US fintech giant PayPal has announced it’s planning to allow users to withdraw cryptocurrency holdings on its platform and move them to third-party wallets. Read Full Article at RT.com

The authorities in Congo have ordered a partial evacuation of Goma, with the region’s military governor warning that volcanic magma under the city, extending under Lake Kivu, could cause another eruption at any time. Read Full Article...

USA Today has been accused of capitulating to the woke mob after it edited out the word ‘male’ from an op-ed arguing against allowing transgender people to compete in women’s sports, reportedly without the author’s consent. Read...

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An unfinished mock-up of the historic Soviet Buran spaceplane, first conceived as a rival to the US Space Shuttle, has been vandalized by graffiti artists, who broke into the Baikonur Cosmodrome and painted slogans on the vessel. Read F...

Iran is banning electricity-sapping cryptocurrency mining until the end of September as it grapples with power blackouts due to electricity scarcity. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Australian state of Victoria will enter another seven-day lockdown after a new cluster of cases tied to a more infectious variant of the coronavirus emerged, restricting seven million residents to ‘essential’ work and travel. Re...

A New York woman who rose to fame as the ‘Central Park Karen’ has sued her former employer for discrimination, claiming she was fired unjustly over a viral video in which she called the police on a black birdwatcher without cause. R...

An Indian man in Uttar Pradesh has shocked locals after showing off a massive nail protruding from his hand, claiming the cops doled out the biblical punishment after he was spotted without a mask. Police say the man is lying. Read Full...

President Joe Biden used the occasion of America's latest mass shooting to renew his call for gun legislation, saying the murder of eight people at a San Jose, California rail yard was another urgent call for action by Congress. Read Fu...

Beijing has responded to US President Joe Biden’s announcement of a probe into Covid-19 origins by denouncing the “lab-leak” hypothesis as a conspiracy theory and urging an investigation into secret US bio-labs around the world. R...

Having spent months mercilessly removing any claims that the novel coronavirus may not have evolved naturally, Facebook said it will no longer do so. The move comes as Wuhan lab-leak theory is gaining mainstream attention. Read Full Art...

Google Cloud has signed a multi-year deal with one of the largest hospital chains in the US to create algorithms to store patient health records. The two companies maintain that all sensitive data will be kept completely private. Read F...

Jeff Bezos has announced that he will step down as Amazon's chief executive on July 5, freeing up time for his spaceship company, the Washington Post, philanthropic ventures and his nearly completed $500 million yacht. Read Full Article...

With its trillion-dollar F-35 fighter jet plagued with faults and delays, Lockheed Martin sent an executive in charge of the project away to learn about his “white male privilege.” Welcome to the Woke Industrial Complex. Read Full A...

Dying as a martyr in a targeted Israeli strike is a much better fate than succumbing to Covid-19, said Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar, as Gaza health officials warned of a “ticking bomb” with testing and vaccinations virtually halted. Re...

Club legend Zinedine Zidane has left his post as Real Madrid manager 'with immediate' effect, according to reports, following the club's first trophyless season since 2009/2010 where they fell short in both Spain and Europe. Read Full A...

Villarreal overcame Manchester United to win the UEFA Europa League title in a remarkable penalty shootout in which goalkeeper David de Gea missed the decisive spot-kick to hand the Spanish underdogs a first major trophy. Read Full Arti...

Bannon was pardoned at the last minute along with a slew of other presidential picks and still walks free – but with jail time potentially hanging in the air. Read Full Article at RT.com

Juan Foyth has earned the respect of football fans worldwide by soldiering on after a nasty collision in the Europa League final between his side Villarreal and Manchester United in Gdansk on Wednesday evening. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Mike Lindell, the pillow tycoon turned anti-voter-fraud crusader, has been kicked out of a Republican convention for refusing to give up the fight for Donald Trump, on whose behalf he’s risking a $1.4bn lawsuit among other things. Rea...

La Liga giant Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium - currently under reconstruction - caught fire on Wednesday with footage of the blaze already being circulated by the Spanish media and online across social media. Read Full Article ...

At least one person has died and more than 130 are still missing after a packed river boat capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi during stormy weather, according to local officials. Read Full Article at RT.com

Just over 40 days remain before we get a definitive conclusion in the Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier trilogy, and McGregor has his sights set on repeating his 2014 first-round knockout of the American. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Mandatory vaccination against coronavirus cannot be introduced in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has said, arguing that it was up to citizens themselves to weigh the risks of being infected with Covid-19 without getting a jab. Read Fu...

Football icon Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been fined $61,000 by UEFA for "having a financial interest in a betting company". The penalty comes in light of the Swede being appointed ambassador of Bethard, a Malta-based firm, in 2018. Read Ful...

President Joe Biden ordered a new analysis of how Covid-19 originated and said he will press China for transparency – one day after CNN reported that he killed a Trump-era probe into whether the virus started in a Wuhan lab. Read Full...

The Covid-19 situation in several Latin American countries is “alarming,” the head of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has said, after the region reported more than 1.2 million new cases and 31,000 deaths last week. Read ...

Just days after hoisting aloft their first Scudetto in 11 years, Antonio Conte has parted ways with Inter Milan - but how exactly has this dramatic separation come about? Read Full Article at RT.com

Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus have accused UEFA of a “flagrant breach of justice” after the governing body opened disciplinary proceedings against the trio for their refusal to disown the European Super League project. Read Fu...

Police in Germany have launched an investigation into a fire at a construction plant owned by electric car giant Tesla in the eastern state of Brandenburg after environmental activists claimed responsibility for the incident. Read Full ...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have slammed Hamas’s leader over a morally dubious photo shoot in which Yahya Sinwar, the militant chief, posed with a child armed with what appears to be an AKS-74U assault rifle. Read Full Article at ...

The French government has announced that, due to the outbreak of cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 in the UK, all visitors from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will face a mandatory two-week quarantine. Read Full Art...

WWE superstar Alexa Bliss is in mourning today after the passing of her beloved pet pig Larry-Steve and claims that he died in significant pain after vets 'refused to treat him because he was too big'. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Swiss government has said it will abandon seven years of negotiations for a framework agreement with the EU, arguing Brussels had not met its conditions for the deal, which would have simplified relations between the pair. Read Full...

The Belgian government is suspending the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for anyone under 41 until the EU regulator investigates its benefit-risk profile, after a woman who received it died from severe side effects. Read F...

Countries unfriendly to Belarus have moved on from organizing riots and are now onto the stage of “strangulation,” a tactic they will later use in Russia. That’s according to the country’s president Alexander Lukashenko. Read Fu...

Chelsea fans have heaved a collective sigh of relief at reports that midfield lynchpin N’Golo Kante and first-choice goalkeeper Edouard Mendy have returned to training, allaying injury fears ahead of the Champions League final. Read F...

A lawyer for the EU has asked a court to impose major fines on AstraZeneca over its failure to deliver Covid-19 vaccines. The company maintains that its contract with the bloc did not envision a strict number of doses, however. Read Ful...

The head of Malaysia's public transport operator has lost his job after he appeared to make little of a subway crash in which more than 200 people were injured, saying that the two trains had "kissed each other" in the tunnel. Read Full...

At least eight people were killed in a mass shooting at a rail yard in San Jose, California. The suspected gunman died at the scene, and was later identified as an employee of the rail facility. Read Full Article at RT.com

A spate of shootings throughout Sweden has seen the nation move from one of the lowest rates of gun violence in Europe to the second highest, sparking concerns of a “social contagion,” according to a report released on Wednesday. Re...

Belarusian activist Roman Protasevich, who was arrested by police after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in Minsk, once served alongside the neo-Nazi, far-right Azov Battalion during the Donbass war, and was even wounded. Read Full...

The Met Police have arrested five men on suspicion of the attempted murder of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson, who was shot in the head in the early hours of Sunday, but they don't believe she was intentionally targeted. Read ...

Amazon has acquired MGM Studios – the outfit behind the James Bond franchise – for a whopping $8.45 billion. The deal is Amazon’s second-biggest acquisition ever, but comes amid multiple antitrust investigations into the firm. Rea...

A wrestler known as 'El Vikingo' has caused outrage in Mexico, after being caught on video slamming a five-year-old to the hard concrete floor at a small show in the country's capital city before the weekend. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't expect that a meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden next month will trigger a drastic change in the fractured state of relations between the two countries, his spokesman has said. Read ...

Manchester United's decision to stick with occasionally under-fire boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been rewarded with a European final, and a sign that he is best-suited to dragging the club from their post-Ferguson malaise. Read Full Art...

All New York City employees are now required to sit through a remarkably predictable video explaining the creative nuances of gender identity, as part of mandated sexual harassment training. Read Full Article at RT.com

Budapest has passed a bill giving its backing to the European Union’s massive recovery fund after multiple standoffs between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Brussels, including over plans to link EU funding to the rule of law. Read Fu...

Italian police have arrested three men over a cable car accident that killed 14 people, saying the suspects have admitted that the emergency brake system had been disabled. Read Full Article at RT.com

Furious Chelsea fans have accused UEFA of greed after the club handed back more than 800 unsold tickets for Saturday’s Champions League final against Manchester City in Porto. Read Full Article at RT.com

While the cryptocurrency market has been hitting turbulence lately, gold rose above the key psychological level of $1,900 per ounce on Wednesday, which it hasn’t managed since early January. Read Full Article at RT.com

Indian doctors have criticized a decision by the northern state of Haryana to administer a herbal remedy to Covid-19 patients. There is no proof that the remedy, designed by a popular yoga guru, has any effect on coronavirus. Read Full ...

The UK prime minister’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, has issued a scathing indictment of the government’s Covid-19 response, saying the health secretary should have been sacked for ‘lying to everybody’. Read Full Arti...

WWE legend John Cena issued an apology to China on Tuesday through a video published on Weibo, after referring to Taiwan as a country while promoting the latest film in the Fast and Furious franchise entitled "F9". Read Full Article at ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has called on the EU to re-evaluate its foreign policy approach to Russia, arguing that the bloc's current strategy isn't helping to restore constructive relations between Moscow and the West. Read Ful...

Belarus has caused alarm and outrage across Europe this week by forcing a jet to land and detaining two of its passengers. What the West does next will matter but, at the moment, it looks likely its response will be the wrong one. Read ...

Former UFC champion Jon Jones took aim at former rival Chael Sonnen, telling the retired fighter that he is "beneath him" after Sonnen made light of a Jones tweet in which he said he was to "give birth to something big". Read Full Artic...

If something bad happens in Europe, there's usually only one culprit – so goes the logic of Western hacks and pundits, at least. But in Belarus, which sparked recent outrage, Moscow may end up being the solution, not the problem. Read...

Lawmakers in Russia’s national parliament have waved through a bill that would ban people “involved in the activities” of organizations recognized as either extremist and terrorist from being elected to any government position. Re...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have issued a ‘red warning’ to aviation as the Great Sitkin volcano erupts, spewing an ash plume to 15,000ft (4,600m). Read Full Article at RT.com

A local elections candidate in Mexico has been gunned down in the middle of a campaign event and just after going live on Facebook, becoming the latest victim in a string of murders of politicians ahead of the June vote. Read Full Artic...

The world’s leading cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has rebounded to over $40,000 on Wednesday, a week after its price plummeted to around $30,000. Read Full Article at RT.com

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested intentionally infecting himself with coronavirus in order to demonstrate that the disease was not a serious threat to the public, his former top aide, Dominic Cummings, has claimed. Read Fu...

Three Manchester United supporters have received treatment for minor injuries after they were reportedly attacked by locals outside a bar in Gdansk on the eve of the team's Europa League Final encounter with Villarreal. Read Full Articl...

The NBA has again been accused of double standards and special treatment for tequila party-attending superstar LeBron James, after Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porzingis was fined $50,000 for going to a strip club. Read Full Articl...

With fears that the recent conflict in Gaza has sparked a humanitarian crisis, Hamas, its de facto government, has a lot to be concerned about. That might be why it is reluctant to be dragged into a new political row in Europe. Read Ful...

The BBC was bombarded with angry messages after publishing a story which insinuated that a paramedic at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing wasn’t proactive enough. It appears that the article was later modified. Read Full Artic...

Iran’s president has said that Tehran has the upper hand in negotiations with foreign powers in Vienna, as diplomats gather in an attempt to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iranian nuclear ambitions. Read Ful...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave the European Super League project his backing before reversing course when the ill-fated scheme collapsed amid a furious backlash from fans, a report has claimed. Read Full Article at RT.com

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report outlining how the mutated Indian Covid-19 strain has spread to 53 territories, with unconfirmed information suggesting it has been detected in a further seven. Read Full Article ...

Iran may have some 69 million barrels of oil in floating storage waiting on tankers to travel to buyers when US sanctions on its crude oil exports are removed, estimates from E.A. Gibson Shipbrokers cited by Bloomberg show. Read Full Ar...

Hundreds dying at sea is not a “tragic anomaly” but rather is a result of the policies of the EU, its members and other actors trying to push responsibilities for migrants onto one another, a report by the UN rights office says. Rea...

Cyclone Yaas has made landfall in Odisha State, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 140kph (87mph) and causing widespread damage across eastern India, destroying homes, flooding villages, and disrupting transport. Read Full Article a...

More than 80% of people surveyed in the UK want the home nations to boycott the Qatar 2022 World Cup, according to a new poll, with the main factors being reports of mass migrant worker deaths and women's and gay rights issues. Read Ful...

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi said on Wednesday it has been officially removed from a US government blacklist prohibiting American investment in “Communist Chinese military companies.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Greta Thunberg has ratcheted up her alarmist climate change rhetoric, warning of impending doom unless everyone stops eating meat. But her latest sermon was unappetizing to many. Read Full Article at RT.com

Nearly three decades ago, Kyrgyzstan signed a deal designed to enrich the mountainous nation and its people. Now though, with warnings of human rights abuses and ecological catastrophe, it appears ready to tear up the agreement. Read Fu...

WhatsApp has reportedly filed a legal case against the Indian government over a new set of social media rules that just took effect, asking a Delhi court to declare one guideline an unconstitutional privacy violation. Read Full Article ...

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his brother, New York Governor Andrew, have been scolded for using the network’s resources to strategize about his sex harassment cases – but insiders fear they’re stuck with the pair’s odious antics. ...

US President Joe Biden has claimed that he took office too late to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline linking Russia and Germany, saying it would be “counterproductive” to sanction his allies over the project as it nears completion. Re...

US, UK, French, German and Italian foreign ministers have denounced the upcoming election in Syria because displaced Syrians couldn’t vote – having themselves blocked that from happening by closing Syrian embassies and consulates. R...

Ireland’s finance minister has aired “significant reservations” about US President Joe Biden’s global tax scheme, predicting that Dublin will keep its rates well below the minimum set out by the US proposal for years to come. Re...

Former US president Donald Trump took a victory lap of sorts over the sudden willingness of mainstream media to talk about the Wuhan lab leak theory of Covid-19 virus origin – which they initially opposed because he favored it. Read F...

Brian Kemp has joined the ranks of Republican governors opposing so-called vaccine passports, saying state entities won't be allowed to demand proof of Covid-19 inoculation status. Read Full Article at RT.com

Colorado has launched a vaccine lottery program offering $1 million to five state residents who’ve received the jab, Governor Jared Polis said, following suit after Ohio and a number of other states rolled out similar drawings. Read F...

Whatever possessed the CIA to issue a coin commemorating one of its worst disasters, the failed 1961 “Crusade to Free Cuba,” it gave Twitter users a chance to mercilessly mock the US spy agency with Fidel Castro memes and such. Read...

Corporate America’s alliance with LGBT activism has been brought to the breakfast table with the rollout of a new Kellogg’s gay pride cereal that encourages children to choose their own pronouns. Read Full Article at RT.com

There may be 850,000 child sex offenders lurking in the UK, a new report claims. The number is three times higher than previously thought, but may still fall short of the true scale of the threat. Read Full Article at RT.com

A member of the Canadian Armed Forces has been charged for allegedly trying to encourage fellow servicemen to defy orders in distributing what he called the “killer” Covid-19 vaccine, the Department of National Defence has said. Rea...

Thousands of Americans have caught Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said – but they insist the data suggests such “breakthrough” infections are relatively rare. Read F...

The US consulate in Jerusalem which was shut down under President Donald Trump will be reopened, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced, while also promising millions of dollars in aid to Gaza and Palestinians. Read Full Articl...

A social experiment is underway in Chicago, where a restaurant is segregating customers by Covid-19 vaccination status. City guidelines say this is perfectly fine, says the owner, who chairs the Illinois Restaurant Association. Read Ful...

Around 11,000 people have been evacuated from the east Indian states of Odisha and West Bengal as the region prepares for the impact of the powerful storm Cyclone Yaas, due to make landfall early on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A shepherd has spoken to the media and been hailed a hero in China after saving six endangered runners in the tragic ultramarathon that claimed 21 victims at the weekend due to harsh whether conditions in mountainous terrain. Read Full ...

Councils in parts of England particularly affected by the 'Indian' Covid-19 variant have said residents are not subject to strict travel curbs after the government appeared to issue confusing advice about not leaving the areas. Read Ful...

Police have been called to the Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd was killed last year, as gunshots rang out on the anniversary of his death. The intersection was turned into a memorial for Floyd after his death. Read Full Arti...

After winning a landmark ruling against the UK’s GCHQ spy agency, activist groups praised former NSA contractor Edward Snowden for blowing the lid off the UK’s surveillance regime. Activists called yet again for his pardoning. Read ...

Baseball fans have reacted after a brawl broke out involving two women in the stands during an MLB game between the Chicago White Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night. Naturally, the footage soon made it online. Read Full Art...