Police have started removing around 200 climate activists who staged a protest at the entrance to banks Credit Suisse and UBS in Zurich demanding the financial institutions stop financing fossil fuel projects. Read Full Article at RT.co...

India’s manufacturing sector rebounded in July, allowing local business to offer new jobs for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. The expansion was underpinned by robust demand domestically and abroad. Read Full Ar...

Ramzan Kadyrov has hailed knockout artist Imam Khataev after the product of his fight club saw his Olympic Games campaign end against Briton Ben Whittaker, with the protege of heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua winning on points. Read Ful...

Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Moscow who has since transitioned into one of Russia’s most vociferous and omnipresent critics, has revealed online that the move from diplomat to info warrior has been a lucrative one. Read...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed it is looking into the podium protest by US shot-put silver medalist Raven Saunders, who made an ‘X’ gesture during Sunday’s ceremony in Tokyo. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Tennis star Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is ecstatic after winning gold with Andrey Rublev at the Olympic Games, edging out Aslan Karatsev and Elena Vesnina in a gripping all-Russian doubles final before Karatsev grabbed a gold medal. Read ...

South Korean officials said a decision on the annual August drills with the US has not yet been finalized, and joint exercises should not raise tensions, following a strong warning from Pyongyang. Read Full Article at RT.com

Shortly after being labeled a hypocrite for a maskless photo on the eve of her own mask mandate, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was accused of attending a wedding party without a face covering. Read Full Article at RT.com

Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya is “safe and secure” after spending Sunday night in a Tokyo airport hotel, following her refusal to fly back to her homeland amid an escalating Olympic row, officials have said. Read Full Art...

After an 11th-hour effort, a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators announced that they finalized a mammoth infrastructure bill, which includes $550 billion in new spending. The bill now heads to the Senate floor. Read Full Article at R...

Progressives angry at lawmakers’ failure to extend the eviction moratorium, thus potentially leaving millions of Americans on the streets, called for the ‘occupation’ of Congress, prompting parallels with the events of January 6. ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, has encouraged businesses to mandate that their customers be vaccinated against Covid-19 to “protect the unvaccinated.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Photos of massive crowds attending the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago spurred Twitter users to ask, “Where’s Waldo?” while the city’s mayor faced criticism for greenlighting the event. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Kamala Harris has become the most unpopular vice president six months into an administration in years, according to recent unfavorable polling for the former senator. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US has lost the war in Afghanistan not when it decided to withdraw as the Taliban regained power, but years ago, when it bombed Afghan homes in the name of fighting terror, ex-president Hamid Karzai told RT's Oksana Boyko. Read Full...

Berlin witnessed chaotic scenes and violent brawls on Sunday as riot police sought to forcefully disperse anti-lockdown rallies that had been banned by authorities, after thousands took to the streets of the German capital. Read Full Ar...

Apple has removed the dating app Unjected, marketed as a “safe space” for unvaccinated Americans, from its store, saying it “inappropriately refers to the Covid-19 pandemic.” The app’s developers say this amounts to censorship...

In one of her first interviews since a reported attempt to forcibly repatriate her back to Belarus from Tokyo for criticizing sports bosses, Kristina Timanovskaya has claimed she was threatened, fears jail and will seek asylum. Read Ful...

Pfizer has reportedly raised the price of its Covid vaccine dose by a quarter, with Moderna also ramping up the price in its latest deal with the European Union. The two are making tens of billions of dollars in pandemic profits. Read F...

Former Chelsea and AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko has ended his association with the Ukraine national team, announcing on social media that his spell in charge helped prove that they are "capable of playing modern football". Read Fu...

Team Israel has issued an apology after members of their Olympic baseball delegation uploaded a video to social media which showed them destroying one of their 'cardboard beds' in their quarters at the Tokyo Olympic village. Read Full A...

17-year-old Russian star Arina Fedorovtseva "might kill somebody" if she played against high school players, the coach of Team USA's women's volleyball team has warned after his side were heavily beaten at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Read ...

South Carolina is the latest state to assure its residents that no new mask mandates are coming, despite concerns from health officials, which the state’s governor chalks up to “hyperbole” and “exaggeration.” Read Full Article...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received backlash from fellow members of the Democratic Party after she refused to take any responsibility for the House’s failure to extend the eviction moratorium, placing the blame on the Republicans. Rea...

It is “highly likely” that Iran was behind the deadly drone attack on the Israeli-operated tanker MV Mercer Street off the coast of Oman, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said, threatening Tehran with a “concerted response.” Read ...

Thrilled Russian left-back Anna Sen has insisted her side's win over France will give them "desire" and "confidence" after sealing their place in the Olympic handball quarterfinals, moving a step closer to defending their title. Read Fu...

UFC middleweight contender Sean Strickland says that he would feel absolutely no remorse if he killed an opponent in the octagon after he bullied Uriah Hall en route to a lopsided decision win in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Read Full A...

The Cambodian prime minister has announced that his country is rolling out a third-dose booster scheme, using either a Chinese shot or a British jab. Frontline workers will be the first to receive the follow-up injection. Read Full Arti...

Wearing his signature pair of shiny gold shoes, 37-year-old Chinese colossus Lyu Xiaojun has become the oldest competitor to win weighlifting gold at the Olympics, while Qatar has its first ever champion at the Games. Read Full Article ...

A labor union has voted to approve a strike at Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, located in the Atacama Desert, Chile, where the miners are demanding better work conditions and benefits during the pandemic. Read Full Article...

Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Barshim have agreed to share gold after they couldn't be separated in a thrilling finale in Sunday's high jump event – a move being hailed by fans as the 'best moment of the Olympics so far'. Read Full Arti...

A Belarusian athlete who reportedly criticized her country's Olympic officials over a lack of doping tests and a decision to move her into a relay race is said to be seeking asylum after being forced to the airport to return home. Read ...

Hopes for a strong rebound by the French car market have been shattered amid the global deficit of semiconductor chips, and increasing coronavirus infections, the French association of carmakers CCFA-PFA said on Sunday. Read Full Articl...

Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has claimed there is “proof” that Iran is behind the deadly ship attack off the coast of Oman, adding that the incident is a “reminder of Iranian aggression.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

French Olympic hopeful Mourad Aliev says that his 30-minute sit-in protest in the ring was to express his opposition to his disqualification in his quarter-inal bout with Briton Frazer Clarke for 'repeated use of the head'. Read Full Ar...

The Swedish Armed Forces have paid for a pro-LGBTQ ad in one of the country’s leading newspapers, featuring soldiers standing beneath a rainbow flag. The campaign has provoked some fiery discussions online. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert take a look at the statistics showing that the latest recession sustained by the US lasted just two months – the shortest incidence in the American history. Read Full Article at RT.com

Formula One king Lewis Hamilton has been among those to pay tribute after a volunteer was killed in a horrific tragedy at iconic British racing circuit Brands Hatch, with organizers confirming the tragedy following a bad crash. Read Ful...

The UK government is cooperating with major food delivery companies such as Uber and Deliveroo to offer discounted fast foods for young people who get vaccinated against Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

American sprinter Sha'Charri Richardson, who is sitting out the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after a controversial suspension for a positive marijuana test, has drawn mixed reactions after hailing Jamaica's clean sweep in the women's 100m. Read ...

YouTube has suspended one of the largest media companies in Australia, local Sky News, from posting on its platform for allegedly breaching Covid-19 misinformation policies. It has also reportedly had some of its videos removed. Read Fu...

A.J. McKee made light work of Bellator icon Patricio Freire to win the $1 million featherweight Grand Prix, while Khabib Nurmagomedov extended his unbeaten run as a coach on what was a dominant night for Russian MMA in California. Read ...

One morning in February, back in 2019, Michael Calvey got a knock on the door of his Moscow apartment. The American financier may have been an influential poster-boy for foreign investment in Russia, but the police didn’t care. Read F...

Sublime Alexander Zverev fell to his knees after dominating below-par Russian rival Karen Khachanov in the men's singles tennis final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, becoming the first German man to win individual gold at the Games. Read Fu...

America’s oil and gas industry employs over 11 million people and is worth more than $1.6 trillion, making the energy transition more difficult than it may seem. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tennis ace Elina Svitolina has won praise from Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, after recovering from a first-set hammering to win bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in a marathon contest that she admitted took its toll. Read Ful...

A French hospital union boss has said a health pass will not be enough to curb another wave of Covid-19, and urged the government to make vaccination compulsory for everyone. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian authorities are mulling the idea of pegging a mineral extraction tax (MET) levied on metals producers to the global price of their products as soon as next year, according to Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey ​Sazanov. Read Full...

Trade turnover between Russia and the Netherlands saw a year-on-year surge of 23% from January through May 2021, according to the Russian ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin. Read Full Article at RT.com

The airport in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, has come under rocket attack, forcing the cancelation of all flights, as the Taliban seeks to recapture its former stronghold. Read Full Article at RT.com

Israel is preparing to get rid of some 80,000 Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses after their shelf life expired. Previously, the Jewish state had salvaged some 700,000 nearly expired doses by sending them to South Korea in a swap deal. Read ...

Laying hands on new things is always exciting, but little can be as thrilling as entering the latest addition to the Earth’s only inhabited satellite for the first time: the brand-new Nauka lab module of the ISS. Read Full Article at ...

Millions face imminent homelessness, after the Democrats left Washington for the recess without extending an eviction moratorium set to expire on Saturday. America’s largest corporate landlords are about to make a killing. Read Full A...

Donald Trump Jr. inadvertently kicked off a popular movement with liberals on social media, after jokingly suggesting that only those vaccinated against Covid-19 should be able to cast ballots. Read Full Article at RT.com

Liberal activist Shaun King, a promoter of social-justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, is facing accusations that he lives like the very one-percenters he so often criticizes. Read Full Article at RT.com

Muriel Bowser is the latest politician to be labeled a hypocrite, after critics saw red over a maskless photo of the Washington DC mayor with comedian Dave Chappelle, taken shortly before her mandate came into operation. Read Full Artic...

The daughter of late fantasy author Terry Pratchett rushed to the writer’s defense after critics supposedly began attaching the artist to transphobic beliefs. Even Pratchett’s own Twitter handle sprang to life to refute the idea. Re...

The Oregonian has put out a video teaching drivers how to pump their own gas. Puzzled outsiders soon realized it was not satire: with state law prohibiting self-service, many in the Beaver State have never fueled their vehicles. Read Fu...

Three officers were injured as mass protests in Paris against a Covid-19 "health pass" spilled over into fierce clashes between the demonstrators and police, as thousands took to the streets of France for a third weekend in a row. Read ...

An alleged wage dispute in southwestern Germany escalated into a bizarre rampage, echoing the story of American Marvin Heemeyer. A disgruntled construction worker used an excavator to vandalize a residential complex he'd built. Read Ful...

Anti-vaccine campaigner Piers Corbyn has been caught on camera by a pair of pranksters, accepting what he apparently understood was a bribe from AstraZeneca to shift his criticism from their vaccine to Pfizer and Moderna’s shots. Read...

Wildfires continue to rage in southwestern Turkey, with a new massive blaze now threatening tourist hotspot Bodrum. At least six people have been killed by fires that devastated large swaths of forest and destroyed multiple homes. Read ...

American BMX superstar Connor Fields has been discharged from a Tokyo intensive care unit after the reigning Olympic champion suffered a bleed on the brain during an horrific smash as he attempted to defend his title on Friday. Read Ful...

President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the Russian sabre team after they stormed to gold at the Tokyo Olympics, while star Sofia Pozdniakova is celebrating moving halfway towards her illustrious father's gold medal haul. Read Full A...

A drop in television ratings and page clicks following President Donald Trump's departure from the White House is being blamed for "irresponsible" Covid-19 news coverage that the Biden administration is protesting. Read Full Article at ...

Usman Nurmagomedov will be looking to maintain the legacy of his famous fighting name when he takes on his second Bellator outing on Saturday, but the undefeated 12-0 rising star admits he is feeling pressure ahead of the fight. Read Fu...

Over a dozen Republican lawmakers are demanding information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about Covid-19 rates among immigrants crossing the US’ southern border. Read Full Article at RT.com

The IOC's medical top dog has admitted that science has moved on but claimed that the threat to women's sport posed by transgender athletes has been "overstated", speaking before a controversial weightlifter features at the Games. Read ...

Covid-19 variants, along with the slower-than-expected return of Iranian shipments, will reportedly continue affecting the global markets for crude until the end of the current year, remaining a major source of volatility. Read Full Art...

A Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jet has crashed in Russia's Far East after suffering an engine failure. The pilot ejected safely and was recovered, while the aircraft itself fell into the Sea of Okhotsk. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed the plan to let foreign guests at a major climate summit in autumn to forgo quarantine if they’ve been vaccinated with Chinese or Russian jabs, media claim. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A green-tinted meteor has been spotted near the Turkish city of Izmir, falling in the mountains with a loud bang. The occurrence sent shockwaves through social media, eliciting wild rumors. Read Full Article at RT.com

Justin Gaethje looks set to return to the cage for the first time since his lightweight title defeat to Khabib Nurmagomedov last year to face former Bellator standout Michael Chandler at the UFC's November return to New York City. Read ...

Yulia Zykova pushed champion Nina Christen to an Olympic record in the women's 50-meter three-position rifle in Tokyo, with the Russian taking silver and compatriot Yulia Karimova winning bronze for her second medal of the Games. Read F...

While Olympic athletes have been breaking sporting records at the arenas in Tokyo, the Japanese capital has set a grim milestone of its own, reporting a record 4,058 coronavirus cases on Saturday. Read Full Article at RT.com

A debate has been sparked on the usefulness of learning Latin, after it was announced on Saturday that the government is to spend £4 million to expand the teaching of the ancient language to state secondary schools in England. Read Ful...

Demonstrators have flooded the streets of cities and towns across France for the third straight week as citizens continue to resist the government’s plan to require a health pass to engage in several ordinary activities. Read Full Art...

Silver sensation Elena Osipova has become the first Russian archer to win an individual medal at the Olympics for 33 years, earning her second honor of the Tokyo Olympics following an epic final against an ultra-cool rival. Read Full Ar...

The Porsche dynasty appears to be joining the space race to compete with Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, after the luxury car manufacturer acquired a stake in a German start-up Isar Aerospace. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Dutch side Ajax have announced that highly-rated 16-year-old youth player Noah Gesser has passed away along with his brother following a car accident in Utrecht on Friday evening. Read Full Article at RT.com

A senior German official in Bavaria has shrugged off criticism from fellow politicians who are accusing him of supporting the country’s anti-vaccination movement. Read Full Article at RT.com

Days after Novak Djokovic said Simon Biles should "understand how to deal with pressure", the Serb has faced similar accusations from fans after a series of temper tantrums in his Olympic loss to Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta. Read Full A...

A church in Caldecote, Hertfordshire was heavily vandalised in an attack which saw its windows and decorations smashed – a mere ten days after it reopened following nine months of repairs. Read Full Article at RT.com

After an exceptional 3x3 campaign at the Tokyo Olympics that ended in a silver medal, there was more joy for Russian basketball star Anastasiia Logunova when she returned to Moscow to receive a ring from her boyfriend on arrival. Read F...

Social media users have theorized that President Andres Manuel López Obrador could face severe repercussions after he refused to purchase Covid vaccines for children, vowing that Mexico wouldn’t bow to pressure from drugs firms. Read...

US gymnast Simone Biles has withdrawn from the uneven bars and vault finals at the Tokyo Games just hours after complaining that she was suffering from so-called 'twisties', which she says has left her "mind and body out of sync". Read ...

Big Chinese tech stocks listed in the US have suffered their worst month since October 2008 as the latest clampdown by China’s regulators forced investors to reassess the world’s largest stock market, triggering a major sell-off. Re...

The attack that killed two people aboard an Israeli-operated vessel off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, is believed to have been a drone strike, US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which operates in the region, has said. Read Ful...

100m star Blessing Okagbare will not be challenging the likes of British record holder Dina Asher-Smith in the semifinals at the Olympics on Saturday, with doping chiefs handing her a provisional suspension over a growth hormone. Read F...

A man in France has been charged with threatening politicians by attaching their names to makeshift guillotines. He claimed it was in protest at the country’s Covid-19 restrictions. Read Full Article at RT.com

A US fencer who was given a "safety plan" to "keep him away from all women at the Olympic Village" appears to have been ostracized by his teammates wearing pink – with one of his accusers saying one case should have ruled him out. Rea...

As of Saturday, 30 years have passed since the US and the Soviet Union signed the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I). Given the world has not yet descended into nuclear war, the weapons deal seems to have done its job. Read ...

The Soviet Union might have lost the first Cold War, but Russia is ahead in the rematch with the US and, this time, has every chance of coming out on top. That's according to one well-known Moscow scholar, Sergey Karaganov. Read Full Ar...

India’s renewable energy industry could see equity investments of some $150 billion by 2030, according to Gaurav Singhal, managing director at Bank of America’s Indian division. Read Full Article at RT.com

As the CDC urges Americans to mask up against the Delta variant, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist has argued that more data is needed about the strain’s infectiousness. His mask-free nation is hovering at zero Covid deaths per day. Rea...

Russia has overtaken Australia, Argentina and Brazil in beef exports to the Chinese market, which are likely to grow further over the next five years, the Center for Industry Expertise (CIE) of Russia’s Rosselkhozbank says. Read Full ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order to ensure that parents – and not officials – will decide whether pupils don masks at public schools, pushing back on recent CDC advice for K-12 students. Read Full Article at R...

Brisbane is headed for another “snap” lockdown, following six new local coronavirus infections, forcing most residents in Australia’s third-most populous city and other regions of Queensland to stay at home until next week. Read F...

A British government science panel has claimed that a coronavirus variant with a 35% fatality rate – akin to that seen in the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) – could emerge, and that vaccine booster doses may be needed. Read...

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sued Texas, seeking to block and annul an executive order by Republican Governor Greg Abbott that outlawed the transportation of migrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. Read Full Article a...