A large blaze broke out at a fuel storage tank near the Zahrani power station in southern Lebanon, just days after the country was plunged into complete darkness after the same facility, as well as one other, shut down. Read Full Articl...

Facing accusations of failing to protect children, Facebook wants to introduce more restrictions and coercion on the platform. It also wants reform of Section 230 so its protections apply only to well-moderated platforms. Read Full Arti...

The deputy of slain IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has been captured by Iraqi troops in an “external operation,” the prime minister has confirmed, two years after the Islamist chief was killed by US special forces. Read Full Article...

China is going to dominate the world through its advances in AI and other emerging technologies, and the US has already missed out on a chance to prevent it, the Pentagon’s recently resigned software chief has said. Read Full Article ...

Global prices for crude oil saw another surge on Monday, extending seven-year highs as the energy crunch affecting major economies shows no signs of easing amid the post-pandemic recovery. Read Full Article at RT.com

China’s embassy in Canberra has criticized former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott after he visited Taiwan and called on his country and the US to offer military help to the island if a conflict breaks out. Read Full Article at R...

The Taliban has said that the US agreed to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, insisting it should come with no strings attached after talks in Qatar. Washington called the meeting “candid” and “professional.” Read F...

Police in the UK have dropped an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against Prince Andrew, telling the British media that they decided not to proceed after studying a civil case filed by accuser Virginia Giuffre. Read Full A...

Thousands of passengers who booked Southwest Airlines flights for weekend travel have been left stranded in US airports after the airline canceled flights amid reports of a protest against the vaccine mandate. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Moscow has lifted sanctions on Victoria Nuland, allowing the US undersecretary of state to enter the country for a summit with her Russian counterparts. The US is said to have dropped sanctions on a Russian diplomat in exchange. Read Fu...

A Maryland nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested and charged with espionage for trying to sell classified information on US nuclear submarines to a foreign power. Their scheme was foiled in an FBI sting operation. Read Full A...

A five-day course of Merck’s new Covid-19 pill costs $17.74 to produce, but the pharma firm will charge the USA $712. With taxpayers getting bilked, MSF official Leena Menghaney told RT that generic pill production is the answer. Read...

Odds are both Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will have woken up with sore heads on Sunday – but the Gypsy King might be reaching for the paracetamol for entirely different reasons after partying the night away in Sin City. Read Full Ar...

Manchester City women's star Georgia Stanway has apologized for her horrendous challenge which drew a red card in Saturday's derby with Manchester United – but says she received a torrent of abusive messages online afterwards. Read Fu...

At least one woman was killed after a car carrying journalist, liberal socialite, and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak collided head-on with another vehicle on a mountain road in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Read F...

A French teen has reportedly been arrested and fined for attempting to enter a hospital using the health pass data of President Emmanuel Macron, which had been leaked online. He said he impersonated the president “just for fun.” Rea...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring large toy retailers to provide gender-neutral toy sections in their stores. Critics say it’s government overreach, and that Newsom has bigger issues to fix. Read Full Article...

Global food prices have continued to grow substantially this year, with the price index shooting up 27%, according to the INFOLine information and analytical agency. Read Full Article at RT.com

The supply crisis in Britain has worsened as deep concerns over supply-chain woes, soaring energy bills, and staff shortages prompted millions of locals to stockpile festive essentials ahead of Christmas, leaving shelves empty. Read Ful...

Damon Jackson's fight at Saturday night's UFC event certainly wasn't one for the squeamish after a MASSIVE cut was opened up on his head, causing blood to pool on the canvas - with the American winning the fight soon after. Read Full Ar...

A conspiracy theory is brewing in boxing circles which suggests that Deontay Wilder was 'robbed' of a fourth-round knockout amid claims that the referee took an age to count as Tyson Fury recovered from two knockdowns. Read Full Article...

In the space of nearly 500 years, Russia and Turkey have fought no fewer than 12 wars against each other. Now, even without the tsars or Ottomans, the two old rivals are standing on competing sides once again – this time in Syria. Rea...

One woman is dead and 14 people are injured after a gunfight broke out in a bar in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Police are looking for “several shooters,” and no arrests have yet been made. Read Full Article at RT.com

Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova has responded to a row with members of the Russian sports media after claims that the star threatened to “sue” them at a recent hockey match for filming her. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The US is being forced to negotiate oil supplies with Russia and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) due to the loss of energy independence under the current administration, the former US president has said. Read Fu...

With boxing having been threatened by YouTube stars in its recent history, Saturday night's classic heavyweight title tilt between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder has proved that there is more to the sport than 'freak show' fights. Read F...

Czech President Milos Zeman is in intensive care at a Prague hospital. He was rushed there in an ambulance on Sunday, shortly after holding talks with the outgoing premier Andrej Babis about the formation of a new government. Read Full ...

Mariya Agapova got her UFC career back on track with a brilliant performance against Sabina Mazo on Saturday night – before taking aim at Ukrainian rival Maryna Moroz for allegedly slandering her name. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A major explosion rocked the Red Sea port of Aden in Yemen on Sunday, with local media saying a car bomb had been targeted at a convoy of officials travelling across the city. Read Full Article at RT.com

The export duty on Russian wheat will be increased from $57.80 to $58.70 per ton on October 13, the Ministry of Agriculture said. Duties on barley and corn will be also hiked to $49.40 and $47.20 per ton, respectively. Read Full Article...

Amid talk of it being an 'unnecessary rematch', Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder played out a classic heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas on Saturday night - with much of the combat sports world paying tribute afterwards. Read Full Articl...

Tyson Fury’s demolition of Deontay Wilder appeared all too much for the American’s fiancée Telli Swift, who was seen in tears at ringside in Las Vegas as her man suffered an 11th-round KO defeat. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Tyson Fury said the defeated Deontay Wilder failed to show respect after the British boxer attended the American’s corner after knocking him out in round 11 of their heavyweight world title fight in Las Vegas. Read Full Article at RT....

A turboprop plane carrying skydivers, with 22 on board, has crashed near the town of Menzelinsk in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring six others, the local health ministry has reported. Read Full...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has come under fire for delaying his own teenage daugher’s Covid-19 vaccination while fuming at the lagging vaccination rate in those aged 12-17, and pushing for the broad vaccine mandate. Read Full Ar...

Footage from ringside in Las Vegas has shown the devastating power behind the barrage from Tyson Fury as he pummeled Deontay Wilder into submission in their world heavyweight title fight. Read Full Article at RT.com

The tea producers in India’s Darjeeling municipality would love Russia to become their key importing customer again, Darjeeling Tea Association Principal Advisor Sandeep Mukherjee told TASS. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tyson Fury retained his WBC world heavyweight title by stopping Deontay Wilder in a pulsating battle in Las Vegas, with the Brit recovering from a double knockdown before exerting his dominance and knocking out Wilder in round 11. Read ...

British Airways has instructed its pilots to no longer address passengers as ladies and gentlemen, keeping the greetings gender-neutral instead. The change in policy has been touted as a nod to “inclusion and diversity.” Read Full A...

CNN host Jim Acosta used his interview with former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang to dress down the politician for committing the ideological sin of talking to Fox News ratings king Tucker Carlson. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The purported bodyguard for former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani told the British media he has security camera footage to disprove the US-backed leader’s denials of taking bags of money with him when he fled the country in August. Rea...

The coronavirus pandemic added to the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in over 200 countries last year, a new study shows, saying the impact of Covid-19 has increased the number of depressed people by nearly a third. Read Full...

A 16-year-old high school girl was arrested and her entire school locked down, all over her refusal to wear a face mask. Her arrest caused outrage on the right, and conservatives have started chipping in to her legal defense. Read Full ...

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has accused Britain of withholding millions of pounds in funding to stop migrant boats crossing the English Channel. He said France’s authorities have cracked down on the crossings anyway. Read...

The Taliban is laying down the law with President Joe Biden’s administration, reportedly warning that any attempt by Washington to destabilize Afghanistan’s new government would be “good for no one.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An actor was reportedly killed on stage at Moscow’s iconic Bolshoi Theater on Saturday. The performer was crushed by a heavy piece of the set during an evening show and died on the spot, multiple media sources suggest. Read Full Artic...

Hours before the first punch has been thrown in Las Vegas, Deontay Wilder has renewed his claims that Tyson Fury is 'cheating' ahead of their trilogy fight, as he complains that 'The Gypsy King's gloves have been tampered with. Read Ful...

Football superstar Cristiano Ronald has had a $68,000 cryotherapy ice chamber delivered to his new home in northwest England to keep him fit for Manchester United matches, a British newspaper has reported. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday said he’s resigning amid a corruption probe that threatened to unravel his ruling coalition. Kurz, who’s replaced by his FM, denies the allegations, vowing to fight to clear his name. R...

Czech center-right opposition group Together is set to beat Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ ANO party in national elections. Babis was beset by corruption allegations after being named in the Pandora Papers ahead of the vote. Read Full A...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has revealed that approval status for Moscow's National Anti-Doping Laboratory has been revoked. Read Full Article at RT.com

Football fans have called out Premier League clubs for their 'hypocrisy' after they reportedly complained about the £305 million takeover of relegation-threatened Newcastle United by a Saudi consortium earlier this week. Read Full Arti...

Some football fans have cried foul after a host of traveling Irish supporters sang a song in reference to vaccine-hesitant Irish international Callum Robinson ahead of the team's clash with Azerbaijan in Baku. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A supposedly “carbon neutral” Drax biomass power plant is the UK’s leading source of CO2 emissions, and belches out more harmful carbon and particulate matter than some of Europe’s dirtiest coal plants, according to a new report...

Tyson Fury fans are fearful of the so-called 'Drake curse' after the rapper threw his support behind the Brit ahead of his trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder – despite being on the wrong side several such predictions in the past. Read ...

Football fans have reacted after a women's derby match between Manchester United and Manchester City turned foul when City star Georgia Stanway went in to challenge for the ball with a dangerous lunge and was sent off. Read Full Article...

Tyson Fury registered a career-high weight on the scales ahead of his trilogy bout with Deontay Wilder - but some experts are claiming that 'The Gypsy King' deliberately hid his true mass at Friday's weigh-ins. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A series of horrific videos of prison abuse rocked Russia this week. In reality, though, it’s nothing new and the failure to tackle this long-standing issue that few want to talk about is an institutional failure of the state. Read Fu...

The ban on an anti-Kremlin voting app launched by jailed activist Alexey Navalny became a central part of Western media reporting on last month’s Russian parliamentary elections. However, most voters didn’t even know it existed. Rea...

The chief minister of Delhi on Saturday warned that the power crisis which has already caused electricity cuts in some eastern and northern states is about to impact the Indian capital and its 20 million citizens. Read Full Article at R...

An incident in a Brazilian Serie B game on Friday night caused shock after a defender received a straight red card for a full-frontal karate kick on a member of the opposition that left the player writhing on the floor. Read Full Articl...

A female officer with Victoria Police, who served for 16 years, has resigned in protest against the use of police to enforce Covid-19 rules, saying in an interview that a "great majority" of her colleagues shared her sentiments. Read Fu...

Georgia will play their World Cup qualifier against Greece without a crowd in Batumi on Saturday, following the collapse of a building in the city where as many as 15 people are feared to be buried beneath the rubble. Read Full Article ...

US investigators will be searching for data on hundreds of ships, including international, that have been sailing off the California coast and might have damaged a pipeline that sent up to 132,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific. Read F...

The price of US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil exceeded $80 per barrel for the first time since November 2014 this week following reports that Washington will not tap the nation’s oil reserves to curb gasoline prices. Read Fu...

Police were called to attend an altercation at the shared room of Australian tennis star and on-off girlfriend Chiara Passari in Adelaide, with the couple now forced to spend their remaining hotel quarantine period apart. Read Full Arti...

Veteran baseball announcer Jim Kaat issued an apology during the broadcast of Friday's game between the Astros and the White Sox after saying that teams should 'get a 40 acre field full' of players like Cuban star Yoan Moncada. Read Ful...

Due to fuel shortages, two of Lebanon’s biggest power stations were forced to shut down on Saturday, leaving the crisis-hit country in the dark, an official source has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Undefeated US women’s boxing star Mikaela Mayer has gone in on Shannon Courtenay after the Brit was stripped of her WBA bantamweight belt for missing weight, which she put down to the unexpected onset of her period. Read Full Article ...

Both Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder are banking on their power ahead of their trilogy fight late on Saturday, as both tipped the scales with the heaviest weights of their careers at a testy weigh-in in Las Vegas. Read Full Article at RT....

Skyrocketing debt brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic could reach 260% of global GDP by the end of 2021, but according S&P Global Ratings, low interest rates will help bring the situation under control. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, almost every president has, sooner or later, begun to take on authoritarian tendencies. Unfortunately, the country's current leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, is no exception. Read F...

Shock US Open winner Emma Raducanu’s return to court didn’t go as planned as the teenager lost in straight sets to Belarusian world number 100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich at Indian Wells. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom has raised its forecast for gas export prices in 2021 and called for changes to the gas pricing mechanism in Europe to avoid further crises. Read Full Article at RT.com

Reunification with China best serves the interests of Taiwanese people and will be achieved by peaceful means, Chinese President Xi Jinping insisted, warning foreign nations about interfering in the issue. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

In a blow to the Joe Biden administration, Texas has received a green light to enforce its strict abortion ban again – a mere two days after a federal judge ruled to suspend the law that has sparked an intense legal battle. Read Full ...

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has a capped supply of 21 million coins, with almost 90% already mined. Analysts are now speculating what will happen to the crypto economy when no new coins are being issued. Read Full Art...

Beijing has called for an immediate expansion of coal production in Inner Mongolia by nearly 100 million tons, Reuters reports. This comes amid a global energy crunch and coal shortages in the country. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The top US health agency said that any Covid vaccine approved by the World Health Organization will be permitted for foreign visitors, Reuters reported, as Russian officials push the WHO to give its official blessing to Sputnik V. Read ...

US officials are set to meet with the Taliban in Qatar over the weekend for the first in-person round of talks since the US withdrawal, and are expected to press the group to form an “inclusive government” and aid evacuations. Read ...

The US Department of Justice said it will not seek federal civil rights charges against the Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake during a domestic incident last year, noting it could not prove “excessive force” was used. Re...

The 18-year-old student who was arrested earlier this week for shooting three people at a high school near Dallas has stirred online outrage by enjoying a welcome-home party after posting bail following less than one day in jail. Read F...

Joint military, taxation and court agreements in Bosnia-Herzegovina have been used to violate Serb rights and the 1995 peace deal, said Milorad Dodik, a member of the country’s tripartite presidency from Republika Srpska. Read Full Ar...

A man accused of assaulting his girlfriend and threatening to kill his mother in New York’s Queens borough is in a unique, days-long standoff with police. He simply clambered into a tree outside his house and refused to come down. Rea...

As President Joe Biden signed a law funding the treatment of 200-plus US officials who claim to have been affected by so-called Havana Syndrome, German police said they were looking into more possible cases. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Militant groups in northern Mali’s Kidal region have been trained by French officers, Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga claimed in an interview with RIA Novosti, saying two-thirds of his country is “occupied by terrorists.” Rea...

The US government spent $85 billion on the Afghan military, only to see it surrender to the Taliban without a fight. Now the son of a former defense minister is spending millions to buy a luxury mansion with a view of Los Angeles. Read ...

Iceland will no longer administer Moderna’s mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, with the country’s chief epidemiologist citing the risk of rare heart inflammations seen in other Nordic countries. Read Full Article at RT.com

The intricacies of identity politics were laid bare when a transgender white woman behind Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ boycotted the firm for the “dangerous transphobic content” of black comedian Dave Chappelle. Confused yet?...

The New York Times had to issue a doozy of a correction on an article by its Covid-19 reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, who somehow inflated the number of US children hospitalized with the virus to 14 times the actual level. Read Full Articl...

Donald Trump claimed his Trump Hotel in DC brought in $150 million while he was in the White House, but a House committee has issued a damning report claiming the hotel actually suffered more than $70 million in losses. Read Full Articl...

Social media giant Facebook, along with its subsidiaries Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, is offline for the second time in less than a week, leaving competitors to rescue its customers from an existential crisis. Read Full Article a...

Two people were shot dead at a senior living home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC on Friday, leading to a lockdown of a nearby school until police were able to rule out the possibility of additional victims or suspects. Read Full...

Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny has raised eyebrows during his defense of 'infectious' star Callum Robinson, who refuses to get vaccinated despite catching Covid twice. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US only added 194,000 jobs in September, far short of the expected half a million. While the stock market dipped and financial analysts fretted, the White House claimed things weren’t really so bad and blamed the coronavirus. Read...

Russia has responded to a list of questions on the alleged poisoning of Alexey Navalny from 45 OPCW members, Moscow’s envoy to the chemical watchdog told RT, adding that the case has been “extremely politicized” by the West. Read ...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will scrap the city’s gifted and talented program, which critics say discriminates against black and Hispanic students. However, the mayor was accused of dumbing down his schools to appear woke. Read Full...

The long-serving editor of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, has reacted to his unexpected Nobel Peace Prize award win by paying tribute to jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny and to slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Read...

The nominees for the prestigious Ballon d’Or award for the world’s best footballer have been revealed, with Lionel Messi in the running for a record-extending seventh win while Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski feature. Read ...

The Lithuanian government has received €29.6 million ($34.2 million) of its allocated aid from the European Commission to help tackle Vilnius’ influx of migrants seeping in from neighboring Belarus.  Read Full Article at RT.com ...