US President Joe Biden plans to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine and donate them to poorer countries, the White House has said, urging the “world’s democracies” to follow the suit. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Rescue workers have pulled 18 people from the rubble of a residential block in Malad, Mumbai, after a building collapsed following the first monsoon rains of the season, killing 11. Local media say as many as 17 are injured. Read Full A...

When Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced that Saudi Arabia was no longer an oil-producing country, he likely didn’t mean literally.  Read Full Article at RT.com

As the US military pushes forward with its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is reportedly considering scenarios that would justify renewed airstrikes in the war-torn country. Read Full Article at RT.com

The world’s most prominent cryptocurrency, bitcoin, surged 13% on Thursday to above $37,300 after El Salvador officially recognized it as a legal tender, becoming the first country in the world to do so. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s woeful free-kick provided a moment of viral humour but the Portugal star recovered to get himself on the scoresheet as Portugal warmed up for Euro 2020 with a win against Israel. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez made a swift about-face after stating that Brazilians descend “from the jungle” while claiming his own country was founded by European colonists, triggering instant backlash. Read Full Article a...

The son of a wealthy Washington, DC lawyer and schoolmate of President Barack Obama’s daughters led the vote by a group of Oxford University students to remove the portrait of Elizabeth II to make their common room a ‘safe space.’...

The US military has named China as its number-one “challenge” in a new directive, vowing to lean on allies to confront Beijing after a top defense deputy said future spending will focus heavily on deterring Chinese “aggression.”...

The husband of Ashli Babbitt, the election-fraud protester who was killed during the US Capitol riot, has filed a lawsuit to force police to turn over investigation records, including the name of the officer who shot her. Read Full Arti...

The US branch of the Brazilian meat processor company JBS has paid $11 million worth of bitcoin to cyber-criminals who breached its computer systems and held them for ransom, its chief executive has revealed. Read Full Article at RT.com...

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is moving fast on his pledge to embrace bitcoin as another legal tender, already opening a new geothermal well that would use clean geothermal energy to power the cryptocurrency mines. Read Full Art...

A prominent medical journal for US psychoanalysts has published a study demonizing “whiteness” as a “malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

White House health advisor Anthony Fauci pushed back against growing controversy surrounding him, equating attacks on him to “attacks on science.” Read Full Article at RT.com

In a statement construed by some as a “warning,” President Biden kicked off his first foreign trip as US leader by announcing that he was heading to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to “let him know what I want him to know.�...

A new poll has liberals up in arms and critics pushing back after it declared that approximately three in 10 Republicans believe Donald Trump will be reinstated as the US president. Read Full Article at RT.com

If Twitter wants the government of Nigeria to lift its ban against the site, it should register as a local entity and be licensed in the country, Information Minister Lai Mohammed has said amid a spat with the social media giant. Read F...

The “Anti-Corruption Foundation,” founded by now-jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in 2011, has been determined by the Moscow City Court on Wednesday to be an extremist organization, in a hearing behind closed doors. R...

The US has issued sanctions against the daughter of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega after some of the Central American leader’s political opponents were arrested under a controversial new ‘treason’ law. Read Full Article at ...

Ohio's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Google, asking the court to declare the internet giant a public utility, meaning it could be regulated by the state and forced to change allegedly abusive practices. Read Full Article ...

With critics calling for the head of the Otto von Bismarck statue in Hamburg, because of the founding chancellor's colonialist sins, city officials reportedly plan to enlist black artists to help “contextualize” the giant figure. Re...

The Interior Department has concluded that the US Park Police’s crackdown on Black Lives Matter protesters at a church near the White House last year had nothing to do with Donald Trump’s photo opportunity there minutes later. Read ...

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and challenger Marvin Vettori were involved in a chance confrontation caught on camera as they crossed paths in an Arizona hotel ahead of their showdown at UFC 263. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

While Russia supports the goal of ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic by 2030, as the UN General Assembly declared, the way to do so is not through usurpations of power or legalizing prostitution and drug use, Moscow has warned. Read Full Arti...

Garbage collectors and sewer workers in Paris have overturned trash containers and occupied a municipal building as part of protests against sweeping civil service reforms planned by the French government. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

England's leading all-time wicket taker, bowler Jimmy Anderson, has been forced to answer to old tweets as part of a social media storm that has seen cricketers blasted for decade-old posts deemed sexist, homophobic or racist. Read Full...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested he was not overly bothered by Ukraine’s new Euro 2020 kit, which features a design incorporating Crimea despite the peninsula rejoining Russia in a landslide referendum in 2014. Read Full...

The US military Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas has been placed on lockdown following a report of shots being fired into an area where training was taking place. The search for shooters is underway. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Scores of Israeli firefighters have been deployed to tackle two major forest fires that broke out in the hills near Jerusalem on Wednesday. Hundreds of people were evacuated, with police investigating arson as the possible cause. Read F...

A former FBI deputy director has declared hundreds of Americans terrorists, and called for the arrest of sitting members of Congress, all over the notion that the pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill was “terrorism.” Read Full Article at ...

Lazio have announced the arrival of Maurizio Sarri as the club’s new manager – and the Roman giants had the perfect social media post to inform fans of the appointment. Read Full Article at RT.com

A new outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian flu, H5N8, has hit China’s northern Shaanxi province, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Council of Europe’s top financial watchdog has called on the Vatican to ensure transparency in procedures to prosecute senior clerics, and further bolster reform initiatives to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing. Read...

The president of Albania, Ilir Meta, has been impeached by lawmakers who want him removed from office amid claims he violated the constitution by being biased against the ruling Socialist Party ahead of an election. Read Full Article at...

A group of German police officers attached to a commando unit are in hot water after Frankfurt prosecutors discovered neo-Nazi talk in their private online chats while investigating a colleague in a suspected child porn case. Read Full ...

A Madrid court has ruled that Francisco Nicolas Gomez Iglesias must spend a year and nine months in jail and pay a €2,700 ($3,290) fine for forging an ID card so a friend could take a college entrance exam for him. Read Full Article a...

A Russian man who shot and killed two bailiffs who came to demolish property in Sochi on Wednesday has handed himself in to the police, claiming he was protecting the land he inherited from his parents from the authorities. Read Full Ar...

Thousands of HIV and tuberculosis patients in southern Myanmar are facing serious health risks, the aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned after the country’s military junta told it to “suspend all activities”. Read Fu...

Croatia will not take the knee against England in their Euro 2020 Group D opener at Wembley on Sunday, according to reports, which has divided opinion online with the Three Lions booed for such actions against Romania. Read Full Article...

Two British charities have called for the rule which requires terminally-ill people to prove they have six months or less to live to qualify for state benefits to be abolished, as hundreds every year die without support. Read Full Artic...

US President Joe Biden revoked his predecessor Donald Trump’s executive orders that targeted the popular platforms TikTok and WeChat on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Vice President Kamala Harris’ first foreign trip – to Guatemala and Mexico – has left White House officials with little to be happy about, a new report suggests. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian shipbuilders have almost completed building the Mercury naval corvette, the country’s first warship completely designed around stealth. It will be handed over to Russia’s navy next year, six years after construction began. R...

A court in St. Petersburg won’t consider whether videos published by fashion house Dolce & Gabbana breached Russia’s rules on promoting ‘non-traditional sexual orientations’, as prosecutors did not correct errors in the paperwor...

Euro 2020 is almost upon us as football fans from St. Petersburg to Seville gear up for a month-long extravaganza – but beyond the obvious questions, what are the alternative stories to keep an eye on? RT Sport takes a look… Read Fu...

President Rodrigo Duterte has said he doesn’t see any “deserving” candidates in line to be the next Philippines leader, despite previously naming his daughter Sara and boxer-cum-senator Manny Pacquiao as possible successors. Read ...

The UK is trying the EU's patience after failing to come up with solutions during fraught talks to resolve the pair's ongoing row over post-Brexit border checks in Northern Ireland, Brussels' chief negotiator has said. Read Full Article...

Iran is ready to revive its crude production as soon as possible should US sanctions be lifted, the deputy director of the national oil company said, adding that he estimates about a month is needed to return to full capacity. Read Full...

Damien Tarel, the man accused of slapping French President Emmanuel Macron in the face, is allegedly a medieval Live Action Roleplay (LARP) geek who possessed reproduction weapons, roleplaying games, and a Soviet Union flag. Read Full A...

UFOs aren’t just real, they’re capable of mind-bending feats of flight and have a keen interest in toying with the US’ nuclear facilities. That’s according to an intelligence official tasked with investigating these phenomena. R...

Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has instructed the government to offer his son to Baku in exchange for prisoners of war who are still detained by Azerbaijan after last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Read Full Article...

Nanjing University (NJU) has come under fire after it launched an advertising campaign for new students, featuring attractive female pupils holding suggestive signs. The advert has since been removed following a backlash. Read Full Arti...

America's long-standing opposition to the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline could have destroyed its relations with Berlin, Washington's top envoy has said, insisting it will find ways to ensure it doesn't undermine Ukraine. Read Fu...

MMA pin-up Cat Zingano has spoken against the pitfalls of having breast implants, revealing that she had hers removed recently while awaiting her next Bellator opponent – whom many fans want to be Cris Cyborg. Read Full Article at RT....

Dominic Cummings has rejected the High Court's ruling that the government unlawfully awarded a Covid contract to a firm that he had ties to, claiming that Downing Street was more focused on saving lives than following protocol. Read Ful...

A five-story building which was being demolished has collapsed onto a main road and hit a bus in the South Korean city of Gwangju, killing nine people and seriously injuring eight others, local authorities have said. Read Full Article a...

The UK government has criticised students at Oxford University’s Magdalen College as “simply absurd” for voting to remove a portrait of the Queen over concerns that it’s a symbol of Britain’s “recent colonial history.” Rea...

The UK prime minister has said his government will continue to push for “uninterrupted” trade with Northern Ireland after Britain unilaterally suspended Brexit checks on goods moving between Belfast and the British mainland. Read Fu...

Trade union leader Pedro Castillo has declared himself the victor in the Peruvian presidential election. His opponent Keiko Fujimori refused to concede and claimed without evidence that the vote was fraudulent. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera, who won the Masters and US Open in 2007 and 2009, is now back in his homeland to face charges of domestic violence against his former partners after being extradited from Brazil . Read Full Article at RT....

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the man behind such musical hits as ‘Phantom of the Opera’ , 'Joseph', and ‘Cats’, has been urged to abide by the rules after promising to open his next musical even if Covid-19 restrictions remain. Read Ful...

Dozens of organized crime suspects have been arrested in a series of raids across Austria, the Ministry of the Interior has said. The crackdown was part of a global sting that lured criminals into using a monitored chat app. Read Full A...

Ukraine’s national soccer team has new jerseys. That might seem like an odd start to a fierce debate about brutal WWII-era massacres, but its new rebrand has some very old and ugly historical roots that are proving controversial. Read...

Russia’s government has supported a bill introduced by three senators that would make it illegal to take a dog for a walk while under the influence of alcohol. If passed, it would also introduce new requirements for pet welfare. Read ...

Health experts in Australia and New Zealand have recommended offering the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to women at any stage of pregnancy. Previously, only pregnant women at high risk of infection were advised to consider the shot. Read Full...

Russia’s Siberian Federal District has signed a range of agreements totaling almost 500 billion rubles ($6.9 billion) at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF), the region’s information center reported on Wednesday. Read Full Art...

Since 2014, the US has encouraged Kiev’s leaders to believe that it has their back, come what may. Now, as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline nears completion, the Ukrainian president is screaming betrayal as he realizes he was misled. Read F...

Nearly 80% of adults across the UK have antibodies against Covid-19, new data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. However, the ONS has cautioned that detection of antibodies is not a “precise measure” of immunity. Rea...

While Russia makes no secret of its colossal armed forces and influence across the globe, it is fundamentally uninterested in imposing its way of life on other nations and is keen to end the current stand-off with the West. Read Full Ar...

The UK’s High Court has ruled that the British government acted unlawfully by handing a company run by friends of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings a £560,000 ($794,000) Covid contract. Read Full ...

Football fans online chided Karim Benzema as the Real Madrid star, who has only recently returned to the France fold, went off injured and was then outshone by positional rival Olivier Giroud who scored a brace against Bulgaria. Read Fu...

Retail traders from Reddit have their eyes set on two new darlings – fast-food chain Wendy’s and Medicare insurance start-up Clover Health, both of which have seen big gains in recent days. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tuesday’s disruption of numerous popular websites using the services of US cloud computing firm Fastly has been traced to a software bug, which sneaked into a recent update and got triggered by a user. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

England playmaker Phil Foden has praised Three Lions manager Gareth Southgate for handing him a second chance after the Manchester City star’s hotel room scandal with a pair of blonde Icelandic belles last year. Read Full Article at R...

Senator and former boxing star Manny Pacquiao has hit out at President Duterte for not planting a Filipino flag on disputed islands in the South China Sea, after the sportsman was accused of having a “shallow” view on events. Read F...

The expansion of Georgia’s Plant Vogtle, the only major construction of new nuclear reactors currently underway in the US, is unlikely to be completed on time and at the approved cost, independent oversight experts have said. Read Ful...

Gunmen stormed a camp of a UK-based mine clearance group in Afghanistan, killing 10 people. Afghan officials blame the Taliban for the attack, while the militants deny this. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Congress of El Salvador has formally approved the government’s ‘Bitcoin Law’ by a qualified majority, making the Central American nation the world’s first country to officially adopt a cryptocurrency as legal tender. Read Fu...

A Wisconsin pharmacist will spend three years behind bars after pleading guilty to sabotaging hundreds of Moderna Covid-19 shots. The man confessed to trying to destroy the vaccines, claiming that they were not safe. Read Full Article a...

UFC featherweight and bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, widely-regarded as the best female pound-for-pound fighter in MMA, has challenged Kim Kardashian after comments made by the president of the organization Dana White. Read Full Ar...

Bitcoin slid more than 10% on Tuesday as news of an FBI seizure of bitcoin funds circulated on social media, exposing a potential security breach in the world’s most “secure” form of payment. Read Full Article at RT.com

Daniil Medvedev’s unlikely run at the French Open ended against an in-form Stefanos Tsitsipas, but the Russian entertainer went out in unorthodox style, bungling an underarm serve on match point before blasting event organizers. Read ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister has warned the potential for armed conflict in Europe is rising, claiming a number of Western states are stuck in the past and unable to move out of a Cold War mindset when it comes to Russia. Read Ful...

Beijing has accused Washington of exhibiting “paranoid delusion” and “Cold War mentality,” after the US Senate passed a new bill aimed at bolstering the position of American tech in competing with China. Read Full Article at RT....

Beijing has administered over 800 million Covid-19 vaccines, more than double any other country in the world, but local outbreaks persist despite the exceptionally fast-paced vaccination program. Read Full Article at RT.com

A group of Republican lawmakers has called on the DOJ to ensure that Andy Ngo and other journalists are able to report safely from Portland, claiming that the government has turned a blind eye to ‘left-wing’ violence in the city. Re...

Saudi Arabia’s energy giant, Saudi Aramco, has started sales of its first dollar-denominated Islamic bond as it seeks to raise cash to pay out $75 billion in dividends. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tens of thousands of nurses have gone on an eight-hour strike across New Zealand, disrupting non-emergency health services. The union voted for the action after failing to reach a deal for better wages. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The World Bank, which has in recent weeks been raising its outlook for Russia, said on Tuesday it expects a steady recovery of the nation’s economy this year and in 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com

Newspaper columnist Julie Burchill has been fired by the Telegraph after facetiously suggesting that Harry and Meghan should have named their new baby after George Floyd. Her sacking reignited debate about cancel culture. Read Full Arti...

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service has released the list of candidates for its annual Miss Penal System contest, and 12 of the country’s most beautiful prison guards are battling it out to be named lock-up lady of the year. Read ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill barring the use of vaccine passports, insisting Texas must remain completely “open” while blasting the passes as an infringement on individual liberty. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A woman introduced as a Univision reporter lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris during a press event in Mexico, even saying she voted for her, but the outlet now insists it has no tie to the self-avowed journalist. Read Full ...

The IRS and the White House are wringing their hands about a ProPublica report accusing George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and others of needing to pay more in taxes, just as the Biden administration has argued. Read Fu...

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is more than 50% complete, the Pentagon said, but noted that future updates will omit percentages on the progress of the pullout, claiming the secrecy is needed for “operational security.” Read Ful...

For all the talk of strained credibility, the amount of attention still being poured on Floyd Mayweather's fight with Logan Paul shows that the businessmen didn't fluff their lines. Their legacy is likely to be more of the same. Read Fu...

Former US President Donald Trump belatedly congratulated Nigeria for banning Twitter in response to censorship of its president, and urged other countries to do so – while regretting not doing the same while in the White House. Read F...

MSNBC contributor Mara Gay has said it was “disturbing” for her to see American flags flown during a recent trip to Long Island, New York, likening the images to hate symbols. Read Full Article at RT.com

America’s federal tax agency – the Internal Revenue Service – has set its sights on cryptocurrencies and requested that Congress grant it authority to collect data on transfers to supposedly fight tax evasion. Read Full Article at...

Syrian air defenses have been activated against missiles allegedly launched from Lebanese airspace by Israel, state news agency SANA has reported. The attack is said to be targeting Damascus and Homs. Read Full Article at RT.com ...