The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, edged close to $55,000 per coin on Thursday, reaching the highest level in almost five months amid bullish sentiment, gaining over 25% this month already. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The threat of an all-out conflict with neighboring Belarus is now becoming a more likely scenario for Ukraine than a mooted Russian ‘invasion’ of the country, a member of Kiev’s governing ‘Servant of the People’ party has clai...

The Australian premier has welcomed the return of the French ambassador and hailed the two countries’ cooperation and shared objectives after Paris was angered by Canberra’s decision to drop a multi-billion-dollar submarine deal. Re...

Social media companies should prevent users from spreading toxic content anonymously or they will face the same legal liability as if they were publishers of this information, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned. Read Fu...

The US and China are planning a virtual summit between President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this year, a US official told the media, noting a departure in tone from disastrous talks in Alaska in March. Read Full Ar...

With the world grappling with an energy crisis amid the post-pandemic recovery, China has urged its liquefied natural gas (LNG) importers to secure enough fuel before winter, Bloomberg reports, citing its sources. Read Full Article at R...

Three major figures at Big Pharma firm Moderna have made their way onto the prestigious Forbes 400 list, after raking in billions in Covid-19 vaccine sales to governments amid the global pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.com

A US federal judge has barred Texas from enforcing a newly passed bill that places heavier restrictions on abortion, siding with the Joe Biden administration after its Justice Department intervened with a suit to repeal the law. Read Fu...

Former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is gearing up to appeal his lengthy prison sentence for the murder of George Floyd, was denied a request for a public defender to represent him, despite insisting he can’t afford a lawyer. Read...

Khabib Nurmagomedov has issued a defiant response after Oleksandr Zinchenko, his friend who plays for Ukraine and Man City, was criticized for posing with the Russian UFC icon because of their nationalities. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Colorado Springs woman was removed from an active kidney transplant waiting list due to the fact she is unvaccinated, with the UCHealth hospital system saying it will deny the potentially life-saving procedure to the unvaxxed. Read Fu...

A Saudi Arabia-backed bid for Premier League club Newcastle could finally be set to succeed after a lengthy back-and-forth saga. The purported primary reason for the delay, involving a Qatari company, has now reportedly ended. Read Full...

Just hours after one outlet revealed that a group of doctors and scientists advising the White House opposed its push for Covid-19 booster shots, another argued for them on political and economic grounds, and benefits to morale. Read Fu...

Former US President Donald Trump called the 2020 presidential election the ‘real insurrection’ after the Democrat-led Capitol riot committee subpoenaed multiple officials in his administration to testify in their investigation. Read...

The Brazilian footballer who faces an attempted murder charge after kicking a referee in the back of the head has reportedly been temporarily released from prison, with local media claiming he had a history of violence. Read Full Artic...

Internet users who search “suspicious” terms, such as the names of crime victims, may find themselves snarled in a massive online dragnet, according to a controversial warrant recently made public by accident. Read Full Article at R...

Amid the ongoing battle against Covid-19, the World Health Organization has approved the first ever vaccine against another deadly disease - Malaria. The WHO believes the jab could be used to save tens of thousands of lives. Read Full A...

Thousands of gallons of crude oil have reportedly spilled from a storage tank at Marathon’s refinery in Texas City, north of Galveston. Nearby roads were closed, but authorities say the leak hasn’t made it to the open water. Read Fu...

President Joe Biden’s White House set from where he has frequently addressed the nation has been leaving critics cringing at how cheap it looks and wondering why it is needed in the first place. Read Full Article at RT.com

The death toll attributed to Covid-19 is now officially higher in 2021 than it was in 2020, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker. The quiet admission has attracted little media coverage – and no president-blaming. Read Full...

Russia sees soaring gas prices in Europe as a source of concern rather than a boon, President Vladimir Putin said as top officials in Moscow consider selling additional gas volumes on an exchange to combat speculative demand. Read Full ...

It's a major advance for filmmaking, shooting the first movie onboard a real space station, but it will have put additional burdens on professional cosmonauts already working at the facility, a veteran spacefarer has told RT. Read Full ...

A new report claims communications giant AT&T played a significant role in the creation of the controversial right-wing One America News (OAN) and provides it with almost all of its revenue. Read Full Article at RT.com

The boss of Ireland's national team has offered conflicting views on vaccines to one of his stars who caught Covid twice – and has claimed that it is "better to be double-vaccinated" amid "myths" around issues including virility. Read...

Four prison officers in Russia's Saratov region have been dismissed amid growing outrage over harrowing footage released by a human rights group that reportedly shows staff abusing inmates at a penitentiary tuberculosis hospital.  Read...

Self-proclaimed ‘fact-checkers’ have been forced to walk back some of their more forceful denials of Bill Gates’ opinions on population control in another effort to frame the philanthropist’s critics as loonies. Read Full Articl...

A WNBA star has apologized after her team reportedly axed her and a teammate following a scandal over a video she shared of herself in a brawl at a food truck. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom should honor its existing, controversial, arrangements with Ukraine instead of fully switching to the more efficient Nord Stream pipelines, President Vladimir Putin directed on Wednesday. Read Fu...

Brussels and Berlin issued mixed messages on Wednesday over the Balkans, as the EU chief, Ursula von der Leyen, claimed they were all part of “one family” before Germany refused to set a timeline for granting them membership. Read F...

Police in Arlington, Texas have arrested the suspect in the shooting at Timberview High School, the 18-year-old Timothy George Simpkins. At least three people were injured in the incident and were taken to local hospitals. Read Full Art...

The UK’s High Court has found that ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum ordered the hacking of his ex-wife’s phone, as well as those of her lawyers, using Pegasus spyware and interfered in British justice. Read Full Article at ...

Venezuelan football has been rocked after 24 players from the women's national team, including Atletico star Deyna Castellanos, accused an ex-coach of committing sexual harassment and abuse during his tenure in an open letter. Read Full...

The Lithuanian government has proposed dishing out €100 payments to vaccine-wary pensioners aged 75 and over in a bid to motivate the age group to get jabbed against Covid, as their inoculation rate remains low. Read Full Article at R...

Before the Taliban takeover in August, the CIA reportedly evacuated thousands of Afghan commandos belonging to its shadowy Zero units. These outfits conducted deadly night raids and have been accused of committing “war crimes.” Read...

Spain’s prime minister has proposed that the European Commission (EC) negotiate gas contracts on behalf of all EU member states in order to strengthen cooperation amid soaring gas prices on the global marketplace. Read Full Article at...

The Austrian anti-corruption prosecutors' office has said that Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and nine others have been placed under investigation on suspicion of bribery and breach of trust, following a raid on several properties. Read Full...

Four people were injured after a shooting at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas. Police gave the 'all clear' two hours after the incident was first reported and later took the suspect into custody "without incident." Read Full ...

Reporters working for America's state run RFERL have accused managers at Ukraine's state bank of violently lashing out at them after an interview with a top executive turned sour, and security demanded they erase their tapes. Read Full ...

Russia has nothing to do with the rapidly rising gas prices in Europe, and the country is providing as much as it possibly can to the rest of the continent, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, amid accusations that Moscow is to blame. Read F...

Two staff members at Devon and Cornwall Police received misconduct notices after it was discovered that Plymouth man Jake Davison had his shotgun returned to him shortly before he went on a rampage in August that killed five. Read Full ...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) was met with boos at a conservative event after he tried to promote Covid-19 vaccination to the crowd. Read Full Article at RT.com

A sightseeing pamphlet funded by Transport for London has claimed that the capital’s gardens and green spaces are filled with colourful colonial legacies and that many terms in botany, like “exotic”, are insulting and offensive. R...

A Russian MP known for his anti-LGBT views had mercy taken upon him by a 60-year-old cult actor and singer in a farcical fight in Moscow, held in an MMA cage under boxing rules which were subject to last-minute confusion. Read Full Arti...

Next chief executive and Conservative Party peer, Lord Simon Wolfson, has called on the UK government to step up and solve ongoing labour shortages by helping companies hire overseas workers to meet demand. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Officials from NATO have reportedly decided to slash the size of the permanent Russian delegation working to build ties with the US-led military bloc at its headquarters in Brussels, revoking the credentials of eight envoys. Read Full A...

The Kremlin has revealed its support for Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda and its decision to stop work in Belarus following the arrest of one of its journalists, shortly after he wrote about a man killed by the authorities. Read Fu...

The Swedish Public Health Agency has decided to suspend offering Moderna’s Covid vaccine to anyone born in 1991 and later for precautionary reasons, citing the slightly increased risk of heart inflammation following inoculation. Read ...

The Prosecutor’s Office in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has filed a lawsuit demanding that Male State, a far-right hate group known for online harassment, be declared an extremist organization and banned from operating. Read Fu...

Pink Floyd co-founder and activist Roger Waters has told RT that a six-month prison sentence for disbarred environmental lawyer Steven Donziger is unfair because he has already more than a year under house arrest. Read Full Article at R...

Khabib Nurmagomedov's early retirement from MMA means he cannot be considered among the likes of legends Georges St-Pierre, Jon Jones or Anderson Silva, a former UFC champion has insisted. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK has been threatened with a Christmas blockade, cutting it off during the festive period, in an escalation of the fisheries row between London and Paris, as French fishermen claim they were “deceived” over fishing licences. Re...

Iran’s foreign minister reiterated Tehran’s concerns with Azerbaijan’s policies, including its military ties with Israel. Tensions between the neighboring nations escalated last month over military drills and transit fees. Read Fu...

Rising energy prices have pushed Russia's currency to its strongest level against the euro in more than a year, and propelled Russian stocks to record highs. Read Full Article at RT.com

With gas prices rising dramatically across much of Western Europe, and a dip in its transit through Belarus and Ukraine to the EU, many commentators have pointed the finger once again at Russia, as the source for all their woes. Read Fu...

Germany has agreed to further compensate around 6,500 Holocaust survivors who suffered under the Nazi regime, including those who experienced the World War II siege of Leningrad and other groups impacted across Europe. Read Full Article...

A series of purported revelations showing how the world’s ultra-wealthy hide their cash from the taxman have painted Ukraine as one of the dodgy-dealing capitals of the world, the country’s former foreign minister has cautioned. Rea...

A reported data leak from video streaming platform Twitch has gone viral, revealing among other things that socialist streamer Hasan Piker allegedly made over $200,000 in just one month. Read Full Article at RT.com

The British prime minister has vowed to take the UK economy in a new direction, defined by a movement towards “high wages and high skills” and away from cheap imported labour, amid fuel challenges and a shortage of workers. Read Ful...

The head of Russia’s parliamentary energy committee has warned that Ukraine is an unreliable gas transit partner for both Moscow and the West, arguing its aging Soviet-built pipe network poses serious safety risks for the future. Read...

Pope Francis has expressed shame on behalf of himself and the Roman Catholic Church over the scale of sexual abuse committed against children in France after a damming report found hundreds of thousands of minors had been abused. Read F...

After not being spotted in London for three years due to visa issues, Russian businessman Roman Abramovich is said to be in the city and set to visit Chelsea. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK police have launched an investigation after a bus stop near a Kent primary school was targeted with racist and extremist stickers emblazoned with swastikas that had razor blades hidden behind them. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Dutch court has given its backing to the government, dismissing a call to scrap the Netherlands’ corona pass which is required to enter restaurants, bars, museums, theatres, and other public places. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has taken down a chatbot tool after it dispensed a series of “misaligned” responses – including safe sex advice – to questions about Covid-19 concerns. The gaffes were widely shared online....

Tyson Fury has worried some fans by emulating UFC stars Conor McGregor and Jorge Masvidal in Versace robes ahead of his trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder, who is thought to be planning an elaborate ring walk costume again. Read Full Art...

Germany’s Greens said they have so far found more common ground with the Social Democrats and FDP in negotiations to form the next government and replace Angela Merkel as chancellor. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian authorities have hit back at suggestions by four US senators that American President Joe Biden should expel 300 diplomats, and warned that Moscow would close all of Washington’s missions on Russian soil in retaliation. Rea...

Russian diplomats have hit out at the US after American officials signed a letter demanding information on the circumstances of the purported poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, accusing Washington of double standards. Read F...

Former US Secretary of State Clinton has joined her husband to become a political thriller writer, touting the new work as her “first foray into fiction”. But Twitter suggested she has a previous record of narrative invention. Read ...

Top US trade negotiator Katherine Tai has pledged to exclude some Chinese imports from tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump. This comes as the two nations are set to hold key trade discussions. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Police in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana clashed with crowds demonstrating against Covid restrictions, deploying horse-mounted officers, tear gas and water cannon to disperse people on the eve of today’s European Union summit there. R...

An estimated 5.5 million families have woken up to £1,040-a-year less in social welfare payments as the British government’s scheme to top up the benefits programme by £20-a-week comes to an end, much to the dismay of many. Read Ful...

The tragic death of MMA veteran Justin Thornton following his bare-knuckle boxing debut is a human reminder of the horrific risks that mean brutality should never be glorified. Read Full Article at RT.com

European gas prices broke new record highs on Wednesday, rising sharply to above $1,900 per 1,000 cubic meters. That is equivalent to $186 per megawatt-hour in household terms. Read Full Article at RT.com

The United States and 44 other countries have submitted a list of questions to Moscow asking for details about the alleged poisoning of now-jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, the State Department revealed on Tuesday. Read ...

As the threat of hyperinflation grows in the face of runaway government spending, growing consumer demand, and a supply chain crisis, oil prices could well hit $180 by 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebuttal of accusations against Facebook and call for action by Congress are just an attempt to have the government protect his monopoly, digital freedoms activist Edward Snowden said. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

South Korea will open vaccination against Covid-19 for pregnant women this month as part of the national campaign to vaccinate 80% of its adult population by the end of October. Read Full Article at RT.com

France, Spain, Czechia, Romania and Greece are calling for an investigation into the causes of the record-high growth of gas prices on the continent, according to a joint statement published by Bloomberg’s Javier Blas on Twitter. Read...

A Russian space mission that has seen an actress and a movie-maker travelling to orbit to shoot a movie is a positive development both for both space exploration and the art of filmmaking, a renowned Russian cosmonaut has told RT. Read ...

The World Bank has raised its growth forecast for Russia’s economy to 4.3% in 2021, followed by moderate growth in the next two years, the organization said in its latest report for Europe and Central Asia. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The start of operations by the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the fourth quarter of this year could drive natural gas prices in Europe down to their lowest levels, Saxo Bank forecasts. Read Full Article at RT.com

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed recent charges from a supposed ‘whistleblower’ who said the social media giant allows hate and misinformation to thrive on its platform, rejecting her allegations as a “false narrative.�...

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau sparked an online storm after he used an obscure acronym, 2SLGBTQQIA+, while commemorating missing and murdered members of ethnic and sexual minorities, prompting a collective head scratching. Read Full Articl...

Mali has summoned the French ambassador following “unfriendly and derogatory” remarks by the French president, who said Mali’s government lacks the legitimacy to criticize the withdrawal of French troops from the country. Read Ful...

A New York ethics body will investigate potential misconduct in a multi-million-dollar book deal approved for then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, with a freshly appointed commission chairman vowing to oversee the new probe. Read Full Article at...

In a controversial 28-27 vote, the Welsh Senedd approved the proposal to require Covid-19 passes to enter nightclubs and large venues, ignoring a Tory lawmaker who said he was trying to vote remotely but could not. Read Full Article at ...

Golf poster girl Paige Spiranac claimed she had hit a hole in one in front of golf legend Gary Player. Four hours later, the former pro proved cynics wrong by posting video evidence of her astonishing feat. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Ellume, an Australian company that supplied over 3.5 million FDA-approved Covid-19 testing kits to the US, has now recalled nearly 200,000 of them due to an unspecified manufacturing issue that resulted in false positives. Read Full Art...

Two teenage hockey players have been formally charged in Canada over a sexual assault they allegedly carried out, with one of the youngsters accused of sharing images from the reported incident during a team party at a hotel. Read Full ...

The FBI has raided the offices of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a massive New York City police union, and its leader’s Long Island home as part of an ongoing investigation reportedly involving mail and wire fraud. Read Full Ar...

The agency’s officials have reportedly been worried about losing too many informants recruited overseas, dozens of them having been killed or captured. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former President Donald Trump’s critics have celebrated with glee Forbes announcing the real estate mogul has fallen off their Forbes 400 list for the first time in 25 years. Read Full Article at RT.com

A violent inmate has taken two guards hostage in a high-security prison in north-western France. The man surrendered only after the police and the prison administration deployed two elite units to the scene. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen was greeted as a hero by the media and US senators eager to cut Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth down to size, but all the talk of protecting children seems to be hiding a political agenda. Read Full ...

Cristiano Ronaldo ducked and motioned to take friend Khabib Nurmagomedov down when the UFC icon met the Man United ace – and their ensuing close-range face-off was approved by heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury. Read Full Article ...

The US Department of Justice is assigning a special task force to determine efforts that can be taken to address rising criminal acts “directed towards school personnel” amid mask mandates and ‘critical race theory’ teachings. R...

Police are investigating suspected foul play following the death of a footballer who was found dead in a car at the age of 31 on Tuesday, shocking the local community and sending domestic Greek football into mourning. Read Full Article ...

Basketball star Andrew Wiggins has revealed his fears about suffering the same "injuries or reactions" as "a lot of people" he knows after reluctantly taking a Covid vaccine in order to be allowed to continue playing in the NBA. Read Fu...

Encrypted messenger platform Telegram gained more than 70 million new sign-ups in a single day as Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger all went dark for six hours, plunging users into existential crisis. Read ...