Two Belarusian coaches have been stripped of their accreditation and expelled from the Olympic Village in Tokyo as organizers continue to investigate the scandal surrounding sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

While the majority of the world’s tourist resorts have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions, one area has thrived. In Russia’s south, Krasnodar Region has seen huge growth in tourist revenue. Read Full ...

In the first five months of 2021, there were 15% more babies born in Moscow than the same period in 2020, new data from Russia’s statistics agency Rosstat has shown, also revealing that births in May alone jumped by 48%. Read Full Art...

Russian police are scrambling to track down five escaped prisoners who broke out of a confinement unit outside Moscow in a daring bid for freedom. The alleged killer of a high-profile meat industry mogul is said to be among them. Read F...

South Africa’s disgraced former president has been admitted to hospital for medical observation from prison, where he is serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court since his jailing last month. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

India’s state-held oil refiners are planning to spend as much as $27 billion (2 trillion Indian rupees) on raising the country’s refining capacity, junior oil minister Rameswar Teli told Parliament on Wednesday. Read Full Article ...

After Khabib Nurmagomedov suggested he was “evil” for posting a toxic tweet about the Russian star’s dead father, Conor McGregor has hit back by telling the undefeated former UFC champ to “keep my name out of your mouth.” Read...

French giants Paris Saint-Germain are already jostling for Lionel Messi’s signature with talks reportedly underway after the shock news broke that the Argentine will be leaving Barcelona this summer. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has apologized for leaving out parts of a speech to commemorate the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima 76 years ago, with reports suggesting he skipped a page by mistake. Read Full Article at RT....

The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines was hospitalized after he was struck in the head by a stone during a protest against a proposed vaccine mandate, with images online showing him bloodied by the injury. Read Full Artic...

Beijing has vowed to retaliate after the US State Department gave the green light to a $750 million arms sale to Taiwan – President Joe Biden’s first to the island – arguing the deal damaged bilateral ties and Chinese sovereignty....

CNN is not only a leading promoter of Covid-19 orthodoxy, but also has put itself on the cutting edge of Covid-19 vaccine authoritarianism by firing three unidentified employees who came to work without getting their jabs first. Read Fu...

Two US states just outside Washington, DC have joined the trend of mandating coronavirus vaccines for public workers. Maryland’s governor ramped up pressure on the unvaccinated, calling them a threat to others’ health and freedom. R...

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order calling for zero-emission vehicles to account for at least half of all new autos sold in the US by 2030, joining a race for electric-car supremacy currently dominated by China. Read Full...

The institute headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has funded a study in which dozens of dogs were needlessly tormented, advocacy group White Coat Waste said, citing government documents. Read Full...

The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an order restricting Boeing 737 Max & NG airplanes’ ability to transport flammables, noting the planes may have an issue with air flow control into and out of the cargo hold. Read Full...

Qatar’s flagship carrier has grounded 13 of its Airbus A350 aircraft over an “accelerated rate” of degradation of fuselage panels on the planes. To avoid shortages, the airline is bringing older A330 planes back into service. Read...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced major changes to the government of South Africa in response to last month’s unrest, abolishing the Ministry of State Security and accepting the resignation of health and finance ministers. Read ...

US Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced a civil rights investigation into whether the Phoenix Police Department has engaged in a pattern of excessive force, discrimination and abuse of homeless people. Read Full Article at RT....

Liz Cheney, congresswoman and daughter of ex-VP Dick Cheney, has claimed her father is “troubled” by the Republican Party’s direction after four years of Donald Trump. Social media whipped out a tiny violin to serenade the pair. R...

Anzhelika Sidorova claimed a silver medal for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) with a spirited performance in the pole vault final at the Tokyo 2020 Games, but appeared upset at missing out on the top prize. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Reinvigorated mass protests kicked off in the French capital shortly after the country’s top court upheld controversial legislation which makes a coronavirus ‘health pass’ mandatory for the general public. Read Full Article at RT....

Congressional “Squad” member Cori Bush (D-Missouri) is facing online backlash after defending her use of private security, even as she pushes to defund police, saying her work is too crucial to be jeopardized by death threats. Read ...

Michael Calvey, the US-born financier who founded one of the largest private equity investment firms in Russia, has insisted he is innocent after a Moscow court found him guilty of embezzling funds. He will be sentenced on Friday. Read ...

Manchester City have announced the signing of England international Jack Grealish from Aston Villa in a record-breaking transfer on the eve of the new Premier League season. Read Full Article at RT.com

US iPhone users’ photos will be scanned by Apple’s automated “neuralMatch” system for pictures of child porn and abuse, according to reports. Security researchers are alarmed the scheme threatens privacy and encryption. Read Ful...

Following an announcement from FC Barcelona that star player Lionel Messi will have to leave due to 'financial obstacles', fans are clinging on to hope that the move is a ploy to pressure Spanish La Liga bosses into a U-turn. Read Full ...

Russia’s Sputnik V has fared extremely well in San Marino, helping beat the Covid-19 outbreak, the microstate’s health minister told RT. Yet, with no EU-wide approval for the jab, people are now facing difficulties with travel. Read...

Barcelona have announced Lionel Messi will be leaving this summer after “financial and structural obstacles” meant the club were unable to conclude a new deal with the Argentine star. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former US President Donald Trump has slammed his country's "woke" women's national soccer team following their bronze medal showing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and gave tips on how they can supposedly return to winning ways. Read F...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that global warming is behind a spate of freak weather conditions as emergency workers scramble to deal with heavy flooding and vast wildfires consuming over a million hectares of land. Read F...

Russia's Foreign Ministry has hit out at a series of military exercises staged by the US and its partners in the sensitive Black Sea region, off the coasts of both Russia and Ukraine, warning of the potential risk of escalation. Read Fu...

Temir Sariev, the former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, has been detained over allegations of corruption and understating the environmental risk coming from one of the world’s largest gold mines, which is built into a glacier. Read Ful...

China’s National Development and Reform Commission has announced that 15 closed coal mines will restart production amid surging demand for power, despite President Xi Jinping’s pledge to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Read Full Ar...

The international wrestling governing body has ruled that a bite by Kazakhstan's Nurislam Sanayev on Indian rival Ravi Kumar during a Tokyo 2020 Games bantamweight freestyle wrestling match was "unintentional". Read Full Article at RT.c...

Chechen MMA fighter-turned-blogger Ashab Tamaev has challenged Iranian man-mountain Sajad Gharibi to a showdown, claiming his giant rival is not worthy of his ‘Hulk’ moniker. Read Full Article at RT.com

Indonesia’s foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, has announced a “new era of bilateral relations” with the US, as the two countries host a joint training exercise involving more than 3,000 soldiers. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Ebrahim Raisi has been sworn in as Iran’s new president, with the ultraconservative cleric calling for US sanctions against the Islamic republic to be lifted as tensions between Tehran and the West continue. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Biotech firm Moderna says its Covid-19 vaccine remains 93% effective six months after the second dose, with the efficacy of the mRNA vaccine barely dipping from the 94.5% cited during the clinical trial stage. Read Full Article at RT.co...

More than 20 Chadian soldiers have been killed near Lake Chad after suspected jihadists, purportedly belonging to the Boko Haram group, attacked troops stationed in the notoriously volatile region. Read Full Article at RT.com

Foreign workers have denounced a South Korean city’s newly launched Covid-screening campaign as “racist” and “nonsensical” after it made testing mandatory for workplaces with less than 30 employees – if one of them is a fore...

A British national accused of not wearing a mask and being a public nuisance has been sent to a mental hospital by a Singapore court, after dismissing the charges against him as absurd and refusing to enter a plea. Read Full Article at ...

Two media organizations owned by disgraced 1990's oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky are to cease operations entirely after Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor ordered their websites to be banned and blocked throughout the country. Read Full...

London authorities are lobbying the UK government to make mask wearing on the Tube required by law again, Mayor Sadiq Khan revealed, arguing that only mandatory masking will make people feel safe on public transportation again. Read Ful...

Employees of Australia’s canned vegetable and fruit giant SPC have complained to local media that they’re furious about mandatory vaccinations but will abide by the order to keep their jobs and livelihoods. Read Full Article at RT.c...

France’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the new law that makes the coronavirus ‘health pass’ mandatory for the general public, and vaccination compulsory for healthcare professionals, to be in line with the constitution. Read...

The Washington Football Team has gone one step further in distancing itself from its past, with the NFL organization banning fans from wearing Native American headdresses and face paint at home games for the upcoming season. Read Full A...

The British military was forced to suspend artillery drills at a Kent facility after people landed on a beach amid a record movement of migrants from mainland Europe to the UK. Read Full Article at RT.com

People living in the Ukrainian Donbass region who feel like they are actually Russian should leave the country and emigrate across the border because it will "never be Russia," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Read Full ...

Two Satan-worshippers have reportedly been detained by Russian cops after they confessed to committing grisly murders out in the remote woodlands of the country's Far North before apparently cutting up and even eating the corpses. Read ...

Thousands of people who flocked to vaccination centers in the Philippines capital area to get inoculated against Covid before the imminent lockdown of Metro Manila met with mayhem as locations suddenly stopped administering shots. Read ...

Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt has been bombarded with disapproving tweets after suggesting the EU could sweep the Olympics if European athletes competed for the bloc and combined their medals. Read Full Article at RT.com

Zaur Uguev defeated India's Ravi Kumar Dahiya in the final of the men's freestyle wrestling 57kg category to capture another gold medal for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted US financier Michael Calvey of embezzling funds as part of a long-running and controversial court case that could see the billion-dollar investment fund director handed a stiff sentence. Read Full...

'World's sexiest athlete' Alica Schmidt will not feature at the 2020 Olympics after failing to qualify for the 4x400m women's race on Friday, after fans had questioned her contribution to the German track team in Tokyo. Read Full Articl...

Emergency services in Mugla, Turkey have brought under control a blazing wildfire that threatened the coal-fired Kemerkoy power plant after footage showed flames burning around the facility, sparking an evacuation. Read Full Article at ...

Israel’s defense minister has said the country’s armed forces are ready to strike Iran should it become necessary, as tensions rise further after an Iran-linked attack on an Israeli tanker killed two people. Read Full Article at RT....

The 18-year-old son of former Germany and Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack has been killed in a quad bike accident in Portugal, according to reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian medical equipment manufacturer ExoAtlet has received official approval to export medical exoskeletons – wearable devices designed to help people with locomotive disabilities walk again – to the US market. Read Full Article a...

Facebook has been accused by a climate watchdog of spreading “fossil-fuel propaganda” after the oil and gas industry put out thousands of ads on its platforms last year – at key political moments like the US presidential election....

Since Richard Nixon took the US off the gold standard 50 years ago, the US dollar and other global peers have plunged in value as inflation continues to erode fiat currencies. Read Full Article at RT.com

One of Russia’s best-known pop starlets has finally opened her eyes after spending a month in a medically induced coma, battling a mystery disease that baffled doctors and left her family, friends and fans fearing for her life. Read F...

Tokyo 2020 organizers have apologized for a gaffe which saw a Ukrainian artistic swimming duo announced as being from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team during a medal ceremony on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Lebanon’s president has hit out at Israel and its “aggressive intentions” after the Israel Defense Forces launched overnight airstrikes on Lebanese villages in response to militant activity on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.co...

UK police confirmed on Thursday that they have made 11 arrests related to the racial abuse received by a trio of England stars who missed penalties in the Euro 2020 final against Italy last month. Read Full Article at RT.com

Malaysia’s Drug Control Authority has announced that Moderna’s Covid vaccine has been given conditional approval for usage, just as the country suffers a surge in daily coronavirus infections. Read Full Article at RT.com

TikTok has revealed that it is testing a new ‘disappearing’ stories feature similar to options offered by other platforms, triggering discussion about the video-sharing app’s complicated relationship with its competitors. Read Ful...

Kamala Harris wants Vietnam to know that “America is back” when she travels there later this month, but not everyone is certain this is a prudent talking point given Washington’s previous ‘visits’ to the Southeast Asian nation...

President Jair Bolsonaro insists the probe into his claims that the Brazilian electronic electoral system is vulnerable to fraud violates the constitution, and he has vowed to act outside of it himself in response. Read Full Article at ...

Many of Britain’s youngsters have shot down anti-vaxxers, sharing their readiness to get inoculated against Covid-19 after the government backed shots for teens and vaccine sceptics started the hashtag ‘leaveourkidsalone’. Read Fu...

Japanese officials have extended Covid restrictions to more than 70% of the country’s population, amid a surge in infections that is threatening to overwhelm hospitals across the nation, including the Olympics hub of Tokyo. Read Full ...

Russian oil exports to the United States have surged 23% this year, overtaking Mexico and making Russia the US’ second-biggest crude supplier after Canada. Read Full Article at RT.com

US gymnastics icon Simone Biles has said the sexual abuse suffered at the hands of jailed ex-team doctor Larry Nassar "probably" played a part in her backing out of various events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Conor McGregor’s deleted tweet targeting former UFC rival Khabib Nurmagomedov and his late father proves that the Irishman is “evil” and “dirty”, according to the Russian star. Read Full Article at RT.com

Strategy is all about achieving an outcome. The mark of a good strategy is that it knows what it wants to achieve, and works towards doing it. That’s why the first principle of warfare is about “selecting and maintaining the aim.”...

The tragic case of Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov, found hanged after vanishing while out jogging near his home in Ukraine, has sparked furious speculation both about whether he was murdered by the KGB or other state actors. Read Fu...

State Premier Daniel Andrews has decided Australia’s Victoria is to enter its sixth lockdown just days after easing measures following a spike of new coronavirus cases. Read Full Article at RT.com

The South Korean president’s office has announced plans to elevate the country to be one of the world’s largest vaccine producers with an investment of 2.2 trillion won ($1.92 billion) over the next four years. Read Full Article at ...

The world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, raised on Wednesday its official selling prices for crude oil loading for Asia in September in a widely expected move tracking stronger Middle East oil benchmarks. Read Full Article at R...

Albert Batyrgaziev made good on a promise to leave Tokyo with the gold medal as the Russian featherweight denied the US a first men’s Olympic boxing title in 17 years when he edged out Duke Ragan in their final. Read Full Article at R...

The anti-lockdown protest in Berlin wasn’t peaceful and the officers acted lawfully to contain it, the German Police Union head told RT when asked to comment on a viral clip of a cop tossing an elderly woman to the ground. Read Full A...

Chinese sports stocks jumped an average of 10% after Beijing announced a plan to boost sports activities across the country and investments in national health and fitness. Read Full Article at RT.com

Google co-founder Larry Page was allowed to travel to New Zealand after seeking medical treatment for his child, exempting him from rules that prohibit most non-residents from entry. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US men’s 4x100m relay team was hit by a barrage of derision after failing to reach the final in Tokyo, continuing a barren run for a nation that typically churns out some of the fastest men on earth. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Joint Russian-Indian military exercises have kicked off in Russia’s southern Volgograd Region. The militaries of the two nations will hone their skills in fighting terrorists and facing mock enemies in various combat environments. Rea...

Russia’s financial monitoring service has commissioned the creation of a system that will be able to track cryptocurrency like bitcoin, allowing Moscow to analyze the behavior of market participants and potentially identify users. Rea...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will issue a coronavirus vaccine mandate for the military’s 1.3 million active duty personnel in the coming days, according to multiple reports. All three jabs remain approved for emergency use only. Rea...

Japanese officials have agreed to tighten Covid-19 measures in eight more prefectures, with six already under full states of emergency, including this year’s Olympic host, Tokyo, which posted a record number of daily infections. Read ...

Nine months after the 2020 US election, a new poll shows that two-thirds of Republicans still refuse to believe President Joe Biden got his job “fair and square,” despite media efforts to dismiss any claims of fraud as conspiracy. R...

The US State Department authorized a $750 million arms sale to Taiwan, President Joe Biden’s first weapons transfer to the island following a flurry of deals under his predecessor – all over vocal objections from Beijing. Read Full ...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker ordered that all children and staff in schools and daycares wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and mandated that state employees in prisons and other congregate facilities be vaccinated. Read F...

The Biden administration is working on a plan to require foreigners wanting to legally visit the US to be fully vaccinated against Covid, as a prerequisite to lifting existing travel restrictions imposed at the pandemic’s outset. Read...

Senator Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) has proposed a law requiring US states that mandate proof of vaccination to also require voter identification – which Democrats denounce as racist – saying he wants to highlight the hypocrisy. R...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanese territory, calling them retaliation for cross-border rocket attacks after earlier firing scores of artillery rounds in response. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Democrat Boston Mayor Kim Janey has broken with many in her party by blasting vaccine mandates, including those introduced this week in New York City by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Read Full Article at RT.com

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida fired back at the White House telling him to ‘get out of the way’ of its Covid-19 policies, saying he doesn’t want to hear people letting in infected illegal migrants lecture him about the virus. R...

A massive wildfire raging in Turkey’s southern province of Mugla has encroached onto the site of a local power plant, threatening to burn the facility down. The plant has been evacuated, and the local electricity supply cut off. Read ...

Already struggling for political survival after a state investigation found that he sexually harassed 11 women, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo now faces criminal probes by district attorneys in at least four local jurisdictions. Read Fu...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing criticism after a video caught her masking up for a photo and then seemingly immediately removing the face covering when the picture was taken. Read Full Article at RT.com

Mexico is suing multiple major US gun makers, accusing them of negligent business practices that allegedly spawned illegal arms flows over the border, resulting in rampant violence and numerous Mexican deaths. Read Full Article at RT.co...