Russia is locked into yet another standoff with an American tech company. This time, it’s YouTube, which has taken down two of RT’s German-language news channels and provoked a furious response from Moscow’s most senior officials....

Tear gas and water cannon were deployed by police in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana after thousands of demonstrators upset over mandatory Covid-19 passes tried to block a major highway and were accused of assaulting the media. Read Ful...

The founder and CEO of Russia’s Group-IB digital security firm has been detained by authorities and charged with high treason, reportedly for passing on secret information to foreign spies in yet another cloak and dagger drama. Read F...

The price of natural gas in Europe exceeded an all-time high of $1,100 per 1,000 cubic meters on Thursday, trading data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) shows. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tight supply on the world’s dirtiest commodity in China has triggered a plunge in the production of Chinese goods. The situation has led to shortages in the global supply chain from high tech and electronics to toys and clothing. Read...

New Zealand has voted to strengthen a counter-terrorism bill, now criminalizing the planning of attacks after a knifeman inspired by Islamic State recently left several injured, despite being trailed by police for weeks. Read Full Artic...

The US military said it had an “in-depth” dialogue with Beijing, reiterating that it remains committed to regional allies amid ongoing enmity over a new security pact between the US, the UK and Australia designed to counter China. R...

Over 100 US citizens and special visa holders that were evacuated from Afghanistan ended up stuck in Abu Dhabi, as the DHS insisted on vetting them especially rigorously, after 120,000 people were flown out of Kabul earlier. Read Full A...

Klete Keller, the former Olympic swimming champion who was arrested in January for participating in the US Capitol riot, faces upward of two years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US’ top health agency has issued an “urgent” alert imploring “pregnant people” to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, pointing to a recent record surge in deaths among those with child and possible birth defects linked to the viru...

Newly released police interview footage shows then-UK cop Wayne Couzens trying to blame his abduction of London marketing executive Sarah Everard – whom he later admitted to raping and murdering – on an Eastern European gang. Read F...

Cristiano Ronaldo struck a winner deep into injury time to give Manchester United a 2-1 Champions League win over Villarreal at Old Trafford, on what was a landmark appearance in the competition for the Portuguese superstar. Read Full A...

White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has made it clear he has zero intention of resigning from his position despite a controversial standing with the public, dismissing critics as conspiracy theorists. Read Full Article at RT.co...

At least 100 people were killed during an outbreak of gang warfare in an Ecuadorian prison. Several of the victims were brutally beheaded, while the fatality count continues to climb as authorities search for additional bodies. Read Ful...

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship president Dave Feldman has said he 'would love' former UFC pin-up Paige VanZant to continue with the organization ahead of a sit-down with the fighter and her team to discuss their future. Read Full Ar...

A huge tornado has ripped through Kiel, a city on the Baltic coast of Germany, leaving devastation in its wake including at least seven injuries, local media report. The weather formation is highly unusual for the area. Read Full Articl...

The US Department of Homeland Security has allegedly threatened to fire Border Patrol agents who decline to get inoculated against Covid-19, even as historic flows of illegal aliens – many unvaccinated – are let into the country. Re...

Forest fires, gas pipelines, nuclear power plants and conflicts in Syria and the Caucasus were among the topics discussed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on Wednesday. Read F...

RT is awaiting Moscow’s response to YouTube’s decision to delete RT's German-language channels, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has said, adding that the move was no surprise amid Berlin’s campaign against the news outle...

ESPN host Sage Steele has branded the media company's mandating of the Covid vaccine for its employees 'sick' and 'scary', and said she received her jabs purely to remain in her role on Sportscenter. Read Full Article at RT.com

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) grew visibly frustrated with the media after she faced questions on the difficulty in passing two massive infrastructure bills, which are key to the president’s Build Back Better program. Read...

Tickets for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will only be on sale for people residing in mainland China while any unvaccinated athletes arriving in the country will need to remain in quarantine for 21 days, organizers have said. Read Fu...

Tech giant YouTube has been fiercely criticized and accused of running a “pervasive” censorship regime, after tightening up its ban on anti-vaccine content and booting prominent vaccine skeptics off its platform. Read Full Article a...

Riyadh and Tehran may soon formally resume relations severed in 2016, one report said as officials from Saudi Arabia and Iran quietly met this week. The series of contacts is reportedly mediated by the Iraqi government. Read Full Articl...

Former UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan has spoken on the elite MMA organization's decision to replace his scheduled opponent and successor Aljamain Sterling with the division's number three contender Cory Sandhagen. Read Full Articl...

The NBA has declared that unvaccinated players won’t be paid if they miss matches due to executive orders in place in New York and San Francisco. The ruling could hit stars such as Kyrie Irving and Andrew Wiggins especially hard. Read...

Developers who worked on Amazon’s new home robot Astro say it's a “privacy nightmare” and will “throw itself down a flight of stairs”. The retail giant claims, however, that the $999 device will offer “peace of mind” to us...

YouTube will ban all “harmful vaccine content” from its platform, including claims that vaccines are ineffective at reducing disease transmission. The ban comes after a year of escalating censorship by the Google-owned company. Read...

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump in 2016, has described Australia under Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a “warning” to the United States with its authoritarian Covid-19 policies. Read F...

A debate between gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin was interrupted after third-party nominee Princess Blanding interrupted and derailed the event, blasting the “racist” treatment of her campaign. Read Full ...

A Ukrainian Hockey League player has been hit with a seemingly soft ban after being sent off for racially abusing a black player by making the gesture of peeling an imaginary banana and eating it in a game at the weekend. Read Full Arti...

Enstroga, Igloo Energy, and Symbio Energy have joined the list of British suppliers to cease trading as a gas crisis sends wholesale prices through the roof, leaving regulator Ofgem to appoint a new provider for 233,000 customers. Read ...

A former nurse has gone on trial for the murder of four patients at a Texas hospital in 2017, with the prosecution claiming he purposefully injected air into the arteries of people recovering from heart surgery. Read Full Article at RT....

A Syria-Jordan border checkpoint is allowing vehicles and goods to flow between the two nations once again. Officials in Amman hope the move will help boost trade relations, which have been ravaged by war and US sanctions. Read Full Art...

The first trainer of Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has said he expects the world heavyweight champion to return to his Crimean roots and visit a local gym to serve as an inspiration for the youngsters there. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Russian President Vladimir Putin brought an attractive female translator to a meeting with Donald Trump at the G20 Summit in Osaka in 2019 as a way to distract his American counterpart, a former White House aide has claimed. Read Full A...

The Belgian government has announced €10,000 in funds to facilitate women in Poland who cannot afford to access abortions abroad, after Warsaw imposed a near-total ban on terminations earlier this year. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Alongside the UK’s ongoing fuel crisis, there’s a clown shortage in Northern Ireland’s circuses. With circus bosses searching for new clowns, some commenters suggested they look to the political arena for recruits. Read Full Artic...

Over 120 different pesticides have been discovered in the 12 most-polluted products available on British shelves, according to Pesticide Action Network (PAN), with almost all grapes and oranges containing a “cocktail” of them. Read ...

The German government had nothing to do with YouTube’s decision to ban RT’s German-language channels, Berlin has said, rejecting Moscow’s allegations to the contrary. Read Full Article at RT.com

An EU court has annulled agriculture and fishing agreements between the 27-nation bloc and Morocco after an objection from the people of Western Sahara was upheld. The annulment won’t come into effect immediately. Read Full Article at...

The first sitting of Moscow’s city parliament since this month’s elections was interrupted on Wednesday when the chamber’s Communist Party faction simultaneously left in protest over the alleged rigging of electronic votes. Read F...

Slovenia will stop administering Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine while it investigates the death of a 20-year-old woman which could have been related to the jab, the country’s health minister has said. Read Full Article at RT.co...

UFC flyweight Maryna Moroz has denied that she pulled out of a fourth scheduled fight in a row, with the Ukrainian declaring that she is “healthy” despite the news that she won’t be competing as planned on October 16. Read Full Ar...

Germany is changing. Veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel is on her way out and a host of rival parties are fighting over who will replace her. For Russia, one of Berlin's main partners, there's more than a few reasons to be worried. Read F...

A solid majority believes Armin Laschet, a candidate for the chancellorship of Germany from Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc, must step away from politics after a historic defeat in the parliamentary election, a new poll shows. Read ...

WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told RT the revelations about alleged CIA plans to kidnap and kill Julian Assange show how far US agencies are willing to go to “crack down” on journalists exposing its “dark secrets”...

NBA star LeBron James has finally confirmed he received his Covid vaccine after 'doing his research'. But why should we care what he thinks, and do we really need to take our cue from him and other sports stars as vaccine sages? Read Fu...

Some 600 United Airlines employees face dismissal after failing to comply with the company’s Covid-19 vaccination policy. Read Full Article at RT.com

Some 37% of people had at least one symptom of long-Covid diagnosed three to six months after contracting the disease, according to a new study from Oxford University and the National Institute for Health Research. Read Full Article at ...

Philosopher Noam Chomsky has condemned the UK’s part in the United States’ persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, calling it the “ultimate in subservience” and a deliberate attempt at torture. Read Full Article at RT.c...

YouTube’s decision to ban RT’s German-language channels amid Moscow's belief that it's part of an attempt by Berlin to silence Russian media undermines international peace and goes against German values, Willy Wimmer has argued. Rea...

British university students are being mandated to take a diversity course and test which forces them to agree with several notions concerning race, including that wearing second-hand clothes can be “an example of white privilege.” R...

American Senator Deb Fischer has slammed the administration of US President Joe Biden after the country’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admitted that Washington is in talks with Moscow to use Russian bases near Afghanistan. Read Full...

YouTube has violated Russian law by taking down two German-language channels run by RT, the Kremlin has insisted, cautioning that the American tech giant will face serious consequences unless it urgently reinstates the accounts. Read Fu...

Protesters tore down fences outside the National Palace and vandalized buildings in Mexico City on International Safe Abortion Day. More than 20 female police officers were hurt in the clashes, a senior security official said. Read Full...

Australia Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said Wednesday that the government has decided it is time for emergency Covid payments “to come to an end,” as vaccination rates rise and people around the world return to “their normal lives.�...

The UK Army will be deployed to drive petrol tankers in response to fuel shortages that have caused chaos across the UK, business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed, despite officials saying that the situation is stabilising. Read F...

A manned Soyuz spacecraft has docked at the Nauka module on the International Space Station for the first-ever time, marking another success for the newly arrived Russian segment of the planet’s oldest inhabited orbital satellite. Rea...

Polarizing UFC superstar Conor McGregor has divided opinion on social media yet again. Out in Miami, where he received the 'Key to the City', the star also uploaded a photo and video of himself getting a shoeshine. Read Full Article at ...

An amateur football clash in the Russian North Caucasus concluded in a mass brawl as furious players attacked match officials, resulting in a spate of lengthy bans being handed out to the perpetrators. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Canada has finally agreed to grant residency to a Sri Lankan family that was among the refugees who offered hospitality to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when he went to Hong Kong to share classified materials with journalists. Read F...

The New Zealand government has announced that the removal of ‘at risk’ children from their families will end, after Maori families complained that the process, known as ‘uplifting’, racially discriminates against them. Read Full...

A group of 11 climate change protesters were arrested in England on Wednesday after gluing themselves to a road in an effort to block traffic – the seventh time they have taken such action. Read Full Article at RT.com

Manufacturing hubs across China have slowed the production of vital goods due to power outages resulting from Beijing’s ecological agenda and rising coal prices. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Taliban has demanded that the US respect Afghanistan’s sole rights over its own airspace, and called on the world’s strongest military to keep out or be prepared to face “negative consequences.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The molten lava flowing from a volcano on Spain’s Canary Islands has reached the Atlantic Ocean. Experts are warning that lava’s contact with ocean water can release toxic gases. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK has angered France for only promising to grant a dozen licenses to small EU vessels to fish in its territorial waters, igniting fresh tensions between the two countries over post-Brexit fishing rights. Read Full Article at RT.com...

UFC icon Jon Jones has issued a first public message since his arrest in Las Vegas, after police said the 34-year-old fighter had headbutted a vehicle while Jones’ fiancée was found with blood on her clothing and face. Read Full Arti...

The price of natural gas in Europe surged above $1,000 per 1,000 cubic meters for the second day in a row on Wednesday after adjusting to $950 the night before, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) data shows. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday to discuss a range of pressing geopolitical issues, including military conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia. Read Full Article at...

CNN has prevented people in Australia from accessing its Facebook pages, citing a risk of defamation, after a court ruling decreed that publishers were liable for the content of the comments section. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida has been elected leader of the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), ensuring he will replace outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the next couple of days.  Read Full Art...

Lionel Messi got off the mark for PSG with a typically spectacular goal against Champions League rivals Manchester City, but there was another image from Tuesday night which fans say summed up the Argentine icon. Read Full Article at RT...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk poked fun at the meme-worthy shape of the rocket that carried Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to the edge of space. He also dismissed the complaint Bezos’ company filed to a regulator. Read Full Article at RT....

Trade turnover between Russia and China has grown by a third since January, according to Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development, which expects further growth this year. Read Full Article at RT.com

Officials in Moscow have issued a sternly-worded ultimatum to YouTube’s parent company, Google, saying the video streaming site could face restrictions after it took down two channels run by RT’s German-language service. Read Full A...

International rating agency S&P has improved its outlook for Russia's GDP growth this year to 4% from its previous forecast of 3.7%, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

The head of the ACLU has apologized after his org altered a quote from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, stripping it of all reference to gender despite the fact the passage specifically centered on childbearing. Read Full...

Pfizer has sent the FDA trial results after testing its Covid vaccine on kids aged five to 11, calling the data promising as White House pandemic adviser Anthony Fauci suggested regulatory approval could come in a matter of weeks. Read ...

NBA legend LeBron James has revealed that he decided to have a vaccine after being convinced by his own research, although the social justice warrior will not be using his considerable voice to encourage people to take jabs. Read Full A...

A "very good" 22-year-old Russian athlete is on the brink of competing for Ukraine, the president of the country's biathlon federation has reportedly revealed. Read Full Article at RT.com

The first player from Luxembourg ever to in the Champions League did it with a last-minute wondergoal as Sheriff Tiraspol produced a huge upset to beat Real Madrid, whose starting stars included Eden Hazard and Karim Benezema. Read Full...

General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who reportedly worked with Democrats to sideline President Donald Trump after the January 6 riot, now says resigning over the Afghanistan pullout would be a political act. Read ...

YouTube’s censorship of two German-language RT channels is part of ongoing ‘aggression’ against the outlet with both tacit and overt approval from Berlin, and will be met with reprisals, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned. Re...

Pyongyang has fired off a newly developed “hypersonic missile” off its east coast, North Korean state media reported, claiming the system’s inaugural test was a success.  Read Full Article at RT.com

Lionel Messi scored his first goal for his new club with a sensational strike as Paris Saint-Germain gained Champions League revenge on Man City – then predicted that his partnership with Kylian Mbappe and Neymar will grow. Read Full ...

Following a positive case for star midfielder N'Golo Kante, who will not play against Juventus in the Champions League, Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has stressed he will not cajole his team into getting their Covid vaccines. Read Full ...

Amazon’s announcement of an ‘Alexa with wheels’ household robot has been met with a wave of ridicule and questions about the privacy concerns this technology presents. Read Full Article at RT.com

The fiancée of UFC icon Jon Jones was found with blood on her clothing and face before the star was arrested in Las Vegas last week, according to disturbing new details of a police report of the incident. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A North Carolina hospital system has fired a whopping 175 employees in one go when they refused to take the jab on the day the group’s vaccination mandate took effect. Some 200 hurriedly got the shot last week to keep their jobs. Read...

Russia's national media regulator Roskomnadzor has officially requested an explanation from Google over YouTube’s decision to delete RT's German-language channels, RT DE and DFP, calling the move an unacceptable act of censorship. Rea...

YouTube’s decision to delete the RT DE and DFP channels amounts to a declaration of media war by Germany against Russia, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said, on Tuesday, in response to the Google-owned platform's actions. R...

US President Joe Biden is being accused of lying after top generals said they recommended a troop presence remain in Afghanistan, something the president had previously denied. Read Full Article at RT.com

A 15-year-old has revealed that a wonder goal he scored in the Ghanaian second division was inspired by PSG superstar Kylian Mbappe, with Manchester's heavyweights already said to have made inquiries about the prodigy. Read Full Article...

Ex-Newcastle star Steven Taylor has retired from football and says he wants to return to the UK to see his family after missing out on "any type of normal life" because of rigid Covid restrictions in Australia. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Bolstered by the two most expensive players in the world in Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, Tuesday's tantalising showdown between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City is set to star the most expensive lineups of all time. Read Full Articl...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has yet again warned Congress to raise the US’ debt limit by October 18 before they exhaust the “extraordinary measures” previously implemented. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Scottish government announced on Tuesday that it will delay the enforcement of its Covid vaccine passport scheme, due to begin on Friday, giving businesses a two-week ‘grace period’ to help them to adapt to the new measures. Rea...

Climate awareness activist Greta Thunberg tore into “empty” slogans from world leaders in a speech on Tuesday, singling out ‘Build Back Better’ and ‘green economy’, and calling on politicians to take genuine environmental ac...