At least 52 bodies have been recovered from the rubble after a fire broke at a food and drink factory near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. More people are feared to be missing as the blaze continues to rage. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade has raised its forecast for the growth of the country’s economy in 2021, despite new administrative restrictions on business activity due to the third wave of the pandemic. Read F...

The Taliban said they have completely seized Islam Qala, a border town in the western Herat province through which lucrative trade with neighboring Iran flows. Afghan officials there reportedly fled to Iran for safety. Read Full Article...

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has developed a new model of shoes for female military personnel participating in the country’s Independence Day parade after a high-profile scandal erupted over women being forced to march in heels. Rea...

The South Korean government has put in place a tough semi-lockdown for the greater Seoul area. The country is facing its fourth wave of Covid-19, with daily infections surging to their highest-ever levels. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Twitter Inc.’s unit in India has appointed an interim chief compliance officer and is to assign other executives in the nearest future in order to comply with the country’s new IT regulations. Read Full Article at RT.com

Haiti’s national police force has claimed that two Americans and 26 Colombians were responsible for the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, while Taiwan has confirmed that 11 arrests were made at its diplomatic compound. Read Fu...

US health regulators have said that a third dose of a coronavirus vaccine is unnecessary “at this time,” but noted that could change with new data, after Pfizer revealed plans to seek emergency authorization for a booster shot. Read...

A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake and dozens of aftershocks have struck the California-Nevada border area, triggering a rockslide in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and reports of shaking from San Francisco to Carson City. Read Full ...

New York’s subway tunnels have become canals as the city faces a major bout of flash flooding that has engulfed roads and freeways and left some stranded motorists in need of rescue after hours of heavy rainfall. Read Full Article at ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has scaled back the prescribed uses for a new Alzheimer’s drug, now limiting it to “mild” dementia cases, after several health advisers resigned in protest over a rushed approval process. Read F...

Austria is reeling from a tragedy that saw a 13-year-old girl die after being drugged and gang-raped. Yet a local feminist group seemed more enraged by media reporting the suspects’ nationality and casting a shadow on refugees. Read F...

As Boris Johnson’s government plans to lift all Covid-19 restrictions on July 19, some groups are campaigning against the move, while a new poll shows that a significant number of Britons want some measures to stay permanently. Read F...

The US Office of Director of National Intelligence seems to have inserted two people with disabilities into a stock photo of a multicultural workplace, then used it as the cover for their report on diversity, inclusion and equity. Read ...

Michael Avenatti, a lawyer best known for representing Stormy Daniels and appearing frequently on CNN, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after being found guilty of trying to extort Nike. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

At least three people have been killed and several others wounded in gunfights between police and gangs on the streets of Caracas, local media in Venezuela reported on Thursday. The street battles have raged since Wednesday. Read Full A...

The stunning partner of tennis star Marton Fucsovics has been at the center of a blazing cancel culture row after being described as "very pretty" by a former champion during a BBC broadcast from Wimbledon, outraging some viewers. Read ...

Two more suspects have been arrested over the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise a day earlier, police have said, taking the total number held to six. Read Full Article at RT.com

US President Joe Biden defended his decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan, denying any parallels with Vietnam and saying he was confident the Afghan government could hold off the Taliban with continued help from Washington. Read Fu...

Throughout the lucrative fight career which has seen Conor McGregor become one of combat sports' most bankable stars, he has rarely been far from UFC gold – but can the Irishman's brand survive another crushing defeat? Read Full Artic...

Donald Trump has revealed that he plans on and is committed to giving a deposition in the recently announced class-action lawsuit against the Big Tech companies Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Read Full Article at RT.com

As part of a new recruitment program, budding WWE superstars, corporate gig-hunters and part-timers alike can find work by uploading short video CVs to “creatively and authentically showcase their skillsets and experiences.” Read Fu...

The Tunisian health system has collapsed under the pressure of Covid-19, the country’s health ministry has said, with overwhelmed hospitals struggling to provide care amid a chronic shortage of beds and oxygen. Read Full Article at RT...

The hyped third showdown between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will be scrapped just weeks before it is due to take place in Las Vegas because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the champion's camp, a report has strongly suggested. Read Full Art...

Huddersfield forward Kenny Edwards is facing a 10-game spell on the sidelines after a disciplinary panel found him guilty of "inserting his finger up the bottom" of an opposing player during a recent game. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Germany has registered more than 3,800 symptomatic Covid-19 cases among people that were fully vaccinated against the disease since February, the nation’s disease control and prevention agency, the Robert Koch Institute, said. Read Fu...

A Californian woman has been pulled out of her tent and killed by a grizzly bear in Ovando, Montana, where she was staying the night during a long-distance biking trip. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, has suspended all outdoor sport until further notice as the city authorities seek to repel a surge in Covid-19 cases, particularly from the south of the country. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK hit a Covid milestone on Thursday, surpassing five million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, as officials reported a new single-day increase of 32,551 infections, along with a further 35 fatalities. Read Full Article a...

More than 100 scientists and doctors have written a letter slamming the UK government’s decision to lift all Covid restrictions in England on July 19 as “unethical”, with cases rising and vaccines not yet giving herd immunity. Rea...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has raised some eyebrows after declaring that it’s “absolutely the government’s business” to know whether or not citizens have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Read Full Art...

YouTube mistakenly penalized the channel of satirist and political commenter Matt Orfalea over an old fake ad calling Starbucks coffee “insanely overpriced beverages for psychopaths.” Or was it over his criticism of censorship? Read...

Celtic's Scotland international striker Leigh Griffiths has been sent home from the club's training camp in Newport after police launched a probe into allegations that the footballer had been acting inappropriately online. Read Full Art...

Police say they have arrested a man after a footballer hit his head on the pavement when he copped a knockout blow during a street fight in the US, with footage appearing to show him accusing his assailant of insulting his mother. Read ...

Calls from a French minister not to register the Russian and Chinese Covid-19 vaccines in the EU are “unacceptable” and “neo-Nazism.” That’s according to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, who slammed Paris for “racis...

The head of South Korea’s intelligence service, Park Jie-won, has revealed at a mass held at Sanjeong-dong Catholic Church that the country is working with the Vatican to arrange a visit by Pope Francis to North Korea. Read Full Artic...

Health chiefs in Ireland are in a “real race” to vaccinate the population against Covid-19 amid the threat of an increasing number of cases of the Delta variant of the virus, the country’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has said. ...

Lithuania’s prime minister has revealed that Vilnius is planning to build a barrier on its border with Belarus as a way of curbing migration across the frontier, which has seen an increase in illegal crossings in recent weeks. Read Fu...

A bookstore was fined for selling a kid's picture book depicting LGBT families in Hungary. Officials argued that the store has failed to properly warn customers about the book's content. Read Full Article at RT.com

Conservative commentator Candace Owens has received her latest outpouring of hate and ridicule on Twitter after saying her family members will not get immunized against Covid-19 and her employees would be treated accordingly. Read Full ...

Fans will not attend the Olympics following a spike in Covid-19 infections in Japan, with minister for the games Tamayo Marukawa announcing that plans to allow spectators have been ditched just two weeks before the action begins. Read F...

Mermaids, a controversial UK charity which helps transgender youth, has been fined £25,000 after it unknowingly exposed nearly 800 pages of personal emails containing the private information of trans children and their parents. Read Fu...

Trials of a four-day workweek in Iceland were an overwhelming success, according to UK think tank Autonomy, which concluded that worker productivity did not suffer and even improved in some cases. Read Full Article at RT.com

American sailors at the helm of a naval landing vessel have charted course for the Black Sea to take part in wargames alongside other NATO forces, the US Sixth Fleet has announced on Thursday, amid fears of conflict in the region. Read ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared on Thursday that his country would bar LGBT+ activists from schools under a new law restricting promotion of homosexuality, despite pressure from the EU to rescind the legislation. Read F...

The majority of the UK’s armed forces personnel assigned to NATO’s mission in Afghanistan have left that country and the rest are returning home, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

By withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, the US has admitted that its operation in the country failed. That’s according to Russia’s foreign minister, who also accused Washington of further complicating the situation in Kabul. Rea...

Stanislav Cherchesov's reign of almost five years as Russia national team boss has come to an end on Thursday after he was axed by Russian football chiefs in the aftermath of his side finishing bottom of their group at Euro 2020. Read F...

Campaigners who have previously targeted the likes of Nike and Coca-Cola have accused baseball bosses of failing the sport and carrying out dubious deals in China, taking aim ahead of a showpiece that was moved over voting rights. Read ...

The pontiff has been given the all-clear after receiving negative microbiological tests following a high fever last night, and is taking a ‘quiet day’ to recuperate. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s most senior diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, has said that Moscow sees attempts to interfere in its domestic policy from abroad almost every day, warning that things could get worse as the country heads to the polls this year. Read F...

England's celebrations at reaching their first major final in 55 years have bene tempered somewhat after UEFA revealed they are to charge Gareth Southgate's team with a string of offences during the semi-final win against Denmark. Read ...

The European Union has fined BMW, VW, Audi, and Porsche $1 billion for “cartel behavior” in conspiring to curb the development of clean-emissions technology, while Daimler got a pass for informing on its co-conspirators. Read Full A...

The combination of Covid-19 with hot weather can cause serious complications that may be fatal. That’s according to the head of Moscow’s Kommunarka Hospital, which last year became the city’s main coronavirus treatment facility. R...

People playing popular mobile games during nighttime in China are now required to prove they are adults. Tencent has started using its face ID system to catch minors violating a government-mandated curfew. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Children’s television stars the Teletubbies announced on Wednesday that they had been fully ‘vaccinated’ against Covid-19 – drawing mixed reactions from current and former fans of the show. Read Full Article at RT.com

China’s largest genomics firm has hit back at assertions it shares data from a popular prenatal test kit with the country’s military, branding the claims raised in a Reuters report “deeply disappointing” and “factually incorre...

The Ministry of Defense in Moscow confirmed on Thursday that two of its bomber jets had conducted a series of staged drills in the Arctic region of the country, practicing firing off rockets and unleashing volleys from their guns. Read ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had been delivering a speech at an airbase in Lithuania on Thursday when an urgent alarm was raised to deploy a nearby jet, forcing him to suddenly halt the conference. Read Full Article at RT.com

In a joint statement, Russia, Iran, and Turkey have condemned Israel for its “military attacks in Syria, which violate international law,” as the nations resume discussions at the 16th round of Astana Process talks. Read Full Articl...

Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry has asked the United States to avoid causing “unnecessary speculation or misunderstanding” after the White House Covid-19 Response Team deleted a tweet that contained the island’s flag. Read Full Articl...

If fans thought Conor McGregor was a little too friendly ahead of his last fight with Dustin Poirier earlier this year, that doesn't seem to be the case this time around as he pledges to 'kill' his rival in the UFC 264 main event. Read ...

A major survey conducted across academia in the Netherlands has found that more than a half of scientists admitted to engaging in some type of questionable research practice in their work.  Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian winger Nikita Kucherov took aim at rival hockey fans in an epic rant after helping his team win the Stanley Cup, lauding goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, who made a phone call to his parents in Russia on the ice afterwards. Read F...

RT's Keiser Report looks into the potential problems that massive quantitative easing programs by central banks are creating for the global economy. Read Full Article at RT.com

District of Columbia and 35 US states filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, accusing the tech giant of violating antitrust laws on its Android app store. Read Full Article at RT.com

Hundreds camped outside the Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat Temple in Bangkok overnight for a chance to get a coronavirus test, as the pandemic runs rampant in Thailand, with a spike in cases and a record number of fatalities. Read Full Ar...

The European Union has offered to open up talks with Moscow over how to ensure travelers who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus can travel across borders without stringent requirements for self-isolation and testing. Read Fu...

A bull who separated from China’s famous herd of trekking elephants had to be captured and taken all the way back to the nature reserve from which the animals set out months ago, the local authority has said. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Roman Protasevich, the ex-editor of an opposition Belarusian Telegram channel now being held by authorities in the country, has made a return to the online world, posting a clip for his supporters from a new social media account. Read F...

An International Air Transport Association (IATA) report has revealed a significant decline in air travel due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. It shows a 63% drop in May 2021 compared to the same period in 2019. Read Full Article a...

The Delta variant, which is known to be more transmissible than the original strain of the coronavirus, now makes up the majority of new infections in Germany, health officials have said. Read Full Article at RT.com

China’s establishment of a national pipeline network, PipeChina, last October is creating a shift in China’s oil and gas industry, which aims to create greater competition and encourage new players in the sector. Read Full Article a...

Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of Russia’s largest liberal political party, has declared that he does not want votes from supporters of imprisoned opposition figure Alexey Navalny, labeling his views as “fundamentally different.” ...

A man wearing nothing but a pair of blue shorts scaled a church in LA and set its cross ablaze, local media footage shows, with the scantily clad arsonist then beating a hasty retreat across rooftops and powerlines. Read Full Article at...

The Belgian Foreign Ministry has urgently recalled its ambassador to South Korea after the envoy’s wife was involved in her second physical confrontation this year, coming to blows with a street sweeper in Seoul earlier this week. Rea...

Fresh from his New York law license being suspended for allegedly false election-fraud claims in support of former president Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani has also lost his rights, at least temporarily, to practice in Washington. Read Ful...

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has raised concerns over the Biden administration's plan to send agents to the homes of unvaccinated Americans to promote Covid-19 jabs, saying such a program could violate privacy rights. Read Ful...

The story of NSA spying on cable host Tucker Carlson may have turned a shade of Russiagate, as the Fox pundit said the alleged surveillance followed efforts to set up an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read Full Article...

City officials in Fort Lauderdale, Florida have accepted a proposal by Elon Musk's tunnel-building firm to bore an underground loop, which critics say has yet to be proven as a viable mass transit system. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Haiti's national police have arrested multiple men suspected of assassinating President Jovenel Moise, the government announced, adding that a gun battle with the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Emergency workers will stop looking for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed high-rise in Miami, the city’s fire department said, noting that the weeks-long search would now transition to recovering victims’ remains. Read Full Art...

South African police have confirmed that former president Jacob Zuma has turned himself in. Sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court, his initial refusal sparked a standoff his son said could’ve led to civil war. Read Fu...

England are into a first major tournament final for 55 years but their Euro 2020 victory over Denmark at Wembley was not without major controversy as winger Raheem Sterling was accused of ‘diving’. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

England will play in their first major final since 1966 after Harry Kane scored in extra time in a 2-1 win against Denmark - but much of the focus is on Raheem Sterling who was accused of 'diving' to win the crucial penalty. Read Full A...

Forget getting canceled on social media platforms, try losing your access to money. That’s what Capital One bank has reportedly done to Enrique Tarrio, leader of the controversial group Proud Boys, by canceling his credit card. Read F...

The Delta variant comprises the majority of new US Covid-19 cases for the first time, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read Full Article at RT.com

A further two hospitals in Scotland have declared “code black” status due to an influx of cases amid a new Covid-19 surge. Code black means a hospital is at full capacity with no more beds available and that patients are at risk. Re...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has slammed the UK, Germany and France after they accused Tehran of a “grave breach” of its uranium enrichment obligations. The Western nations did not fulfil their obligations either, he said. Re...

A huge fireball has been seen rising over a port in Dubai as the UAE’s largest city was rocked by a major blast. The blaze broke out within a container stored on a ship anchored in the Jebel Ali port, the city government has said. Rea...

A Trafalgar Group poll showed that 57% of Americans believe Joe Biden isn't fully executing the duties of president – and it’s not just a right-wing view. Nearly one in three Democrats think someone else is running the country. Read...

Fans have blamed England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford after he conceded their first goal at Euro 2020 as Danish youngster Mikkel Damsgaard scored a vicious free-kick in their semi-final at Wembley. Read Full Article at RT.com

John McAfee’s death in a Spanish prison has been ruled a suicide, but the late software tycoon’s wife isn’t sure. Janice McAfee says that the flow of information from Spain is slow, and “there is clearly a cover up happening.”...

France has successfully used an experimental laser weapon to destroy a drone mid-flight, Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly has said. The new tech could be deployed under security measures for the next Olympic Games. Read Full ...

Barcelona say that they are contemplating "internal measures" against players Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele after the club issued an apology following a leaked video showing the pair mocking Japanese hotel staff. Read Full Artic...

The NSA has shown journalists the content of Tucker Carlson’s illegally obtained emails, the Fox News host has revealed, calling it a “totally dysfunctional, out-of-control third-world system” of targeting political opposition. Re...

A political science professor at the US Air Force Academy has been accused of teaching “dangerous wokeism” after revealing she uses critical race theory to help cadets “understand the history of the racism” that shaped America. ...

Reports that the FBI found a US Capitol LEGO set built in the home of one of the accused rioters has some mocking the continued legal effort to find and prosecute anyone involved in the January 6 “insurrection.” Read Full Article at...

MMA loudmouth Colby Covington has come under fire after he leaked a supposedly incriminating clip of Dustin Poirier tagging a sparring partner in training - but fight fans are claiming that they don't see the big deal. Read Full Article...

Rescue crews found 10 more bodies overnight in the rubble of the residential tower that collapsed last month near Miami, bringing the death toll to 46 after demolition of the remaining structure opened up more areas for searchers. Read ...