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  • Vatican embassy shut down in Central American nation

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 10:37am EDT

    Nicaragua ordered the closure after Pope Francis compared its government to that of Nazi Germany The Vatican’s chargé d’affaires left Nicaragua on Friday, the Holy See said, following the closure of its embassy at the government’s request. Earlier this month, Pope Francis made harsh comments with respect to the Nicaraguan leadership over its treatment of […]

  • EU explosives shortage threatens Ukraine – FT

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 10:06am EDT

    The bloc is struggling to further support Kiev with arms due to a lack of raw materials, sources told the outlet The EU defense industry’s ability to provide Ukraine with military supplies has been hampered by a deficit of explosives, The Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing sources. Several European officials and arms manufacturers told […]

  • EU country imports cheap Russian veggies despite sanctions – media

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 10:03am EDT

    Trucks loaded with Russian cucumbers and tomatoes have been spotted in the Polish town of Bronisze, Berliner Zeitung reports Poland continues to import Russian vegetables despite wide-ranging EU sanctions against Moscow, Berliner Zeitung reported this week. According to the newspaper, dozens of trucks are constantly arriving at the wholesale market in the Polish town of […]

  • Potential buyer seeks government guarantees for Credit Suisse takeover – Reuters

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 8:33am EDT

    UBS reportedly wants the government to partly cover the acquisition of the failing lender Multinational investment bank UBS wants the Swiss government to cover about $6 billion of the costs if it agrees to buy Credit Suisse, a rival lender whose shares plummeted this week amid customer outflows and a loss of investors, Reuters reported […]

  • Coca-Cola sales strong in Russia despite ‘exit’ – media

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 7:49am EDT

    The beverage is finding its way into the sanctioned country through parallel imports, RBK reports Coca-Cola remains one of the top sellers among cola-flavored beverages in Russia, a year after the American company decided to quit the country’s market, business daily RBK reported this week. The iconic drink was the second-most-popular cola beverage among Russian […]

  • Germans warned of energy crisis next winter

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 6:36am EDT

    The era of cheap energy from Russia is over, the head of Germany’s utilities regulator has said Germany has managed to avoid an energy crisis this year, but there is a risk that the next heating season will be more difficult, Klaus Mueller, the head of Germany’s Federal Network Agency said in an interview with […]

  • North Korea fires fourth ‘warning shot’ in a week

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 5:25am EDT

    South Korea’s military says it detected the launch of a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday morning The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday morning, South Korea’s military reports. This is the fourth test in the space of just one week. Pyongyang claims that these shows of force are […]

  • Serbia and Kosovo closer to normalizing ties – Vucic

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 5:24am EDT

    The breakaway province has agreed to greater autonomy for its minority population, says the Serbian president Serbia and its breakaway province Kosovo have made headway in normalizing ties, reaching agreement on several crucial points, President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Saturday. He said Pristina had consented to the creation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (CSM) […]

  • Tomato and pork prices soar in Spain – media

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 5:14am EDT

    Buoyant demand from abroad is reportedly making the products less affordable domestically Spaniards are facing surging prices for tomatoes and pork amid burgeoning demand for the products from abroad and geopolitical tensions, the Financial Times reported this week, citing the billionaire owner of Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona. According to the businessman, who is ranked as […]

  • Washington seeks banking crisis advice from Warren Buffet – Bloomberg

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 3:53am EDT

    Talks reportedly touched on the ‘Oracle of Omaha’s’ possible investment in the banking sector Senior US officials have been in talks with billionaire investor Warren Buffet, discussing the unfolding banking crisis and possible ways out of it, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing sources within President Joe Biden’s administration. Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett […]

  • The realities & myths of self-driving vehicles

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 2:42am EDT

    On this episode of The Cost of Everything we take a closer look at how much of a reality fully autonomous self-driving vehicles are. Host Christy Ai spoke with professor Ram Pendyala about how much will it cost consumers and the economy to have autonomous vehicles in the streets and how long until autonomous driving can be […]

  • P1+none? Swaran Singh, professor of diplomacy and disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 2:35am EDT

    “The United Nations Security Council has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security” – so reads the description of the body on the UN website. But if you take a look at the Council’s attempts to resolve the major conflicts of the past two decades, you’ll find a litany of disagreements […]

  • Britons facing ‘disastrous decade’ – report

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 2:00am EDT

    Households will get poorer and pay more tax over the coming years, a think tank projects Real wages in the UK will not return to their 2008 level until 2026 despite an easing of inflation, the Resolution Foundation, an independent think tank, reported this week in its analysis of the new budget. According to the report, […]

  • Russia exit costs EU automaker almost $700 million

    RT - Mar 19th 2023 1:12am EDT

    Skoda is now in the final stages of talks over an asset sale, the company’s CEO says Czech carmaker Skoda Auto, a unit of Germany’s Volkswagen, is closing in on a deal to sell its assets and exit Russia, the company’s CEO Klaus Zellmer announced this week. Skoda has taken a hit of almost €700 […]

  • Indonesians urged to abandon Western payment systems

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 10:07pm EDT

    Russia sanctions show Visa and Mastercard could become a “problem,” President Joko Widodo warned The leader of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country has said that Indonesia must reduce its dependence on foreign payment systems to negate the risk of a potentially disastrous economic fallout should the country ever come into crosshairs of Western sanctions. Addressing […]

  • Americans view Iraq war as mistake – poll

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 7:34pm EDT

    Twenty years after the invasion, public opinion about the war has reversed and most believe it made the US less safe Two decades after the US invaded Iraq, the majority of Americans realize the war was a mistake, according to an Axios/Ipsos poll released this week. While two-thirds of Americans approved of military action in […]

  • Arrest would deliver Trump 2024 election in ‘landslide’ – Musk

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 5:14pm EDT

    The former US president has predicted he will be detained on Tuesday on a charge of falsifying business records If former US President Donald Trump is arrested next week, he will win the 2024 election in a “landslide victory,” Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday in response to a Fox News clip discussing the […]

  • Fatal earthquake hits Ecuador

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 4:09pm EDT

    The magnitude 6.7 quake killed at least four people and caused widespread damage A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Ecuador on Saturday, damaging roads, leveling buildings, and killing at least four people. The quake struck the coastal Guyas region at around noon, the US Geological Survey reported. Its epicenter was located roughly 80km (50 miles) south […]

  • Tony Blair defends Iraq war

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 3:41pm EDT

    The former British PM has defended his decision to invade as he was trying to “introduce democracy” Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has claimed that the US-led invasion of Iraq was more justified than Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine, despite all of his pre-war justifications since being proven false. Speaking to Germany’s DPA […]

  • Donald Trump returns to Facebook

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 3:41pm EDT

    “I’m back,” the former US president said after being suspended for two years Former US president Donald Trump returned to Facebook on Friday, writing “I’M BACK!” on his reinstated page. He was banned from the social network in 2021 following the January 6 Capitol riots in Washington. Aside from the short announcement of his return, he […]

  • The UK’s new defense review reveals globe-spanning ambition, but little to back it up

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 3:18pm EDT

    British military planners are waking up to the new multipolar world, but still cling to imperialist wishful thinking In March 2021, the UK published a “comprehensive articulation” of London’s “national security and international policy” for decades to come, which would “[shape] the open international order of the future,” known as the ‘Integrated Review’. Its vision […]

  • France bans protests outside parliament

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 2:05pm EDT

    The Macron government’s unilateral and controversial decision to raise the retirement age led to massive demonstrations French police have banned all gatherings in two protest hotspots across from the parliament in Paris, citing “serious risks of disturbances to public order” in a statement issued on Saturday.   The “public thoroughfare in Place de la Concorde […]

  • Trump predicts arrest for Stormy Daniels payment

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 12:16pm EDT

    The former US president called on his followers to “protest, take our nation back” if he is arrested on Tuesday Former US President Donald Trump warned that he will be “arrested on Tuesday” in an all-caps post on the social media platform Truth Social on Saturday, crediting “illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political […]

  • UK funds lunar nuclear reactor

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 11:30am EDT

    Rolls-Royce aims to have a working reactor ready to go to the Moon by 2029 The British government has commissioned Rolls-Royce to develop a nuclear reactor that could one day power a base on the Moon. However, the US-led mission to house humans on the Moon has thus far been plagued with delays and cost […]

  • Russia responds to Denmark’s Nord Stream probe refusal

    RT - Mar 18th 2023 11:13am EDT

    Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has suggested that Copenhagen is doing Washington’s bidding Denmark has never been interested in finding the real culprits behind the explosions that destroyed Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines last September, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed. She noted that Copenhagen had dragged its feet on granting permission for the second […]