Beijing has accused Washington of exhibiting “paranoid delusion” and “Cold War mentality,” after the US Senate passed a new bill aimed at bolstering the position of American tech in competing with China. Read Full Article at RT....

Beijing has administered over 800 million Covid-19 vaccines, more than double any other country in the world, but local outbreaks persist despite the exceptionally fast-paced vaccination program. Read Full Article at RT.com

A group of Republican lawmakers has called on the DOJ to ensure that Andy Ngo and other journalists are able to report safely from Portland, claiming that the government has turned a blind eye to ‘left-wing’ violence in the city. Re...

Saudi Arabia’s energy giant, Saudi Aramco, has started sales of its first dollar-denominated Islamic bond as it seeks to raise cash to pay out $75 billion in dividends. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tens of thousands of nurses have gone on an eight-hour strike across New Zealand, disrupting non-emergency health services. The union voted for the action after failing to reach a deal for better wages. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The World Bank, which has in recent weeks been raising its outlook for Russia, said on Tuesday it expects a steady recovery of the nation’s economy this year and in 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com

Newspaper columnist Julie Burchill has been fired by the Telegraph after facetiously suggesting that Harry and Meghan should have named their new baby after George Floyd. Her sacking reignited debate about cancel culture. Read Full Arti...

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service has released the list of candidates for its annual Miss Penal System contest, and 12 of the country’s most beautiful prison guards are battling it out to be named lock-up lady of the year. Read ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill barring the use of vaccine passports, insisting Texas must remain completely “open” while blasting the passes as an infringement on individual liberty. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A woman introduced as a Univision reporter lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris during a press event in Mexico, even saying she voted for her, but the outlet now insists it has no tie to the self-avowed journalist. Read Full ...

The IRS and the White House are wringing their hands about a ProPublica report accusing George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and others of needing to pay more in taxes, just as the Biden administration has argued. Read Fu...

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is more than 50% complete, the Pentagon said, but noted that future updates will omit percentages on the progress of the pullout, claiming the secrecy is needed for “operational security.” Read Ful...

For all the talk of strained credibility, the amount of attention still being poured on Floyd Mayweather's fight with Logan Paul shows that the businessmen didn't fluff their lines. Their legacy is likely to be more of the same. Read Fu...

Former US President Donald Trump belatedly congratulated Nigeria for banning Twitter in response to censorship of its president, and urged other countries to do so – while regretting not doing the same while in the White House. Read F...

MSNBC contributor Mara Gay has said it was “disturbing” for her to see American flags flown during a recent trip to Long Island, New York, likening the images to hate symbols. Read Full Article at RT.com

America’s federal tax agency – the Internal Revenue Service – has set its sights on cryptocurrencies and requested that Congress grant it authority to collect data on transfers to supposedly fight tax evasion. Read Full Article at...

Syrian air defenses have been activated against missiles allegedly launched from Lebanese airspace by Israel, state news agency SANA has reported. The attack is said to be targeting Damascus and Homs. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Israel’s top-level security council has signed off on the Flag March planned by right-wing groups through Jerusalem’s Old City, just a day after organizers canceled the event due to a dispute with police over the route. Read Full Ar...

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter repeatedly used a racial slur for African-Americans in text messages with lawyer George Mesires, the Daily Mail reported, citing the contents of his laptop abandoned in a Delaware repair shop. Read Ful...

Car manufacturer Renault has confirmed that a French court has charged it with deceit, after the company was placed under investigation in 2017 on suspicion of cheating on emissions tests for older diesel vehicles. Read Full Article at ...

Days before Euro 2020, the Russian Football Union (RFU) has written to UEFA to "draw attention to the use of political motives" in the controversial design of Ukraine's new shirt, warning them that a "precedent" is being set. Read Full ...

Tennis ace Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has ended her Grand Slam drought by winning a quarterfinal at the seventh attempt, becoming the first Russian woman to reach the final four of a major since 2016 by advancing at the French Open. Read ...

A Pennsylvania man who ran multiple Twitter accounts pretending to be relatives of Donald Trump – even fooling the US president once – and raised funds for a fake political organization now faces up to 22 years behind bars. Read Ful...

Controversial plans to compile patient data from local doctors into a single centralised database run by Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have been delayed amid security concerns, the UK government has announced. Read Full Arti...

The former president of the renowned Paris-Descartes University has been charged over a scandal in which dozens of bodies donated for research were stored in appalling conditions in the center of the French capital. Read Full Article at...

Controversial vaccine passports will be used for the first time at Euro 2020 when England play at Wembley this weekend, with fans told to show proof that they have been jabbed or taken a test, according to a new report. Read Full Articl...

The US Senate has unanimously voted to pass a bill that provides additional financial support for American diplomats and spies stricken by a range of debilitating health conditions consistent with the so-called ‘Havana Syndrome’. Re...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the hit-and-run deaths of a Muslim family a “terrorist attack” and vowed to combat “Islamophobia.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Elena Vesnina has stormed into the mixed doubles final of the French Open at her comeback Grand Slam after three years out – and revealed her pleasant surprise at her short-notice invitation from breakthrough star Aslan Karatsev. Read...

A bipartisan US Senate report has provided more details about the many lapses of the domestic security system in the run-up to and during the January riot on Capitol Hill. Read Full Article at RT.com

The South African health minister has been put on special leave until further notice by the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, while the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) examines allegations of corruption. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Football players from Ukraine’s national team have caused a stir in their home country after creating an official music playlist for the upcoming EURO 2020 tournament that includes just one Ukrainian artist – and three Russians. Rea...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face as he approached the crowd during his visit to a town in southeastern France. The incident was broadly condemned by French politicians and has led to two arrests. Read Full Ar...

A UN appeals court in The Hague has upheld a life sentence against Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who in 2017 was convicted of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 war. Read Full Article at RT.com

US Vice President Kamala Harris has been asked in an interview about not visiting the US-Mexico border despite being charged with tackling the ongoing issues there. Read Full Article at RT.com

Organizers hoping to make mixed martial arts a sport at the Olympic Games say legendary former champion Khabib Nurmagomedov could be one of the stars taking part if the discipline makes its debut at the 2028 showpiece in the US. Read Fu...

The UK government has warned people in Lancashire and Greater Manchester to “minimise” travelling in and out of the areas amid the rise of the so-called ‘Delta’ variant of coronavirus, first detected in India. Read Full Article ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that brotherly love and care for those in need are the values shared by citizens in his country, and are essential to maintaining the essence of its traditional culture and society. Read Ful...

The Chinese Defense Ministry has hit out at the US, deploring its “political show” after three American senators visited Taiwan’s capital, Taipei on a military transport plane for a three-hour trip on Sunday. Read Full Article at ...

Norway wonderkid Erling Haaland, who is currently at German giants Borussia Dortmund and wanted by a string of top European clubs, is interested in a move to Champions League winners Chelsea, according to a report in England. Read Full ...

The United Nations (UN) has condemned Myanmar’s military for displacing an estimated 100,000 in the east of the country through “indiscriminate attacks” against civilians, forcing people to seek safety in neighboring areas. Read F...

Russia is considering offering coronavirus vaccination travel packages for tourists which could help support the struggling tourism sector, the president of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI), Andrey Ignatyev, told TASS. Read F...

The leader of one of Uzbekistan’s largest political parties has told a popular YouTube channel that Tashkent can put a stop to its societal issues with LGBT people by deporting them to nations where they will feel more at home. Read F...

One of Israel’s leading ultra-Orthodox Jewish media outlets was mocked online for censoring the face of Labor Party chief Merav Michaeli, who is set to join the new government. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ellie Kemper has apologized on Instagram after pictures emerged of her crowned a “queen of love and beauty” at the 1999 Veiled Prophet Ball hosted by an organization founded and run for decades by wealthy white families. Read Full A...

The United States accounted for over half of the total nuclear weapons spending in 2020. The $37.4 billion that went toward its nuclear arsenal beat the combined expenditure of the eight other nuclear powers, a new report says. Read Ful...

There is now a limited amount of time in which to resolve Brexit-induced border issues in Northern Ireland, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman has said, after the EU warned Britain against breaching international law. Read Fu...

A technology platform called iConstituent, which is used by many US government offices to connect with their constituents, has reportedly been affected by a ransomware attack. Read Full Article at RT.com

YouTuber Logan Paul has slammed fans who pointed out that Floyd Mayweather appeared to have stopped him from hitting the canvas in their fight – and boxing great George Foreman has said he found the novelty exhibition unmissable. Read...

An outage took many popular websites offline on Tuesday and the instant conclusion for many was inevitable: it must have been a cyberattack. There is, however, some disagreement as to which hackers were behind the ‘attack’.  Read F...

Hundreds of suspects were apprehended in various countries during Operation Trojan Shield/Greenlight, a sting which had criminal syndicates using a chat app monitored by the FBI, Europol has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

A British defense analyst has suggested that an incident involving misbehaving soldiers stationed in Estonia may have been “constructed” by Moscow's spooks as a means of discrediting NATO and its operations near Russia's borders. Re...

Tokyo Olympics President Seiko Hashimoto confirmed on Tuesday that all foreign journalists covering the Games will be under permanent surveillance via GPS to ensure they remain within permitted zones under Covid restrictions. Read Full ...

A yob who outraged fans and players after allegedly hurling a bottle at Borussia Dortmund and US football star Giovanni Reyna has been arrested and is facing criminal charges, with stadium officials also announcing a ban. Read Full Arti...

Britons have expressed their shock, disgust and anger after it emerged that none of the partygoers present at the shooting of BLM activist Sasha Johnson, who campaigned to defund the police, have provided evidence to the Met. Read Full ...

Ukrainian officials have been forced to amend their record of a call between the country's president and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, in which they claimed the White House had offered Kiev a major step towards NATO membership. Read Fu...

Turkey’s defense ministry has said two PKK terrorists were neutralized by the nation’s air force after they were detected by intelligence officers in the Gara region of northern Iraq. Read Full Article at RT.com

Microbiologists working at one of Moscow's top research institutes have announced they were able to revive prehistoric invertebrates, invisible to the naked eye, after two dozen millennia in hibernation in Russia's frozen north. Read Fu...

Novak Djokovic has admitted that he changed his underwear during a toilet break that helped him "come back as a new player" in a record-breaking, epic win at the French Open over an opponent who has been blasted by Boris Becker. Read Fu...

Moscow will withdraw from the International Space Station project in 2025 if Washington continues to impose sanctions against the Russian space sector, with the country now making significant plans to explore space without the US. Read ...

China’s import numbers have surged in May while the trade deficit with the United States continues to widen, rising 13% month-on-month compared to April. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ralf Schumacher, the brother of F1 legend Michael and uncle of his son, Mick, has called for Nikita Mazepin to be banned over a crash at the Baku Grand Prix that caused the German to angrily ask if his aim had been "to kill us". Read F...

The UK ignored scientific advice & made a political decision by not putting Malta on its list of safe travel destinations despite no new Covid infections, Malta’s FM said. This comes as Portugal entered the amber list on Tuesday. Read...

Met Police Officer Wayne Couzens has admitted to the kidnapping and rape of Sarah Everard, who went missing while walking home on March 3, accepting responsibility for her death but not entering a plea on the charge of murder. Read Full...

Fastly announced on Tuesday that it had identified the problem allegedly responsible for a mass internet outage which took Amazon, Reddit, the UK government, and dozens of news outlets offline, and is currently fixing it. Read Full Arti...

China has granted emergency approval for the use of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine in children aged three and older, becoming the first nation to open its inoculation program to individuals who are that young. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The mother of Dane Sayers, an American MMA fighter who is said to have been given a board by Georges St-Pierre after beating the UFC legend at chess, has paid tribute after the 33-year-old's body was pulled from a river by police. Read ...

Russian diplomats in Washington have lambasted plans for US and NATO fighter jets to undergo joint combat training in the icy Arctic region as part of a practice run that will see America’s most high-tech jets rehearsing for war. Read...

A major server outage on Tuesday resulted in many popular websites going offline, including Amazon, Twitch, GitHub, and dozens of news organizations. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 10.7% year-on-year in April, according to the Ministry of Economic Development, which projected an “anomalously high” GDP growth for May. Read Full Article at RT.com

The leaders of the OPEC+ group, Saudi Arabia and Russia have warned that an imminent supply crunch is inevitable if the world fails to invest enough in new oil and gas projects. Read Full Article at RT.com

Beijing’s embassy in the US has blasted the renewed attempts to blame China for the Covid-19 pandemic, comparing it to how the George W. Bush administration hyped up false claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. R...

Hong Kong’s chief executive has vowed to continue inviting foreign judges to the city’s courts, insisting Hong Kong’s legal system remains “hard as a rock” despite increasing concern for the rule of law. Read Full Article at R...

The FBI and Australian police have been secretly reading a secure chat app popular with organized crime for several years. The operation, dubbed ‘the sting of the century’ in the media, resulted in hundreds of arrests. Read Full Art...

The price of bitcoin dropped to its lowest in over a week on Tuesday, amid US monetary policy concerns and the continued tightening of regulation of cryptocurrencies in China. Read Full Article at RT.com

So you want to become a journalist covering Russia for Western media? Once you get past the self-serving bluster, it’s really a very safe, well-paid, and rewarding job – but only on condition that you follow a set of guidelines. Rea...

British newspaper the Times came under attack on Monday after publishing a sensationalist story making a false claim that six Russian Air Force planes entered sovereign Irish airspace, last year. The report is completely untrue. Read Fu...

With news spreading of the horrific ramming deaths of four Muslim family members in London, Ontario, the chorus of condemnation has grown stronger. Pakistani PM Khan called the attack a sign of growing Islamophobia in the West. Read Ful...

A huge tornado was spotted as it passed through northern Colorado, with bystanders capturing the funnel in dramatic footage circulating online. The inclement weather caught local meteorologists by surprise, but caused no deaths. Read Fu...

The governor of Nevada has signed legislation banning “non-functional” grass in a bid to conserve water as an extreme drought hits more than two-thirds of the state, drying up its major H2O supply. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Washington state’s Liquor and Cannabis Board is permitting legal marijuana retailers to dole out free joints to those who’ve taken at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, as states scramble for creative ways to promote the jab. Read...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal are stalling, claiming Tehran may soon cut its “breakout time” for a bomb to mere weeks as the country insists US sanctions are impeding an agreement. R...

The London, Ontario man who swerved off the road and ran over a Muslim family of five did so deliberately and the incident is now considered a hate crime, police said. Canada’s government reacted by condemning Islamophobia. Read Full ...

Ex-England football ace Chris Smalling's wife, Sam, has claimed that the couple were "gobsmacked" to see a UFO that was "100 billion percent not a drone", with the model protesting her sanity while appealing for similar sightings. Read ...

US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has said the Biden administration will “act” to protect the rights of transgender students banned from participating in school sports outside their biological gender in states like Florida. R...

The US Department of Justice has managed to track down and recapture 63.7 bitcoin worth of ransom from a wallet allegedly used by hackers who extorted Colonial Pipeline. The ransomware attack had caused widespread gas shortages. Read Fu...

Those who committed ‘anti-Semitic’ acts should be barred from acquiring German citizenship, an interior policy spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in the Bundestag said ahead of the voting on the issue. Read Full Articl...

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Guatemala on Monday, only to be received by protesters sporting pro-Donald Trump signage blasting her. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK is set to start vaccinating people aged 25-29 against Covid-19 from Tuesday, bringing the government closer to its target of offering the jab to all adults by August, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. Read Full Article at R...

A drone has transferred fuel to another airplane for the first time in history, Boeing has announced, following a successful test flight for its specially designed tanker prototype, dubbed MQ-25 Stingray by the US Navy. Read Full Articl...

Premier League newcomers Norwich City have been left embarrassed after fans discovered that their new shirt sponsor for their upcoming return to the top flight had been sharing adult content on its social media accounts. Read Full Artic...

Fuel shortages in Lebanon have forced President Michel Aoun to grant the state electricity company a loan of up to 300 billion Lebanese pounds ($200 million) so it can import supplies from abroad and avoid blackouts. Read Full Article a...

Former Manchester United and England star Rio Ferdinand has claimed he can't "understand" why boos rang out when players took the knee before England games last week, calling people who link the gesture with politics "ignorant". Read Fu...

Barack Obama has addressed a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the US, pointing to his successor Donald Trump as being partly to blame. Read Full Article at RT.com

Protesters have toppled and beheaded a statue of Egerton Ryerson, an architect of Canada’s infamous residential school system for indigenous children, amid growing anger over the recent discovery of mass graves at one such school. Rea...

MMA stunner Paige VanZant has claimed she has "sacrificed everything" for her next Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) outing, predicting that she will knock out fellow ex-UFC fighter and social media star Rachael Ostovich. Read F...

The EU should get rid of the right for individual member states to block its foreign policy through the veto mechanism, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said, following a row over Hungary’s stance on Hong Kong. Read Full Article...

As Russia’s players did a lap of honour at Lev Yashin Stadium in Moscow on Saturday, taking in applause after their victory against Bulgaria, attention was already turning to much bigger challenges looming on the horizon. Read Full Ar...

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) was roasted after appearing to post a Gmail password and PIN number when raging against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California), who is suing him for helping to provoke the Capitol riot. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

At least 18 people have been killed in a blaze at a chemical plant near the city of Pune in western India on Monday, the local fire department has said, after workers became trapped in the burning building. Read Full Article at RT.com ...