Light Water Reactor, experts have said North Korea may be about to launch a new nuclear reactor amid heightened tensions in the region and Pyongyang’s push to ramp up its arsenal of atomic weapons, a US-based think tank reported on Saturday, citing data gathered by commercial satellites. According […]

  • WATCH: Lightning strikes One World Trade Center in New York

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 8:40am EDT

    Warnings of powerful thunderstorms had been issued for the area A large lightning bolt struck the spire of the One World Trade Center building in New York City on Saturday night, illuminating the sky over the tallest building in the Western hemisphere. The National Weather Service had warned about powerful thunderstorms and severe winds in […]

  • EU country’s ruling party fights ‘anglomania’

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 7:02am EDT

    The Italian government is considering a ban on the use of foreign words in official communications A group of legislators from the ruling Brothers of Italy party has proposed banning the use of foreign words and terms in public administration, schools, and universities. The bill was introduced on Friday by Fabio Rampelli, the vice president […]

  • Eastern Europe ‘drowning’ in Ukrainian grain – Le Figaro

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 6:28am EDT

    Cheap crops from Ukraine never went to Africa, as Brussels promised, say farmers form Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria Anger is mounting across Eastern Europe as farmers in the region protest a glut of cheap grain from Ukraine threatening their businesses, Le Figaro reported earlier this week. Struggling to sell their crops, producers in Poland, Romania, […]

  • Newspaper reveals how CIA spied on Assange

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 4:41am EDT

    A private contractor installed microphones inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where the WikiLeaks co-founder resided, El Pais claims The CIA used private Spanish security company UC Global to secretly install microphones inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to monitor WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, El Pais reported on Wednesday, citing the company’s internal communications. UC […]

  • Damascus and Cairo close to restoring ties – WSJ

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 4:40am EDT

    Syrian President Bashar Assad could soon meet with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, sources say Syria and Egypt are in advanced talks to restore diplomatic relations that were severed after the outbreak of the conflict in Syria back in 2011, informed sources have told the Wall Street Journal. A summit is scheduled between Syrian […]

  • Russian city passes London and New York in elite real estate

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 4:15am EDT

    Sochi has become one of the three most expensive markets for top-end properties in the world, according to the NF Group consultancy Russia’s largest resort city, Sochi, has been shortlisted among the world’s three cities with the most expensive luxury housing, leaving New York and London behind. That’s according to a report released on Friday […]

  • Attempts to isolate Russia have failed – EU member

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 3:38am EDT

    Moscow has assumed the rotating presidency in the UN Security Council Western countries have failed in their efforts to make Russia a pariah on the global stage, as the country has assumed the rotating presidency in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski said on Saturday. Speaking to Telewizja Republika […]

  • How EU and US leaders killed Russia’s trust – and Europeans’ hope for cheap energy with it

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 2:21am EDT

    The West destroyed over a half-century of cooperation in the energy sector with no new affordable prospects in sight European energy costs are soaring, driving inflation to heights not seen in nearly 50 years and strangling EU consumers and businesses alike. Unprecedented sanctions placed on Russia, Europe’s premier provider of affordable energy, coupled with the […]

  • The cost of world population

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 2:03am EDT

    On this episode of The Cost of Everything, we take a closer look at the hotly debated topic of population growth. There are some who claim the world’s ecology is collapsing due to the strains of supporting over 8 billion people. Many point out, however, that lowered fertility rates put many countries at risk of extinction. […]

  • Trauma of reason? Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame

    RT - Apr 2nd 2023 2:02am EDT

    As above so below – this principle, central to many ancient belief systems and almost forgotten in this day and age – postulates that social conflicts will inevitably find their reflection in our individual souls and vice versa, and our daily joys and struggles invariably shape the societies we live in. With that in mind […]

  • US allows migrants to pick their gender

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 11:13pm EDT

    The Department of Homeland Security will no longer require any papers to match the self-identified gender The US Citizenship and Immigration Services marked the Transgender Day of Visibility with an announcement that will begin accepting “self-identified gender markers” from foreign individuals who seek legal immigration services and benefits, without requesting any supporting documents. While the […]

  • Syria suffers third night of ‘Israeli strikes’ – media

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 7:07pm EDT

    The latest air raid reportedly targeted the central Homs province, following strikes on Damascus Syria’s air defenses have been activated in response to a wave of “Israeli aggression” for the third time in four days, the state Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Sunday. The attack came from the Lebanese airspace at around 00:35am local […]

  • US troops should leave Germany – MP

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 5:12pm EDT

    America’s policies create the impression that Washington does not need allies, only vassals, German MP Sevim Dagdelen said Berlin must break with the existing “relationship of extreme subservience” to America and its foreign policies “marked by breaches of international law,” Sevim Dagdelen, the deputy head of the Left Party’s faction in the Bundestag, said on […]

  • German defense minister warns of ‘worst case’ US elections scenario

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 4:12pm EDT

    Washington could ‘distance itself’ from Europe and the Ukrainian conflict in the wake of the 2024 elections, Boris Pistorius said European NATO members may face big trouble in continuing to support Kiev in its conflict with Russia after the US elections in 2024, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has warned. Washington’s aid to Ukraine is […]

  • Massive crowds protest in Tel Aviv

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 4:01pm EDT

    The demonstration took place despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspending his controversial reforms Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrap a planned judicial overhaul. The embattled PM has already suspended the reforms and vowed to negotiate with the opposition, but protesters view his […]

  • Erdogan rubber-stamps Nordic nation’s NATO membership

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 3:17pm EDT

    Finland is to become the 31st member of the US-led military alliance Finland is set to become the 31st member of NATO after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the decision of his parliament to ratify the Nordic country’s passage into the US-led intergovernmental military alliance. Erdogan’s decision was confirmed in a document posted to […]

  • US drag-show legislation violates First Amendment – judge

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 1:27pm EDT

    District Judge Thomas Parker issued a temporary injunction, hours before the law was due to come into effect A federal judge in Tennessee has issued a temporary injunction delaying legislation due to come into effect on Saturday, which would prevent drag shows from taking place in public or where children might be present. In his […]

  • Another grain-trading giant to exit Russia – Bloomberg

    RT - Apr 1st 2023 1:25pm EDT

    The move is expected to give domestic companies more control over the nation’s vast food resources, the agency claims Chicago-based Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) has joined the latest exodus of commodities traders opting to pull out from Russia, the world’s top wheat exporter, Bloomberg reports on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is reportedly reviewing […]