The US has much better vaccination rates than the world in general, so the World Health Organization’s advice for fully vaccinated people to wear masks doesn’t apply here, the CDC director said. But localities may rule otherwise. Re...

Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) saw a year-on-year growth of 10.9% in May as the country gradually recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, the economy ministry announced on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to boost the “strategic” relationship with his main ally, China a day after scolding his own officials for the Covid-19 response. Beijing earlier promised to provide help if needed. Read Ful...

The OPEC+ alliance expects a significant overhang of oil supply on the market after April 2022 when the current production cut pact expires, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing an internal report of an OPEC+ panel it had seen. Read Fu...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged his compatriots to “smash” any attempts at independence from Taipei, calling for “reunification” with the island in an address marking the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party. Read Ful...

Nine people were injured after an enormous stockpile of illicit fireworks erupted in a violent blast in South LA, following a police raid that seized thousands of pounds of pyrotechnics from a black market seller. Read Full Article at R...

Residents of the Big Apple vented their anger after an official notice urged them to limit their energy usage amid a major heat wave, asking why they should swelter without AC as Times Square remains lit up like a Christmas tree. Read F...

Breaking with its usual fashion advice and celebrity gossip, Teen Vogue was cheered after posting a fiery obituary for Donald Rumsfeld, dubbing the ex-Pentagon head an “accused war criminal” and a cheerleader for torture. Read Full ...

Soundcloud reversed the suspension of reporter Andy Ngo’s podcast on their platform only days after being accused of censoring it for political reasons. Read Full Article at RT.com

In a new twist to claims the NSA has spied on Fox News host Tucker Carlson, House Republicans now want their top intelligence overseer to investigate the agency the way he probed the FBI spying on President Donald Trump. Read Full Artic...

Transgender Americans have been given the option to change the gender that appears on their passports, joining other nations who’ve adopted similar practices. Nonbinary options are also on the way, the State Department said. Read Full...

German biotech firm CureVac said its coronavirus vaccine showed just 48% efficacy against Covid-19 following its final analysis, marking only a slight improvement on the company’s last trial while sending its stock value tumbling. Rea...

CNN’s former White House correspondent and anti-Trump resistance hero Jim Acosta took a break from his anchor duties to follow the ex-president to the US-Mexico border in a bid to trigger a testy exchange, but the stunt backfired. Rea...

News of ex-congressman and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s death soon attracted critics of his role in the Iraq War, but when the media described the Bush-era official as all but a victim of circumstance, tempers blew up. Read Ful...

The New York City Democratic primaries were characterized by a dumpster fire of abnormalities and apparent fraud, as observers wondered why a city couldn’t get done what a whole country could have years ago. Read Full Article at RT.co...

USAF plans to roll out a new physical fitness test, allowing airmen to “choose their own adventure.” Does it amount to much-needed flexibility, or is the ‘chair force’ getting too soft – along with the rest of the US military?...

People traveling through two of Paris’ main airports have been warned to expect “possible delays” after three French trade unions announced workers would strike over a controversial new contract plan. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) has called for an investigation into Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s claims that the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying on him in order to take his show off the air. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Donald Rumsfeld, former congressman and US defense secretary, best known for his role in advocating the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has passed away just short of his 89th birthday, according to his spokesman. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Canadian indigenous group has said 182 unmarked graves have been discovered in the South Interior of the province of British Columbia, the third such discovery in the past two months near former Catholic schools. Read Full Article at ...

Jake Paul has become an unlikely advocate for the issue of fighter pay in the UFC – and has fired another shot across Dana White's bow by donating to Sarah Alpar's crowdfunding page after she revealed she couldn't afford to train. Rea...

An ancient skull found by a river in modern-day Latvia may well hold clues as to how the bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people across Europe in what would eventually become the deadliest pandemic in human history. Read Ful...

A total of 1,991 recent cases of Covid-19 in Scotland have been linked to fans watching Euro 2020 games, with 397 infections confirmed in supporters who attended the game against England at Wembley, say public health experts. Read Full ...

Russian football star Lina Yakupova copped two black eyes and a trail of blood seeping from her head after being smashed to the floor in a sickening collision during a game for Zenit St. Petersburg, wiping the brave forward out. Read Fu...

Ahead of Canada’s annual celebration of nationhood on July 1, calls by indigenous groups for a day of reflection instead – after the recent discovery of the graves of nearly 1,000 indigenous children – have drawn mixed reactions. ...

An unnamed French woman has surrendered to authorities who were seeking a spectator on suspicion of causing the massive crash which involved several riders during the first day of the Tour de France. Read Full Article at RT.com

American TV actress Allison Mack has been handed a three-year prison sentence for her involvement in the NXIVM sex cult after she pleaded guilty to charges relating to her role in recruiting women to the secret group. Read Full Article ...

The EU has agreed to the UK’s request to postpone a ban on the sale of chilled meats from Britain in Northern Ireland after Brexit, a move that temporarily resolves what some media have dubbed the ‘sausage war.’ Read Full Article ...

At least 16 people were killed as a result of the residential building collapse near Miami, Florida last week, according to a new death toll released on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Once-beloved comedian Bill Cosby, 83, has been granted freedom far sooner than most expected, after Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction, citing an earlier agreement with a prosecutor. Read Full Articl...

Tennis badboy Nick Kyrgios won an epic-two day match via a rant in his chair telling Wimbledon chiefs to quit cutting their grass "so f*cking short" – then spoke about Covid-19 and his plans in his hotel with his girlfriend. Read Full...

Israeli settlers who illegally established an outpost in the occupied West Bank near the village of Beita have agreed to vacate the site amid heightened tensions in the region over the forced evictions of Palestinians. Read Full Article...

A total of 113 organizations have called on President Joe Biden to “disavow” and end overseas drone strikes carried out by the US government, saying it is imperative to both ending “forever wars” and “promoting racial justice....

The Swiss government has said it wants to buy 36 F-35A fighter jets from American manufacturer Lockheed Martin, a decision critics have said is too expensive for Switzerland and makes it overly reliant on the US. Read Full Article at RT...

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has been accused of anti-Semitism again after doubling down on comments on Israel, even going on to blast lawmakers – including ethnic Jews – who’ve been critical of her. Read Full Article a...

The Delta variant is responsible for almost a quarter of Covid cases in Belgium, following the country’s recent relaxations of curbs, a public health virologist has said, but noted that the circulation of the virus had dipped. Read Fu...

Bare knuckle sensation Paige VanZant says that her decision to flaunt her figure in a series of steamy snaps for her OnlyFans-style subscription website has financially liberated her after a six-year stint in the UFC. Read Full Article ...

A statement condemning anti-Semitism, which was released by a children’s book non-profit, triggered a conflict that ultimately cost its inclusivity officer her job. Now some say the organization caved in to Jew-hating bigots. Read Ful...

The city of Bristol, renowned for its ‘progressive’ moves, has caused a stir by installing a Pride rainbow crossing to honour the LGBTQ+ community, but some think it’s a big waste of money. Read Full Article at RT.com

Saudi authorities have announced that customs officials halted an attempt to illegally import more than 4.5 million amphetamine pills into the kingdom inside a shipment of oranges, according to a report by state media. Read Full Article...

Former Bellator fighter and world champion kickboxer Joe Schilling is facing one charge of simple battery stemming from a viral video at a Florida bar in which he knocked out a fellow patron with a vicious one-two combo. Read Full Artic...

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has opened an administrative case against Google, after the US tech giant failed to comply with a law obliging foreign companies to keep all data on Russian users on Russian territory. Read F...

Russia needs to be completely prepared for serious social and economic consequences caused by global warming, because around 70% of the country’s land is vulnerable permafrost, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Read Full Art...

The Taiwanese inoculation campaign has received another boost after a further 410,000 shots were delivered from Moderna, the third such delivery from the US drugmaker. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Washington Post has been criticized for publishing an article which argued that children should be exposed to leather and BDSM fetishes at LGBT Pride events. Read Full Article at RT.com

Northern Ireland’s High Court in Belfast has rejected a legal challenge to the Protocol governing trade in the country after Brexit, declaring that part of Britain’s withdrawal agreement with the EU to be legally sound. Read Full Ar...

Russian figure skating starlet Anastasia Gulyakova has shown she can dazzle her fans on and off the ice in a smouldering new shoot, sharing two photos of herself draped over a chair in an open jacket and towering heels. Read Full Articl...

Despite a successful meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden, relations between the two nations have not changed, and any progress will take many months, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Read ...

French tennis star Benoit Paire was heckled by the Wimbledon crowd and penalized by the match umpire amid accusations that he was "not trying" in his first-round capitulation against Argentina's Diego Schwartzman. Read Full Article at R...

The southern French city of Toulouse has refused to cancel an exhibition of a famed 1970s provocateur fashion photographer that feminist groups say glorifies violence against women. Read Full Article at RT.com

Social media networks operating in Russia must comply with the country’s laws and crack down on banned content, President Vladimir Putin has said, while insisting that the government does not want to ban foreign sites. Read Full Artic...

Rough sleeping has risen in London over the past year, new figures show, despite the government promising to house everyone during the pandemic, and allocating over £700 million to support current and potential rough sleepers. Read Ful...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says this year’s harvest will help to lower food prices in the country. He explained that prices have risen due to a shortage of domestic produce and high dependence on imports. Read Full Article at RT...

Germany’s vaccination campaign has caught such momentum that the proportion of the German population receiving their first dose of a Covid vaccine is now on a similar level as the US, despite the country’s initial slow roll-out. Rea...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is unlikely to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, because the country’s policies are set not by lawmakers in Kiev, but overseas in America and the European Union. Read...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has congratulated China and awarded the Asian nation with a malaria-free certification after a 70-year mission that saw it reduce its case numbers from 30 million to zero. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Poverty charity Oxfam has drawn flak for imposing on its UK staff a “divisive” racial justice survey that rejects the idea of “reverse racism” and calls racism a “power construct” made by “white nations” to “benefit wh...

The first three astronauts to be stationed on China's new Tiangong Space Station wished the Communist Party of China a happy 100-year anniversary in a video from space on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

For outsiders, Russia's politics can be confusing and elusive. Who are the liberals, and who are the conservatives? Who wants change and who wants things to stay the same? Recent events show Western politicians are none the wiser. Read ...

A British TV reporter appeared to be taken in by a Jurgen Klopp lookalike who was celebrating with English supporters following the Three Lions' victory against Germany in Tuesday's round of 16 clash at Wembley. Read Full Article at RT....

The government of Bangladesh has said it would be deploying the country’s armed forces alongside conventional law enforcement agencies to ensure Covid-19 lockdown rules were adhered to. Read Full Article at RT.com

Britons have vented their anger after a clip, taken from a Sky News broadcast, went viral in which a British Muslim claimed homosexuality is “heinous” and that “women were created for man’s pleasure.” Read Full Article at RT.c...

President Vladimir Putin has slammed the violation of Russian territorial waters by British warship HMS Defender as a "provocation," He also claimed that London's American allies had a hand in last week's incident, near Crimea. Read Ful...

Newly-appointed Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti faces around $1.6 million being seized from his salary by tax authorities over alleged crimes relating to his first spell in charge of the club, according to reports in Spain. Read Ful...

President Vladimir Putin has revealed that he continues to oppose compulsory vaccination against Covid-19, despite the country’s ever-worsening case numbers. He did, however, encourage all citizens to get inoculated. Read Full Article...

Kim Jong-un has revealed that North Korea is facing a “great crisis,” as he dismisses party officials for neglect of duty over their failure to implement measures to protect citizens from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Fu...

The reported death of 41-year-old Romanian bitcoin billionaire Mircea Popescu has raised a lot of questions about what happens to his vast crypto fortune. Read Full Article at RT.com

A Russian space freighter taking fuel, water, food, and oxygen to the International Space Station was launched from a Soyuz carrier rocket early on Wednesday morning, blasting off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. Read Full ...

Despite initially refusing to say which of two domestic coronavirus vaccines he received in March, Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that he was given two doses of the country's pioneering Sputnik V formula. Read ...

France’s President of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy has warned of a potential fourth wave of Covid-19 that will hit the country in autumn, based on trends from last year and the presence of the Delta variant. Read F...

The Iranian armed forces have launched a large-scale military exercise in an area of the Caspian Sea of around 77,000 square kilometers (48,000 square miles), testing naval and airborne units as well as electronic warfare systems. Read ...

In politics, nothing is sacred, least of all the past. World War Two is no exception, and hard truths about how Nazi Germany was crushed have been a frequent target for those misunderstanding or even seeking to rewrite history. Read Ful...

An investigation is underway into the suspected hacking of South Korea’s defense aviation producer Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), with one lawmaker pointing the finger at North Korea as the likely culprit. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his traditional live Questions & Answers session on Tuesday afternoon. The event comes as Russia is struggling to cope with a new wave of Covid-19 infection, driven by the Delta Variant. Read ...

Cairo and Moscow are planning to hold discussions on the construction of a Russian industrial zone in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, according to Egyptian Trade and Industry Minister Neveen Gamea. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Several European countries, including Germany, have announced full troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. The US may formally complete its own withdrawal within days, though some Americans will stay behind. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The technical committee of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has confirmed its previous outlook concerning the growth in global demand for oil, according to the OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkind. Read Fu...

Accused by Fox’s Tucker Carlson of snooping through his emails, the National Security Agency insisted the host is not “an intelligence target” in a carefully worded reply that was blasted by critics as deliberately vague. Read Ful...

A spike in deaths has been reported in Canada’s British Columbia as it bears the brunt of a record-breaking heat wave stifling the country. Dozens of people are believed to have fallen victim to the extreme temperatures. Read Full Art...

US lawmakers have voted to remove all statues honoring Confederate officials from the halls of Congress, with nearly 70 Republicans joining rivals across the aisle to back the measure, which will now head to the Senate. Read Full Articl...

After a candidate leading the unofficial tally in the Democrat primary for the mayor of the Big Apple raised concerns about discrepancies – and got compared to Donald Trump for doing so – the results were taken offline. Read Full Ar...

The US Navy said it will not pursue action against Eddie Gallagher – the now-retired SEAL who was charged with war crimes and later cleared in 2019 – after he appeared to admit killing an Iraqi captive on a podcast last month. Read ...

US Supreme Court justices split along unusual ideological lines in a decision holding that the natural gas pipeline conglomerate PennEast could use federal eminent domain powers to seize land owned by the state of New Jersey. Read Full ...

News that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is sending 50 National Guard troops to help Texas secure the border with Mexico was troubling enough, but the revelation it was funded by a private donor set Democrat pundits fuming. Read Full...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told his Arab neighbors that Israel is “here to stay,” and urged former enemies to “talk to us” at the inauguration of his country’s embassy in the United Arab Emirates. Read Full Article at...

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm took heat from conservatives after she did not rule out that “climate change” might have caused the collapse of a Florida high-rise that has left 11 dead and 150 missing. Read Full Article at RT...

A goal from Artem Dovbyk late in extra time sent Ukraine into a first-ever European Championship quarter-final as they beat Sweden 2-1 in Glasgow. Read Full Article at RT.com

Los Angeles County has resumed ordering residents to wear masks indoors, regardless of whether they’ve been vaccinated or not, thanks to an eruption of cases halfway around the world. Read Full Article at RT.com

As part of a media campaign touting President Joe Biden’s ‘success’ against Covid-19, Democrats are telling Americans to be thankful they can actually see friends and family or attend a ballgame on Fourth of July. Read Full Articl...

Serena Williams will have to prolong her pursuit of a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam after she broke down in tears when injury ended her participation in the first round at Wimbledon. Read Full Article at RT.com

Finland's Institute for Health and Welfare has suggested that the county's recent uptick in Covid cases is down to football fans from returning from games in St. Petersburg throughout the ongoing European Championships. Read Full Articl...

Julian Assange’s case should’ve ended as soon as a UK judge denied his extradition to the US, Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour leader, told RT as he joined other MPs to demand a meeting with the WikiLeaks founder in a London prison. Rea...

IKEA has designed a series of couches inspired by the ever-growing number of LGBT flags. However, a loveseat inspired by the bisexual flag with the phrase “nobody believes you” on it has got more attention than the others Read Full ...

England captain Harry Kane took a page out of Manuel Neuer's book by wearing a rainbow colored armband during his team's win against Germany - in a game in which he broke his goalscoring duck. Coincidence? Some fans claimed not. Read Fu...

Adding insult to the injury of Croatia’s loss to Spain at Euro 2020, Zagreb is blaming the print shop for the fact that the team’s jerseys featured the wrong flag, with the checkerboard pattern used by the Nazi-allied WWII regime. R...

Police in India have launched three cases against the social media platform over the alleged distribution of child pornography, and a fourth for a controversial depiction of the disputed Kashmir region on a map. Read Full Article at RT....

For much of a tense game at Wembley on Tuesday, Harry Kane was again bearing the brunt of England supporters’ frustrations – but all that changed with his late goal as Three Lions fans regained some faith in their skipper. Read Full...

A third of all Americans believe the Covid-19 pandemic is over in the US, though only 4% of Democrats agree, as a potential surge in the virus’ Delta variant becomes a concerning topic for some. Read Full Article at RT.com

Fighter planes and bomber jets were dispatched to follow a Dutch naval vessel only after it changed direction towards Russian waters, defense officials in Moscow said on Tuesday, amid a growing diplomatic spat over the incident. Read Fu...

England left it late but second-half goals from Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane secured passage to the Euro 2020 quarter-finals at Germany's expense, earning a measure of revenge against the team that dumped them out of Euro '96. Read Fu...