Italian tennis star Fabio Fognini says the oppressive heat in Tokyo caused him to shout homophobic slurs at himself during his defeat to Daniil Medvedev. Read Full Article at RT.com

Asian stock markets traded mostly higher on Thursday, following reports that China would not ban domestic companies from going public in the US. Read Full Article at RT.com

China could play a constructive role in Afghanistan if it helps secure a political settlement between Kabul and the Taliban, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

An earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale has struck just south of the Alaskan Peninsula. The authorities issued warnings and advisory notices about a possible tsunami. Read Full Article at RT.com

US gymnastics icon Simone Biles has thanked fans for their “love and support” after she withdrew from two events at the Tokyo Games, watching on as America settled for second behind the Russian Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Read Ful...

The world’s third-largest crude oil importer, India, could join China in tapping into its strategic petroleum reserve in a bid to sell lower-priced crude to its refiners amid rallying international oil prices. Read Full Article at RT....

Tunisian President Kais Saied, who seized control of the government last weekend, said that billions of dollars had been stolen from the country and offered businessmen an option to return the money if they wanted to avoid prison. Read ...

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has scoffed at the notion that Mexico should honor a US-imposed embargo on Cuba, as his country sends aid to the island in defiance of Washington’s suffocating economic restrictions. Read Full Art...

American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks will be forced to miss the Olympics after testing positive for Covid, with the knock-on effect sending the entire Australian track and field team into a brief period of isolation in Tokyo. Read Full A...

The US Food and Drug Administration has agreed to extend the expiry date of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine to six months, pushing it out for the second time as states “drowning” in jabs struggle to get rid of them. Read Full Ar...

Some two million residents living in Sydney, Australia, which is currently in the middle of an extended lockdown, have been told to mask up outdoors and not travel further than five kilometers from home, as cases rise. Read Full Article...

The attending physician at the US Capitol has reimposed a mask mandate for Congress just weeks after lifting it, triggering a backlash in the GOP amid reports the doctor pulled down his mask at a briefing on his own rule. Read Full Arti...

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on the street that leads to the White House, now wants to hire more police officers and reopen the courts, citing an increase in homicides in the US capital. R...

New polls show a growing number of Americans blame President Joe Biden’s policies for the biggest surge in inflation since 2008, as the US Senate moves ahead with a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill. Read Full Articl...

New York’s mayor has opted to put away the stick and reveal a stash of new carrots – $100 prepaid debit cards for those who get the Covid-19 jab – despite a slew of previous measures failing to grab their attention. Read Full Arti...

US President Joe Biden put on a mask to meet with Belarus opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya at the White House, but took it off on a trip to Pennsylvania, where he mingled with a crowd to promote his economic plan. Read Full Arti...

Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said the country is taking allegations around Pegasus spyware, sold by Israeli firm NSO, “seriously” after discussing the scandal with his French counterpart Florence Parly. Read Full Arti...

Tech giant Google has declared that all of its employees returning to work in its offices will need to be vaccinated. Google’s decision comes as President Joe Biden mulls mandatory shots for all federal workers. Read Full Article at R...

The New York Times claims the US is leading in the Tokyo Olympics, deliberately using the total medals won as its methodology. Numerous readers quickly pointed out that gold medals matter more, both officially and traditionally. Read Fu...

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has bowed to widespread pressure in deciding to move the start times of Olympic matches, following a series of incidents where player safety was thrown into jeopardy. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Multiple fires have broken out in northern Lebanon, devastating pine forests and threatening multiple villages. The blazes have forced some residents to flee their homes, while at least one firefighter died battling the flames. Read Ful...

Three of the girls who photographed themselves next to Wayne Rooney have reportedly apologized to the Manchester United legend, who has paid them just £1 ($1.39) to purchase the copyright of the images, according to reports. Read Full ...

A lawyer for Roman Abramovich has told a court in London the billionaire's purchase of Chelsea FC was not directed by Russian president Vladimir Putin who used him as the alleged "acceptable face" of a corrupt scheme. Read Full Article ...

The EU’s privacy watchdog has given Ireland’s data protection agency a month to produce its long-delayed decision on Facebook’s WhatsApp compliance with EU laws, forcibly settling the agency’s dispute with other national bodies....

‘Lessons of Auschwitz’ VR project, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous concentration camp by the Soviet Army, has been nominated at the 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Read Full Article...

A group of pro-censorship activists has laid body bags outside Facebook’s Washington, DC office, claiming that “disinformation” on the platform “kills.” Like the Biden administration, they want Facebook to censor Covid-skeptic...

Three-time world champion Nikita Nagornyy has “apologized” for winning bronze for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team at the Tokyo Olympics, saying he feels “ashamed” after being edged out by his rivals. Read Full Article a...

New York’s attorney general has announced that dozens of US states are appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Facebook of abusing its market power, seeking to force it to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp. Read Full Article at RT...

The new woke dictionary definition of ‘brave’ has come to mean ‘selfishly letting down your teammates’, judging by Simone Biles' cringingly tense exit during the gymnastics team final at Tokyo 2020. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The British government has announced that fully vaccinated travellers arriving in England from the US and countries within the EU, bar France, will no longer have to undergo a 10-day Covid quarantine period from August 2 onwards. Read F...

A Tunisian court has said it is investigating three of the country’s political parties, including Ennahda and Heart of Tunisia, over allegations they received foreign funds during the 2019 election campaign. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Austria’s interior minister has blasted the European Commission’s stance on migration and declared that Vienna will form alliances with other EU states that want to combat the illegal movement of people in their own way. Read Full A...

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that its employees will have to wear masks and socially distance indoors, regardless of their vaccination status. The order comes after the CDC recommended indoor masking again. Read Ful...

The UK government has downplayed parliamentary criticism of the National Cyber Security Centre’s “image over cost” choice of headquarters by touting its “global and transformative role” in advancing the country’s cyber-secur...

Tourists and locals in Turkey’s Manavgat district were filmed calmly enjoying the beach and wandering around the city despite a blazing fire threatening devastation as it spreads on the outskirts of the residential area. Read Full Art...

In a rebuke to an essay written by Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed his view that “distant relatives,” like Moscow, should not try to claim the history of the Kievan Rus. Re...

A Chinese court sentenced Sun Dawu to 18 years in jail on Wednesday after the billionaire was detained last November on charges that included “provoking trouble” and “gathering a crowd to attack state organs.” Read Full Article ...

Dutch Olympic skateboarder Candy Jacobs has blasted conditions at a Tokyo quarantine hotel as "inhuman", after missing an event at the Olympic Games due to her ongoing eight-day stay in isolation. Read Full Article at RT.com

Little hope remains that survivors will be found under the debris at the German industrial park rocked by a major explosion on Tuesday, its operator has said. The blast injured 31 and killed two, with five people still missing. Read Ful...

The court ruling to nullify the WikiLeaks co-founder’s status as a naturalized Ecuadorian citizen was the result of an orchestrated political trial and must be overturned, Carlos Poveda, Assange’s lawyer, told RT. Read Full Article ...

New York Times reporter Katie Benner has deleted a series of tweets calling Trump supporters “enemies of the state.” Benner called the tweets “wrongly worded,” but her sentiment is largely shared by the state itself. Read Full A...

France’s data protection regulator has fined agricultural firm Monsanto €400,000 ($472,320) for illegally creating lists to help the company lobby support during a debate about the authorization of a key weed killer ingredient. Read...

Even though their country has been punished, some Russian competitors in Tokyo are being tarred with the brush of a doping scandal that has nothing to do with them. It seems some people can’t handle their mere presence in Tokyo. Read ...

A GB News presenter’s controversial call to hang the imprisoned Manchester Arena bomb plotter has sparked debate on social media, with many telling the TV host to reconsider his “medieval opinion.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Construction on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany is expected to be completed in August, with the first gas deliveries possible later this year, according to one of the major investors in the project, OMV. Read Full Arti...

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has told RT that, despite US President Joe Biden’s plans for a full troop withdrawal within the next few months, Afghanistan still faces American efforts to interfere in its internal affairs. Rea...

Turkey’s coastguard service has said it detained a boat in the Aegean Sea heading for Europe which was carrying more than 200 Afghan migrants. The vessel was believed to be en route to Italy. Read Full Article at RT.com

The sporting director of the German Cycling Union has apologized after being heard yelling “get the camel drivers!” at one of his team in an effort to encourage him to catch rivals from Algeria and Eritrea. Read Full Article at RT.c...

In a world plagued by a pandemic, some stories get left behind. One that has escaped headlines, probably understandably, is the Kazakh government’s new six-month ban on exporting food for livestock, insisting produce stay at home. Rea...

A deaf woman has won a High Court case against the Cabinet Office for failing to provide sign-language interpreters during the English government’s Covid briefings last year, with the judge ruling it as “discrimination.” Read Full...

Ex-US President Barack Obama has teamed up with NBA Africa to act as a strategic planner while also becoming a minority owner, but has been accused of hypocrisy and questioned over his two-term track record in the White House. Read Full...

The Norwegian health minister has announced that the long-awaited end of lockdown will be postponed until at least mid-August amid fears about the growth of the more contagious Delta variant. Read Full Article at RT.com

Bitcoin’s price jumped 7.2% on Wednesday after cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance announced it will further cap withdrawals and leverage. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned the country’s president-elect against placing trust in negotiations with the US, noting that the West broke its commitments with outgoing president Hassan Rouhani. Read Full Ar...

Police in Moscow have raided the home of Roman Dobrokhotov, editor-in-chief of Russian investigative outlet The Insider, in connection to a defamation case. His publication has been accused of lying about a Dutch researcher. Read Full A...

The messianic reverence for Simone Biles has become even more oppressive in defeat than it was in victory – and the people behind it are ignorant of their own complicity in causing her Olympic exit. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Taliban representatives have met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss peace in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US troops. Read Full Article at RT.com

People in France have shown their support for a restaurateur who declared his eatery a ‘free zone’ in response to the government’s vaccine passports mandate for restaurant and bar entry amid widespread protests. Read Full Article ...

Facebook has agreed to replace the removable foam face liners in its Oculus virtual reality headsets after months of customer complaints about skin irritations such as rashes and hives. The recall affects about four million units. Read ...

Researchers from the University of East Anglia and Earlham Institute have warned that easing Covid-19 restrictions early could lead to vaccine-resistant virus strains and new variants forming due to low global inoculation rates. Read Fu...

Police in Taiwan confirmed on Wednesday that they are investigating reports that more than 100 messaging app accounts used by “high ranking officials” were hacked after LINE messenger stated it had detected “abnormal activities.�...

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Russia’s first-quarter GDP growth shows the economy is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic at a quicker pace than expected, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Read Full Article at RT.com

In a bid to encourage mass inoculation against Covid-19, the authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic have introduced a strict policy banning all unvaccinated people from entering mosques and stores and using public transport. Read Fu...

Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa has increased concerns about heat exhaustion at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, after the 23-year-old had to be wheelchaired out of her quarterfinal against Marketa Vondrousova. Read Full Article at RT.com...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that the country is facing war-like hardship during the global pandemic at his address at a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the Korean War. Read Full Article at RT.com

July has been a remarkable month for Russian rockets, with Moscow announcing a handful of successful missile tests, the country showing off its warplanes at the MAKS international airshow, and launching the new Nauka space module. Read ...

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

Ecuador has revoked Julian Assange’s citizenship, citing alleged inconsistencies with his naturalization documents. A lawyer for the imprisoned publisher claims the decision was made without due process. 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...