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  • Indonesia to ditch Visa and Mastercard

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 3:36am EDT

    Jakarta wants to reduce its dependence on foreign payment systems, citing sanctions on Russia The Bank of Indonesia is preparing to phase out Visa and Mastercard while introducing its own domestic payment system, Antara news agency reported on Monday, citing the regulator. Last week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo urged regional authorities to wean themselves away […]

  • Housing crisis

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 2:37am EDT

    Work from home has changed how workers live. What happens when these policies end and the cities are overpopulated, and there is no more room for workers now being called back into the office? Location and cost are making many choose smaller spaces, and the recent trend of minamalism has helped as well. On this […]

  • Swiss bank rescue threatens Western bond market – Bloomberg

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 2:32am EDT

    Credit Suisse was forced to write down billions worth of bonds as part of its merger with UBS The merger between Switzerland’s two largest lenders, the embattled Credit Suisse and UBS, could have a negative impact on the entire Western bond market, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing analysts. UBS agreed on Sunday to acquire its […]

  • Africa’s hunger from war

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 2:25am EDT

    Many African pundits say the instigator behind the Russia-Ukraine conflict is the United States. The wheat and grain crisis it precipitated in many parts of Africa is still being keenly felt. This week, the Africa Now team travels to Somalia, where 90% of wheat comes from these two countries. Experts warn that the escalation in food prices […]

  • Maxing out? Alan Freeman, Co-director of the Geopolitical Economic Research Group

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 2:24am EDT

    ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ has been the axiom of American political thinking, even before it helped Bill Clinton win the 1992 presidential election. The pursuit of money and profits, above everything else, has guided the nation’s development and global expansion since its founding, but with the dollar system now reaching its objective limits, what will […]

  • European country worried over Russian gas cutoff

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 1:28am EDT

    Moldova may lose Russian supplies due to problems with transit through Ukraine Moldova says that Russian energy giant Gazprom may completely halt gas supplies to the country “at a certain stage,” and the government is already considering such a scenario, Energy Minister Viktor Parlikov said on Monday. In an interview with Vocea Basarabiei TV channel, […]

  • Türkiye reveals cost of earthquake damage

    RT - Mar 21st 2023 1:16am EDT

    The EU has offered to help cover a small fraction of the reconstruction efforts following quakes that left more than 50,000 dead Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has estimated that devastating earthquakes which struck the region in February inflicted around $104 billion in damage in Türkiye alone, appealing for assistance from abroad while saying that […]

  • Biden to release Covid intelligence

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 10:34pm EDT

    A newly enacted law will still allow for redactions to keep some highly classified information under wraps US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that directs the federal government to declassify material related to the genesis of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the White House suggesting “potential links” between the virus and a high-security research […]

  • The AUKUS deal confirms Australia’s complete dependence on the US and the UK

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 6:24pm EDT

    Canberra is once again serving, and paying for, Washington and London’s regional ambitions Last week, amidst a great deal of pomp and ceremony at a San Diego, California naval base, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed off on the AUKUS submarine deal with the United States and the UK. Under this extraordinary arrangement, Australia agreed to […]

  • Top Republican breaks silence on Trump’s possible arrest

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 6:18pm EDT

    Ron DeSantis has blasted a “Soros DA” over the case while getting in an apparent dig at the former US president Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ripped the New York City prosecutor behind a possible criminal indictment against Donald Trump while sideswiping the former president with an apparent dig alluding to the “porn star hush […]

  • French government survives no-confidence votes

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 5:54pm EDT

    A pair of initiatives intended to derail a deeply unpopular pension reform scheme were defeated in the National Assembly Lawmakers in France’s National Assembly stifled two no-confidence motions on Monday, clearing the way for President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reforms to become law.  The first motion, filed by a centrist coalition with broad support on […]

  • Israeli minister says there’s ‘no such thing’ as Palestinians

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 5:25pm EDT

    Bezalel Smotrich has claimed the people is “an invention that is less than 100 years old” There’s no such thing as Palestinian history or culture, and no such thing as a Palestinian people, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has claimed. The minister, who is tasked with the administration of the occupied West Bank, made the […]

  • US shouldn’t cooperate with Putin arrest warrant – Bolton

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 5:10pm EDT

    The former national security advisor said he considered the International Criminal Court “fundamentally illegitimate” Former US national security advisor John Bolton has come out against the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to indict Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the court “fundamentally illegitimate.”  “I believe and have for many years [that] the International Criminal Court is […]

  • Jury reaches verdicts on US riot defendants

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 4:58pm EDT

    Four members of the Oath Keepers militia group have been found guilty of felonies for their roles in the 2021 Capitol breach Prosecutors in Washington have won felony convictions against four members of the Oath Keepers militia for their participation in the US Capitol riot, but jurors have been unable to reach a consensus on […]

  • Most Trump supporters think protest call is a January 6 ‘trap’ – poll

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 4:27pm EDT

    The former US president’s plea for followers to ‘protest, protest, protest’ his anticipated arrest will get them in trouble, they said Taking to the streets to protest the predicted arrest of former US president Donald Trump would be walking into a trap similar to the January 6, 2021 ‘Stop the Steal’ debacle, according to a […]

  • US announces more weapons for Ukraine

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 3:40pm EDT

    Washington will pull artillery shells and rockets from its own stockpiles to bolster Kiev’s military The US Department of Defense announced on Monday that it will send Ukraine another $350 million worth of military aid. The further supplies come as Ukraine reportedly gears up for a spring offensive, despite suffering heavy losses in Donbass. The […]

  • ‘No state is safe’ 20 years after Iraq invasion – Russian envoy to US

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 3:22pm EDT

    Washington learned nothing from the 2003 aggression, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has said Although the entire world has known for years that the invasion of Iraq was based on false pretenses and a violation of international law, the US continues to insist it was justified in the name of its global hegemony, the Russian ambassador to […]

  • US tech giant slashes more jobs

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 3:12pm EDT

    Amazon has confirmed new cost-cutting, saying an additional 9,000 workers will be let go after firing 18,000 employees in January America’s Big Tech bloodletting has reached a new round of victims, with online retailing behemoth Amazon revealing that it will cut an additional 9,000 jobs just two months after announcing that 18,000 slots would be […]

  • EU nations agree to jointly buy weaponry for Ukraine

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 1:58pm EDT

    Member states have pledged to send a combined 1 million artillery shells to Kiev within the next 12 months Eighteen EU nations have agreed to tap their artillery stockpiles and jointly purchase more shells so they can provide 1 million rounds to Ukraine over the next 12 months. The deal was finalized at a meeting […]

  • Asian leader says Putin warrant could spark nuclear war

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 1:08pm EDT

    The ICC action against the Russian president could lead to dire implications in Europe and elsewhere, Cambodian PM Hun Sen believes The issuance of an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC) could lead to nuclear war, as well as creating other implications globally, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen […]

  • Bill Gates wants global ‘fire department’ for pandemics

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 12:51pm EDT

    The former software tycoon has called for funding for the WHO’s Global Health Emergency Corps Preventing another pandemic like Covid-19 requires setting up a planetary response network of “firefighters,” led by the World Health Organization, billionaire Bill Gates has argued. He added that recognized experts and national public health officials should lead this effort. “We […]

  • Russia bans SWIFT

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 12:43pm EDT

    Banks have been ordered to use the country’s financial messaging systems for domestic transactions The Bank of Russia has forbidden Russian financial institutions to use the SWIFT messaging system for transactions inside the country, the regulator announced on Monday. Starting from October, Russian banks will be obliged to only use domestic services for transferring messages […]

  • The US shouldn’t be surprised Latin America is turning to Russian news sources

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 12:15pm EDT

    Washington keeps meddling in the affairs of ‘its hemisphere’ and deploying propaganda to paint its interventions as benevolent In his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Harold Pinter spent a good deal of his time detailing the crimes of the US in the world, but especially in Latin America. He spoke about how most people have […]

  • Swiss bank shares crater after merger

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 11:26am EDT

    A government rescue plan has failed to calm investors’ nerves The shares of Switzerland’s two largest investment banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, tumbled on Monday as their weekend merger failed to calm growing fears over the state of the global banking system. UBS shares were down 5% around 11:20 GMT, having regained some of their […]

  • What China means for the Russian economy

    RT - Mar 20th 2023 11:03am EDT

    Beijing has been a crucial economic partner for Moscow in the face of intensifying Western sanctions pressure Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day official visit to discuss strategic cooperation and other issues with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. RT looks at the state of economic relations between the two […]