The centre of the world is moving. While once it sat somewhere within the Atlantic, balanced between Europe and the US, it is now moving east. With Asia on the rise, Russia is now planning its role at the heart of two continents. Read F...

The spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry has asked the G7 political forum to clear up “what they want from themselves and the world around them” after Moscow was approached to join a meeting on the situation in Afghanistan. R...

European energy prices might be at record levels, but there is still room for prices to run, according to a Bloomberg analysis. Read Full Article at RT.com

The trade turnover between Russia and China from January to August 2021 has surged by 29.5%, amounting to $88.997 billion. Read Full Article at RT.com

Japanese health authorities have confirmed that a third man has died, one day after receiving a second dose of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from one of the contaminated lots that have since been recalled. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

At least 11 people in the Indian state of Kerala are believed to have contracted Nipah, a dangerous virus for which no vaccine exists. The rising infection tally comes just one day after a young boy succumbed to the illness. Read Full A...

A court in Vietnam’s Ca Mau province has sentenced a local man to five years in prison after he was found guilty of breaking Covid-19 restrictions, with prosecutors arguing that his conduct led to several infections and one death. Rea...

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that his government has just purchased its first 400 bitcoin as it prepares to become the first sovereign nation to legitimize the digital currency as legal tender. Read Full Article at RT....

German Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier had to be rushed to a Berlin hospital after falling ill during a meeting, according to local press reports. His condition, as well as the cause of the health incident, remain unclear. Read Ful...

Actor Michael K. Williams, a star of the popular HBO crime drama The Wire, has been found dead in his New York City apartment, reportedly amid suspicions of a drug overdose. Read Full Article at RT.com

The archbishop of San Francisco has criticized President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Catholic politicians who have attacked new abortion law in Texas, suggesting they have violated core church doctrine. Read Full Art...

Blizzard Entertainment is apparently cracking down on fantasy racism in World of Warcraft. An update to the popular online game has nixed the insult “greenskin,” once used by a human character to insult an orc. Read Full Article at ...

Israel has launched an aerial attack on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Footage shared by Palestinian news outlets showed the night sky alight with flame as the Israeli jets pounded targets in the densely populated strip. Read Full Art...

CNN is touting the US State Department’s success in helping four Americans leave Afghanistan, even though a private group led the evacuation and Washington has been criticized for hindering non-government rescue efforts. Read Full Art...

The leader of the coup that toppled Guinea’s elected authorities has pledged to form a ‘national unity’ government, assuring investors that business deals will not be affected by the transition that already soared bauxite prices. ...

In what should have been a celebration of the best South America has to offer, the continent – or rather a set of its leading authorities – let itself down on the world stage once more and caused global embarrassment. Read Full Arti...

If you’re a goalkeeper facing an Erling Haaland volley, the prospect must be genuinely terrifying – as footage shows from the Norwegian prodigy training while on international duty. Read Full Article at RT.com

Brazil legend Pele has undergone surgery to remove a “suspicious lesion in his right colon” after it was reported on Monday that the football icon had been in hospital for the past six days. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Confederation of British Industry warned on Monday that the UK government risks facing “up to two years” of labour supply problems, citing the combined impact of the Covid pandemic and Brexit on the country’s economy. Read Ful...

Naomi Osaka is contemplating another career hiatus after her meltdown at the US Open. This time though, it might benefit her to scale back the promotional onslaught that accompanied her last ‘break’ from the spotlight. Read Full Art...

Some Britons have gone online to campaign for the sacking of the UK’s vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, accusing him of lying about vaccine passports after he promised in January that there were no plans to introduce them. Read Full A...

Former European Commissioner John Dalli is set to face charges over an attempt by his aide to reverse a ban on snus, a form of smokeless tobacco, in a bribe worth €60 million (over $71 million), prompting the official to resign. Read ...

Political scientist Kaveh Afrasiabi, accused by the US of acting as a “foreign agent” for Iran, believes the case against him is purely political, with charges brought against him in the final hours of the Trump administration. Read...

The Florida restaurant owner who barred supporters of Joe Biden from her diner told RT that there are other business owners who want to follow her lead. Still, she insists that her decision was “not political.” Read Full Article at ...

Brazilian football icon Pele has been in hospital for the past six days with an undisclosed health problem but there is no cause for alarm, the manager of the 80-year-old has said. Pele recently refuted claims that he had fainted. Read ...

A liberal political candidate in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second city, has taken to Twitter to complain after two other people with his name and similar appearance turned up on the ballot to try and take his local council seat. Read...

The US commanders in charge of evacuation abandoned dozens of American citizens at the gates of Kabul airport amid a chaotic rush to leave Afghanistan, US war correspondent and former special forces soldier Michael Yon told RT. Read Ful...

Years of economic sanctions and political efforts from Washington have come to nothing, and work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is now nearing the final stages of completion, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Read Ful...

Football fans and social media users have piled on to a small Scottish club after a bizarre and "horrendous" Braveheart statue was unveiled yesterday at their ground and photos of the event were later shared online. Read Full Article at...

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says that a statue of Christopher Columbus will be swapped for one of an indigenous woman from the Olmec civilization. Read Full Article at RT.com

The final pipe of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project has been welded and will be lowered into the seabed of the Baltic Sea, the operator of the Russian project, Nord Stream 2 AG, said on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Australian state of Victoria will “lock out” unvaccinated people from participating in the economy, Premier Dan Andrews has announced. Read Full Article at RT.com

French New Wave star Jean-Paul Belmondo, perhaps best known for roles in “Breathless” and “Le Professionel”, has passed away, his lawyer told AFP. He had been unwell for some time having suffered a stroke in 2001. Read Full Arti...

The BBC’s own watchdog has ruled that a 2020 Radio 4 show did not meet its standards for accuracy when it suggested an informant, who claimed the 2018 chemical weapons attack on Douma was staged, may have been motivated by money. Read...

Denmark’s government has canceled its initial plans for a tender that would allow Covid-19 vaccines to be produced domestically, instead favoring supporting a shot made by company Bavarian Nordic, which is facing phase II trials. Read...

Tokyo has warned that a new economic development campaign on Russia's Kuril Islands now risks worsening a diplomatic spat between the two countries that has kept the two nations technically in a state of war since the 1940s. Read Full A...

More than 200 journals are joining forces to issue an editorial voicing climate change concerns, imploring world leaders to act to protect populations against the “catastrophic harm” of rising temperatures. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Online services such as streaming website Netflix and video-sharing platform TikTok are harming human creativity by distracting people from tasks that really matter, the Russian founder of the Telegram Messenger app has claimed. Read Fu...

Russia is waiting for an explanation from the European Union regarding the bloc’s carbon border tax, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

India’s Covid vaccination drive outpaced all Group of Seven (G7) countries combined during August, as the Asian nation administered more than 180 million doses in a bid to prevent a third wave of the virus. Read Full Article at RT.com...

US sports reporter Lyndsey Gough claimed she was “violated” by college football fans as she attempted to present a piece to camera at the game between Clemson and Georgia at the weekend. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ex-France defender Jean-Pierre Adams has passed away at the age of 73, after staying in a coma for almost 40 years due to a medical error, as confirmed by former clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Nimes on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Police have arrested Tetsuo Urata on suspicion of stealing 730 pieces of women’s underwear from coin laundries, after a 21-year-old college student alerted authorities that six pairs of her underwear had disappeared. Read Full Article...

With nearly half its population still under lockdown, the Australian government has taken delivery of its first shipment of Pfizer Covid doses on Monday as part of a swap deal with the UK to help bolster its vaccination campaign. Read F...

Khabib Nurmagomedov has laughed off wild claims that he was set upon by a fan with a knife at a recent event for his MMA promotion Eagle Fighting Championship in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. Read Full Article at RT.com

India is in talks with the Russian energy giant Novatek to buy a 9.9% stake in the Arctic LNG 2 project, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday citing its sources. Read Full Article at RT.com

Agreements totaling $49.3 billion (3.6 trillion rubles) were signed at the 6th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) last week, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev said at a conference on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

A monument to the long-standing friendship between Kiev and Moscow, erected in 2001, has been demolished after years of being defaced by pro-Ukrainian nationalists, a liberal opposition local city councilor revealed on Sunday. Read Full...

Former British PM Tony Blair has insisted the Afghan war has not removed the threat of radical Islam, describing it as a peril akin to revolutionary communism which now represents a serious, but uniting, security challenge. Read Full Ar...

The four Premier League players in the Argentina national team, whose presence caused the suspension of a World Cup qualifier with Brazil in Sao Paulo, have reportedly been deported while the rest of the squad also returned home. Read F...

A court in Belarus has sentenced one of the country’s most prominent opposition politicians to more than a decade in prison over allegations that she attempted to overthrow the government of veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko. Read F...

Japan’s vaccination minister Taro Kono leads polls in the race to become the next prime minister, after Yoshihide Suga announced on Friday that he was stepping down. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Philippine government has announced that the stay-at-home order in its capital will be lifted this week in an attempt to revive the country’s economy, according to a statement from presidential spokesperson Harry Roque. Read Full ...

Moroccan footballers have been evacuated from Guinea after they were caught up in the unfolding coup in the West African country ahead of their World Cup qualifier – but a player for Lokomotiv Moscow remains stuck in the chaos. Read F...

Few people have heard of Usnarz Górny, a small village on Poland’s border with Belarus. Now, though, along with 180 others along the frontier, it’s been making international news after the government declared a state of emergency. ...

Russian city-dwellers tired of the hustle and bustle of Moscow and St. Petersburg could be offered loans and a patch of land to build a house out east in the wilds of Siberia, under new proposals designed to populate the region. Read Fu...

Shares in Russian aluminum giant and one of the world's largest commodity producers Rusal soared 12.5% on Monday to their highest since 2012, while commodity shares globally also rallied amid news of a coup in Guinea. Read Full Article ...

Six Palestinian militants are on the run after tunneling their way through a small opening in their cells in a high-security prison in northern Israel, which has prompted a manhunt from the police and military. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The UK’s junior defence minister has refuted his own comments that British veterans have taken their lives over being upset by the US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan, adding that the ministry would be investigating. Read Full Article ...

The price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has continued to rise on Monday, after topping $50,000 the previous day. The digital asset is up 81% from this year’s low of $27,734 on January 4. Read Full Article at R...

US college football coach Brian Kelly says no one can take a joke these days after declaring on live TV that his Notre Dame players “should be executed” for their poor performance against Florida State on Sunday night. Read Full Art...

The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is to be completed this week, according to the former head of the project’s major investor, Austrian OMV’s Rainer Seele. Read Full Article at RT.com

The war in Afghanistan has ended, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has said, declaring those who keep fighting against the group the enemies of the country and the Afghan people. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Taliban’s announcement that it had seized complete control of Panjshir Valley, the last stronghold of resistance forces in Afghanistan, has been rejected by its rivals, who insisted that the fighting continues. Read Full Article a...

The Taliban forces have seized complete control of Panjshir Valley, the last stronghold of the resistance forces in Afghanistan, the group's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed in a statement posted on Twitter. Read Full Article at RT....

The newly appointed German ambassador to China and close ally and senior foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jan Hecker, has died at the age of 54, the Federal Foreign Office announced. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Libyan authorities have released Saadi Gaddafi, who spent more than seven years in jail in Tripoli after his father was overthrown and murdered by NATO-backed rebels, according to multiple media reports citing government sources. Read F...

The US State Department has slammed the military coup in Guinea, saying it undermines the West African country’s path to ‘a brighter future’, after a special forces unit apparently seized power and detained President Alpha Conde. ...

Israeli health officials have agreed to present data from their country’s rollout of Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to the FDA, potentially providing ammunition to help the Biden administration justify such a program in the US. Read F...

A self-described “survivalist” who was “totally outfitted” in body armor allegedly shot and killed four people, including a baby, near Lakeland, Florida, before surrendering after a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. Read Full ...

People from across the political spectrum packed ionto the streets of Amsterdam to protest the Dutch government’s proposed vaccine passes. The demonstration blocked roads in the city centre for miles. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Former Donald Trump supporter and alt-right figure Richard Spencer is living in a community where he has been shunned by residents and businesses, something both liberals and conservatives appear to take pleasure in. Read Full Article a...

Former President Jacob Zuma, jailed for 15 months over contempt of court, has been released on medical parole. Earlier, the ex-leader underwent surgery. He remains in hospital with more operations planned. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The World Cup qualifying match between Brazil and Argentina was called off in remarkable circumstances amid a row over a set of Argentine players who local health authorities insisted should be in quarantine. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The Taliban has blocked six planeloads of Americans and Afghan allies from leaving the Mazar-i-Sharif airport for days, holding out for full US recognition, the top-ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said. Read Fu...

A young footballer's death of a suspected cardiac arrest has been confirmed by his club after he became unwell during an FA Youth Cup match in Nottinghamshire, UK, and fans were asked to leave the stadium. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Ahmad Massoud says he is ready to talk with the Taliban if it withdraws from Panjshir valley. The Taliban, meanwhile, claimed its forces have reached the capital of the province. Read Full Article at RT.com

An Afghan refugee in the United States sparked huge backlash after he complained on social media about the quality of the free food at Texas’ Fort Bliss refugee facilities, with critics accusing the man of being ungrateful. Read Full ...

After saying booster shots will likely be needed for people to be considered ‘fully vaccinated’ against Covid, White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Pfizer could have approval for a further dose in a matter of weeks. Rea...

Details of the possible cause of death of former wrestler Daffney Unger have been revealed after she was found dead in her Georgia home following a worrying post made to followers on Instagram where she wielded a gun. Read Full Article ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has called in big-name Washington players in a bid to rally his liberal base ahead of a recall election. Read Full Article at RT.com

The liberal star is being accused of trying to fill the void left by his former favorite target, Donald Trump, with insults aimed at the conservative-leaning rival host, calling him a “human manure spreader.” Read Full Article at RT...

The flame was extinguished as the Tokyo Paralympic Games came to a close on Sunday, but Russian competitors will be leaving Japan with a record medal haul for their efforts this year. Read Full Article at RT.com

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has uploaded intimate pictures of himself, partner Georgina Rodriguez and his children enjoying rare good weather in northwest England to his 338 million followers on Instagram. Read Full Article at ...

Ahead of its new campaign, Italy’s LGBT rights association has requested a meeting with a top Serie A club after summer signing Josip Brekalo's previous criticism of the rainbow armband, citing 'Christian values' as his motive. Read F...

A shocking story claimed that an Oklahoma hospital had to turn away gunshot victims because so many people had overdosed on “horse dewormer” in a bid to treat Covid-19 themselves. The sensation was destroyed by lack of proof. Read F...

An apparent coup is underway in Guinea, with heavy military presence and gunfire reported in the country’s capital of Conakry. Guinean President Alpha Conde has seemingly been detained by the military. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Asked by Times Radio’s Tom Newton Dunn what would happen if a teenager’s parents said no to vaccination but the teenager said yes, UK vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said they would still be able to get jabbed without permission. Rea...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that Moscow and Beijing should be included in the global effort to stop terrorist groups from using the Taliban-run Afghanistan as a base from which to stage attacks abroad. Read Full Art...

Michael Fawcett, a close aide of Prince Charles, has recused himself from leading the British royal heir’s foundation, after being accused of trading favours for money donated to the prince’s renovation project. Read Full Article at...

Major public events could lead to a “real spike” in Covid-19 cases, so vaccine passports may be introduced at venues from late September to prevent that and avoid closing the economy, the UK's Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said. R...

Russia will step up development of oil and gas reserves in the Arctic, which are sufficient to last the country centuries, according to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. Read Full Article at RT.com

“Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image.” That’s according to Russia’s first communist leader – Vladimir Lenin. Now though, his successors seem to have very different idea...

True to his word, Paddy Pimblett made an instant impact on his UFC debut in Las Vegas on Saturday – and later used the opportunity to call out his nemesis: social media giant Instagram. Read Full Article at RT.com

Production of the first jetliner designed by Russian and Chinese engineers has reportedly been launched in China. The wide-body airliner, the C929, is expected to rival Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tennis star Sloane Stephens has revealed the extent of horrific racial and sexist abuse she suffered after her exit from the US Open, while claiming to have received 'over 2,000 messages' of such content. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Cristiano Ronaldo was “bored” in Italy before his return to Manchester United, UFC icon Khabib Nurmagomedov has said, praising his football megastar friend as “cooler” than perennial rival Lionel Messi. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Disgraced Hollywood movie producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein denied assaulting Angelina Jolie after the actress accused him of assaulting her at the age of 21. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Taliban has issued strict guidelines against its members who shoot in the skies at weddings and victory celebrations. The order came after reports that people were hurt in Kabul, Afghanistan by celebratory gunfire. Read Full Article...

Settlements made in Chinese currency in trade between Hainan province and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries soared sevenfold in the first half of 2021 under a pilot program for foreign trade in yuan. Read Full...