Beijing has reiterated its call to Taiwan to remove “artificial obstacles” and allow “safe and effective” vaccines from the mainland onto the island, and invited the Taiwanese to come and get inoculated. Read Full Article at RT....

Women’s boxing sensation Claressa Shields was forced to survive some sketchy moments on the ground before earning a third-round TKO victory to announce herself in the world of MMA. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Cuban government has announced it will temporarily stop accepting cash bank deposits in dollars. It blamed tighter US sanctions that are restricting its ability to use the greenback abroad. Read Full Article at RT.com

Punjab’s provincial government is turning to coercive measures to increase participation in its Covid-19 vaccination program, after unveiling plans to disable the SIM cards of people who decline to get jabbed. Read Full Article at RT....

China will this year overtake Japan as the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas, ICIS Edge, a service of market intelligence provider ICIS, said this week, as quoted by Reuters. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Pentagon’s highest ranking uniformed officer said Beijing and Moscow are the greatest threats to the United States, somewhat undercutting President Joe Biden, who recently put climate change at the top of the list. Read Full Artic...

US health officials will soon hold an emergency session to discuss an uncommon but dangerous heart condition cropping up in coronavirus vaccine recipients, after finding higher rates of the ailment than expected. Read Full Article at RT...

Governor Greg Abbott said Texas will address an escalating security crisis by building its own border wall and making mass arrests to deter illegal aliens, after the Biden administration opened up the migrant floodgates. Read Full Artic...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said two Iranian vessels transiting the Atlantic toward Latin America are a “great concern,” despite reports that the Pentagon has no plans to intercept the ships or even monitor them more closely. Rea...

Former US president Donald Trump heckled his successor Joe Biden ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and reminisced about their 2018 meeting in Helsinki which he said succeeded despite efforts by US spies and media. Read F...

Up to half of the enhanced jobless benefits paid out to help Americans weather the Covid-19 pandemic was reportedly stolen by fraudsters and other criminals, squandering as much as $400 billion in tax dollars. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Much of Puerto Rico has been left in darkness after a large blaze and an explosion knocked out a power plant in San Juan, the island’s capital. Dramatic footage of the aftermath of the blast has made the rounds online. Read Full Artic...

Three scientists from a FDA advisory committee have resigned after the US food and drug regulator rammed through the approval of a controversial drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease in the face of near-unanimous opposition. Read Full Art...

CNN has begun rehabilitating the public image of disgraced legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, bringing him back on air and ending a banishment that began after he was exposed masturbating on a Zoom call with co-workers last October. Read Ful...

US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have updated their World War II-era ‘Atlantic Charter’. The agreement promises a return to the full-throttle liberalism that the Trump administration interrupted. Read ...

Rocket attacks on Iraqi bases hosting US contractors on Wednesday did not cause casualties or any serious damage, State Department spokesman Ned Price has said, though some personnel were treated for smoke inhalation. Read Full Article ...

Washington has sanctioned an alleged international network which it says funneled tens of millions of dollars to Yemen’s Houthi rebels for their conflict with Western-aligned government forces. Read Full Article at RT.com

Gaming behemoth Electronic Arts has been hacked. While EA says the thieves did not compromise player data, it has confirmed they made off with the source code for the FIFA 21 game, the Frostbite engine, and other software secrets. Read ...

Tennis veteran Sergiy Stakhovsky, who once knocked Roger Federer out of Wimbledon, has reacted to Ukraine's curious new shirt being banned from Euro 2020 by claiming that Russia's reaction made the controversy a political one. Read Full...

Former President Donald Trump has claimed victory over his critics, saying he was proven right on such issues as China’s role in the Covid-19 pandemic, and he reiterated his demand that the Chinese Communist Party pay reparations. Rea...

A hotel in England hosting security for Germany’s G7 delegates was shut down after 13 staff members tested positive for Covid, Sky News reported. The UK PM’s office said German leader Angela Merkel will still attend the event. Read ...

MMA fans have ridiculed a statue unveiled in honor of UFC legend Georges St-Pierre after the fighter was pictured next to it in Canada, with many voicing their surprise at what they thought was a recreation of Barack Obama. Read Full Ar...

Paris’s counterterrorism operation in the Sahel region of West Africa is coming to an end, with the reduced French contingent instead set to join a broader international force, President Emmanuel Macron has said. Read Full Article at ...

Vyacheslav Datsik, the Russian MMA fighter who ended his latest jail term in November and has been imprisoned for murder threats, assault and robbery, is looking for another vicious knockout against a former victim on Thursday. Read Ful...

Arguing that freedom of expression was vital to democracy, the State Department urged Nigeria to reverse its suspension of Twitter, nearly a week after the African country banned the US-based platform for censoring its president. Read F...

The UK government has reached an agreement on fishing quotas for this year with the EU, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the former beauty pageant queen who married Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, has pleaded guilty to US criminal charges after she allegedly helped run her husband's cartel in his absence. Read Ful...

RT Creative Lab’s ‘The Endless Letter’ Instagram series honoring WWII victims has snatched two bronze pencils at New York’s The One Show 2021, the world’s most prestigious award show in advertising, design and digital marketin...

France’s highest administrative court has ruled against a contentious government plan for law enforcement measures, which critics have branded an attempt to crack down on demonstrators and freedom of the press. Read Full Article at RT...

The potatoes used to produce McDonald’s fries are partially sourced from farms owned by Bill Gates that are so vast they can be seen from space. But that is just one part of the land portfolio of America’s largest farmland owner. Re...

Ondrej Kudela, the Czech defender who was banned for 10 matches for racial abuse in a huge controversy in April, was not proven to have committed the offense and is not a racist, according to international teammate Tomas Soucek. Read Fu...

The parent company to Citroen and Peugeot has confirmed that the automakers face prosecution by French authorities over their alleged role in the ‘dieselgate’ scandal, becoming the latest car manufacturers to be charged. Read Full A...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that a hugely-followed TV commentator will be allowed to work at Euro 2020 after the Azerbaijan FA initially blocked him because of "trips to the occupied Azerbaijani lands". Read Fu...

Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine has shown an efficacy of 94.3%, against the virus, as well as a lack of serious side effects during its use in Bahrain, a study by the Gulf kingdom’s health ministry has revealed. Read ...

Tennis icon Maria Sharapova has hailed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova after the serial pretender put herself on the brink of her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Russian woman in the French Open final since Sharapova in 2014. Read F...

Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region is now in a state of famine, the UN’s humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has said, as reports suggest that hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of disaster. Read Full Article at RT.com

Of the 168 terrorism suspects arrested in the UK last year, one in eight was a child. With school and socialization off the cards for much of the year, officials warned that kids were being “drawn towards terrorist activity.” Read F...

The mayor of Moscow has revealed that the city will open additional hospital beds in the coming days as Russia sees diagnosed Covid-19 cases grow to levels not seen in many months, with a disproportionate amount in the capital. Read Ful...

While alarm bells about conflict with Russia are constantly ringing in the Western press, the public, it turns out, may not be listening to them, with new research concluding the EU’s citizens have a less hostile view of Moscow. Read ...

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The Russian Navy has launched large-scale military drills in the central Pacific Ocean involving around 20 surface warships, submarines, and support vessels, a statement from the country’s Defense Ministry revealed on Thursday. Read F...

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has rejected criticism levelled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings, denying that he lied about the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Full Article a...

Consumer prices in the United States surged 5% in May from a year ago, accelerating at their fastest pace in nearly 13 years, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Germany has unveiled a new digital immunity certificate that will be available alongside the paper ones already in use. The digital version is expected to make it easier for people to prove their Covid-19 vaccination status. Read Full A...

A deceptively-marketed 'encrypted' messenger that was used to bust hundreds of criminals worldwide shows that intelligence services are creating, and not just exploiting, chat apps, according to CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou. Read Ful...

Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul's eight-round boxing exhibition at the weekend reportedly pulled in more than a a million pay-per-view buys in the US – with fight fans voicing admiration and derision at the purported figure. Read Full...

A French court has handed Damien Tarel, the man who slapped the country’s President Emmanuel Macron, an 18 month sentence, with 14 months suspended. The man also faced other penalties. Read Full Article at RT.com

Two Iranian military vessels, the Sahand destroyer and the Makran forward base ship, have sailed into the Atlantic, marking the first time Iran’s Navy has reached the ocean, following a 30-day journey. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted overwhelmingly in favor of suing the European Commission due to its non-implementation of a regulation linking EU funding with the adherence to rule of law in member states. Read Full...

A government report has found that nine out of 10 schoolgirls in the UK know someone who’s been subjected to sexist abuse. The report blames a “normalised” culture of sexual harassment, but technology also plays a role. Read Full ...

A Russian man from Surgut, a city in Siberia, has broken the country’s strength record by pulling a 40-ton Boeing 737-500, beating the old record of a 36-ton plane set last year. He managed to drag it 15 meters in just 39 seconds. Rea...

A Russian lawmaker has put forward a draft bill that would block those convicted of shocking and violent crimes from speaking to journalists, writing memoirs or sharing their thoughts on social media for lengthy stretches of time. Read ...

A British woman who lost her job after saying people can’t change their biological sex has won her appeal against an employment tribunal. Read Full Article at RT.com

Months after saying she had been stared at by a man who was later promoted and written that a coach had made a "creepy comment" to her, 2016 silver medalist Madeline Groves has quit the Olympics, blasting "misogynistic perverts". Read F...

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has said Ireland players "provoked" fans in Budapest with a kneeling gesture that "started in slave-owning countries" – but visiting boss Stephen Kenny branded the booing "incomprehensible". Read...

Football administrative body UEFA has been blasted online by fans who feel it has chickened out and failed to punish continental giants Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona for their failed plans to form a European Super League. Read Ful...

An online collective who claimed that Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was poisoned by the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB), last year, have now suggested that the same team was behind an attack on a famous writer. Rea...

Taiwan’s health minister has said the country came close to reaching a deal with AstraZeneca to produce its Covid-19 jab on the island, but a potential agreement fell through, with the company’s demands being too high. Read Full Art...

Boris Johnson has been mercilessly heckled after flying to a G7 summit in Cornwall – where he says environmental issues are top of the agenda. The UK prime minister insists there is nothing odd with his choice of transport. Read Full ...

The Taiwan Association for Human Rights has criticized the island’s restrictions on migrant workers, prohibiting them from going outside over fears it could spread Covid after it hit the local tech sector. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Ahead of the G7 summit, British PM Boris Johnson has drawn ridicule for an article in which he seemingly invokes wartime bonhomie to state his vision for a post-Covid world built on “openness, freedom, democracy and free trade.” Rea...

Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen’s energy program talks about the private equity problem as capitalists buy up public utilities and the Biden administration plans to dole out billions of dollars to get them to convert to renewables. Rea...

Ireland’s prime minister has said he believes the intervention of US President Joe Biden and his administration is “significant” in overcoming challenges relating to Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangement. Read Full Article ...

Multiweight boxing champion Claressa Shields has again compared herself to Muhammad Ali ahead of her Professional Fighters League MMA bow, comparing the two sports in between savaging opponent Brittney Elkin after their weigh-in. Read F...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lavished praise on Ukrainians who are opposed to Kiev signing up for the US-led NATO military bloc, suggesting the move would be a red line for Russia if it were threatened by Western rockets. Read F...

The US is increasingly worried that Russia and China are forging a strong new strategic partnership. With Moscow and Beijing aligning their foreign policy stances, the relationship now seems to be an alliance in all but name. Read Full ...

A Serbia volleyball star has been banned for two matches and fined for making a racist gesture during a game against Thailand last week – and the country's federation has called on the public not to "blow this out of proportion". Read...

More than 15 years of data from the IRS shows that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth – sometimes, even nothing. Read Full Article at RT.com

Waiving coronavirus vaccine patents “might sound good,” but in reality the move is redundant and won’t help poorer countries, the EU Council’s president has said, ahead of the G7 summit where the topic is expected to be raised. ...

A controversial far-right nationalist slogan, used by WW II-era militias that fought alongside Nazi Germany, must be removed from the jerseys of the Ukrainian national team during Euro 2020, the tournament's organizers have ruled. Read ...

The top Chinese legislature has passed a bill aimed at protecting China’s core interests, its businesses and officials, from foreign sanctions amid an onslaught of economic attacks from the US and its Western allies. Read Full Article...

Chinese authorities have arrested 1,100 individuals in a coordinated attempt to crack down on a network of criminals who illegally launder money by purchasing cryptocurrencies, as the nation clamps down on the digital industry. Read Ful...

A new planet resembling Neptune could help us better understand far-away planetary systems, as well as our own, according to NASA. But, sadly, it’s unlikely humans will ever reach the distant, gaseous world. Read Full Article at RT.co...

India has recorded the world’s highest single-day death toll from Covid-19, registering more than 6,000 deaths on Thursday after Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, revised its total fatalities since the start of the pandemic. Rea...

Belarusian opposition figurehead Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has called on Washington to impose tough new sanctions on some of the country’s biggest employers, urging President Joe Biden to raise the issue with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. R...

Exports by one of the world’s largest economies, India, rose by 52% to $7.71 billion in the first week of June, led by sectors including engineering, gems, and jewelry, as well as petroleum products. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has blasted a controversial new bill under consideration by lawmakers in Kiev, which critics say would stoke ethnic tensions and deprive millions of residents of important rights if it is passed. Read Fu...

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 seen by some as a “warning,” Joe Biden kicked off his first foreign trip as US president by announcing that he was heading to meet President Putin later in Switzerland to “let him know what I want him to know.” Re...

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 ...