Beijing has said that the British National Overseas (BNO) passport will no longer be recognized as a travel document or form of identification in China from Sunday, when the UK’s new visa program opens to millions of HK citizens. Read...

Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone this week, and the issue of extending the vital New START nuclear treaty is now as good as settled. Read Full Article at RT.com

Students in Russia will soon be dusting off their travelcards as the country prepares for a return to traditional, in-person teaching at universities and colleges, with Covid-19 lockdown measures due to be relaxed. Read Full Article at ...

An independent review has found that UK’s leading Muslim charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), is not rife with anti-Semitism, despite a string of controversies over comments made by its high-ranking staffers last year. Read Full A...

Expanding refining capacity in the world’s largest oil importer, China, continues to support the global oil market and demand, even at times when demand elsewhere is tepid. Read Full Article at RT.com

The value of shipments of finished products and goods from Russia exceeded $160 billion in 2020, representing 3.5-percent growth from the previous year, according to CEO of the Russian Export Center (REC) Veronika Nikishina. Read Full A...

The first installment of Sputnik V vaccines have reached Bolivia, which is set to kick off its own vaccination drive on Friday. The plane with the inoculation was greeted by Bolivian President Luis Arce at the airport. Read Full Article...

The man who showed up to the Capitol riot sporting fur and a horned headdress – known as the “QAnon Shaman” – is willing to testify at ex-president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, his lawyer said. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Hundreds of protesters convened at the Wyoming State Capitol to voice rage at GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney, blasting the war-loving rep in her home state after she backed the impeachment of ex-president Donald Trump. Read Full Article a...

Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional states and location types to serve up an appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all! Read Ful...

A popular stock trading chat group has been booted off Facebook due to alleged violations of its “sexual exploitation” rules, claims the page’s founder, who accused “major institutions” of trying to avenge the GameStop debacle...

The US Capitol Police has called for permanent fencing and other beefed-up security measures in the wake of the January 6 riot, raising concerns the move will wall off the government from the American people. Read Full Article at RT.com...

A hedge fund manager who famously cried over a Democrat tax proposal – then voted for Joe Biden anyway – slammed Robinhood investors buying GameStop stock as “losers” spending government stimulus money to gamble on the markets. ...

After forbidding its users from buying several volatile stocks, including shares in GameStop, trading app Robinhood was allegedly caught selling its users’ stocks against their will, and in doing so hammering down their value. Read Fu...

New York Attorney General Latitia James said her office will review the Robinhood trading app and activity related to GameStop, as investors sue the firm after it froze stock buys for the games retailer during a major price surge. Read ...

Regulations are needed to reign in companies like Twitter so that their actions, such as the banning of former US president Donald Trump, are “in line with the law,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Read Full Article at R...

Even with an upcoming Senate impeachment trial and numerous Republican lawmakers more boldly criticizing him, Donald Trump is reportedly offering his help in getting Republicans control of the House. Read Full Article at RT.com

Covid-19 cases in the US have declined 35 percent over three weeks, a record drop that conveniently coincides with the ascension of President Joe Biden – and a handful of other explanations media reports have ignored. Read Full Articl...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has demanded additional security for lawmakers, citing threats from “within” the House, while the temporary fence around the Capitol is on the way to becoming permanent. Read Full Article at...

The GameStop stock rebellion is playing out like a revealing Rorschach test, drawing political figures as divergent as Donald Trump Jr. and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez together, and prompting legacy media to demonize the uprising. Read Ful...

The suspension by US President Joe Biden on selling F-35 fighter jets to the UAE won’t derail normalization between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi, as the process has gone too far already, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted. Read Ful...

Short-selling investors lost a staggering $70.8 billion this month, according to financial data analytics firm Ortex. Their losses were partly driven by small traders pumping money into stocks like GameStop. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

President Joe Biden has signed two executive orders on healthcare. His decrees reopen enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and lift a Trump administration ban on funding for nonprofits that promote abortion. Read Full A...

Considerable question marks remain as to the possibility of holding two of this summer's largest sporting events amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, but should athletes be allowed jump the vaccine queue to ensure they go ahead? Read Full ...

A new Covid-19 variant first discovered in South Africa has now been detected in the US, after two cases were reported in the state of South Carolina, health officials announced on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Viewers have rounded on Jorge Masvidal to accuse the UFC veteran of a lack of integrity after Jake Paul, the YouTuber who will take on one of his former victims next month, released footage of a training session between the pair. Read F...

At least six people have been killed and more than 100 treated by medics after a liquid nitrogen leak at a food processing plant in the US state of Georgia, local officials said on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

New York’s state attorney general has said Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration drastically undercounted Covid-19 nursing-home deaths, something he has long been accused of doing. Read Full Article at RT.com

A group of investors has filed a class action complaint against the online brokerage Robinhood, after it stopped all buys of GameStop and other stocks. They call it a market manipulation aimed to protect short-selling hedge funds. Read ...

The Covid-19 pandemic in Russia is receding and the country's measures to combat the virus' spread are working. That's according to President Vladimir Putin, who told his cabinet on Thursday that it is still too early to relax. Read Ful...

Police in Wales have released CCTV footage of people fleeing from a beauty salon that defied Covid-19 restrictions to open its doors. Some of the customers still had dye in their hair as they attempted to evade the cops. Read Full Artic...

A man, who has penned at least one article for the New York Times, has been arrested and accused of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and of getting paid hundreds of thousands to promote pro-Iran policies in the US. Read Fu...

Russia has recorded its largest annual population decline in 15 years. According to Rosstat, the official government statistics service, the number of people permanently living in the country dropped by 510,000 in just 12 months. Read F...

Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called for a House hearing over trading app Robinhood banning the purchase of certain stocks after amateur traders humiliated Wall Street. Fellow ‘Squad’ member AOC seconded the idea. Read ...

Belgian regulators carried out an inspection of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine production site near Brussels at the behest of the European Commission, amid an ongoing spat over the deployment of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. Re...

Prominent Russian high jumper Maria Lasitskene has voiced her support for fellow athlete Sergey Shubenkov after reports emerged in the Russian press of an alleged doping violation, triggering speculation that he could face a ban. Read F...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Scottish nationalists that there’s no point in talking “endlessly” about another referendum on independence as it amounted to “pointless constitutional wrangling”. Read Full Article at ...

The Robinhood trading app has received more than 100,000 one-star reviews on Google Play in the hours after delisting GameStop, AMC, Nokia and Blackberry stock that had earlier prompted its record downloads. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Khabib Nurmagomedov could officially join a football club for the first time next month if he accepts an offer from FC Kamaz, a Russian Professional Football League team who have made an ambitious public bid for the UFC champion. Read F...

Two more local public health agencies in France are suspending people's appointments for receiving their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech, due to supply shortages. Read Full Article at RT.com

French Health Minister Olivier Veran has warned that the country’s current 6pm curfew is no longer effective at curbing the spread of Covid-19, as the government weighs implementing a third national lockdown. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A West Virginia man has been arrested with a 9mm pistol and ammunition after parking his car in the middle of an intersection near the Capitol. He is facing charges of illegal firearm and ammo possession. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

‘#VictoryAlphabet: from Brest to Reichstag’ is a YouTube series by RT’s creative in-house agency that has made it into the official selection of the Berlin Lift-Off 2021 film festival dedicated to independent cinema. Read Full Art...

Newly unsealed court documents from numerous court cases detail just some of the sexual misdeeds allegedly carried out by Jeffrey Epstein and his former madam Ghislaine Maxwell with groups of underage girls. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A judge in Moscow has ordered the seizure of a luxury London townhouse from a fugitive financier, as part of a criminal case brought against the former banker for allegedly misusing clients’ funds and issuing illegitimate loans. Read ...

Conor McGregor's plans for 2021 have been thrown into chaos following his loss to Dustin Poirier last weekend, with Manny Pacquiao's representatives indicating that they are no longer interested in a money-spinning event with him. Read ...

Trading app Robinhood has enraged its users and triggered accusations of “flagrant” manipulation after it banned the buying of GameStop, AMC, Blackberry and Nokia stock, the trading of which put the squeeze on Wall Street. Read Full...

The European Council president has warned that Brussels will take legal action to enforce the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines that were promised amid supply delays and EU demands for a share of UK-produced jabs. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Around one in eight English hospital trusts ran out of intensive care unit (ICU) beds last week, new figures show, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to put significant pressure on the country’s healthcare system. Read Full Article at...

A criminal case has been initiated by investigators in the central Russian city of Perm after a colossal explosion at a gunpowder factory injured workers and sent emergency personnel scrambling to fight the blaze. Read Full Article at R...

Chelsea's post-Frank Lampard era at Stamford Bridge got off to an underwhelming start on Wednesday as new boss Thomas Tuchel oversaw his side's 0-0 draw with Wolves, causing some fans to slam the new regime for the sluggish start. Read ...

While American tennis player Tennys Sandgren has lambasted the organizers of the Australian Open for extending the obligatory quarantine restrictions for one more day, Aussie star Nick Kyrgios has praised the “incredible bubble”. Re...

An unlicensed clinic in the Ecuador’s capital Quito offered clients what it falsely claimed to be a $15-per-dose vaccine against Covid-19. The place was raided and shut down by authorities this week. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Police in Kent have detained a 53-year-old man after a suspicious package was sent to a factory in north Wales that manufactures the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com

NATO’s top official has warned that its member states face existential threats to their safety, democracy and way of life from both terrorism and nations like Russia and China. Read Full Article at RT.com

A handful of African countries have begun mass-vaccination campaigns against coronavirus, the African Union’s (AU) health chief has said. The continent has a modest goal of vaccinating some 30 percent of its population this year. Read...

Vox has been pelted with snarky social media retorts after publishing a story that explores the anguish felt by socially conscious parents upon learning that an Instagram mom, known for her baby sleep advice, gave money to Trump. Read F...

Three new field hospitals will be built in the northern Vietnamese province of Hai Duong, the government said on Thursday after the country reported its first Covid-19 outbreak in 55 days. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Indian government has continued economic activity during the Covid pandemic and created employment opportunities through infrastructure projects worth trillions of rupees, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. Read Full Art...

Trading app Robinhood has banned its users from buying GameStop, AMC, Blackberry and Nokia stock, after its users inflated the value of GameStop stock and inflicted billions of dollars of losses on Wall Street fat cats. Read Full Articl...

A man who was filmed in a bare-knuckled fight against OMON riot police during last weekend’s Moscow protest has been arrested in a forest near the Russia-Latvia border. The clip of Said-Mukhammad Dzhumaev’s fist-fight went viral. Re...

In 2020, a team led by astronomers in the UK announced the discovery of phosphine gas on Venus and with it, the potential for life floating in the planet's clouds. New research has dashed those hopes rather dramatically. Read Full Artic...

The Paris police authority has promised sanctions after a viral video showed several officers throwing a dance party at a station way past the city’s strict nighttime curfew. They did not follow social-distancing rules either. Read Fu...

Video-game development company CD Projekt Red ordered the removal of a mod in the Cyberpunk 2077 game after it let players have sex with any character in the game, including the one played by Hollywood star Keanu Reeves. Read Full Artic...

The UK government has taken a risk on a promising candidate vaccine, with production of the jab already started, despite the fact that the vaccine hasn’t even begun large-scale human trials. Read Full Article at RT.com

By the end of the month, Iran will have exceeded 17 kilograms of 20-percent-enriched uranium, the country’s state TV said on Thursday, in a move that leaves the return to the 2015 nuclear deal in jeopardy. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Manchester United have slammed trolls responsible for torrents of vile, racist social media messages sent to players Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial in the wake of the club's surprise 2-1 defeat to Sheffield United on Wednesday. Read ...

Germany's expert vaccine commission has said that the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab should only be given to people between the ages of 18 and 64, in a startling statement that further dents the EU’s flailing vaccine rollout. Read Full Arti...

The WHO’s European director has urged nations not to relax restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19, noting that it will take time for the inoculation campaigns to make an impact on infection rates. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Russian state regulator, Roskomnadzor, has announced that seven social networks will be fined for failing to comply with demands to delete calls to protest, after supporters of Alexey Navalny advertised demonstrations online. Read F...

The organizers of the annual competition for young photojournalists, which is named after slain Russian correspondent Andrei Stenin, has announced the jury that will judge this year’s contest. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US economy is projected to have contracted by as much as 3.6 percent last year. That would be the worst performance since 1946, and the first annual decline in GDP since the Great Recession, economists say. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The fourth quarter of last year was a boom for the Hamptons real estate market, as deep-pocket buyers gobbled up $2.159 billion worth of property while the coronavirus decimated New York City. Read Full Article at RT.com

While his legions of fans were shocked to see Conor McGregor lose by KO for the first time in his career against Dustin Poirier last weekend, one man who was more than satisfied in what he saw was fellow contender Justin Gaethje. Read F...

Germany plans to block entry to people arriving from countries where new mutations of Covid-19 are spreading, following the lead of other nations that have been tightening restrictions in response to the potential health threat. Read Fu...

Scientists studying the coronavirus pandemic have warned that, while infection rates have fallen by a small amount, there are still a high number of people with Covid-19 in England, as one in 64 people are infected with the virus. Read ...

South Korea’s PM Chung Sye-kyun has urged all sides of the Korean standoff to show “creative” thinking, urging the North to at least freeze all its nuclear activities and scale down its program, to show goodwill. Read Full Article...

Reigning European figure skating champion Alena Kostornaia has revealed the reasons behind her decision to leave famed coach Eteri Tutberidze, admitting that she felt the atmosphere inside the training camp was far from healthy. Read Fu...

A court has returned opposition figure Alexey Navalny to prison to await trial for allegedly breaching the terms of a suspended sentence for fraud, as his supporters prepare for a fresh wave of protests across Russia. Read Full Article ...

New Zealand's Minister for Trade Damien O’Connor has called on Australia to follow his country’s lead, relax its assertive approach and “show respect” to China in order to make more diplomatic progress with Beijing. Read Full Ar...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of Pakistani-British man Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh, who was convicted but later acquitted for his role in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. Read Full Article at R...

Scientists have discovered that, contrary to popular wisdom, the mid-ocean mountain ranges beneath the Atlantic Ocean appear to play a much bigger role in the shape of the Earth, and are literally driving the US and Europe apart. Read F...

The upper chamber of France’s parliament has voted to grant authorities the power to impose a new lockdown until early May. The government has admitted that the existing curfew has failed to stop the spread of Covid-19. Read Full Arti...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has expressed its opposition to British interference in Hong Kong’s affairs as the UK prepares to open its new visa programme to 70 percent of the island’s residents on January 31. Read Full Article at R...

A key aide of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been accused by the country’s authorities of encouraging minors to attend unsanctioned protests. Leonid Volkov, who is based abroad, runs Navalny’s regional HQ network. Read...

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar walked 13 miles on a treadmill in an attempt to personally experience the hardship of the daily on-foot journeys made by many Indian women to fetch clean water – and was instantly ridiculed on Twitter. Read...

India’s health minister has claimed that the country has “successfully contained the pandemic,” citing a decline in the number of cases and no new infections recorded in a fifth of the nation’s districts in the past week. Read F...

Travel restrictions, social distancing, and border closures are all part of life during Covid-19. But those tough rules have had an unexpected benefit – there are fewer bed bugs now, Canada's biggest pest controllers say. Read Full Ar...

A ranking of 98 countries places New Zealand as the world’s best responder to the Covid-19 pandemic. China was excluded by the Sydney-based think tank that compiled the list, “due to a lack of publicly available data on testing.” ...

A fierce row is brewing between Brussels and pharmaceutical companies over the EU’s place in line for coronavirus jabs, but the makers of the Sputnik V vaccine say they could provide doses to the bloc if it approves the formula. Read ...

The Seattle Seahawks have severed ties with offensive lineman Chad Wheeler following his arrest for domestic violence after his girlfriend called police during an alleged violent assault in which she was twice choked unconscious. Read F...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused Discord of selling out because it shut down its ‘WallStreetBets’ channel after members wreaked havoc on hedge funds by sending share prices in GameStop and other embattled stocks skyrocketing. Read Fu...

The UK expects to receive the vaccine supply it purchased in full, Chancellor Michael Gove has said, stressing that Britain’s immunisation program must go ahead uninterrupted, despite AstraZeneca’s row with the EU. Read Full Article...

Cristiano Ronaldo and his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, are facing more controversy and a potential fine after allegedly taking a trip to another region of Italy and staying in an officially closed hotel, according to a report. Read F...

Max Keiser interviews Lawrence Lepard of Equity Management Associates about price discovery and the national debt of the United States, which is now more than the country’s GDP. Read Full Article at RT.com

The world’s second-biggest oil exporter, Russia, is planning to cut overseas shipments of its seaborne crude from the country’s western ports next month, to curb a record surge in domestic fuel prices. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Joe Biden’s administration could potentially start to thaw the icy relations between Tehran and Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told RT, but stressed he has never been close with the new US leader. Read Full ...

In promising news, Pfizer researchers claim its vaccine is only slightly less effective against certain mutations of the coronavirus, specifically the UK and South African variants. It will be conducting further analysis on both. Read F...

Moscow schoolchildren found to have taken part in last weekend's protests in support of opposition figure Alexey Navalny will have their attendance at the unauthorized demonstration put on their school record. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A senior cabinet minister has demanded an apology from a Tory colleague, an MP who told anti-vaccine campaigners to “persist” in their struggle, and who suggested NHS Covid-19 figures are being manipulated. Read Full Article at RT.c...