Conservative judge Ebrahim Raisi is the presumed victor of Iran’s presidential election. As the clear frontrunner, Raisi received congratulations from rival candidates hours before preliminary results were announced. Read Full Article...

The Industrial and Commerce Bank of China (ICBC) has enabled a feature allowing users to convert their digital yuan to cash at over 3,000 automated teller machine (ATM) locations in Beijing, Xinhua news agency reported. Read Full Articl...

Candidates in Iran’s presidential election have conceded the race to hardliner Ebrahim Raisi. Outgoing President Hassan Rouhani has also issued his congratulations, although the results have not yet been made official. Read Full Artic...

Several people were killed and over a dozen injured after a twin-engine Let L-410 aircraft made an emergency landing in Russia’s Kemerovo Oblast in southwestern Siberia. A total of 19 people were on board the plane. Read Full Article ...

Multiple prosecutors in New York state have declined to press charges against many of those arrested for looting and rioting amid last year’s George Floyd protests, dismissing hundreds of cases, according to NYPD data. Read Full Artic...

Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley has declared that he won’t be inoculated against Covid-19 or abide by new NFL restrictions on unvaccinated players, and would sooner be forced into retirement than betray his beliefs. Read Full...

Canada and the US have agreed to extend travel restrictions between the two countries for another month, with PM Justin Trudeau citing the need to meet vaccine targets, despite vocal demands from US lawmakers to reopen the border. Read ...

Cruise ships may soon operate out of Florida once again, as Governor Ron DeSantis notched a court victory against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an epic injunction order blasting the “authoritarian” agency. Read F...

Grammy Award-winning singer Macy Gray marked the occasion of Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday, with a call to ‘cancel’ the American flag, suggesting it be replaced with a new design heavily focused on race. Read Full Article a...

The former chief of diversity and inclusion within the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command has been given his old job back, months after he was suspended over comparing former president Donald Trump to Hitler. Read Full Article at R...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has felt the wrath of voters loyal to his old boss, Donald Trump, and was booed and called a “traitor” as he began to give a speech at a conservative conference in Florida. Read Full Article at RT.co...

New Yorkers have been asked to help the police identify a masked man who shot another man on a busy Bronx street, miraculously not killing him – and missing a woman and a girl who found themselves in the line of fire. Read Full Articl...

England fans voiced concerns over the form of key man Harry Kane, after the Spurs striker put in another woeful display in the 0-0 draw against Scotland in their Euro 2020 Group D meeting. Read Full Article at RT.com

England and Scotland played out a Euro 2020 stalemate at Wembley as the visitors frequently got the better of their hosts and the Three Lions failed to secure early passage to the knockout stages. Read Full Article at RT.com

Doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine pledged by Israel were already too close to their expiration date when deliveries started on Friday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said, cancelling the deal to exchange 1 million shots. Read Full Artic...

US Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a document that will set out their position on pro-abortion politicians receiving Holy Communion. The vote is widely seen as a rebuke of President Joe Biden. Read Full Art...

The White House has denied freezing aid package to Ukraine ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. When Donald Trump held up a similar package, he was impeached by Democrats. Read Full Article at ...

Revelations that the Biden administration is hiring relatives of senior officials to various posts have triggered a Twitter diatribe from prominent ethics crusader Walter Shaub, but fellow Democrats mostly shrugged it off. Read Full Art...

US Representative Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), the ex-White House doctor who gave then-President Donald Trump a clean bill of mental health, is calling for President Joe Biden to take a cognitive test to assess his fitness for office. Read ...

PSG star and the game's most expensive player Neymar has dazzled the football world and fans online with a sublime piece of skill during a Copa America group win for his country Brazil over Peru in Rio. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

FIFA has banned Mexico fans from the stands for the country’s first two home qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup after homophobic chants were heard during two Olympic qualifiers earlier this year. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

NASA has climbed on the diversity bandwagon with a short video about their next mission – not visiting a planet or building a Moon base, but Equity – and encouraging minorities to sign up. But such buzzwords don’t launch rockets. ...

The new Boeing 737 MAX 10 took off for its first-ever flight on Friday, just six months after regulators allowed the rest of the plane’s ‘family’ of aircraft to return to the skies in the wake of two deadly crashes. Read Full Arti...

Despite lingering political tensions between the two neighbors, football fans in St. Petersburg still turned out to show their support for Ukraine in their Euro 2020 match against North Macedonia on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Denmark star Christian Eriksen, who last week shocked the football world when slumping into a cardiac arrest in his team's Euro 2020 opener against Finland, has been discharged from hospital in Copenhagen. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Police in Hong Kong have charged two senior bosses of the Apple Daily newspaper with “collusion with a foreign country” after officers entered the publication’s offices on Thursday and arrested five members of staff. Read Full Art...

Two people have died after two explosions went off near the office of an army-backed political party in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, on Friday, witnesses and rescue officials said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Under an opaque fast-track legal process that bypasses court hearings, thousands of people in England and Wales have reportedly been prosecuted for Covid-related offences with activists alleging widespread miscarriages of justice. Read ...

An MP for Britain’s Conservative Party has been charged with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in 2008, it was revealed on Friday after reporting restrictions surrounding the case were lifted. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The biggest group stage derby of Euro 2020 takes place on Friday, when England and Scotland clash at Wembley for pride and points in their second games of the campaign. Even fans who didn't get tickets are buzzing with excitement. Read ...

A Florida man has been slapped with felony charges for leaving tire tracks across an intersection painted in the rainbow colors of the LGBT pride movement. LGBT activists cheered the police for throwing the book at the suspect. Read Ful...

Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah has been handed a 20 year prison sentence over charges of rape, killings and even cannibalism in the first war crimes trial in a civilian court in Switzerland. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has firmly rejected allegations he ever killed unarmed detainees in Afghanistan, as well as claims he ordered a rookie to kill unarmed Afghan men in a “blooding” ritual. Read Full Article at RT....

Real Sociedad star Alexander Isak has been hailed as one of Euro 2020's breakout stars after another strong display in Sweden's 1-0 Group E win over Slovakia in St Petersburg wowed football fans on Friday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Moscow police are hunting an unknown suspect who threatened to blow up the city’s central government building if rules requiring masks in public places and the mandatory vaccination of service workers weren't dropped by officials. Rea...

Lithuania is considering a scheme this week that would allow tourists staying in the country for over seven days to receive a Covid vaccination, also extending the offer to its nationals living abroad. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An attempted sting operation backfired for Australian police, after they intercepted a shipment of cocaine, swapped it with icing sugar, then busted the recipient. Transporting icing sugar, it turns out, is not a crime. Read Full Articl...

A Belgian court has said AstraZeneca only needs to supply the EU with 80 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, out of the 120 million sought by the bloc, but it faces fines if it misses certain set delivery targets. Read Full Article a...

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly has voted in favor of reappointing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second term. His new five-year stint is due to begin at the start of 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com

Conor McGregor has taken to social media to have a dig at lightweight rival Dustin Poirier ahead of their meeting in Las Vegas on July 10, which will settle a seven-year trilogy currently tied at one win for each man. Read Full Article ...

Teams at Euro 2020 could be slapped with fines unless stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Pogba stop getting rid of bottles provided by sponsors at press conferences. Read Full Article at RT.com

As Moscow broke its record for daily confirmed Covid-19 cases on Friday, the city’s mayor revealed his belief that the capital is restarting its battle with the pandemic all over again “from scratch”, like in the spring of 2020. R...

Both parties backed efforts to make ‘Juneteenth’ a federal holiday, but even moderate conservatives aren’t jumping for joy. Black conservative Candace Owens drew outrage on Twitter when she called the new holiday “lame.” Read ...

People waiting for planned operations and other non-urgent medical treatment in Moscow will be denied care in the Russian capital’s hospitals if they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, but are eligible to receive a jab. Read F...

The UK’s Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has released new data showing that post-Brexit rules have hit the industry hard, with its exports to the EU falling by 47%, or £2 billion, in the first quarter of 2021 alone. Read Full Article...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reasserted his confidence that the UK will reopen on July 19 after lockdown measures were extended earlier this week, which sparked backlash from politicians and the public.  Read Full Article at RT.com...

A United Nations report released on Friday found that the number of people around the world classified as refugees or asylum seekers rose to more than 82 million in 2020, as people continue to flee drawn-out wars and persecution. Read F...

UEFA could shift its upcoming Euro 2020 final from Wembley Stadium to the Puskas Arena in Budapest unless the UK government makes VIP attendees exempt from its strict quarantine restrictions, according to reports. Read Full Article at R...

Two Ukrainian lovebirds who chained themselves together on Valentine’s Day, as a way to put their relationship to the test, have opted to remove the handcuffs and go their separate ways after four months of being stuck together. Read ...

Norway has announced that the third major phase of its plan to reopen society will take place on Sunday, with citizens allowed to welcome up to 20 people to their homes and hospitality allowed to stay open beyond midnight. Read Full Art...

Sweden fans were out in force in St. Petersburg ahead of their team’s crucial Euro 2020 meeting with Slovakia in sweltering sunshine in Russia’s northern capital on Friday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emissions-reducing regulations being considered by Brussels could soon mark the end of the road for the internal combustion engine, according to a report. The radical proposal has faced pushback from the bloc’s auto makers. Read Full ...

Violence broke out between Palestinians and Israeli security forces after Friday’s prayers at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Nine injuries and over a dozen arrests have been reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ireland’s finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, told CNBC on Friday that the nation is looking to reach a compromise over global taxation that recognizes “the role of legitimate tax competition.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Months after stepping down as head of the UK government’s much-derided Covid-19 contact tracing programme, Dido Harding has once again drawn public ire after news emerged of her pursuit of the top job at NHS England. Read Full Article...

Russia's capital has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with 9,056 positive tests in a 24-hour period and a renewed effort by authorities to encourage people to sign up for a vaccine. Read ...

The Spanish prime minister has announced that the law on mandatory mask-wearing outdoors is to be lifted next Saturday, June 26, as Spain’s vaccination campaign makes rapid progress. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iranians are heading to the polls to pick the next president of the country. Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s judiciary chief, is expected to secure a comfortable win, with most political heavyweights barred from running. Read Full Article at RT...

Russia's pandemic record is contradictory. It has one of Europe's highest death rates, but its economy has kept ticking over. Moscow gave the world its first Covid-19 vaccine, but few of the city's residents are keen on taking it. Read ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning of salmonella linked to small turtles spreading across the country. Children are said to be in particular danger, with one fatality reported. Read Full Article at RT...

Podcast superstar and MMA commentator Joe Rogan took the gloves off while ranting about CNN presenter Brian Stelter, mocking the TV pundit for his slumping viewership and lack of personality. Read Full Article at RT.com

Authorities in Crimea declared a state of emergency on Thursday after heavy rain caused multiple cities on the Black Sea peninsula to be submerged under water, leading thousands of locals to evacuate their houses and seek shelter. Read ...

The World Bank has announced that it won’t provide any assistance to El Salvador in implementing bitcoin as a currency. RT’s Boom Bust digs into the reasons why. Read Full Article at RT.com

A teacher has revealed that armed attackers abducted over 80 students and five teachers in an attack on a north-western Nigerian boarding school on Thursday that left one police officer dead and a student injured. Read Full Article at R...

The new Israeli government has announced that it will transfer between 1.1 and 1.4 million short-dated Pfizer shots to Palestine but in return will receive a shipment originally meant for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in autumn. Read F...

Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer warned on Friday that the entire German military’s reputation is at risk after soldiers serving in Lithuania were accused of anti-Semitism and sexual abuse. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The technology behind central bank digital currencies (CBDC) could be “tens of thousands of times more efficient per transaction” than bitcoin, according to the Bank of England’s fintech director, Tom Mutton. Read Full Article at ...

Russia’s Defense Ministry is developing a smartphone for employees of its armed forces. Alongside the new device, authorities will also oversee the creation of mobile applications for anyone using the technology at military bases. Rea...

Public Health France (SpF) has said that less than half of health professionals working in nursing homes are vaccinated against Covid-19 after the health minister called on workers to come forward and get their shot. Read Full Article a...

American motorbike stunt rider Alex Harvill has died after sustaining injuries during preparations for an ill-fated world record attempt at the Moses Lake Airshow in Washington State, local authorities have announced. Read Full Article ...

North Korea needs to be ready for both dialogue and confrontation with Washington, the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said in his first direct statement on policy towards the “newly emerged” US administration. Read Full Article at...

Nepalese officials have said that 11 people have died after flooding and landslides, triggered by heavy rain, swept across the country. Chinese and Indian workers are among the dead and 25 remaining missing. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

China's outbound direct investment (ODI) into countries involved in the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has continued to increase, expanding 13.8% year-on-year in the first five months of 2021 to $7.43 billion. Read Full Articl...

A drunk Scotland fan was knocked down by a motorbike as he staggered into oncoming traffic on a London street ahead of the Euro 2020 match against England on Friday. Read Full Article at RT.com

South Korea will use Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine as the second dose for 760,000 people who have already been administered the AstraZeneca shot, joining a growing list of countries that have mixed the two jabs. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka will skip Wimbledon as she continues her break from the sport for mental health reasons, but will be back to compete at her home Olympics in Japan this summer. Read Full Article at RT.com

An entire Portland police crowd control unit voted to disband after a member was indicted on charges stemming from a riot. The officers, who volunteered for the unit, also cited lack of recognition as a reason. Read Full Article at RT.c...

India's fuel demand jumped by 13% in the first two weeks of June, for a first monthly rise since March, suggesting that the worst of the impact of the second Covid wave has peaked and consumption is rebounding. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A top executive at Twitter’s Indian branch has received a police notice asking him to appear for questioning in Ghaziabad, after local authorities said the platform stoked communal hatred by refusing to remove a violent video. Read Fu...

General Mark Milley, the top officer in the US military, downplayed reports that the Pentagon lost track of nearly 2,000 weapons in the 2010s – some later used in crimes – insisting the true figure is “significantly” lower. Read...

Chris Cuomo, the CNN host who once told viewers it was illegal for them to download WikiLeaks documents that might incriminate Hillary Clinton, has thrown down the gauntlet to those who question his veracity. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has deemed racism a “public health crisis” in Chicago, vowing to allocate nearly $10 million in federal coronavirus relief money to create “equity zones” around the city and improve her “anti-racist” pol...

Child slaves trafficked to cocoa plantations in Africa can’t sue Nestle for “general corporate activity” in the US, the Supreme Court has ruled on the same day President Joe Biden declared a new holiday marking the end of slavery....

Hostilities between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza have resumed with a vengeance, with Tel Aviv firing a flurry of missiles into the enclave in response to “arson balloons” as tensions flare up under the new Israeli government. Re...

The suspect in an unprovoked stabbing of a 94-year-old woman in San Francisco had been released by a judge nine days earlier despite his fifth burglary arrest since 2020, leading to renewed criticism of woke criminal justice. Read Full ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is facing criticism after not directly answering a yes-or-no question on whether an “unborn baby at 15 weeks is a human being.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The US embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul has told its staff to work remotely from their quarters after a spike in coronavirus cases saw one local worker die, dozens infected and several others evacuated for medical treatment. Read Ful...

Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu has adopted the strangest narrative in a bid to attack pro-gun conservatives: that the US actually won in Vietnam, and that it’s unpatriotic to say the enemy fought off the US military with cheap rifles. Read Fu...

The Netherlands maintained their 100% record at Euro 2020 as they sealed a spot in the last 16 of the competition with a 2-0 victory over Austria in Amsterdam. Read Full Article at RT.com

Kenneth Kaunda, who became Zambia’s first president after helping to lead a peaceful revolution against colonial British rule, has died at the age of 97 after being treated for pneumonia at a military hospital in Lusaka. Read Full Art...

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis, Missouri couple filmed brandishing a rifle and a handgun at angry protesters that broke into their gated community last June, have agreed to pay fines and forfeit their weapons. Read Full Arti...

The UK must stick to its commitments on Northern Ireland border arrangements after Brexit, the EU Commission has said after London sent Brussels a formal request to suspend an upcoming so-called ‘sausage ban’. Read Full Article at R...

Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-New Jersey) shocked some fellow lawmakers – and later social media users – after he attended a Zoom hearing seemingly in his pajamas and at one point even exposing his stomach to the camera. Read Full Articl...

Alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell may still be in what she describes as a filthy jail fit for Hannibal Lecter while she awaits trial, but the British socialite has won a very small victory – receiving $13.70 in court costs. Rea...

Bare-knuckle pair Pearl Gonzalez and Charisa 'Sweetheart' Sigala have taken to social media to share their latest preparations for their BKFC clash, which will take place on a stacked card at the Hard Rock Hotel on June 26. Read Full Ar...

Paul Pogba and Cristiano Ronaldo might have gripes with some of the sponsors at Euro 2020, but Ukraine star Andriy Yarmolenko certainly doesn’t – jokingly moving Coca-Cola and Heineken bottles closer to him at a press conference. Re...

With Covid-19 cases on the rise again in Russia, the developers of the pioneering Sputnik V vaccine revealed on Thursday that they have created an upcoming booster shot that's effective against the latest mutations of the virus. Read Fu...

Another group abduction occurred in Nigeria on Thursday, with militants killing a police officer and kidnapping five teachers and an unknown number of students in an attack on a school in the northwest of the country. Read Full Article ...

With fewer than 10% of residents vaccinated and hospital beds filling up as new Covid-19 variants spread, Moscow's Mayor has warned that the Russian capital might be facing a short but very strict lockdown to control the virus. Read Ful...

Social justice warrior and US women's national team soccer star Megan Rapinoe has been dubbed a 'hypocrite' after an old tweet emerged from 2011 in which she appears to mock a fellow professional and Asians. Read Full Article at RT.com ...