Former French Open queen Maria Sharapova hailed Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal as they produced an all-time classic in Paris on Friday night – which fans were allowed to watch until its conclusion despite a Covid curfew. Read Full Ar...

Russia has none of the “messianic fervor” of Western states such as the US, its foreign minister said this week, as the nations’ leaders prepare to meet. No longer the Third Rome, Moscow is seeking a more modest role in the world....

The first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, was surrounded by “hundreds” of CIA agents who told him what to do throughout his tenure as leader. That’s according to Ruslan Khasbulatov, the former chairman of Russia’s parliament. ...

China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has expanded the construction of what will be the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks in Yancheng Binhai Port Industrial Park in Jiangsu province. Read Full Artic...

The group of hackers who swiped source code from game company Electronic Arts pulled off the stunt by tricking EA’s IT support team on Slack, according to Motherboard. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia should increase its share of the global helium supply market, which currently stands at 3%, President Vladimir Putin said this week at the inauguration ceremony of the Amur Gas Processing Plant. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A new Time Magazine cover showing President Joe Biden locked in an icy staring match with his Russian counterpart has been mocked as an over-the-top display of machismo, producing a number of parodies online. Read Full Article at RT.com...

A woman claiming to be the aunt of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has pushed back on her charge that ex-president Donald Trump is to blame for Puerto Rico’s troubles after Hurricane Maria, instead pointing to local leaders. Rea...

YouTube showed that Big Tech censorship for violating Covid-19 orthodoxy remains alive and well, despite past heresy proving legitimate, sanctioning Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) for speaking of taboo treatments. Read Full Article a...

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar just can’t win. Hamas is now calling her out after she put the Palestinian militants in the same category as the US, Israel and the Taliban – and fellow Democrats forced her to apologize. Read Full...

The Pentagon has announced a new $150 million military aid package for Ukraine, potentially raising tensions with Moscow just days before President Joe Biden's summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva. Read Full Ar...

Dakota Skye, the adult film star who stirred controversy after posing topless at a mural for George Floyd, has passed away at the age of 27, a family member has confirmed. Read Full Article at RT.com

In his first interview with an American media outlet since 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin has brushed off his US counterpart Joe Biden’s “killer” accusation and called it posturing by an establishment career politician. Re...

With the brother and father of the jailed WikiLeaks co-founder on a US tour to raise awareness of Julian Assange’s plight, legendary Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters challenged Joe Biden to end the journalist’s prosecution. Read Ful...

The Department of Justice’s inspector-general is now looking into whether the Trump administration improperly sought warrants for communications by members of Congress and media, after leading Democrats denounced the practice. Read Fu...

US Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced a doubling of enforcement staff dedicated to protecting voting rights and said election reforms and ballot audits in Republican-led states may disenfranchise non-white voters. Read Full ...

Turkey’s status as potential dark horses at Euro 2020 appears to have lasted all of one match after they were dismantled by Italy on a chastening night in Rome. Read Full Article at RT.com

A San Francisco coffeehouse owner has fired her husband after he confessed to her that he had repeated a racial slur after being called that word in an altercation over a parking spot. Read Full Article at RT.com

In the iconic Stadio Olimpico, Italy beat Turkey 3-0 in the opening match of Euro 2020. After a scoreless first half, there was an own goal from Merih Demiral and further efforts from Ciro Immobile and Lorenzo Insigne. Read Full Article...

Negotiations to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume in the Austrian capital Vienna on Saturday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has announced following a recent break in the ongoing talks. Read Full Article at RT...

Stefanos Tsitsipas, 22, couldn't restrain his tears after he reached his first-ever Grand Slam final at the French Open on Friday after he bested Alexander Zverev in a five-set thriller. Read Full Article at RT.com

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed his motivation to lift the European Championship trophy once again this summer, ahead of the multi-city tournament which is due to get underway in Rome later this evening. Read Full Arti...

UEFA has said Ukraine must cover up a slogan associated with World War II Nazi sympathizers on its kits for Euro 2020 despite Ukrainian football official Andrey Pavelko claiming that a “victorious compromise” had been reached. Read ...

A federal judge in Wisconsin has issued a restraining order freezing the Biden administration's loan-forgiveness program for non-white farmers, pending a ruling on whether basing benefits on skin color is constitutional. Read Full Artic...

Criminals made off with the personal information of more than 3.3 million Volkswagen and Audi customers in the US and Canada, the German carmaker has revealed. The data stolen includes license numbers and Social Security numbers. Read F...

The Pulitzer Prize board has honored Darnella Frazier, whose video of George Floyd’s arrest in Minneapolis launched the Black Lives Matter protests. This year’s prizes remained in the key of mainstream media and identity politics. R...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two batches of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Covid-19 vaccine manufactured at a factory in Baltimore, which was previously hit by a string of hygiene and contamination issues. Read ...

A major network outage that prevented calls to emergency numbers in France last week was caused by a software failure, an internal inquiry by the country’s largest telecoms operator, Orange, has found. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Health experts have pleaded with the government to delay the final stage of England’s lockdown exit plan, after 8,125 new cases were reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily rise since February 26. Read Full ...

Four of Ireland’s biggest political parties, including the three currently in power, are facing audits after admitting to using fictional market research companies and posing as pollsters to survey voter mood ahead of elections. Read ...

A Palestinian teen has been killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said. The incident occurred in Beita, near Nablus, as Palestinians protested Israeli settlements in the region. Read Ful...

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) safety committee has added another rare blood condition to the potential side effects of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, as the UK regulator weighs precautionary advice over capillary leak syndrome.  Re...

A special task force unit has been disbanded in the German city of Frankfurt am Main, a state interior minister has announced, amid an investigation into the sharing of extremist and neo-Nazi content on group chats. Read Full Article at...

During its operation in Africa’s Sahel region, France’s military killed an Al-Qaeda commander believed to be responsible for kidnapping and murdering two French journalists in 2013, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly has said. Rea...

Moscow police officers have opened a criminal case against a Russian activist who brandished a gun, fired multiple shots into the air, and faked shooting himself in the head on Red Square, in the heart of the capital, on Friday. Read Fu...

A county official in China has reportedly taken his own life as the investigation into the tragic deaths of 21 marathon runners in Yellow River Stone Forest park last month intensifies, according to local state media. Read Full Article ...

Premier League new boys Norwich City have called time on their recently-announced shirt sponsorship deal with Asian online gambling company BK8 after fans accused the firm of being 'sexist' and endorsing 'soft porn'. Read Full Article a...

K-pop music has a legion of fans worldwide, but it also has detractors, chief among them North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. And when Kim called the music a “vicious cancer,” some Twitter users couldn’t help but agree with him. Read ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said it is aware of a contaminated batch of the active substance used to make Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and that they’re taking precautionary action to prevent possible harm. Read F...

France President Emmanuel Macron, who was slapped by an angry member of the public this week, has visited France's Euro 2020 camp while wishing the World Cup champion squad the best and backing N'Golo Kante for the Ballon d'Or. Read Ful...

A detention order has been issued for Russian activist Ivan Zhdanov, one of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s most high-profile associates, after the Ministry of Internal Affairs included him on a federal wanted list. Read Ful...

Some 400 potted plants labeled ‘cannabis’ have mysteriously appeared on the shelves of supermarkets and garden centers in France, with a number of customers managing to take pots home before they were seized by the gendarmes. Read F...

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has stated that US sanctions are preventing the South American nation from accessing Covid vaccines by blocking a $10 million payment to the global Covax scheme. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Plans for a film that will tout New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s leadership in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings have met resistance from pundits and the Muslim community. Ardern has distanced herself from the project. Read...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved a new manufacturing plant in central France to boost production of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, the regulator’s committee for human medicines has said. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

One day after the organizers of UEFA Euro 2020 ruled that Ukraine must remove a WW2 Nazi collaborator slogan from its soccer kit, the country’s ruling body has refused to back down, instead making it the team’s official phrase. Read...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has waded into the row about players taking a knee before games in the European Championships, as he calls on English fans to avoid booing and pay respect to the gesture. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russia captain Artem Dzyuba is aiming to beat Belgium at their own game rather than resort to rudimentary long-ball football in their Euro 2020 Group B opener in St. Petersburg. Read Full Article at RT.com

Oil prices continued to grow on Friday, as the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that global crude demand would return to pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels by the end of next year. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Chinese foreign ministry has said Washington’s “unilateral bullying” was the cause of the Iranian nuclear crisis, but talks in Vienna aiming to restart the 2015 nuclear deal were nearly complete. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Scientists studying the cause of a flood which killed more than 200 people in the Indian Himalayas have said the disaster was caused by a massive rock and ice avalanche that could happen again in the mountain range. Read Full Article at...

Covid-19 has mutated significantly, and the virus is now much harder to treat than it used to be. That’s according to the head of Moscow’s Kommunarka Hospital, which last year became the city’s main coronavirus treatment facility....

The head of America’s space agency, Bill Nelson, has lauded the benefits of his country’s historic partnership with Russia, which has allowed generations of astronauts and cosmonauts to step beyond the Earth’s atmosphere together....

Thailand has been retaining locally manufactured AstraZeneca vaccines for itself in the midst of a massive wave of coronavirus, Taiwan’s president has said, claiming that shots scheduled for delivery in June did not arrive. Read Full ...

US state-run outfits RFE/RL and Voice of America are refusing to comply with Russian legislation on the work of foreign agents within the country, the government’s media regulator Roskomnadzor revealed on Friday morning. Read Full Art...

Florida’s education board has kicked off a storm after unanimously adopting new rules that forbid instructors from trying to “indoctrinate” students and teaching topics like “critical race theory” that “distort historical ev...

World Champions France are among the favorites to win this summer's European Championships but are rumors of tensions within the camp threatening to overshadow Didier Deschamps' team's pursuit of further silverware? Read Full Article at...

Moscow’s media watchdog has warned that some of the world’s largest tech companies are continuing to host shocking illegal content online, despite thousands of requests from officials in the country to take down prohibited posts. Re...

Speaking after retiring last week, Yossi Cohen used an interview to imply that Israel was behind the explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility and the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists, and issued a warning to Tehran. Read F...

Belgium are likely to be without winger Eden Hazard in their starting line-up for their opening Euro 2020 game against Russia, according to reports. The Belgians will also be without key playmaker Kevin De Bruyne. Read Full Article at R...

Representatives from the European Union’s 27 member states have agreed to let citizens move freely around the bloc over the summer if they have been fully vaccinated, allowing people to avoid costly tests or lengthy quarantines. Read ...

The son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is reportedly eyeing his country’s highest office a decade after his father was overthrown and murdered by NATO-backed rebels, triggering years of civil unrest. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Some nations around the world with a surplus of vaccines are helping foreign travelers get their coronavirus shots in a bid to help boost their economies and revive international air travel. Read Full Article at RT.com

An appetizer for Saturday's UFC 263 was served up at the pre-fight press conference in Arizona on Friday as rivals Israel Adesanya and Marvin Vettori clashed, while the returning Nate Diaz appeared to light up a joint on stage. Read Ful...

Images released by China’s space agency have captured Mars’ red, flat and rock-covered surface in detail, along with the rover and landing platform that touched down on the Martian surface last month. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A large majority of assailants behind mass shootings in the US have had untreated psychiatric disorders, primarily schizophrenia. Treating such patients in time could decrease the risk of violence, a new study suggests. Read Full Articl...

Russia sold $5 billion of US currency from its oil fund in May as part of a drive to reduce exposure to the greenback in its currency reserves and make the country less vulnerable to Western sanctions, the Finance Ministry said. Read Fu...

Twice-vaccinated senior citizens will be allowed to move more freely and socialize with “fellow senior citizens,” the country’s authorities have said. It is hoped the move will encourage the elderly to get inoculated. Read Full Ar...

At least 20 people have died in Pakistan after a crammed bus, which was returning from a Muslim festival, veered off the road into a ditch in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Officials say more than 40 were injured. Read Full A...

A man who struggled with anxiety claims that he lost the ability to feel fear after undergoing brain surgery, giving him stoic powers when faced with life’s many dangers, such as muggers and spiders. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Moscow’s embassy in Washington has warned that the presence of nuclear-capable American warplanes at recent NATO exercises is a serious escalation and could overshadow the upcoming summit between the leaders of the two nations. Read F...

Beijing has given its approval to Sinopharm for one of its vaccines to be administered to children between the ages of three and 17, after Sinovac’s shot was given the green light for use on youngsters last week. Read Full Article at ...

Beijing has reiterated its call to Taiwan to remove “artificial obstacles” and allow “safe and effective” vaccines from the mainland onto the island, and invited the Taiwanese to come and get inoculated. Read Full Article at RT....

Women’s boxing sensation Claressa Shields was forced to survive some sketchy moments on the ground before earning a third-round TKO victory to announce herself in the world of MMA. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Cuban government has announced it will temporarily stop accepting cash bank deposits in dollars. It blamed tighter US sanctions that are restricting its ability to use the greenback abroad. Read Full Article at RT.com

Punjab’s provincial government is turning to coercive measures to increase participation in its Covid-19 vaccination program, after unveiling plans to disable the SIM cards of people who decline to get jabbed. Read Full Article at RT....

China will this year overtake Japan as the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas, ICIS Edge, a service of market intelligence provider ICIS, said this week, as quoted by Reuters. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Pentagon’s highest ranking uniformed officer said Beijing and Moscow are the greatest threats to the United States, somewhat undercutting President Joe Biden, who recently put climate change at the top of the list. Read Full Artic...

US health officials will soon hold an emergency session to discuss an uncommon but dangerous heart condition cropping up in coronavirus vaccine recipients, after finding higher rates of the ailment than expected. Read Full Article at RT...

Governor Greg Abbott said Texas will address an escalating security crisis by building its own border wall and making mass arrests to deter illegal aliens, after the Biden administration opened up the migrant floodgates. Read Full Artic...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said two Iranian vessels transiting the Atlantic toward Latin America are a “great concern,” despite reports that the Pentagon has no plans to intercept the ships or even monitor them more closely. Rea...

Former US president Donald Trump heckled his successor Joe Biden ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and reminisced about their 2018 meeting in Helsinki which he said succeeded despite efforts by US spies and media. Read F...

Up to half of the enhanced jobless benefits paid out to help Americans weather the Covid-19 pandemic was reportedly stolen by fraudsters and other criminals, squandering as much as $400 billion in tax dollars. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Much of Puerto Rico has been left in darkness after a large blaze and an explosion knocked out a power plant in San Juan, the island’s capital. Dramatic footage of the aftermath of the blast has made the rounds online. Read Full Artic...

Three scientists from a FDA advisory committee have resigned after the US food and drug regulator rammed through the approval of a controversial drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease in the face of near-unanimous opposition. Read Full Art...

CNN has begun rehabilitating the public image of disgraced legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, bringing him back on air and ending a banishment that began after he was exposed masturbating on a Zoom call with co-workers last October. Read Ful...

US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have updated their World War II-era ‘Atlantic Charter’. The agreement promises a return to the full-throttle liberalism that the Trump administration interrupted. Read ...

Rocket attacks on Iraqi bases hosting US contractors on Wednesday did not cause casualties or any serious damage, State Department spokesman Ned Price has said, though some personnel were treated for smoke inhalation. Read Full Article ...

Washington has sanctioned an alleged international network which it says funneled tens of millions of dollars to Yemen’s Houthi rebels for their conflict with Western-aligned government forces. Read Full Article at RT.com

Gaming behemoth Electronic Arts has been hacked. While EA says the thieves did not compromise player data, it has confirmed they made off with the source code for the FIFA 21 game, the Frostbite engine, and other software secrets. Read ...

Tennis veteran Sergiy Stakhovsky, who once knocked Roger Federer out of Wimbledon, has reacted to Ukraine's curious new shirt being banned from Euro 2020 by claiming that Russia's reaction made the controversy a political one. Read Full...

Former President Donald Trump has claimed victory over his critics, saying he was proven right on such issues as China’s role in the Covid-19 pandemic, and he reiterated his demand that the Chinese Communist Party pay reparations. Rea...

A hotel in England hosting security for Germany’s G7 delegates was shut down after 13 staff members tested positive for Covid, Sky News reported. The UK PM’s office said German leader Angela Merkel will still attend the event. Read ...

MMA fans have ridiculed a statue unveiled in honor of UFC legend Georges St-Pierre after the fighter was pictured next to it in Canada, with many voicing their surprise at what they thought was a recreation of Barack Obama. Read Full Ar...

Paris’s counterterrorism operation in the Sahel region of West Africa is coming to an end, with the reduced French contingent instead set to join a broader international force, President Emmanuel Macron has said. Read Full Article at ...

Vyacheslav Datsik, the Russian MMA fighter who ended his latest jail term in November and has been imprisoned for murder threats, assault and robbery, is looking for another vicious knockout against a former victim on Thursday. Read Ful...

Arguing that freedom of expression was vital to democracy, the State Department urged Nigeria to reverse its suspension of Twitter, nearly a week after the African country banned the US-based platform for censoring its president. Read F...

The UK government has reached an agreement on fishing quotas for this year with the EU, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the former beauty pageant queen who married Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, has pleaded guilty to US criminal charges after she allegedly helped run her husband's cartel in his absence. Read Ful...

RT Creative Lab’s ‘The Endless Letter’ Instagram series honoring WWII victims has snatched two Bronze Pencils at New York’s The One Show 2021, the world’s most prestigious award show in advertising, design and digital marketin...