The cryptocurrency market is facing more regulation in the US as Washington looks for new sources of money to fund the government’s massive infrastructure spending plan. Read Full Article at RT.com

In the wake of passionately addressing her feelings about her origins in the Siberian Republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk region, Russian sharp shooter Svetlana Gomboeva has sent a message to her "haters" who "criticize me". Read Full Arti...

China says it will start a city-wide testing campaign after authorities detected cases of the contagious Delta variant in Wuhan, the metropolis where the Covid-19 pandemic is believed to have started nearly two years ago. Read Full Arti...

Vitaly Shishov, the head of an association of Belarusians living abroad in Ukraine, has been found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, police say. The activist disappeared while out running, sparking fears online for his safety. Read F...

The recent attack on a vaccination site in Poland was a “terrorist attack” incited by an online disinformation campaign, the health minister said, promising to fight against hatred toward medical workers. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Dove are facing a boycott from women disgusted at the toiletries company's "virtue-signalling" support for transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard at Tokyo 2020, which some interpreted as "celebrating the end of women's sport". Read Ful...

US officials have waded into the row surrounding Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya, accusing Minsk of disregarding “basic rights”, while the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched a formal investigation. Read Ful...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved its largest-ever distribution of monetary reserves totaling $650 billion to help the global economy recover from the Covid pandemic and ease the mounting debt of member states. Read Ful...

After hearing union complaints about the vote in Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama facility, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) may recommend another election due to violations of labor law – but the decision isn’t final yet. Read...

The nascent pro-Trump social network Gettr has been inundated by material sympathetic to Islamic State, according to a Politico analysis of its content, which eventually admits Twitter and Facebook are dealing with the same issue. Read ...

Two Washington, DC police officers who took part in the response to the riot in the US Capitol have taken their own lives, their department confirmed, bringing the total number of police suicides in the wake of the unrest to four. Read ...

Health departments across California’s Bay Area have reintroduced indoor mask mandates, requiring residents in eight regions to don face coverings – vaccinated or not – as officials point to the rapid spread of the Delta variant. ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has promised there will be a “collective response” to the attack on the Israeli-operated tanker off Oman, which Washington blames on Tehran, as Iran vowed a response of its own to any threat. Rea...

The Washingtonian magazine kicked off a wave of mockery after reporting that the journalist who posted photos of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser breaking masking guidance was – shockingly – not invited to the event. Read Full Article at RT.c...

FBI agents have been using photos of female staffers in undercover sex trafficking operations, including one time without written permission, the Department of Justice’s inspector general has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former child prodigy Anastasiia Iliankova was overwhelmed with emotion after the late entrant to the Russian Olympic Games team won silver on the uneven bars in Tokyo, completing a remarkable comeback from injury and exclusion. Read Ful...

As more migrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border test positive for Covid-19, a coalition of nonprofits is suing the Biden administration for not repealing a policy that would expel them on grounds of public health. Read Full Art...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) says he has tested positive for Covid-19 “even after being vaccinated” and will quarantine for 10 days, but he credited the jab for the fact he only has mild symptoms. Read Full Article at R...

There was an unexpected visitor to a Russian Premier League match on Monday as a snake in the grass entered the home box, tried to evade stadium staff and forced a referee to temporarily stop the action at Chechnya's Akhmat Arena. Read ...

Super-supple sensation Angelina Melnikova has secured a hat-trick of medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, winning a bronze in the floor exercise gymnastics competition under the Russian Olympic Committee banner. Read Full Article at ...

A German frigate has set sail for the South China Sea for the first time in some two decades as part of a six-month mission, as Berlin pledges its commitment to its allies and to ‘freedom of navigation’. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called on private businesses to refuse service to unvaccinated customers, admitting his own government lacks legal standing to declare a sweeping statewide mandate. Read Full Article at RT.com

A notorious video blogger from Tajikistan has been sentenced to 28 months behind bars by a Russian court after a tasteless prank in which he pretended to be infected with coronavirus caused Moscow’s metro to sound the alarm. Read Full...

Russia is still running an old economic model that has outlived its usefulness, and the country needs to transition to a modern, investment-based economy to stimulate growth, boost exports and have more of an impact worldwide. Read Full...

Russian long jump star Darya Klishina has bemoaned the injury that cut short her Olympic efforts and caused her to leave the Tokyo track in a wheelchair, but nonetheless wished her rivals well in their final this week. Read Full Article...

A politician has called on Israel to allow civil marriage as a "basic right" after the mother of Artem Dolgopyat, the nation's new Olympic champion, claimed the Ukraine-born star cannot marry his girlfriend under religious rules. Read F...

British MPs who sit on influential parliamentary groups while holding plum industry jobs are the subject of a conflict of interest inquiry by the House of Commons Standards Committee, which is probing backdoor lobbying. Read Full Articl...

Doctors in Nigeria have begun an indefinite strike over what they say are late payment of wages and Covid allowances, as well as poor working conditions. The industrial action comes as hundreds of Covid cases are recorded daily. Read Fu...

Sudesh Amman, the knife-wielding attacker who stabbed two people on Streatham High Road last year, was released from prison days before the assault, despite officials raising concerns about his “extremist views.” Read Full Article a...

Iranian wrestling great Mohammadali Geraei has stunned fans and Croatian opponent Bozo Starcevic with a flying squirrel move during their meeting at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, showing off his array of violent methods of attack. Read ...

Despite worries from health officials about a Covid-19 resurgence driven by the Delta variant, former president Barack Obama will be hosting his star-studded 60th birthday bash with hundreds in attendance. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Authorities in Greece have called for citizens to reduce their power consumption, with temperatures moving toward 44C this week and energy suppliers cautioning against putting additional pressure on the national grid. Read Full Article ...

The head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, has suggested constructing a special module for tourists on the proposed Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), a planned Moscow-funded replacement for the aging ISS. Read Ful...

Disgraced football star Adam Johnson, who was imprisoned in 2016 for engaging in sexual activity with a minor, has been photographed taking a stroll with his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his newborn child, Stacey Flounders. Read Full...

Danish 400m hurdler Sara Slott Petersen’s own bid for Olympic glory came to end after she fell victim to torrential conditions in Tokyo, but the star didn’t let that stop her from congratulating Ukrainian rival Viktoriya Tkachuk. Re...

Scotland’s health minister has reported a nursery school to watchdogs after claiming his daughter’s application was twice refused on the grounds that her name is Muslim. He says he is seeking legal advice. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Foreign sales of Russian crude dropped 8% in the first seven months of 2021 compared to the same period a year ago, according to the latest report by the Russian Energy Agency. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran has said it would not hesitate to give a “strong” and “prompt” response to any threat while slamming “false” accusations as the UK summoned its envoy over the attack on the Israeli-operated tanker off the coast of Oman....

American swimmer Lilly King has implied that Russians should have been banned from the Olympics rather than copping "a slap on the wrist" from doping chiefs, backing up pal Ryan Murphy's suspicions that races had not "been clean". Read ...

Chinese state-backed newspaper the Global Times accused the United States of holding “major responsibility” for the Covid-19 pandemic after a congressional report blamed China for the virus’ spread. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Human rights group Amnesty International has condemned Lebanese officials ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly Beirut port blast, accusing authorities of “shamelessly obstructing victims’ quest for truth and justice.” Read...

In an attempt to boost inoculation rates, Hong Kong has announced that workers in key sectors will have to either get vaccinated or regularly pay for Covid tests on their own. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US has said that it is ready to accept “thousands” more Afghans who helped American forces and organizations as refugees amid the increased Taliban onslaught and looming withdrawal of troops. Read Full Article at RT.com

Polish oil and gas company PGNiG and its German subsidiary PGNiG Supply & Trading are planning to take part in the certification procedures for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian artistic gymnast Denis Ablyazin made it a hat-trick of silver medals in his Olympic vault career and admitted he was unsure why he lost to South Korea on a tie-break – but acknowledged that arguing "won't change anything". Rea...

New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission has termed the country’s housing crisis a “massive human rights failure” as it launched an inquiry into the issue. Soaring property values have led to a spike in homelessness. Read Full Arti...

Authorities in China have said that the death toll from the devastating floods in Henan province has reached 302, most of whom died in the provincial capital Zhengzhou where a subway line was earlier flooded. Read Full Article at RT.com...

GB News has divided its viewers again after presenter Neil Oliver said his willingness to catch Covid-19 and pass it on to others was an expression of his desire for freedom, likening it to the Battle of Britain. Read Full Article at RT...

Woke warrior Megan Rapinoe and her Team USA colleagues have been widely mocked following a shock defeat in the Olympic Games semifinals to cross-border rivals Canada, leaving the captain looking stunned at the final whistle. Read Full A...

Hydrogen is quickly gaining ground in the global energy mix, but it still has a long way to go to become the low-carbon solution it is being touted as. Read Full Article at RT.com

Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya has received a humanitarian visa from Poland after asking for political refugee status. She applied after sports officials from her home nation attempted to repatriate her against her will. Read ...

Russia’s main overseas intelligence boss, Sergey Naryshkin of the SVR, has cast a light on the murky world of espionage, painting a bleak picture of betrayal and disinformation cutting through a whole range of geopolitical issues. Rea...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said the hastened withdrawal of foreign forces has led to the worsening situation on the battlefield, as the Taliban renewed assaults on major cities. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Philippines has decided to bring the existing nighttime curfew in the capital of Manila forward by two hours in an attempt to quell soaring Covid-19 cases in the city, which is soon to be placed under strict lockdown. Read Full Arti...

The European Union (EU) has announced that it has deployed firefighters to Turkey under the Civil Protection Mechanism to help the country fight “unprecedented forest fires,” as the death toll from the blazes rises to eight. Read Fu...

Laurel Hubbard, the controversial New Zealand weightlifter who is the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics, has bowed out of the women's competition at the first time of asking after failing with three lifts. Read Full A...

Nils Melzer, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on torture, has issued a request for information after a video showing a German police officer throwing an elderly woman to the floor during a protest went viral online. Read Full Ar...

Citing procurement notices, interviews and other open-sourced data, an upcoming US congressional report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic has apparently uncovered “ample evidence” to prove the disputed Wuhan lab leak theory. R...

Transgender athletes "cannot be allowed to compete" against athletes of the gender they transition to, the boss of the Russian Handball Federation has insisted ahead of Laurel Hubbard's history-making Olympic Games appearance. Read Full...

The Liuhua 21-2 oil field, located in the eastern South China Sea, has begun full-scale production, according to the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), which operates the offshore project. Read Full Article at RT.com

England captain Harry Kane has reportedly failed to turn up for pre-season training with Premier League giants Spurs – and his absence is understood to be his decision rather than related to Covid precautions or an injury. Read Full A...

The US state-run broadcaster RFE/RL has come under fire on Twitter after a long thread of xenophobic caricatures by Ukrainian ‘artist’ Aleksey Kustovsky depicting Russian-speaking people as sub-human cockroaches went viral. Read Ful...

Belarusian Olympic long jumper Nasstasia Mironchyk-Ivanova has criticised teammate Kristina Timanovskaya for the "embarrassing" situation surrounding her row with Belarusian national team officials at Tokyo 2020. Read Full Article at RT...

Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has announced that the country has reached the peak of a deadly second Covid-19 wave fuelled by the Delta variant, claiming over 9,000 lives in the past week. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Self-proclaimed gymnastics great Simone Biles will return to Olympic competition by going for gold in Tokyo on Tuesday evening, after a troubled week in which she pulled out of two events at the Games citing mental health issues. Read F...

The United Arab Emirates government has announced it will start administering Covid-19 vaccines made by Chinese firm Sinopharm to children aged 3-17 after a trial of 900 minors. Read Full Article at RT.com

Having pored over former Financial Times reporter Catherine Belton’s book, ‘Putin’s People’, it’s hard to be surprised it is now causing her legal problems. More surprising is that it was published like this in the first place...

A little while ago, I found myself in a ridiculous situation that I’d have let slide were it in Zimbabwe or the Central African Republic. But it wasn’t – it was in Britain, the self-styled international business hub of the world. ...

Coronavirus-related restrictions have been tightened in major Australian cities, with a lockdown extended in Brisbane and military personnel dispatched to patrol the streets of Sydney amid the fight against the Delta variant. Read Full ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin was among the supporters of his country's first ever hosting of the Ironman endurance series, which saw athletes descend on St. Petersburg for an action-packed Sunday in testing weather conditions. Read ...

Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya was “behaving strangely” at the Tokyo Games and “maybe planned something,” according to national team head coach Yuri Moisevich, who was speaking after the runner refused to return home. ...

A man has been charged by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) after a video circulated online of him impersonating a police commissioner and declaring that there were plans to overthrow the government. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Police have started removing around 200 climate activists who staged a protest at the entrance to banks Credit Suisse and UBS in Zurich demanding the financial institutions stop financing fossil fuel projects. Read Full Article at RT.co...

India’s manufacturing sector rebounded in July, allowing local business to offer new jobs for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. The expansion was underpinned by robust demand domestically and abroad. Read Full Ar...

Ramzan Kadyrov has hailed knockout artist Imam Khataev after the product of his fight club saw his Olympic Games campaign end against Briton Ben Whittaker, with the protege of heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua winning on points. Read Ful...

Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Moscow who has since transitioned into one of Russia’s most vociferous and omnipresent critics, has revealed online that the move from diplomat to info warrior has been a lucrative one. Read...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed it is looking into the podium protest by US shot-put silver medalist Raven Saunders, who made an ‘X’ gesture during Sunday’s ceremony in Tokyo. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Tennis star Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is ecstatic after winning gold with Andrey Rublev at the Olympic Games, edging out Aslan Karatsev and Elena Vesnina in a gripping all-Russian doubles final before Karatsev grabbed a gold medal. Read ...

South Korean officials said a decision on the annual August drills with the US has not yet been finalized, and joint exercises should not raise tensions, following a strong warning from Pyongyang. Read Full Article at RT.com

Shortly after being labeled a hypocrite for a maskless photo on the eve of her own mask mandate, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was accused of attending a wedding party without a face covering. Read Full Article at RT.com

Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya is “safe and secure” after spending Sunday night in a Tokyo airport hotel, following her refusal to fly back to her homeland amid an escalating Olympic row, officials have said. Read Full Art...

After an 11th-hour effort, a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators announced that they finalized a mammoth infrastructure bill, which includes $550 billion in new spending. The bill now heads to the Senate floor. Read Full Article at R...

Progressives angry at lawmakers’ failure to extend the eviction moratorium, thus potentially leaving millions of Americans on the streets, called for the ‘occupation’ of Congress, prompting parallels with the events of January 6. ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, has encouraged businesses to mandate that their customers be vaccinated against Covid-19 to “protect the unvaccinated.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Photos of massive crowds attending the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago spurred Twitter users to ask, “Where’s Waldo?” while the city’s mayor faced criticism for greenlighting the event. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Kamala Harris has become the most unpopular vice president six months into an administration in years, according to recent unfavorable polling for the former senator. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US has lost the war in Afghanistan not when it decided to withdraw as the Taliban regained power, but years ago, when it bombed Afghan homes in the name of fighting terror, ex-president Hamid Karzai told RT's Oksana Boyko. Read Full...

Berlin witnessed chaotic scenes and violent brawls on Sunday as riot police sought to forcefully disperse anti-lockdown rallies that had been banned by authorities, after thousands took to the streets of the German capital. Read Full Ar...

Apple has removed the dating app Unjected, marketed as a “safe space” for unvaccinated Americans, from its store, saying it “inappropriately refers to the Covid-19 pandemic.” The app’s developers say this amounts to censorship...

In one of her first interviews since a reported attempt to forcibly repatriate her back to Belarus from Tokyo for criticizing sports bosses, Kristina Timanovskaya has claimed she was threatened, fears jail and will seek asylum. Read Ful...

Pfizer has reportedly raised the price of its Covid vaccine dose by a quarter, with Moderna also ramping up the price in its latest deal with the European Union. The two are making tens of billions of dollars in pandemic profits. Read F...

Former Chelsea and AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko has ended his association with the Ukraine national team, announcing on social media that his spell in charge helped prove that they are "capable of playing modern football". Read Fu...

Team Israel has issued an apology after members of their Olympic baseball delegation uploaded a video to social media which showed them destroying one of their 'cardboard beds' in their quarters at the Tokyo Olympic village. Read Full A...

17-year-old Russian star Arina Fedorovtseva "might kill somebody" if she played against high school players, the coach of Team USA's women's volleyball team has warned after his side were heavily beaten at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Read ...

South Carolina is the latest state to assure its residents that no new mask mandates are coming, despite concerns from health officials, which the state’s governor chalks up to “hyperbole” and “exaggeration.” Read Full Article...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received backlash from fellow members of the Democratic Party after she refused to take any responsibility for the House’s failure to extend the eviction moratorium, placing the blame on the Republicans. Rea...

It is “highly likely” that Iran was behind the deadly drone attack on the Israeli-operated tanker MV Mercer Street off the coast of Oman, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said, threatening Tehran with a “concerted response.” Read ...

Thrilled Russian left-back Anna Sen has insisted her side's win over France will give them "desire" and "confidence" after sealing their place in the Olympic handball quarterfinals, moving a step closer to defending their title. Read Fu...

UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland says that he would feel absolutely no remorse if he killed an opponent in the octagon after he bullied Uriah Hall en route to a lopsided decision win in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Read Full A...

The Cambodian prime minister has announced that his country is rolling out a third-dose booster scheme, using either a Chinese shot or a British jab. Frontline workers will be the first to receive the follow-up injection. Read Full Arti...