The UK may see more lockdowns, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly has warned, arguing there was no way to ensure the restrictive Covid-19 measures won’t be needed in the future. Read Full Article at RT.com

With their own government unable to provide them with Covid-19 vaccines, a number of American diplomats based in Moscow have reportedly asked their hosts to allow them be inoculated with Moscow's own pioneering Sputnik V formula. Read F...

It is important to diversify and expand the India-Russia trade basket, according to India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. The sides should cooperate in new areas that will add momentum to bilateral ties, he said. Read Full...

Terrified civilians have been sheltering in place as government troops engaged opposition forces in prolonged gun battles across the Somali capital Mogadishu. There have been no reports of casualties as the fighting is ongoing. Read Ful...

The Chinese military has officially acknowledged the casualties it suffered during the deadly border clash with India’s troops last June, revealing that four soldiers were killed and one badly wounded during the incident. Read Full Ar...

Facebook held talks with Australia on Friday, as the two sides seek to reach an agreement over a law that would force tech companies to pay media companies for content, with PM Scott Morrison vowing to not bend to a “threat.” Read F...

Russia’s foreign exchange holdings increased to a total of $591.5 billion on February 12, the latest data released by the country’s central bank shows. Read Full Article at RT.com

It’s been a bad week for Senator Ted Cruz. Castigated for leaving Texas for sunny Cancun amid a meltdown of the state’s power grid and a fierce winter storm, the Republican’s mea culpas have only earned him further condemnation. R...

Following Australia’s lead, Canada has announced that it aims to force Facebook to pay for news content. Ottawa said it would not be intimidated if the tech giant seeks retribution. Read Full Article at RT.com

A sweeping crackdown on opposition media by politicians in Kiev is actually an inspiring effort to liberate the nation from toxic opinions, Western media cheerleaders have claimed, backing charges against a prominent blogger. Read Full ...

Despite fanaticism on both sides of the war-torn Donbass, most citizens say it doesn’t matter what country they live in – they just want a decent life, a new poll has found, with those in breakaway regions happier with officials. Re...

The Joe Biden administration said it’s willing to sit down with Iran to discuss renewing the 2015 nuclear pact, though a senior US official noted the talks must cover other “regional issues” – a potential deal-breaker for Tehran...

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, fresh from firing actress Gina Carano from ‘The Mandalorian’ for political incorrectness, made the ironic decision to speak about empowering women and hearing their voices. It didn't end well. R...

House Democrats have apparently found time to plot more ways to punish Donald Trump – even as a pandemic and other troubles devastate their constituents – angering Americans of virtually all political persuasions. Read Full Article ...

After US Capitol Police called for National Guard troops and razor wire to stay in place through March, citing online chatter by ‘QAnon,’ two Republican members of Congress accused them of drumming up excuses for the ‘occupation.�...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott pulled no punches in condemning the firm in charge of the state’s power grid, launching a probe after claiming the agency lied about its plans to cope with an ice storm that left millions without heat. Read ...

Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert’s fondness for firearms is once again making headlines, after she appeared at a virtual hearing in front of a bookshelf with two rifles and a shotgun, to cheers from the GOP and Democrats’ alarm. R...

Washington, DC police are calling for razor-wire-topped fencing around the US Capitol to be kept in place until at least September because they continue to hear of threats against lawmakers in the aftermath of the January 6 riot. Read F...

Texas Republican Ted Cruz is being ripped to shreds on social media for apparently covering up a trip to Cancun by recasting it as an overnight and changing his flight – all while his Texas constituents froze in the dark at home. Read...

Even though the State Department received almost enough US-made Covid-19 vaccines for every employee, some diplomats have had to ask host countries for jabs and suffered indignities such as anal tests in China, a new report says. Read F...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has found himself under investigation by the FBI over his administration’s nursing-home scandal coverup, and former allies are fleeing his sinking ship. Read Full Article at RT.com

US pharma giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have kicked off an international study into the safety and effectiveness of their coronavirus vaccine in pregnant women, with 4,000 volunteers from nine countries taking part. Read ...

The US space agency confirmed that its Perseverance rover has safely touched down on the surface of the Red Planet, where it is supposed to probe the soil for traces of past life over a full Martian year. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Rallies protesting the arrest of a rapper convicted of insulting the monarchy have continued across Spain for a third straight night. One woman reportedly lost an eye and more than 50 people were detained at demos a day earlier. Read Fu...

The US House of Representatives has reintroduced a bill to ban imports from China's northwestern Xinjiang region unless the products coming in can be verified as being produced without forced labor. Read Full Article at RT.com

Two journalists detained in Minsk on charges that they took part in opposition rallies were given prison sentences on Thursday, becoming the first reporters convicted of organizing protests despite pleas from rights groups. Read Full Ar...

US lawmakers are moving forward with President Joe Biden’s immigration reform plan, introducing a bill that aims to erase the concept of “illegal aliens” and give millions of such residents an easier way to become lawful citizens....

Landing on the Moon by 2024 is no longer a realistic goal, the US space agency quietly admitted. While the Biden administration said it would keep the Trump-era Artemis program, there was no hint of Congress actually funding it. Read Fu...

A new Home Office advert warning Brits that “meeting up is against the law” has been savaged online. The ad, a throwback to the anti-piracy ads of the 2000s, has been called “dystopian.” Read Full Article at RT.com

For all its alarmism about Russian ‘propaganda’ and ‘misinformation’, the UK government appears to be behind a multi-million-pound push to boost negative coverage of the Russian state, both in Russia and neighbouring countries. ...

Online retail giant Amazon was so desperate to scuttle a unionization drive among warehouse workers in Alabama that it actually had traffic light times changed. A pro-union publication says it confirmed the rumors with the county. Read ...

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, the 23-year-old heir to a billionaire business fortune headed by his Russian-born mother, has become the youngest chairman in English football after completing his takeover of third-tier Sunderland. Read Full Articl...

For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) is actively recruiting new astronauts, including for the first time in human history, a physically disabled team member. Read Full Article at RT.com

A court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has given an opposition campaigner a lengthy suspended sentence over her role in the activities of a proscribed political organization set up by a disgraced former oligarch. Read Ful...

Foreign affairs officials in Canada and the UK have announced new sanctions on senior Myanmar military figures on Thursday over alleged human rights abuses against people protesting the ongoing army-led coup. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The folk song ‘Katyusha’ will not be played at the upcoming FIS Nordic World Ski Championships instead of the Russian national anthem, which was banned by doping officials as part of sanctions imposed on Russia. Read Full Article at...

The Philippines’ foreign minister has voiced his full support for the Sputnik V vaccine, stating he’s been “turning every stone” to get it approved. So far, the drug has been caught in a regulatory limbo. Read Full Article at RT...

While Israel prepares to welcome only vaccine recipients into gyms, hotels, and other venues, thousands have been making their own 'Green Pass,' the easily-counterfeited credential the country is using to prove vaccination. Read Full Ar...

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has announced that the US is working with the Middle Eastern country to develop a new ballistic missile shield defense system to protect against “evolving threats” amid tensions with Iran. Read F...

Microsoft founder and synthetic meat enthusiast Bill Gates has said former President Donald Trump should be let back on social media “at some point.” Trump himself thinks that social media has “become very boring” without him. R...

The Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) has approved three foreign-made Covid-19 vaccines for use including AstraZeneca’s, despite Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei previously banning British jabs. Read Full Article at RT.com...

With Israel using the Pfizer jab in its vaccination campaign, the country’s health ministry has finally found a way to utilize the 120,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine it holds. It’ll be given to Palestinians who work in Israel. Rea...

Russian strawweight Aleksandra Albu has been dropped by the UFC in a round of departures from the promotion, according to reports. The Moldovan-born star last fought in the octagon in October of 2019. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The head of Ukraine’s state-owned energy company has revealed that he believes stopping the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a matter of “life and death,” stating that Russia’s reliance on Kiev protects it from “aggression”. Re...

Greece’s Foreign Ministry issued a verbal protest to Ankara on Thursday after Turkey’s Navy said it would deploy a research vessel into an area of the Aegean Sea where Greece has competing interests. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The marketing campaign for the Covid-19 vaccine can pat itself on the back: a 90-year-old Seattle woman was willing to brave one of the year's worst snowstorms to get her jab, walking a total of six miles to the hospital and back. Read ...

Data by Eurostat showed this week that China became the EU’s biggest trading partner in 2020, overtaking the US. RT’s Boom Bust talks to Economic Update host Richard Wolff about the realignment in global trade. Read Full Article at ...

With millions of Texans shivering through the fourth day of rolling power outages in the state, many are struggling to access food and water, while officials play the blame game and weather satellites are posting bizarre readings. Read ...

Daily Beast editor Justin Baragona has apologized for accusing Fox News host Tucker Carlson of adding “googly eyes” to a photo of progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The wide-eyed stare, it turned out, was all her own. Read F...

The British government is reportedly planning on asking parents to test their children for Covid-19 twice weekly once schools reopen. The rumoured plan has been met with a wave of condemnation. Read Full Article at RT.com

China’s Foreign Ministry has hit back at Taiwan, accusing it of “hyping up political issues” after the Taiwanese health minister implied Beijing was responsible for the collapse of a deal for BioNTech to supply doses to Taipei. Re...

Following appeals by some opposition figures, one of Russia's most prominent film directors has suggested that citizenship should be revoked from those that ask foreign nations to impose punitive measures against the country. Read Full ...

The Vatican has effectively made Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for its employees, warning those who decline to receive the shot that they could face dismissal. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK News Media Association’s chairman has accused Facebook of behaving like a “school yard bully,” after the company blocked all news content in Australia over a row about tech companies having to pay for journalistic content. ...

Russia’s parliament has approved the first reading of a bill that would prohibit the public display of World War II war criminals and the distribution of Nazi imagery after a series of high-profile cases around the country. Read Full ...

In contrast to their vocal support for issues such as Black Lives Matter, some of the NBA’s biggest stars are reluctant to be involved in public campaigns aimed at promoting vaccination against Covid-19, according to reports. Read Ful...

The European Commission has warned Hungary it has two months to make changes to a controversial law affecting foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including a university founded by US billionaire George Soros. Read Full...

A fresh political crisis has broken out in Tbilisi as Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia announced he would resign, citing disagreements with authorities over attempts to detain a prominent opposition leader on criminal charges. Read Full A...

Israel’s health minister has confirmed the country plans to stop unvaccinated people from working in certain jobs but failed to elaborate on what they might be, adding anyone found forging vaccine certificates will be jailed. Read Ful...

Late Argentine football icon Diego Maradona unknowingly consumed sleeping pills, which one of his servants crushed into his beer so he wouldn’t bother them too much, it has been claimed. Read Full Article at RT.com

New research has found that a mutation in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, present in variants from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil, can make the virus up to eight times more infectious than the original. Read Full Article ...

Hong Kong has formally approved China’s Sinovac vaccine for emergency use, the region’s health authorities have said. The mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus is expected to kick off next week. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

For millions across the former Soviet Union, New Year’s means champagne, Olivier salad and rewatching ‘The Irony of Fate’. The irreverent comedy made Andrey Myagkov, the film’s male lead, one of Russia’s most beloved actors. R...

Max Keiser talks to Dan Collins, a businessman and entrepreneur who lived in China for 20 years, about the reasons behind the global chip shortage and why the US business model has left the country vulnerable. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Japan's Seiko Hashimoto has been named the new head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after former chief Yoshiro Mori was forced to resign amid a sexism row, but Hashimoto herself has had to contend with past allegations of harassment. Read Fu...

Residents of Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron are at odds with Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the tech giant announced plans to erect a massive satellite array there. The ambitious idea has prompted health concerns among locals. Read Full Article at...

Greek ace Stefanos Tsitsipas, who sensationally knocked out Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open quarterfinal, has changed his opinion about his next rival, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, saying he doesn’t consider his style “boring.”...

After discussing the launch of the digital ruble with local banks, the country’s financial watchdog says it will present a more detailed concept for the national digital currency by summer. Read Full Article at RT.com

Facebook’s decision to block Australians from sharing content on its platform in response to a divisive draft law backed by Canberra has splintered public opinion and reignited debate about Big Tech’s role in open societies. Read Fu...

As tech giants struggle to rein in or categorize all behavior on their platforms, accidents are bound to happen. Which may have been the case when Twitter labelled a Chinese newspaper as a “United Kingdom Government Official.” Read ...

Seven years after Ukraine erected a makeshift dam to block the water supply to ‘disputed’ Crimea, Kiev’s emissary to the region threatened that the Black Sea peninsula will receive no water until Moscow lifts its “occupation.”...

The Greek tourism minister has said he is hopeful that “we can have a semi-normal summer” as he confirmed that negotiations had kicked off with his UK colleagues to allow holiday travel to return safely between the two nations. Read...

Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University has announced that the country’s second domestically developed vaccine is set to start human trials, and researchers hope to produce up to five million doses of the jab by the end of 2021.  Read ...

The impact of Covid in the first six months of 2020 cut a year off the life expectancy of Americans, according to data released on Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – the biggest drop since WWII. Read...

Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev’s remarkable run at the Australian Open came to an end in the semifinal as he was beaten by Serbian world number one Novak Djokovic in straight sets in Melbourne. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia is the world’s final bastion of freedom. That’s according to the State Duma speaker, who pointed to the decline of leftist politics in the US and the restrictions on Russian-language media in the Baltics and Ukraine. Read Ful...

German police and special forces have raided more than 25 properties in Berlin and Brandenburg in an early morning offensive against the country’s most notorious crime group. Two people were arrested. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Swedish heavyweight Otto Wallin believes IBF, WBA, and WBO world heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua is "mentally hurt" since his KO loss to Andy Ruiz, which may play into rival Tyson Fury's hands should the two meet. Read Full Article at ...

Football fans have talked up the prospect of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe battling it out in a new-generation rivalry to take over the mantle from ageing icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Read Full Article at RT.com

American firms and the economy as a whole could lose hundreds of billions of dollars if investment in China is halved or the two countries expand tariffs, the US Chamber of Commerce says in its latest study. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates this week proposed the likelihood of a third dose of coronavirus vaccine being required to combat the growing number of coronavirus mutations in the years to come. Read Full...

UK Care Minister Helen Whately has refused to rule out a return to the government’s local Covid-19 lockdown strategy, which was in place before national restrictions were implemented for the third time in January. Read Full Article at...

Portland, Oregon has made headlines after police were called in to stop people from rummaging through a dumpster full of food that allegedly spoiled due to a power outage. Social media users found the incident hard to stomach. Read Full...

Canadian researchers have called for a delay in rolling out the second dose of the Pfizer jab, arguing a single one is enough to provide short-term protection, while a reduced dosage would allow many more people to be inoculated. Read F...

Anger has been spilling on Twitter over photos that purportedly show Texas Senator Ted Cruz boarding a plane to Cancun, Mexico. People criticized him for “fleeing” when his state has been badly hit with extreme cold. Read Full Artic...

Andrea Pirlo has accused his Juventus team of handing Porto the advantage “on a silver platter” after the Italians conceded an early goal in each half during a defeat in which Cristiano Ronaldo saw a late penalty appeal rejected. Re...

If there’s one thing that the Texas arctic blast shows us, is that total electrification and the shutting out of fossil fuels completely will mean blackouts. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tens of thousands of Russian-speaking Latvians will be turning down the volume and listening out for neighborhood snoopers after a new law came into force that will see viewers of unlicensed satellite TV fined just for tuning in. Read F...

There are bubbles developing in stock and bond markets, according to legendary investor Jim Rogers. However, he says he is very optimistic on agriculture as a commodity and also likes equities in Japan and Russia. Read Full Article at R...

Serena Williams left the press room in tears following her Australian Open defeat to Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday, but the 39-year-old refused to admit she was saying farewell to tennis. Read Full Article at RT.com

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered energy companies to temporarily suspend out-of-state sales of natural gas, amid ongoing power outages triggered by a deadly winter storm. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ex-Governor Rick Perry stoked outrage after saying Texans would willingly tolerate further blackouts just to keep the feds “out of their business,” as critics blamed his preference for deregulation for the state’s power woes. Read...

Cancel culture had its second major defeat in less than a week, as efforts to force Fox News star Tucker Carlson off the air failed so spectacularly that the guy called ‘TV’s most hated host’ has been given another show. Read Full...

Facebook's mass ban of news publishers in Australia has misfired against numerous unrelated pages, including official state institutions, multiple charities and even health departments and hospitals. Read Full Article at RT.com

In the first set of interviews since he left the Oval Office, former US President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t rule out a 2024 comeback and took swipes at both Democrats and the Republican leadership that tried to disavow him. Read F...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly threatened to ‘destroy’ a Queens lawmaker after he refused to retract biting criticism of the state’s Covid-19 policies, also deploying an aide to “bad mouth” a sexual harassment accus...

Vaccines developed by US companies Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are producing fewer antibodies against the coronavirus mutation that has emerged in South Africa, according to studies reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read ...

The White House has confirmed President Joe Biden's support for studying reparations, boosting a push in Congress to seek “appropriate remedies” for slavery and discrimination against black Americans dating from 1619 to today. Read ...

After almost a month in office, US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House confirmed. Netanyahu described the hour-long conversation as friendly and warm. Read Full Article at ...

A Black Lives Matter activist working at a library was fired for burning books by conservatives like Donald Trump and Ann Coulter, but he’s claiming the dismissal is discrimination over politics. Read Full Article at RT.com