Legendary investor Jim Rogers says he plans to sell off his dollar holdings as soon as the next peak occurs, as the current state of the US economy will inevitably put an end to the greenback’s global hegemony. Read Full Article at RT...

Some 500 conscripted soldiers have been sent home in Sweden after it emerged that many were subjected to serious malpractice including food and sleep deprivation, and were forced to train despite injuries and illnesses. Read Full Articl...

Google has said that more than 150,000 of its employees in the US will be placed on unpaid leave and terminated if they don’t comply with the company’s Covid vaccine mandate, CNBC reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that China "knows how to do it" ahead of what he expects to be a Winter Olympics "held at the highest level" in Beijing, Read Full Article at RT.com

A group of US lawmakers want to put sanctions on leading spyware companies, including Israel’s embattled NSO Group, the producer of the hacking kit Pegasus, Reuters has reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

Intelligence agencies in the West realize that interest in Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is declining, and they are already looking for his replacement, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has claimed. Read Fu...

Low interest rates, rising labor costs and disrupted supply chains are setting up “a huge surge in spending on robotics and artificial intelligence,” says Global X, the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Read F...

The House of Representatives has voted to hold former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in contempt of Congress – a week after he decided to stop cooperating with the committee investigating the Capitol siege. R...

A recent declaration by the EU’s top diplomat, hailing the prevention of waves of Middle Eastern migrants crossing into member states from Belarus as the bloc’s “main success” of the year, has come under fire from Moscow. Read F...

O.J. Simpson, the defendant in one of America’s most-publicized murder trials, has scored a legal victory after being granted early release from parole following an armed robbery conviction in 2008. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A NASA spacecraft has entered the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time in history, scientists have confirmed, branding the achievement “one giant leap for solar science.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The South Korean government intends to adjust its ‘living with Covid’ plan by imposing tougher restrictions to curb disease, as the country recorded its highest increase in daily caseload since the pandemic began. Read Full Article ...

Russians are evenly divided over whether Ukraine is a friendly neighbor or a worrying threat in Eastern Europe, a new poll has revealed, amid escalating tension across their shared border with the former fellow Soviet Republic. Read Ful...

The Russian Foreign Ministry is to work on a new big-data system that will use artificial intelligence to help the department conduct its “many analytical tasks” in relation to policy, it revealed on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT...

A blaze broke out at around midday inside the 38-floor World Trade Centre building in Hong Kong. More than 150 people were trapped on the rooftop as police and firefighters launched a rescue operation. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Texas man has been arrested for allegedly scamming the US government out of $3.3 million in Covid-19 pandemic relief payments, which he spent on real estate, luxury vehicles, and private jets. Read Full Article at RT.com

The mayor of San Francisco has vowed to crack down on crime terrorizing poor neighborhoods, promising extra funding and more power for police while urging prosecutors not to let criminals get away with just a slap on the wrist. Read Ful...

The Oregon Department of Justice is being sued after its anti-terrorism Oregon TITAN Fusion Center (OTFC) was accused of illegally surveilling environmental and Native American protesters who opposed a gas pipeline. Read Full Article at...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed an increase in the cost of groceries, including that of meat, on the “greed” of big corporations, accusing them of profiteering from the pandemic amid record-breaking inflation. Read Full...

American grocery chain Kroger will remove paid health benefits and charge a health insurance surcharge next year to employees who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 in an effort to convince people to get the shots. Read Full Article at...

NATO has rejected Russia’s call for a ban on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate-range missiles in Europe, while blaming Moscow for violating the INF treaty that was scrapped by the US. Read Full Article at RT.com

A glitch on the cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase resulted in many users believing they had become wealthier than the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, as balances shot up to tremendous amounts. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Elon Musk dubbed Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) a “Karen” for calling him a freeloader as part of her ongoing war against the “rigged” US tax laws, after TIME magazine named him Person of the Year. Read Full Article ...

A state ethics board has ordered former New York governor Andrew Cuomo to hand over the profits he made from his 2020 book on “leadership lessons” from the Covid-19 pandemic. His lawyers said they would fight the decision. Read Full...

Cornell University is shutting down its Ithaca, New York campus after finding an outbreak of Covid-19 among 3% of the students, possibly caused by the Omicron variant. Read Full Article at RT.com

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has suspended talks with the US over procuring 50 F-35 fighter jets that were part of a $23 billion arms deal, expressing concerns over a restrictive end-user agreement, according to media reports. Read Fu...

A six-block radius in downtown Sacramento, the capital of California, has lost power as the result of a fire at an electrical substation. The blaze has caused the nearby county jail to go into lockdown. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a rebellion in his own party on Tuesday, as around 100 Conservative MPs refused to support a vote on Covid passes. The measure was nonetheless still passed and will come into effect this week. Read ...

Ukraine is being “pumped up” with modern weapons, which pose a “direct threat” to Russia, President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone conversation on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The US drone strike that killed 10 civilians in Kabul, including seven children, is an atrocity, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said, calling for the international community to hold the United States accountable for war crimes. Read F...

Sanctions against Russian citizens linked to the private paramilitary company Wagner are a product of “hysteria” in European capitals about their former colonies in Africa, and Russia will respond to the move, Moscow has warned. Rea...

The leaders of the world’s largest country and its most populous are holding talks on Wednesday, with Moscow and Beijing publicly committed to strengthening their ties amid increasingly strained relations between East and West. Read F...

Malta has approved recreational cannabis use, as well as the limited cultivation and possession of the drug for personal use, beating Luxembourg in becoming the first EU country to drastically relax legislation on the substance. Read Fu...

Leading Paris taxi company G7 has announced it is suspending the use of Tesla Model 3 cars from its fleet following an accident that left over a dozen people injured in the French capital. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former NFL star Phillip Adams, who was responsible for a violent gun rampage which killed six people in April, was suffering from severe brain trauma often linked to a career on the football field, according to a neuropathologist. Read ...

Washington, DC is suing 31 leaders and members of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in federal court, for “conspiring to terrorize” the District during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, Attorney General Karl Racine has announced. Read...

One of the team that developed Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V vaccine has hit out at US pharma giant Pfizer’s warning that Covid-19 jabs may be required every three months to protect against the virus. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A court in Moscow has sentenced two defendants to a combined 31 years behind bars after they were found guilty of murdering Vyacheslav Ivankov, a notorious mafia kingpin who was shot dead in the street in 2009. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A new, super-stealthy variant of Russia's recently developed heavy combat drone, which is equipped with advanced anti-detection capabilities, has been unveiled for the first time and will undertake its maiden flight soon. Read Full Arti...

Wholesale prices have risen a record amount over the past year – by 9.6% – according to new figures released by the US Labor Department on Tuesday, compounding the ongoing inflation crisis facing Americans. Read Full Article at RT.c...

There has been a surge in gun violence in the EU that could “rapidly and drastically” deteriorate the security situation, claims the first comprehensive report to have studied the local black market of firearms and its impact. Read ...

A group of activists are seeking to have their challenge to a law barring women from being topless in public in Ocean City, Maryland, go all the way to the US Supreme Court. Read Full Article at RT.com

A near-mint copy of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ #1, the first-ever appearance of the four pizza-chugging reptiles, has been sold at auction for a whopping $250,000. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former NFL running back Zac Stacy says that a video which appears to show him violently abusing his ex-girlfriend in front of their infant child was 'staged' and was an attempt on her part to extort him. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Alexandre Benalla, the disgraced ex-bodyguard of the French president, has been placed in custody over accusations that he was linked to a security contract with a Russian oligarch, signed by an associate. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled that member states must recognize LGBT+ parents and their children as one family, after Bulgarian authorities refused to give a birth certificate to the daughter of a same-sex couple. Read ...

A new investigation by YouTube channel People Make Games accuses the video game platform Roblox of replicating the dirtiest practices of the unregulated gaming industry even though it’s aimed at young children. Read Full Article at RT...

NatWest, the UK’s biggest business bank, has been fined £265 million ($350 million) for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly £400 million. It’s the first criminal money laundering case against a British bank. Read Full Arti...

UFC loudmouth Conor McGregor has again taken a shot at one of Dagestan's most famous fighters, this time hurling an insult at top-ranked lightweight Islam Makhachev after a tense back-and-forth on social media. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The owners of the NSO Group, which hit headlines this year for creating and selling Pegasus spyware to governments around the world, is reportedly looking to shut down its scandal-ridden department and sell the entire company. Read Full...

New analysis released from South Africa suggests that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are considerably less effective in battling the Omicron variant compared to earlier strains. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s competition regulator has blasted US tech giants Google and Apple for their tight control over consumers’ choices and the prices they pay for goods and services. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Constitutional Court of Russia has shut down a complaint by civil liberties activists, who have accused detention center officials of interfering with their attempts to speak with detainees about abuses they had suffered. Read Full ...

Against the backdrop of the current war scare over Ukraine, a recent statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin has attracted attention. In it he blasted Kiev’s handling of the Donbass conflict as “reminiscent of genocide.” Rea...

A thieving scheme that resulted in $2 million in fuel stolen from a US base in Romania might have been facilitated by the “negligence” of the Americans unaware of “local culture,” the country’s defense minister has suggested. ...

The twin blasts that rocked an airport in the Colombian city of Cucuta on Tuesday, killing two police officers, was a terrorist attack, the country’s President Ivan Duque has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

MGM Resorts International said on Monday it will sell the operations of the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to Hard Rock International for around $1.08 billion. Read Full Article at RT.com

The British government is removing all the countries named on England’s pandemic travel red list, Secretary for Transport Grant Shapps has announced. Read Full Article at RT.com

More than 40 people have been killed and many houses destroyed after a truck carrying fuel overturned in Cap Haitien, Haiti. There was an attempt to siphon fuel from the stricken tanker, at which point it exploded. Read Full Article at ...

British MPs have passed a bill which makes sweeping changes to asylum and refugee rules as well as giving the home secretary the power to remove someone’s citizenship without telling them. Read Full Article at RT.com

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A four-year-old girl was killed and 36 people were injured when football fans in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a rampaged through the streets to celebrate a win over Saudi Arabia, according to reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Elon Musk has tweeted that his electric car company Tesla will accept the cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment, but only for some of its merchandise. The announcement sent the price of the Shiba Inu meme-inspired token surging. Read Full ...

A series of provocative photos posted by a well-known TV personality in Kyrgyzstan have ignited a moral outcry in the Central Asian nation, with the presenter taking aim at her conservative society’s concept of “shame.” Read Full ...

A man suspected of trying to sell so-called ‘corona kits’, which people can use to infect themselves with Covid-19, has been detained by police in the Netherlands. Read Full Article at RT.com

There were shocking reported scenes at a top-flight Italian football match when a 23-year-old man had to be resuscitated after suffering a cardiac arrest – leading home manager Jose Mourinho to make him a promise. Read Full Article at...

A yet-to-be-identified disease has killed at least 89 people in Fangak in South Sudan’s state of Jonglei, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told the BBC. Read Full Article at RT.com

There is no need to impose tougher restrictions over the Omicron variant as the cases are “predominantly mild”, the head of South Africa Medical Association Dr. Angelique Coetzee has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Speaking during an interview, Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead at the World Health Organization (WHO), warned that the world was facing a “tsunami of Covid infections” due to the joint spread of Delta and Omicron. Read Full Ar...

The fact that EA has blocked Kyle Rittenhouse from using his own name to play its games goes to show that no matter what the truth is, corporations will happily abide by the louder narrative. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will bring Russian gas to Germany through the Baltic Sea, is a “European project” and should not be used to pressure Moscow politically, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said. Read Full Article...

Russia last week announced a major new energy cooperation deal with India that threatens the very core of the US’s fightback strategy against Beijing’s and Moscow’s expansionism in the Middle East and beyond. Read Full Article at ...

Austria-style restrictions for people unvaccinated against Covid-19 would be opposed by just a quarter of Belgians, while the overwhelming majority would approve of such measures, if they were introduced in their country. Read Full Arti...

Russia could be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles on its European territory in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to increase the presence of atomic weapons on the continent, a top diplomat has claimed. Read F...

Ghana’s main international airport is set to fine airlines $3,500 for every passenger found to be unvaccinated against Covid-19, or who test positive for the virus upon arrival, the airport’s operator said on Monday. Read Full Artic...

Tehran has given people around the world a first glimpse of the Hoveizeh cruise missile, allegedly a copy of the Soviet-built Kh-55 model, mounted on an Iranian fighter jet. Read Full Article at RT.com

Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard says that a player's vaccine status will "come into conversations" ahead of January's transfer window after the Premier League recorded the highest number of weekly Covid-19 cases since May. Read Full ...

On Monday, Rep. Liz Cheney shared with the US House of Representatives texts sent by high-profile Trump supporters on the day of the Capitol Hill riot to Trump’s chief-of-staff, Mark Meadows, urging a presidential intervention. Read F...

If Australia is fine with the extradition of its citizen Julian Assange from Britain to the US, it would be equally OK for some nation to hand over an Australian Koran insulter to Saudi Arabia, a senior government official wrote. Read F...

Democrats have reportedly written to Republicans in the Senate urging them to enter into talks with the White House over the 2022 appropriations bill, saying the Biden administration desperately needs the funds to support Ukraine. Read ...

Sergey Tikhanovsky, a Belarusian political activist and the husband of Western-backed opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been handed eighteen years behind bars by a court in Gomel. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi has reportedly been the victim of a violent raid in which four thugs broke into his home and placed a belt around his neck while stealing cash and several valuable watches. Read Full Arti...

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab will unveil his proposal to revise UK human rights legislation on Tuesday in a bid to challenge “wokery and political correctness” and prevent “spurious” claims being made. Read Full Article at...

The Associated Press has filed a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), seeking explanations over its use of a sensitive government database intended for tracking terrorists to investigate American journalists. Read Full A...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally blocked NATO from supplying arms to Ukraine by using its veto within the structure of the US-led military bloc, Berlin tabloid Bild claimed on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has revealed there is another position he is keen to take on, as his name appeared on the list of candidates for the post of Norwegian Central Bank governor. Read Full Article at RT.com

A German cardinal has sparked controversy by claiming that the coronavirus pandemic has been used by the likes of George Soros and Bill Gates to create a global “surveillance state.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The government of Canada has set aside $31 billion to compensate indigenous children who were subjected to discrimination and to cover the costs of a long-term reform of its First Nations welfare system. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The price of natural gas in Europe on Tuesday rose to $1,400 per 1,000 cubic meters after Germany said Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline could not be greenlighted for launch, citing rising tensions on the Ukrainian border. Read Full Art...

Ukraine’s GDP is the lowest in Europe, the country’s former prime minister and opposition MP, Yulia Timoshenko, said on Tuesday. She blasted the government for creating the current energy crisis, rising prices, and inflation. Read F...

Giorgos Tragas, an outspoken opponent of Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, has died from the deadly virus. He was admitted to hospital on December 4 with acute breathing issues, and his condition then worsened. Read Full Artic...

The glamorous wife of Manchester United and Sweden defender Victor Lindelof has revealed her fears and issued an update after he was forced out of his side's win on Saturday because of chest pains and breathing difficulties. Read Full A...

Legally speaking, third-party fact-checks used on Meta’s social network Facebook are just ‘opinions’ and not statements of fact, according to the tech company. It earlier said it reserves the right to fact-check opinion pieces. Re...

A Korean singer known as V – a member of the popular K-pop group BTS – has broken two Guinness World Records for the fastest-growing Instagram account. Read Full Article at RT.com

The submarine deal, which forms part of the AUKUS pact, might come at a high price for Australians, one of the country’s think tanks revealed in a fresh report that estimates the project’s ultimate cost at up to US$121 billion. Read...

UK health officials were forced to correct Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, following interviews on Tuesday during which he twice gave the wrong number of hospitalized Omicron patients, providing wildly inaccurate figures. Read Full ...

The US is considering sending troops to Eastern Europe in case the situation over Ukraine escalates, the White House said on Monday, warning that the American military could be mobilized. Read Full Article at RT.com

Seven people were killed and four others wounded after a car carrying illegal migrants slammed into a building and overturned in a failed attempt to flee the police in southern Hungary. Read Full Article at RT.com

Nigeria is going to destroy a million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, a top health official has said, promising that the country will no longer be accepting jabs with short shelf life. Read Full Article at RT.com

Moscow is leading the rest of the world in the development of advanced weapons of war, surpassing Washington, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, arguing that his country is out in first place in a new arms race. Read Full Art...