As the United States continues to recover from the economic strain caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve is considering its next move this week. Read Full Article at RT.com

Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s daily oil output volumes are second only to the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia this year, the country’s state statistics service, Rosstat, reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tennis sensation Daniil Medvedev expressed disgust with a journalist who implied that Russian athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics have been tagged as cheaters. Read Full Article at RT.com

Olympic champion Simone Biles, who sensationally withdrew from the artistic all-round final gymnastics final on Tuesday, has now ruled herself out of the all-around individual competition final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Read Full...

Russia is building on its 2020 roadmap for hydrogen production over the next decade, announcing a new working group to coordinate the country’s hydrogen production and exportation projects.   Read Full Article at RT.com

Daniil Medvedev said he “can die” on court as the Russian star struggled badly in oppressive conditions in Tokyo before seeing off Italy’s Fabio Fognini to reach the Olympic quarter-finals. Read Full Article at RT.com

Liberals, including a self-professed Democrat healthcare advocate, have responded to news of right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder’s life-threatening medical condition by wishing him ill health and a “painful recovery.” Read Full Art...

Australia’s most populous city will undergo another four weeks of lockdown after state officials said previous shutdown orders failed to stem a small surge in coronavirus infections, most linked to the contagious Delta variant. Read F...

Two police officers in Colorado have been arrested and charged after beating a suspect bloody during a trespassing call, one seen pistol whipping him over a dozen times, with the local police chief calling their acts “criminal.” Rea...

The US government has seized an ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet that was bought by a US dealer around the time of the 2003 invasion, and later purchased by craft store chain Hobby Lobby for the Museum of the Bible in Oklahoma. Read Fu...

US President Joe Biden has confirmed that he is mulling vaccine requirements for federal workers. CNN reported the mandate is imminent and will likely be formally announced as early as Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

After what looked like a Nazi symbol was found carved into the wall of a State Department elevator in Washington, Israel’s ambassador to the US denounced anti-Semitism and Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it “abhorrent.” R...

Having detained more than a million people who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally this year, US Customs and Border Enforcement (ICE) has reportedly released more than 50,000 of them into the country without a court date. Read Full A...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, as well as others such as Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas), has made clear they have no interest in following the CDC’s new guidance that states those vaccinated against Covid-19 still need to mask up. Read Full Arti...

Kuwait has opted to allow only its vaccinated citizens to travel abroad, with children and pregnant women exempted from the new rule. The move effectively grounds a large part of the nation’s 4.2 million population. Read Full Article ...

The federal government has sold the sole copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,’ three years after seizing it from jailed pharma executive Martin Shkreli. The sale cleared Shreli’s debt to the government. Read ...

A press conference with Republican House members, including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), was dramatically cut short as protesters drowned them out and chased them down the street. Read Full Articl...

A lone armed robber has raided a branch of high-end jewelry store Chaumet near the Champs-Elysee avenue in central Paris, according to local prosecutors. The suspect escaped the scene with a lucrative haul and remains at large. Read Ful...

Milica Mandic is a stunning Serbian taekwondo expert who has set hearts racing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by achieving a gold medal in the +67 kgs division of the competition, but this isn't her first rodeo at the Games. Read Full Artic...

Katia Aveiro, the sister of football icon and Juventus winger Cristiano Ronaldo, has been hospitalised suffering from pneumonia after contracting Covid-19, despite earlier calling the disease "the biggest fraud I’ve ever seen". Read F...

Drugmaker Moderna has warned of temporary delays in Covid vaccine shipments for its customers outside the US. The issue is linked to a testing operation by manufacturing partners and is expected to briefly slow down deliveries. Read Ful...

Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger has been mocked for his teary testimony decrying the pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill in January. With such waterworks on show, it’s likely no wonder Nancy Pelosi chose him to probe the riot. Read Fu...

Daniel Hale, a former US Air Force intelligence analyst who leaked information about civilian deaths caused by drone strikes overseas, has been sentenced to almost four years in prison under the Espionage Act. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Russian-state owned energy firm Gazprom has reportedly decided not to purchase the rights to move additional gas supplies through Ukraine, on top of its normal exports, for August, as a debate rages over Kiev's transit revenues. Read Fu...

Footage of a bizarre warm-up motivation technique, which shows a judo coach slapping his female charge in the face as she was about to compete in an important Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games face-off, has gone viral online. Read Full Article a...

British provocateur Piers Morgan has waded in following US gymnastics icon Simone Biles’ shock exit from the team event at the Tokyo Olympics, after the 24-year-old star cited mental health issues as the reason for the step. Read Full...

A new poll has shown that voters are warming up to the idea of dumping California Gov. Gavin Newsom when his recall election takes place on September 14. Read Full Article at RT.com

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded Romania’s Rosia Montana gold mine world heritage status. However, the move may complicate an ongoing lawsuit with a Canadian company. Read Full A...

The CDC has recommended that some fully vaccinated Americans once again wear face masks in certain indoor settings. The decision, made amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, dramatically reverses the organization’s earlier guidance. Read Ful...

The Saudi government has threatened its own citizens with a three-year travel ban if they undertake trips to countries deemed unsafe by the kingdom’s authorities due to the prevalence of Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Czech Supreme Administrative Court (NSS), the country’s highest authority over executive actions, overruled the Health Ministry’s mask mandate on Tuesday, declaring the measure unjustified and threatening to cancel it. Read Full...

Moroccan heavyweight boxer Youness Baalla paid a shocking tribute to Mike Tyson during his Olympic 2020 match against David Kyika in Tokyo by biting at the New Zealander's ear yet still managing to avoid disqualification. Read Full Arti...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed he’s struggling with his pet dog’s “romantic urges” and said the high-profile canine has been known to “endlessly” hump people’s legs in Downing Street. Read Full Article at RT....

Vladislav Larin claimed a second taekwondo gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team on Tuesday, defeating North Macedonia's Dejan Georgievski in the +80kg category. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Footage of a football "blooper of the year" has gone viral, after a striker fired off a horror miss in the Argentine Primera Division during a match between the boyhood clubs of all time greats Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. Read Full...

The Chinese Global Times newspaper has accused the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) of “twisting facts” and “fabricating stories” after the BBC claimed journalists had been “attacked” while covering floods in China. Read F...

Things are going from bad to worse for Derby manager Wayne Rooney, who after being embroiled in a social media scandal while photographed with scantily clad women has now reportedly injured one of his best players in training. Read Full...

Michigan lawmaker Jewell Jones has sparked outrage after admitting to spending campaign funds at a Detroit strip club, but the 26-year-old Democrat has defended the visit as a “constituent meeting.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The internet has reacted to Simone Biles' withdrawal from the gymnastics team event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as the 24-year-old later cited mental health concerns in her decision. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Irish government has said it hopes to fully inoculate all adolescents against Covid-19 by mid-September, as the country opens its vaccination program to 16-17 year olds and promises to make jabs available to everyone over 12. Read F...

A UK parliamentary committee has warned that the country’s “hollowed out” justice system is at risk of failure because of poor pay for public defence lawyers, for many of whom a career in legal aid has become “less attractive.�...

A California restaurant has refused to back down after being bombarded with negative press and customer reviews for posting a sign demanding that all diners provide proof that they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. Read Full Ar...

American gymnast Simone Biles has spoken on her shock withdrawal from the artistic all-round team event at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, when the US went on to finish second behind Russia. Read Full Article at RT.com

Indonesia has suffered its worst single-day death toll of the pandemic, the country’s health ministry revealed on Tuesday when announcing a record 2,069 Covid fatalities in the previous 24 hours amid a surge in cases. Read Full Articl...

The Indian government has thrown its support behind a project which sees cow dung processed and repurposed as paint, describing it as environmentally friendly and praising its ability to create employment. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson has claimed that the “bulk” of the UK’s coronavirus pandemic may be over by October, noting that high vaccination rates have significantly lowered hospital admissions and deaths in the country. Read Fu...

Members of an armed cell who allegedly worked with Israel’s Mossad spy agency and planned to provoke violence during protests in Iran have been detained, Tehran’s Intelligence Ministry has told local media. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The trade turnover between Russia and Iran increased significantly in the first six months of 2021 compared to the same period last year, Russia’s trade representative in Iran said Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Ministry of Health is to test the effectiveness of combining the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine with the British AstraZeneca jab. Clinical trials are due to begin soon and are planned to last until March 2022. Read Full ...

A bomb detonated outside a store that caters to Muslims in the Netherlands on early Tuesday morning, prompting evacuation of several homes. Another bomb was later found nearby. Read Full Article at RT.com

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga dismissed concerns over the record high Covid-19 numbers on Tuesday amid dissent over the country’s hosting of the Summer Olympic Games. Read Full Article at RT.com

The activities of exiled Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya are coordinated by Western countries, and she is being fully funded to go around the world for “pseudo-official events,” despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Rea...

Nearly 20 years after it was attached to the International Space Station, Russia’s Pirs module has undocked from the planet’s only inhabited satellite and is now heading for a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Read...

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found that more than 700 children in the care of London's Lambeth Council were abused for several decades as part of a “toxic power game.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian women's gymnastics team claimed a dramatic gold medal in the artistic all-round final in Tokyo, ending America's run of two consecutive titles at the Olympics. Read Full Article at RT.com

The trial of 73-year-old former cardinal Angelo Becciu over allegations he fraudulently spent $412 million of church money began in a special Vatican courtroom on Tuesday, months after he was removed from his post by Pope Francis. Read ...

Over 50% of Covid patients in England tested positive only after being hospitalised – likely for other reasons – leaked NHS data has suggested, raising questions about the true impact the virus is having on the healthcare system. Re...

A deadly explosion at a local chemical park in Leverkusen that has killed one person and left four missing forced local German Bundesliga team Bayer to rearrange a training session due to toxic air pollution from the blast. Read Full Ar...

Blue Origin’s CEO Jeff Bezos has offered NASA $2 billion if the space agency reconsiders his company for a contract on its lunar landing mission. His firm lost the contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in April. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The new agreement between the US and Germany was supposed to show the West was united behind American leadership across the globe. Instead, the deal lays bare the emerging fault lines in a rapidly changing multi-polar world. Read Full A...

Warning that companies that claim to protect national security are the “greatest danger” to it, Edward Snowden has urged the dismantling of this ‘Insecurity Industry’ by banning trade in intrusive software and penalizing enabler...

American gymnastics icon Simone Biles has pulled out of the final of the artistic all-round team event in Tokyo, with conflicting reports on the health of the 24-year-old star. Read Full Article at RT.com

Two people have died and at least 31 are injured after a serious blast occurred at a disposal center in Leverkusen’s Chempark. Locals were told to stay inside and close doors and windows as smoke billowed above the city. Read Full Art...

Nearly 30% of all sexual offences against minors in Poland are linked to representatives of the clergy, the State Commission on Pedophilia revealed in its first report. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Scottish government is reportedly preparing to ask civil servants to put their gender pronouns at the end of emails in an effort to boost inclusivity – despite the majority of employees opposing the idea. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The European Commission (EC) has announced that it is on course to meet its target of vaccinating 70% of its member states’ citizens by the end of summer, after reaching a milestone in the number of first doses administered. Read Full...

Russia’s Yulia Efimova is considering hanging up her swimming cap after a disappointing fifth-place finish in the 100m breaststroke final at the Tokyo Olympics, with countrywoman Evgenia Chikunova coming home fourth. Read Full Article...

The remains of the last person listed as missing after the deadly apartment complex collapse in Florida last month have been recovered, bringing the final death toll to 98. Read Full Article at RT.com

A Hong Kong court convicted Tong Ying-kit on Tuesday after a 15-day trial, marking the first time a person charged under the city’s national security law has been found guilty of inciting secession and terrorism. Read Full Article at ...

UFC welterweight champion Kamara Usman and bitter rival Colby Covington will do battle for the 170lbs strap once more, with a potential meeting at UFC 268 in Madison Square Garden this November being lined up. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A veteran sportswriter has come under fire after suggesting that United States flags on display during the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics were a visual reminder of the alleged surge of white nationalism in the US. Read Full Arti...

Elon Musk’s electric car maker Tesla has nearly doubled its profits in the second quarter of 2021, making $1 billion in quarterly net income for the first time. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Dutch team has been involved in another fiasco as ex-BMX world champion Niek Kimmann crashed into an official on a training run at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with footage of the incident going viral. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The states of Victoria and South Australia have decided to relax their Covid measures after implementing strict snap-lockdowns. Meanwhile, coronavirus cases in New South Wales show no sign of abating despite weeks of restrictions. Read ...

Human Rights Watch, an international NGO, has called on the International Criminal Court to launch an inquiry into apparent war crimes committed by Israeli and Palestinian armed forces during the 11-day war in May. Read Full Article at ...

As the UK finally reopened its economy, the National Health Service (NHS) announced it wants to force people to self-isolate if they came into contact with someone who later tested positive for Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A severe explosion has occurred at a major chemical industrial park in Leverkusen, Germany, sending toxic smoke billowing above the city with residents told to stay indoors and close all windows and doors. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The term “fake news” has faded from the headlines, but it remains a staple of our newspapers and our screens. As information becomes more accessible, disinformation has now become a greater threat to democracies than ever before. Re...

A senior figure in Russia’s Communist Party has slammed a decision by the country’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor to block the official website of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, accusing the authorities of abusing their power. Read...

Conor McGregor has been blasted for going too far by tweeting “Covid is good and father is evil?” – which fans have taken as a reference to UFC rival Khabib Nurmagomedov and his late father Abdulmanap. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Bitcoin led the cryptocurrency market decline on Tuesday after Amazon dispelled rumors claiming the online retail giant was planning to accept bitcoin as payment. Read Full Article at RT.com

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for state-sponsored arm-twisting aimed at getting the state’s unvaxxed to roll up their sleeves, even as the Empire State boasts high Covid vaccination rates among high-risk age groups. Read F...

Hundreds of cars piled up on a major Italian highway on Monday after being damaged by a massive hailstorm which left several people injured, brought down trees, and caused damage in several regions. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Cuban Embassy in Paris was firebombed early Tuesday morning. The socialist country’s foreign minister accused the US of encouraging violence against Havana. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has barred national airlines from low-altitude flights over war-torn Afghanistan, citing the deteriorating situation on the ground. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian military has delivered 250,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik Light vaccine to Damascus along with Covid-19 tests and tons of humanitarian goods as part of the Defense Ministry’s humanitarian aid initiative. Read Full Article...

Home favorite Naomi Osaka - who lit the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony - has been knocked out in the third round of the women's singles event in Tokyo, losing to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic. Read Full Article at RT....

Evgeny Rylov became the first Russian in 25 years to win an Olympic gold medal in the pool as he powered to victory in the 100m backstroke final in Tokyo, edging out countryman Kliment Kolesnikov by just 0.02 seconds. Read Full Article ...

The two Koreas said they have agreed to reopen a cross-border communications channel shuttered more than a year ago, with Pyongyang hailing the move as a “big step” toward rebuilding bilateral ties. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has declared a nationwide, month-long nighttime curfew after ousting the government and freezing parliament amid continued mass protests. He maintains his actions are legal. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Brazilian politician landed in hot water after calling for a loosening of the child labor laws, pointing to the Olympic silver medal brought home by 13-year-old skateboarder Rayssa Leal. Critics roundly condemned the idea. Read Full A...

Pro-censorship anti-bigotry group the Anti-Defamation League has partnered with PayPal to “fight hate” by cutting off its financing. But its definition of “hate,” criticized as expansive and fungible, has prompted concerns. Read...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is “unapologetic” about giving interviews only to non-white reporters, saying she would do it again. Meanwhile, almost 30 people were shot in the city over the weekend, seven of them fatally. Read Full A...

President Joe Biden said the US combat mission in Iraq will end this December, when Washington’s role will shift to training local forces, but declined to say what will come of the 2,500 American troops still in the country Read Full ...

As mask mandates continue to be debated across the US, a pastor in Tennessee, known for his opposition to lockdowns and mass vaccination, made it clear that mask-wearers will be removed from his church. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Using the anniversary of the adoption of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Biden administration has announced that Americans who suffer from lingering effects of Covid-19 dubbed “long Covid” can now claim disability. Re...

A joint ‘counterterrorism’ organization formed by Big Tech companies like Facebook and Microsoft will begin more aggressively targeting right-wing militia groups and manifestos on their platforms. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has made Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for some 115,000 of its medical employees – the first federal agency to do so, as medical groups put pressure on the White House for a nationwide mandate. Read...

After a woman was brutally attacked at Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner, reports about the incident focused on what she wore, begging the question whether free speech is no longer sacred to people who run London and the UK. Read Full Ar...