Over a year into the pandemic, the official North Korean coronavirus tally remains at the zero mark, according to its latest situation report to the World Health Organization (WHO). Read Full Article at RT.com

The European Commission has brought a second legal case against AstraZeneca in the ongoing dispute over the supply of lifesaving Covid-19 jabs. Those familiar with the matter describe the new case as procedural. Read Full Article at RT....

Florida prosecutors and law enforcement have been cleared of wrongdoing in their handling of Jeffrey Epstein's case. The infamous sex offender did not use his wealth or connections to secure a lenient sentence, investigators said. Read ...

Commodity traders have booked at least six tankers – provisionally – to start shipping gasoline from Europe to the US in the wake of the outage of the Colonial Pipeline network, Reuters reports, citing data from Refinitiv. Read Ful...

Two German MPs flew to Moscow to attend the Victory Day parade, and one of them took the opportunity to get the Sputnik V vaccine. Speaking to RT, he lamented that political games have delayed the EU’s approval of the jab. Read Full A...

At least nine people have died, with 16 injured, during a shooting at a school in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, on Tuesday morning. The alleged perpetrator survived the incident and has been detained by police. Read F...

Despite fears for his fighting future, Billy Joe Saunders has pledged to return after making a first public statement since his stoppage defeat to pound-for-pound king Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in Texas last weekend. Read Full Article a...

A man in Texas was apprehended after a massive Bengal tiger – apparently his – got loose in a residential neighborhood in Houston, sending residents into panic. While the man was arrested, the big cat remains on the lam. Read Full A...

The US FDA has extended emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to children as young as 12, saying that, despite low case and death rates in the age group, potential benefits outweigh any known risks. Read Fu...

The Israeli military has conducted dozens of deadly strikes across Gaza, after Hamas launched a barrage of rockets, itself accusing Israeli authorities of violently suppressing Palestinian worshipers on a major night of Ramadan. Read Fu...

Michel Fourniret has died in a Paris prison hospital after experiencing respiratory problems, the French authorities confirmed. He confessed to killing 11 young women between 1987 and 2003, many in partnership with his wife. Read Full A...

Susan Hennessey, a former Obama-Biden administration lawyer who turned to promoting the Russiagate conspiracy theory during Donald Trump’s presidential term, has finally found her landing spot on President Joe Biden’s team. Read Ful...

Piling onto pressure from Amazon, Netflix and social justice activists, the network NBC said it won’t televise next year’s Golden Globe Awards, citing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) slow pace of promised reforms....

The World Health Organization has classified the strain of coronavirus currently devastating India as a global “variant of concern.” The variant is thought to be more transmissible, and could be more resistant to vaccines. Read Full...

James Craig, chief of the Detroit police, has announced his retirement after nearly 8 years of fighting crime in one of America's most dangerous cities, and his next battle may be to oust Gretchen Whitmer as Michigan's governor. Read Fu...

A US Coast Guard ship fired warning shots in the course of a close encounter with vessels from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran, a Pentagon spokesperson has said. Read Full Article a...

Scammers on Amazon are using a complex system to obtain fake 5-star reviews for their products, avoiding detection by using different forms of payment so the purchase seems as normal as any other, a watchdog site has found. Read Full Ar...

A cyberattack that crippled the US fuel supply wasn’t the work of Russia, President Joe Biden said. Confusingly, Biden then said that Russia bears “some responsibility” for the attack. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that football fans will be able to attend games again from next week onwards, with anything up to 10,000 home supporters allowed to watch their teams. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ahead his upcoming UFC title fight against Charles Oliveira in what will be just his second fight for the promotion, Michael Chandler is forecasting a war with the winner of the rematch between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirer. Read Ful...

The European Commission will take further legal action against AstraZeneca over delayed shipments of its Covid-19 jabs earlier this year, a spokesperson for the EU’s executive branch has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Daniel Dubois, who was questioned by the boxing world for taking a knee after a similar injury, has suggested that Billy Joe Saunders might have been taught a 'life lesson' following his broken orbital bone against Canelo Alvarez. Read ...

Shelbourne FC say they will "deal with the matter promptly, properly and fairly" after footage emerged of a series of disturbing incidents at a Dublin train station. Read Full Article at RT.com

Smoke rose above Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as a tree outside the Al Aqsa Mosque went up in flames on Monday. Meanwhile, Israeli police used flash-bangs to disperse a crowd of Palestinian worshippers on a major night of Ramadan. Read Fu...

Twenty Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes, including nine children, Gaza's Ministry of Health has said, after rockets fired from the territory towards Jerusalem were reportedly met with Israeli counterstrikes. Read Ful...

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has tested positive for Covid-19, despite having received a vaccination. Seehofer previously turned down AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com

For the second time in two weeks, a Central Intelligence Agency recruitment ad with a feel-good story about “inclusion” and “identity” has been criticized for virtue-signaling ‘wokeness’ to paint over its less wholesome acti...

The EU’s Commissioner for Home Affairs has called on Turkey to “deliver” on the migrant deal agreed with Ankara after meeting the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees to discuss how to manage the situation across the bloc. Read F...

Wanda Nara, wife and agent of Paris Saint-Germain star Mauro Icardi, has accused Instagram of censorship after a steamy photograph of the model was removed for apparently violating community rules. Read Full Article at RT.com

A hacking group suspected of shutting down one of the US’ main fuel pipelines in a ransomware attack on Friday has said its goal is to make money, not to create problems for society. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian figure skating stunner Elizaveta Tuktamysheva – dubbed the hottest star on ice by her fans – has showed off her toned figure on a Maldives beach as she enjoyed a well-earned post-season break. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

As the country emerges from its third partial lockdown, authorities in Cyprus have introduced a coronavirus "safety pass" system to afford at least some semblance of freedom of movement to its (vaccinated) citizens.  Read Full Article ...

Sirens blared in Jerusalem after several rockets were fired on the city on Monday. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack, launched after it ordered Israeli forces to withdraw from some areas amid escalating tensions. Read Full...

The Russian currency is now stronger against the US dollar than it was before Washington slapped new sanctions on Moscow last month over the alleged interference in the 2020 US presidential election. Read Full Article at RT.com

An athletics test event at Japan's National Stadium on Sunday was subjected to protests which called for the cancelation of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games amid fears that the coronavirus will be spread if they go ahead. Read Full Article ...

The Biden administration will forbid healthcare providers from discriminating based on “gender identity.” Critics say the term is a vague one, and the new rule could have far-reaching consequences for doctors. Read Full Article at R...

German pharmaceutical firm BioNTech has said there is no need to change its Covid-19 vaccine despite the increasing prevalence of new variants which carry mutations that may make current shots less effective. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Juventus could be expelled from next season's Serie A if the club persist with their plans to be a part of the renegade European Super League proposal, according to Italian football federation chief Gabriele Gravina. Read Full Article a...

When Dr Alexander Murakhovsky set out for a long weekend of hunting in a Siberian forest, he had no idea he would soon be at the center of a massive local manhunt – as well as vivid conspiracy theories and a worldwide media storm. Rea...

A federal judge in Australia has denied an emergency legal challenge to Canberra’s controversial ban on citizens returning home from India, amid a spike in Covid cases across the Asian nation. Read Full Article at RT.com

The BBC has exposed itself to a wave of internet scorn after lecturing Britons on how to correctly embrace one another, in response to reports that the government would soon “allow” hugging. Read Full Article at RT.com

Citing various “cybersecurity” sources, multiple US media outlets have attributed the shutdown of the country’s biggest fuel pipeline to a ransomware attack by a cyber-criminal gang called “DarkSide” with alleged links to Russ...

Ex-US President Donald Trump has branded Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit a 'junky' after the horse failed a drugs test and its legendary Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert was suspended following revelations at the weekend. Read Full ...

The UK Parliament’s standards watchdog has officially launched an investigation over the funding of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Caribbean holiday to determine if he broke the code of conduct for MPs. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

South Africa’s president has warned that millions of people in poorer countries may die waiting to be inoculated against Covid-19 as rich countries hoard jabs, and reaffirmed his support for a global patent waiver on vaccines. Read Fu...

Findings published at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) found major links between childhood body mass index (BMI) and the risk of developing eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, as well as breast cancer in adulthood. Read Fu...

UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov has issued support for Palestine amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East with Israel, as the Russian former champion posted pro-Palestine messages after a mosque invasion. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The main ruble-denominated index on the Moscow Exchange reached the 3,700-point level for the first time ever on Monday, as global oil prices continue to climb. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sheffield United and Scotland football star Oli McBurnie has allegedly been captured on camera punching and kicking a man before stamping on his phone, with his soon-to-be relegated club already looking into the matter. Read Full Articl...

The Ring Magazine has issued an apology to Billy Joe Saunders after a tweet appeared on its official account in the aftermath of Saturday's fight with Canelo Alvarez which declared the British fighter had 'no heart'. Read Full Article a...

The Institute of Public Health in Norway has recommended against the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, adding to a recommendation of permanently avoiding the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab over side effect fears. Read Full Arti...

Russian F1 driver Nikita Mazepin took a knee on Sunday but gave the gesture new meaning by honoring World War II victims and veterans as Russia marked the 76th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Paris court has rejected a 2014 complaint brought against 14 companies involved in the production and sale of Agent Orange to the US during the Vietnam War, declaring it does not have jurisdiction to rule over the matter. Read Full Ar...

A group of active French military personnel has published a new open letter to the country's president Emmanuel Macron, warning him of a "civil war" brewing in the country after all the "concessions" he's made to Islamism. Read Full Art...

China’s currency, the yuan, has nearly hit a three-year high against the US dollar. The rally comes shortly after weak US jobs data weighed on the greenback, and as China continues its strong recovery from Covid-19. Read Full Article ...

China has slammed comments made by NASA in which it accused Beijing of “failing to meet responsible standards” over space debris, reminding the US of ‘romantic’ media reporting of a SpaceX rocket that fell on a farm in March. Re...

Two symbiotic marine lifeforms who somehow evaded the prying eyes of human scientists and ‘disappeared’ from the fossil record over a quarter of a billion years ago have been found thriving offshore of Japan. Read Full Article at RT...

UFC star Conor McGregor has hinted that he may look to expand his burgeoning business empire by purchasing a stake in some of the most famous footballing institutions in the United Kingdom, Manchester United and Glasgow Celtic. Read Ful...

The former chief doctor of Omsk’s Emergency Hospital No.1, the medical facility that housed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny following his alleged poisoning last year, has been found alive after going missing in the woods. Rea...

Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo have been ridiculed as they stand on the brink of failing to make next year's Champions League and instead qualify for the Europa League. Meanwhile, Andrea Pirlo's job is reportedly under threat. Read Full...

A man visiting a resort in northeast China survived a nightmare scenario after a glass-bottomed bridge shattered under his feet. The tourist was eventually rescued after clinging to a railing. Read Full Article at RT.com

Billy Joe Saunders’ father was shoved to the ground by security as he rushed to check on his son in the aftermath of his brutal defeat to Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in Texas on Saturday night, dramatic new footage has shown. Read Full ...

France’s health minister, Olivier Veran, has confirmed that the nation will proceed with the next step of Covid lockdown easing on May 19, allowing outdoor bars and restaurants to reopen, as intensive care cases fall. Read Full Articl...

Crude and fuel price rose on Monday as one of the largest fuel pipeline systems in the US remained largely shut down after a reported cyberattack. The US has declared a state of emergency in 17 states due to the situation. Read Full Art...

An Israeli motorist plowed into a Palestinian youth near Lion’s Gate in East Jerusalem, reportedly after his car was attacked by a mob amid ongoing unrest in the city. Read Full Article at RT.com

Kuwait’s national oil company has said it is battling a blaze at one of its operational sites in the Burgan oilfield, the second largest in the world. The company says there has been no impact on oil production. Read Full Article at R...

At least 13 people were killed and almost 40 were injured overnight in two bus bombings in Afghanistan. The attacks came shortly after the Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday later this week. Read Full Ar...

Four people have been stabbed in a supermarket in Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island, but the country’s prime minister has dismissed links with terrorism as officers label the incident a ‘random attack’. Read Full Article at ...

The world’s second-biggest digital asset, ethereum, has reached a new all-time high after crossing a psychologically significant threshold of $4,000 per coin for the first time ever. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Temple Mount, a site considered holy by both Muslims and Jews, will be closed to Jewish visitors as Israel celebrates Jerusalem Day, police have said, after scores were injured in Palestinian-Jewish clashes over the weekend. Read Fu...

More than 300 injuries have been reported after Israeli forces raided Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, for the second time since Friday, amid soaring tensions over Israeli plans to forcibly evict Palestinian families from their homes. Read ...

Fresh from hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live, billionaire memelord, self-professed ‘Dogefather’ and head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has tweeted that the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin will quite literally be going to the Moon. Read...

New York police have identified the suspected gunman in a shooting on Saturday at Times Square that injured a four-year-old girl and two women as Farrakhan Muhammad, saying he was aiming at his brother but hit the bystanders. Read Full ...

Canadian police are looking for a suspect or suspects after one person was shot dead in broad daylight outside the main terminal of Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia. Read Full Article at RT.com

Seven people are dead after an assailant allegedly walked into a birthday party at a trailer park in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and began shooting, killing his girlfriend and five other adults before taking his own life. Read Full Arti...

German-born Helmut Jahn, a leading postmodernist architect whose works included convention centers from Doha to Shanghai, and airport projects from Chicago to Bangkok, has died at 81 in a bicycle crash. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli city of Ashkelon late on Sunday, with one being intercepted by the country's Iron Dome missile defense system, and the other falling in an open area. Read Full Article at RT...

Protesters have set the Iraqi city of Karbala ablaze following the killing of prominent activist Ihab al-Wazni. The demonstrators have accused Iran-backed militias of his assassination. Read Full Article at RT.com

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that 35% of US adults who live in gun-owning households have bought more firearms over the past year, amid increasing violent crime and riots in many of America's largest cities. Read Full Article at R...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, health adviser turned celebrity by the Covid-19 pandemic, has suggested that the virus is even more deadly than reported, saying the US has “undercounted” its world-leading death toll. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Clubhouse has launched an Android version of its live audio app. Initially popularized by Elon Musk, the app was hounded by mainstream journalists for allowing “unfettered conversations,” and downloads have since fallen. Read Full A...

Tennis sensation Naomi Osaka, who is an idol in Japan, has joined her countrymen and women in voicing concern about the hosting of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the midst of a pandemic, as organizers insist the games will go on. Read F...

Claims by Berlin's Bild that a deal to supply Sputnik V to Germany is ‘dead’ have nothing to with reality and are only aimed at preventing the Russian jab from reaching the European Union's markets, the vaccine’s sponsor has said....

Kentucky Derby-winning horse Medina Spirit has failed a drugs test and thrown the legacy of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who has been suspended, into further scandal after five of his horses failed tests in just over a year. Read F...

Billy Joe Saunders remained in hospital overnight and will undergo surgery on a shattered orbital bone after his defeat to Mexican star Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in Texas, according to reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Covid-19 curbs have reached the top of the world, with China saying it will create “a line of separation” at the summit of Mount Everest to prevent contact between Chinese climbers and those ascending from coronavirus-hit Nepal. Rea...

Achieving the feat through an astonishing points and goals tally, FC Barcelona's women's team celebrated their sixth La Liga title win in style by engaging in a pool party ahead of a Champions League final meeting with Chelsea. Read Ful...

Nearly 70 people, primarily female students, have been killed in an attack on a school in Kabul. The death toll is expected to rise, with many of the injured remaining in critical condition and some children missing. Read Full Article a...

Actress Susan Sarandon and rock legend Roger Waters will protest the trial of Steven Donziger in New York. Donziger took on oil giant Chevron over pollution in Ecuador and won, but now he’s in the legal crosshairs himself. Read Full A...

Manchester United have reportedly missed out on a bumper new sponsorship deal after the company involved pulled the plug over fears it could be hit by boycotts from fans furious at the club’s US owners. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Agreeing fresh terms with PSG, Brazilian superstar Neymar proved that he has always been about the money and prioritizes financial gain over on-field success. Once again, his actions showed he couldn't care less about Barcelona. Read Fu...

After winning a pro-independence majority, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she’ll “lead Scotland to independence,” no matter what London says. That process will be a hard slog, her predecessor Alex Salmond told RT. Re...

In positive news for millions of recovered Covid-19 patients, new research indicates that mild infection with the virus is very unlikely to cause lasting damage to the structure or function of the heart. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Aryna Sabalenka secured a surprise win over top seed Ashleigh Barty to seal the Madrid Open title before being handed a shock of her own as the Belarusian almost dropped the trophy when an explosion rang out at the award ceremony. Read ...

The US federal government is likely to run out of borrowing room and breach the debt limit after October 1, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). Read Full Article at RT.com

The EU has not made any new orders for AstraZeneca shots beyond June, the head of the bloc’s vaccine task force has said. The EU has been at odds with the drug maker over sloppy deliveries for months. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Heavyweight boxer Nagy Aguilera was booed by 73,000 fans and accused of committing one of the ultimate sins in the sport by apparently faking an injury to get out of his fight against Canelo Alvarez stablemate Frank Sanchez. Read Full A...

Two people ended up in trauma centers in critical condition and several more were injured after a packed balcony collapsed at a rocky beach in Malibu, California on Saturday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Revelers thronged the streets of Spain’s cities on Sunday after its government lifted a six-month nightly curfew. Crowds danced, sang, and drank – but regional authorities are already planning on ending the party. Read Full Article ...

Three Massachusetts college freshmen have been suspended by their university reportedly after being photographed without masks at an outdoor gathering. Their parents plan to take legal action against the harsh punishment. Read Full Arti...