European gas prices have hit another record in Wednesday’s trading, exceeding $900 per 1,000 cubic meters. Read Full Article at RT.com

China has unveiled plans to consolidate the country’s electric vehicle (EV) industry, which Beijing believes is unable to evolve as it has far too many players. Read Full Article at RT.com

Germany’s federal networks regulator BNA said on Monday it would decide no later than January 8, 2022 whether it will certify Nord Stream 2 and issue an operating license for the natural gas pipeline. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Pyongyang has fired two unidentified projectiles from its east coast into the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Japanese Coast Guard. Read Full Article at RT.com

California Governor Gavin Newsom has emerged victorious from a special recall election, according to several media projections, meaning the state executive first elected in 2018 will remain in office after a contentious campaign. Read F...

Haiti’s top prosecutor was fired and replaced after calling for charges against the country’s prime minister for the murder of President Jovenel Moise, though a dismissal letter claimed it related to an “administrative error.” R...

Former US President Donald Trump dismissed as “fake news” a new book saying General Mark Milley secretly warned China of a possible attack, but he said such a betrayal would have merited a treason charge against the officer. Read Fu...

China’s ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang has been blocked from attending a reception at Westminster after speakers of both houses of the parliament said his presence would be inappropriate given Beijing’s sanctions against MPs. Re...

Four branches of the US armed forces have announced vaccination deadlines under a Pentagon mandate to inoculate the entire military, with the army the latest to set a hard date for personnel to receive the jab. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The Los Angeles Police Department is apparently more spiritual than anyone imagined, as more than 2,600 employees reportedly plan to pursue religious exemptions to the city’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Virginia Department of Health says it is reaching out to people potentially exposed to measles by at least five evacuees from Afghanistan over the past week, at the Dulles airport, Fort Pickett, and a Richmond area hospital. Read Fu...

A shortage of school bus drivers in Massachusetts is so severe that Governor Charlie Baker has called on the state’s National Guard troops to help get children to class. Read Full Article at RT.com

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s attempt to evade questions about a drone strike that allegedly killed a Kabul aid worker backfired, as Senator Rand Paul pointed out that the target should have been known before the attack. Read...

Romelu Lukaku came to the rescue for a subdued Chelsea as they struggled against Russian visitors Zenit St. Petersburg in their Champions League opener at Stamford Bridge before the big Belgian broke the deadlock. Read Full Article at R...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose advice guided much of the global response to the Covid pandemic, has seemingly washed its hands of one virus while warning the world isn’t prepared to deal with the next big pandemic. Read ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has opened two investigations into TikTok, focusing on the platform’s handling of children’s personal data, and the transfer of information to China, where TikTok’s parent company is based. R...

Playboy model Maria Liman has admitted to split loyalties as her “two favorite teams” meet in the Champions League in London, as Chelsea host Russian giants Zenit St. Petersburg. Read Full Article at RT.com

Four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the deadly arrest of George Floyd have pleaded not guilty in a new federal case accusing the ex-cops of violating Floyd’s civil rights by depriving him of medical help. Read Full Art...

Many Americans have been jettisoning friends from their lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, and for those who have chosen to get vaccinated, views on the jabs are often the relationship-breaker, a new poll has shown. Read Full Article a...

An upcoming book by two Washington Post writers, just leaked to the corporate press, seeks to paint General Mark Milley as a hero of the resistance to President Donald Trump. If any of it is true, it amounts to an actual coup. Read Full...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Champions League return with Manchester ended in a shock defeat after a horrendous injury-time error by substitute Jesse Lingard gifted Young Boys victory in Switzerland. Read Full Article at RT.com

Norm Macdonald, the Quebec-born comedian best known for hosting the ‘Weekend Update’ segment of Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, has passed away after a nine-year battle with cancer he reportedly wished to keep private. Read Full A...

The percentage of Americans living in poverty rose from a record low last year, with 3.3 million additional people being impoverished as Covid-19 restrictions wiped out more than a decade’s worth of economic gains. Read Full Article a...

Russian ice hockey club Sochi have got one over on KHL rivals AK Bars in the popularity stakes after inviting a group of cheerleaders dumped by the Kazan club to their game on Tuesday night. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Moscow office of American tech giant Google was visited on Monday by bailiffs seeking to collect millions of rubles in fines issued by Russian courts for various violations of the country’s laws, it was revealed on Tuesday. Read F...

Cristiano Ronaldo rushed to check on an injured female steward after she had been struck with a wayward shot reportedly hit by Ronaldo himself as he warmed up for Manchester United’s Champions League clash in Switzerland. Read Full Ar...

A Haitian prosecutor is seeking charges against PM Ariel Henry over an alleged link to the murder of late President Jovenel Moise. He has also asked for a restraining order to prevent the official from fleeing the country. Read Full Art...

As part of RT’s Unheard Voices special project, an Afghan journalist and a young refugee detail their experiences in the country they were forced to flee, as there was no hope and no future left for them in Afghanistan. Read Full Arti...

Cristiano Ronaldo wasted little time getting on the scoresheet for Manchester United in their Champions League opener at Young Boys, on the occasion that the Portugal icon equaled the all-time appearance record in the competition. Read ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a new policy which bans the use of police chokeholds, as well as limiting instances when “no-knock” entries can be employed, in a bid to build trust between officers and the public. R...

Syracuse University has been criticized by faculty members over its “highly selective” defense of free speech, after it supported a professor who claimed 9/11 was an “attack on the systems many white Americans fight to protect.”...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that people on the African continent are being “left behind” in the global Covid-19 inoculation campaign, after Africa’s health chief said only 3.5% were vaccinated. Read Fu...

As the Russian authorities look to clamp down on people selling fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates, a new survey has revealed that nearly one in three Russians (32%) have absolutely no problem with those who have bought one. Read Fu...

Britain cancelled its contract for some 100 million vaccines made by French biotech company Valneva in part because it became apparent the jab would not have been greenlighted for use, the UK’s health secretary has revealed. Read Full...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused an unusual request from a double gold medal-winning champion at the recent Tokyo 2020 Paralympic games, after the compatriot athlete asked him to sign his passport. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Police in Germany have arrested a German-Iranian citizen on suspicion that he exported €1.1 million of equipment to Iranian firms blacklisted by the EU for use in Tehran’s nuclear program. Read Full Article at RT.com

Shortly after announcing that he would be self-isolating after contact with someone with Covid-19, Russian President Vladimir Putin called his situation a "natural experiment" that would show if Sputnik V works in practice. Read Full Ar...

President Joe Biden will call on world leaders to vaccinate 70% of the Earth’s population by next year, according to White House documents. However, setting that goal may prove considerably easier than realizing it. Read Full Article ...

Olympic synchronized swimming queen Marina Goliadkina had a message for her ‘haters’ as she posed with a Russian flag in a photo apparently taken in Crimea, having received anger for a recent image alongside Vladimir Putin. Read Ful...

Robotic Russian fighting machines fired anti-armor missiles and let rip with mounted flamethrowers on Monday, while their operators sat in safety away from the battlefield, in colossal drills attended by President Vladimir Putin. Read F...

A Russian football insider has claimed that Barcelona are keen on a swoop for 18-year-old Russian sensation and multifunctional midfielder Arsen Zakharyan, who currently plies his trade for Dynamo Moscow and the national team. Read Full...

Former senior Israeli official Haim Geron has been killed in a plane crash near the Greek island of Samos. Geron was among the witnesses in the ongoing corruption trial of ex-PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Read Full Article at RT.com

Vienna will take no part in the resettlement of Afghan refugees evacuated from Kabul after the Taliban takeover, said Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz, insisting that the country already has enough migrants from Afghanistan. Read F...

The French president has said that the country is moving to modernize its police force, increasing the number of boots on the ground while looking at ways to monitor the conduct of law enforcement officers. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Nicki Minaj’s skepticism over Covid-19 vaccines didn’t sit well with MSNBC host Joy Reid, who accused the rapper of putting her fans’ health at risk. Minaj shot right back, calling the liberal pundit a “lying homophobic c**n.”...

From September 17-19, Russians will go to the polls to elect the 450 MPs who will represent them for the next five years. Ahead of the vote, RT will preview the parties most likely to win seats, this time focusing on the LDPR. Read Full...

The British government has announced booster Covid jabs will be offered to people aged 50 and over, care home residents, as well as health and social care workers in a bid to increase vaccine protection ahead of a “bumpy” winter. Re...

Tech pioneer Steve Wozniak has become the latest newcomer to join the private space business. However, the Apple co-founder’s vision promises to be different than those of billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson. Read ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has kicked off a storm after making a political statement with her outfit at the Met Gala – drawing both praise and criticism over “hypocrisy” on social media for a dress bearing the slogan ‘Tax the Rich...

Tennis legends Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams appear to have put a near two-decade feud to bed after being pictured together at the glitzy Met Gala in New York. Read Full Article at RT.com

With global nuclear stockpiles growing and countries upgrading their warheads and rockets, there is an almost unprecedented need to de-escalate tensions and avert atomic armageddon, one of America's most senior officers has said. Read F...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered that members of his cabinet are required to get his consent to appear at Senate investigations, with some critics calling the move an attempt to avert scrutiny. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The president of the Czech Republic has been hospitalized, although no information on his condition has been provided. He is known to have various health conditions, including diabetes, and was a heavy smoker and drinker. Read Full Arti...

Zenit St. Petersburg face a daunting start to their Champions League campaign against title holders Chelsea on Tuesday night, at a time when Russian football is in dire need of a lift from its flag-bearers in the competition. Read Full ...

While many bitcoin opponents criticize the world’s top cryptocurrency for using ‘more electricity than many countries,’ Max and Stacy look back to what Henry Ford and others said about an energy-backed currency. Read Full Article ...

The British government has announced it will be delaying the implementation of some post-Brexit border controls, especially those relating to sanitary and phytosanitary goods, for the second time. Read Full Article at RT.com

A prominent Israeli vaccine skeptic, who earlier accused the Jerusalem police of trying to poison him, telling his followers that “if anything happens” to him they should assume he was “assassinated,” has died of Covid-19. Read ...

The price of natural gas on the European market has been skyrocketing, hitting yet another record in Tuesday trading, according to the ICE exchange. Read Full Article at RT.com

The English Premier League could bar fans from stadiums unless they have received both jabs of the Covid vaccine or can show a negative test, despite the government scrapping Covid passport plans, according to reports. Read Full Article...

A top Russian bishop has blasted a newly-erected statue of a Bolshevik secret police boss who oversaw the Stalinist purges that shook Soviet Russia and killed and imprisoned hundreds of thousands in brutal labor camps. Read Full Article...

The Chinese government is planning to break up Ant Group’s Alipay and create a separate app for the fintech giant’s loans business, according to media reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Britain’s travel sector is preparing for even more jobs to be slashed, as an executive for the industry’s trade body has warned that over two-thirds of employers who still have furloughed staff were planning to make cuts soon. Read ...

The Laos government has approved a pilot program on the experimental use of cryptocurrency mining and trading in the country for six companies, the Laotian Times newspaper reported on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin will go into self-isolation as a result of at least one person around him testing positive for coronavirus, the Kremlin has announced. He is still expected to appear at meetings via video-link. Read Full...

There were concerning scenes at the game between the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night after an errant throw floored an umpire and left him bleeding from the side of his face. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian ruble has become one of the 20 most frequently used global currencies, SWIFT interbank transfer system data shows. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Chinese authorities have said that Covid-19 infections in the southeastern province of Fujian have more than doubled in the previous 24 hours. Preliminary tests suggest the Delta variant is responsible for some of the cases. Read Fu...

Since 2009, the quadrennial Zapad military drills have become a rotational autumn fixture for troops from Russia, Belarus and some other friendly states. Just as reliable, however, is the hysteria they elict in Western media. Read Full ...

China continues to lead global growth in the next generation of telecommunications technology with the expansion of the country’s 5G network, according to the Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xiao Yaqing. Read Full Arti...

Google’s parent firm has been made to cough up some $177 million by a South Korean antitrust regulator, which accused the company of abusing its dominant position in the market and hampering industry competition. Read Full Article at ...

An illegal occupation by Western troops is hampering the consolidation of Syria despite it being mostly freed from terrorists, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said during a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad. Read Fu...

Sensitive health data on millions of people was left vulnerable due to a badly designed testing registry set up for the Walgreens pharmacy chain, potentially making private records accessible to the public, Recode reported. Read Full Ar...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has reportedly rejected a Republican complaint claiming Twitter gave Democrats an in-kind contribution by blocking a New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter ahead of the 2020 vote. Read F...

Actor Jeff Bridges, star of films ranging from ‘The Big Lebowski’ to ‘Tron’, said he has apparently won his battle with lymphoma, but his bout with Covid-19 made his experience suffering from cancer “look like a piece of cake....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied accusations of a botched retreat from Afghanistan, blaming the Trump administration for any failures and saying Washington is focused on protecting LGBTQ and other vulnerable Afghans. Read Ful...

Fans of rapper Nicki Minaj are begging her to stop “denying” the Covid-19 vaccine after she tweeted a story about someone in Trinidad experiencing unusual and quite unfortunate side effects – but said she’ll get the jab herself....

The Pentagon has refused to comment on the revelation that its Kabul drone strike killed not a terrorist but an innocent Afghan aid worker and children, insisting it was taken to prevent an “imminent” attack on the US airlift. Read ...

The controversial barbed-wire fence erected around the US Capitol in the wake of the riots is making a comeback ahead of a weekend rally to protest the treatment of hundreds imprisoned over the post-election protest. Read Full Article a...

A record-breaking number of white-sided dolphins have been killed in the Faroe Islands, with nearly 1,500 specimens slaughtered during the gruesome hunt. The slaughter has invoked outrage from animal rights activists. Read Full Article ...

Digital rights group CitizenLab has discovered a vulnerability that allowed Israeli spyware company NSO Group to implant its Pegasus malware onto virtually every iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch device. Read Full Article at RT.com

Radio legend Howard Stern has become the latest critic of podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan over his shared Covid treatment, which included ivermectin, a medicine Stern and others have controversially described as ‘horse dewormer’. R...

New York City police have released a shocking surveillance video showing a man kicking a woman down the steps of an escalator in a busy Brooklyn subway station. Read Full Article at RT.com

A panel of Cuban scientists has declared that there is “no scientific evidence” for US claims that diplomats on the island fell ill due to sonic warfare attacks. The mysterious illnesses have been dubbed ‘Havana Syndrome’. Read ...

The mother of New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson has shared the extent of abuse she received from trolls online following her son's opening day loss as the new NFL season kicked off at the weekend. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A single dose of the pioneering Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine better protects the elderly against serious Covid-19 infections than a similar regime of certain other leading vaccines, a major new study from Argentina has shown. Read Ful...

The majority of Americans oppose President Biden’s vaccine mandate for employees of mid-size or larger companies, according to a recent poll which found many doubt his authority to impose such a rule and fear it will be abused. Read F...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has threatened any government agency mandating a Covid jab as a condition of employment with fines, and said ignoring natural immunity suggests vaccine mandates are about control, not public health. Read Fu...

Movie star and ‘The Passion of the Christ’ director Mel Gibson has blasted Catholic bishops for ‘canceling’ priests who dare to teach traditional doctrine, suggesting they represent a “parallel counterfeit church.” Read Full...

Clinching his first Grand Slam on Sunday, the unorthodox celebration of Russian tennis ace Daniil Medvedev was a surprise to many and has since gone viral. Here's what's behind how the 25-year-old celebrated his US Open win. Read Full A...

Ukrainian police have launched a probe following the death of Vitaly Pisants, an investigating judge in the as-yet-unsolved case of Pavel Sheremet, a Russian journalist murdered in the center of Kiev by a car bomb in 2016. Read Full Art...

Former BBC presenter Andrew Neil has resigned as chairman of UK television news channel GB News on Monday, just three months after the heavily funded media venture was officially launched. Read Full Article at RT.com

A high school principal in Washington State has faced online fury after it was reported students were prohibited from wearing red, white and blue to honor the 9/11 attacks at a football match for fear of causing offense. Read Full Artic...

Latvia's capital Riga briefly turned into a warzone at the weekend, with heavily armed soldiers firing weapons among startled civilians. The firefight turned out to be an exercise that had somehow not been marked or cordoned off. Read F...

Fox Nation, a spinoff streaming service of Fox News, will be reviving ‘Cops’, a reality series following on-duty police officers that was axed following the death of George Floyd and increasing Black Lives Matter protests. Read Full...

Prince Andrew, the British royal accused of sexual abuse in a lawsuit by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims, was not represented at a pretrial hearing in New York, with his lawyers saying he was improperly served papers. Read Fu...

In contrast to numerous other major sports, the Covid vaccination rate among tennis stars remains low, with some big names openly expressing hesitancy. So, is tennis swimming against an inevitable tide? Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Western states have ditched a planned resolution criticizing Iran at the UN’s nuclear watchdog, after Tehran allowed some monitoring of its atomic dealings but did not commit to answering key questions on its nuclear operations. Read ...

A Palestinian man stabbed and wounded two Israelis in a Jerusalem cosmetics shop, before being shot by border police, local law enforcement has said. The suspect and two victims are receiving hospital treatment. Read Full Article at RT....

US Capitol Police have arrested a man armed with a bayonet and machete outside the Democratic National Committee HQ in Washington, DC. The Capitol cops say the man was “talking about white supremacist ideology.” Read Full Article at...

The French interior minister has started proceedings to ban a group, known as the ‘Ligue de Défense Noire Africaine’ (Black African Defense League), claiming it’s a racist organization that promotes hatred and discrimination. Rea...