A drone attack launched against Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq has resulted in damages but no casualties. The facility, which is home to US and international troops, was also targeted by rockets earlier this week. Read Full Article...

The number of people facing severe food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance hit a five-year high in 2020, according to a report by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC). Read Full Article at RT.c...

Dogecoin, the meme-based crypto Elon Musk won’t stop talking and tweeting about, hit a new all-time high on Saturday morning, hours before the billionaire was set to guest-host Saturday Night Live. Read Full Article at RT.com

Residents were evacuated from a Philippines town after around 200 Islamist fighters captured a local market, reportedly in order to score a meal. Gunshots were heard as the military tried to flush the militants from the area. Read Full ...

Beijing has continued to increase its foreign exchange reserves – already the world's largest – boosting them by $28.15 billion in April from a month earlier, to a total of $3.198 trillion. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ingenuity, NASA’s robotic helicopter stationed on Mars, has traveled to a new ‘airfield’ on the Red Planet’s surface, straying several hundred feet from its original base of operations in its fifth successful flight. Read Full A...

Code Pink founder and peace activist Medea Benjamin launched a blistering critique of US arms dealer General Dynamics, confronting the company’s CEO at a shareholder meeting while saying it makes billions off “global conflict.” Re...

As droves of seniors flocked to The Villages in Florida for an ‘America First’ rally by GOP firebrands Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a small group of Democrats chanted “Biden won!” from across the road. Read Full Articl...

Pharma giants Pfizer and BioNTech have applied for full FDA approval for their Covid vaccine, becoming the first to do so in the US as drug firms say regular booster shots may be needed to ward off “concerning” virus variants. Read ...

The famously gruesome site, which has hosted the most offensive content online – and refused to budge in response to complaints about it – has finally given up the ghost. A tamer incarnation called ItemFix is replacing it. Read Full...

Twitter quietly scaled back their “explanation” of why Jimmy Carter was trending, having heavily editorialized about the 39th US president after the 45th president’s son brought him up to slam the current White House resident. Rea...

Massive clashes broke out between the Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers who took to Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, as tensions over the pending eviction of some Palestinian families boiled over at the end of Ramadan. Read Full Ar...

Microsoft co-founder turned vaccine capitalist Bill Gates’ fraternizing with convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein outraged his soon-to-be ex-wife Melinda, according to a Daily Beast report. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is being blasted as an “insurrectionist” who should be removed from office after he was questioned on video about why he didn’t “do more” to help overturn the 2020 presidential election. Read Full Artic...

Claressa Shields, the female boxing champ who has said she is the greatest of all time behind Muhammad Ali, has claimed she can become an MMA great and "it's all fighting" as she prepares to make her debut in her new discipline. Read Fu...

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced a “green list” of a dozen countries holidaymakers from England can visit from May 17 without having to enter Covid-19 quarantine on their return home. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Glenn Greenwald and others have blasted a liberal “journalist” after she suggested Fox News should not be protected by First Amendment rights. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UFC flyweight clash between Ryan Benoit and Zarrukh Adashev has been canceled after Benoit struggled to stand on his feet at the scales during the weigh in, shocking fans and experts as he clearly struggled with a weight cut. Read F...

Activist and blogger Alexey Navalny is once again a “prisoner of conscience,” after Amnesty International “refined” its rules so it could selectively support or disavow comments he and others they support have made in the past. ...

Iran's chief negotiator at talks to revive the nuclear deal has told state media that the US is willing to lift many of its sanctions and come back to the agreement, but Tehran is still pushing to secure “all our demands.” Read Full...

Former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum has cried foul play after his Professional Fighters League (PFL) debut ended in defeat, with the veteran claiming opponent Renan Ferreira tapped out before gaining a TKO victory. Read Full...

Julija Pajic's hopes of winning the $1 million Professional Fighters League (PFL) top prize were shattered in a brutal quickfire beating by Brazilian Larissa Pacheco, who repeatedly hammered her to the head in a savage victory. Read Ful...

Communications between Tesla and the California Department of Motor Vehicles have revealed that billionaire Elon Musk may be overhyping the capabilities of his ‘Autopilot’ self-driving software. Read Full Article at RT.com

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given emergency use authorization to a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by China's Sinopharm, making it the sixth such inoculation to receive the agency's green light. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Germany’s security service in the eastern state of Saxony has officially classified the anti-Islam and anti-immigrant Pegida group as a “proven extremist organization.” The movement came to the fore amid the 2015 refugee crisis. R...

A coffee shop owner in the US has been fired from his role after leaving a derogatory comment on a post by social justice warrior LeBron James, with bosses axing him over three "inappropriate and uncalled for" words and an emoji. Read F...

A 35-year-old female medical worker in Vietnam has died from anaphylaxis after being injected with AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, in a “very rare” case of adverse reaction to the drug, the country's health ministry has announced. R...

Need an incentive to get vaccinated? The city council of New Orleans, Louisiana is offering locals a free pound of crawfish if they get the jab against Covid-19, in a new effort to encourage uptake. Read Full Article at RT.com

The United Nations has warned that Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem “may amount to war crimes” after the Jewish state sought to engage in forced evictions within the annexed section of the occupied Palestinian territory. Read Fu...

Germany is set to ease its harsh lockdown rules for those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 or have recently recovered from the disease — yet it turns out most Germans are not rejoicing at the prospect, a survey found. Read Fu...

A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s fatal arrest. The men stand accused of violating his civil rights and failing to provide medical care. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Despite bullish predictions and the recovery of the US economy, job growth slowed in April compared to a month earlier, figures released by the Labor Department show. Read Full Article at RT.com

French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has warned Lebanese officials that more sanctions will be imposed on the country if ruling politicians attempt to commit “collective suicide” by continuing the political deadlock. Read Full...

The French president has urged nations not to prevent vaccines and the ingredients needed to make them from being exported around the world, as he said that waiving intellectual property rights would not solve distribution issues. Read ...

The pharmaceutical industry must provide widespread access to clinical data for new medicines and vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) have said. Read ...

Citing a link between pornography and violence against women, a coalition of UK schoolteachers and children’s rights groups has urged Boris Johnson to take immediate action to curb the ease of access to online porn for minors. Read Fu...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has blasted Israel as nothing more than a “terrorist camp” and urged the Palestinians to unite their efforts in fighting Tel Aviv.  Read Full Article at RT.com

Initial results of a formal review of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for Slovakia carried out by a Hungarian lab show the vaccine is reliable, said Slovakia’s health minister. Read Full Article at RT.com

Police have revealed that pro golfer Dan Bowling has been arrested for sending explicit texts to a detective who was posing as an underage teenage girl, with authorities in Orlando describing him as a "dangerous online predator". Read F...

The British prime minister has said there is reason to be careful as the country opens up following months of restrictions and a fast-paced vaccination campaign, as health authorities raise concerns about an Indian Covid variant. Read F...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is investigating reports of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine causing Guillain-Barre syndrome, as the pharmaceutical company remains embroiled in controversy over the jab’s link to blood clotting. Re...

The dad of Real Madrid keeper Thibaut Courtois has criticized fellow Belgian Eden Hazard's laughter after their Champions League defeat to Chelsea, calling the apologetic flop winger "unprofessional" and questioning his smartness. Read ...

Vaccination against coronavirus will be mandatory for all employees before attending their place of work, in order to ensure a “safe and healthy” return, the Saudi Arabian government has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

A bizarre row has broken out after Australian basketball player Liz Cambage threatened to boycott the Olympic Games over a photo set, complaining that the shots meant her country "doesn't represent me" and had been "whitewashed" . Read ...

Firefighters in the UK’s capital were dispatched to a blaze at a 19-storey apartment block in east London, with ambulance crews and command support vehicles also on the scene. The fire brigade said the blaze is now under control. Read...

A vehicle reportedly owned by a Jewish family was burnt out in East Jerusalem, where Israelis and Palestinians have been clashing over the looming eviction of several Palestinian families. Read Full Article at RT.com

Digital currencies “have no intrinsic value,” according to Bank of England (BOE) Governor Andrew Bailey. He warned that people who invest in crypto should be prepared to lose all their money. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that under-40s be vaccinated with an alternative to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab due to cases of blood clotting – but only if doing so causes no “delays"....

Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives and the current speaker of the country’s parliament, is undergoing surgery after suffering shrapnel wounds following a bomb blast outside his home on Thursday night. Read Full Arti...

Robson Oliveira, the driver of the Brazilian footballer thrown into a Russian prison in 2019 for bringing methadone hydrochloride into the country, has arrived home after being met at Rio airport by president Jair Bolsonaro. Read Full A...

From her Instagram feed, Kristina Zhuravleva’s life seemed perfect: shopping, eating out, and posing for romantic snaps with her husband, Dmitry. Now, though, police have found her dead body and are probing whether he is to blame. Rea...

A police search is under way for a pet python that managed to break free from its enclosure and escape from an apartment in Yokohama through an open window, according to local media. Read Full Article at RT.com

Dramatic video of an armed standoff in Portland, Oregon has been shared widely on Twitter. It shows a group of protesters aiming their guns at a pistol-wielding motorist before tackling and disarming him at a blocked intersection. Read ...

Germany’s health minister has suggested that country has beaten the third wave of Covid-19, which prompted authorities to bring in new restrictions on social distancing, as the pace of vaccinations increases. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Conor McGregor has weighed in on the shocking brawl between Floyd Mayweather and Jake Paul, directing crude insults at his former opponent while claiming he is in the "drain" and would make far more money through a "real" fight. Read Fu...

Human rights groups and Brazilian opposition politicians have denounced one of the deadliest police raids at a Rio de Janeiro favela, which saw 25 killed. They have demanded an investigation into possible extrajudicial killings. Read Fu...

Despite concerns of inflation in the wake of Covid-19 stimulus spending, the US Federal Reserve is issuing assurance that everything is under control as criticism continues to mount. Read Full Article at RT.com

Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, has been fined 3,000 ringgit (US$730) for breaching Covid regulations during a visit to a restaurant after failing to register on arrival or have his temperature taken. Read Full Article ...

Most of the debris from a Chinese rocket will burn up on reentry into the atmosphere and is highly unlikely to cause harm, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, as the US expresses fears that some of the pieces could hit the ground. Read F...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has hit out at Tokyo once again as Japan refuses to respond to international criticism over its plans to dump supposedly treated nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima plant into the sea. Read Full Article at...

Due to economic responses to the pandemic, US energy production dropped by 5 percent last year, marking the steepest annual decline on record, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Turkish security forces have carried out raids across the country’s largest city, arresting eight individuals in relation to suspected links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), according to a state-run news agency. Read Full Article...

The volume of trade between Russia and China has reached $40.207 billion in January-April 2021. That’s 19.8% higher than it was in the same period last year, according to Chinese customs data. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s foreign exchange holdings soared by $1 billion, or 0.2%, in just one week from April 23, according to the latest data from the central bank. Read Full Article at RT.com

A UK Conservative Party candidate has won a by-election in Hartlepool, upstaging Labour for the first time since the seat was created nearly five decades ago. Read Full Article at RT.com

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush shocked co-workers on both sides of the aisle after sharing her horror stories of mistreatment during two pregnancies. But it was her call-out to fellow ‘birthing people’ that put moms on edge. Read Full Ar...

Patients at risk of contracting a severe case of Covid-19 may now be able to get timely treatment thanks to a new method developed by Swiss researchers, who studied the behavior of natural killer T cells in infected people. Read Full Ar...

While the US military is capable of “a lot of things,” they are not planning to shoot down debris from a Chinese rocket, which is hurtling back to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry, Pentagon head Lloyd Austin has said. Read Full Arti...

Rebel News co-founder Ezra Levant announced that payment processor PayPal has canceled their account without an explanation. The Canadian outlet has been critical of the Covid-19 lockdowns and the government of PM Justin Trudeau. Read F...

Somewhere among the profanities, pointless rows, security guards and brawls outside of the ring, a record-breaking fight in the US is about to take place. It is easy to forget that the final product is a genuinely enticing one. Read Ful...

The New York Rangers have been slapped with a $250,000 fine for calling on the NHL to take proper action against a notorious thug who carried out cowardly assaults on two Russian stars – while the offender was docked just $5,000. Read...

An outfit whose statistical models were used to justify early Covid-19 lockdowns is now arguing that the true death toll of the pandemic is far higher than the official numbers – and closer to their own apocalyptic predictions. Read F...

YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul says he was hit by "one of Floyd's 30 bodyguards" in an almighty scrap that saw icon Mayweather threaten to "kill you, motherf*cker", reacting after the yob stole his hat during a face-off. Read Full Arti...

By passing new voting measures that put limitations on absentee voting and enact identification requirements, the White House says Florida is trying to supress voters they “don’t like.” Read Full Article at RT.com

A man who took several bank employees hostage at a Wells Fargo branch in St. Cloud, Minnesota has been brought into custody, following a lengthy eight-hour standoff with police and federal agents. Read Full Article at RT.com

While the Russian territory ought to be safe from the impact of the Long March 5B rocket, most of the US and Latin America, as well as Africa, Australia and South Asia may need to beware, according to a map posted by Roscosmos. Read Ful...

The Biden administration’s endorsement of a proposal to waive intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines is facing new opposition from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Read Full Article at RT.com

Adults of all ages in Germany can now receive AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, and recipients of that jab can get their second dose as soon as four weeks after their first, German Health Minister Jens Spahn has said. Read Full Article at...

Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda plans to warn EU leaders about the dangers supposedly posed by Belarus’ recently built nuclear power plant by handing out copies of the hit HBO series ‘Chernobyl’. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Twerk-loving UFC fighter Mackenzie Dern has busted out her moves again with Brazilian superstar singer Lexa, laughing on a boat off the coast of Mexico as the pair shook their behinds and shadowboxed in a bikini-baring clip. Read Full A...

The governments of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK have called on Israel to drop its plans to illegally build hundreds of new houses in an area of the occupied West Bank which would isolate a Palestinian neighborhood. Read Full...

UFC legend Nick Diaz has surprised fans by announcing a deal with live cam platform Stripchat, which will see the former title challenger offer basic self-defense classes to cam girls as part of the new partnership. Read Full Article at...

In an indictment of Canada’s Covid vaccine distribution strategy, the premiers of two of the country’s provinces have turned to neighboring US states to ensure shots for essential workers like cross-border truckers and teachers. Rea...

A massive police operation in Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho slums resulted in the death of two dozen suspected criminals, one officer, and several injured police and civilians – including subway passengers caught in the crossfire. Re...

California's Department of Education has announced that the gap between well-performing students and their less able peers must disappear, indicating that mere words are not enough - schools must deliver ‘equity’ in classrooms. Read...

A spat between London and Paris over the lack of fishing licences granted by Jersey to French fishermen can be resolved through the proper application of the UK and EU's Brexit agreement, France’s Foreign Ministry has said. Read Full ...

A woman who took top Australian rugby star Jarryd Hayne to court has been spat at after he was found guilty of raping her in 2018, with a large mob forming a "ring of steel" around his pregnant wife following his long sentence. Read Ful...

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner was ridiculed after claiming on Fox News that her friends were leaving the state because they didn’t want to look at homeless people on the streets. Read Full Article at RT....

Schools in Piedmont, California offered “support circles” for students after the verdict in the murder trial of former cop Derek Chauvin, though officials have since apologized for giving this service to white kids too. Read Full Ar...

The father of a pregnant woman allegedly murdered by Felix Verdejo has voiced a preference for him to be spared the death penalty and left to rot in jail for "100 years" – and gangs have also dished out death threats to the boxer. Rea...

The Cambodian government has lifted the three-week lockdown imposed on the country’s capital Phnom Penh, allowing life in the city to return to normality despite Covid-19 infection rates continuing to climb across the country. Read Fu...

Women may be more likely than men to suffer unusual blood clots after being vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 jab, although the difference is not significant, the UK's medicines regulator has said in its weekly report. Read Full ...

Russian tennis ace Daniil Medvedev ended his run at the Madrid Open by reportedly rowing with fans in the crowd, suffering a familiar nosebleed and crashing out – a loss that ends his hopes of overtaking Novak Djokovic this month. Rea...

German lawmakers have passed a law which will ease Covid-19 restrictions for people who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus or who have recently recovered from the disease, in a majority vote. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has dismissed recent EU complaints concerning Moscow’s retaliation against sanctions imposed on Russia, calling out officials in Brussels as being possessed by feelings of impunity. Read Full Article at ...

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a controversial election bill into law aimed at preventing voter fraud, but critics say the legislation makes it harder to vote, especially for black and Latino citizens. Read Full...

Russia’s coronavirus vaccines are as simple and reliable as the Kalashnikov rifle, President Vladimir Putin said, as the country registers a single-dose version of the Sputnik V vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow would support relinquishing patent rights for Covid-19 vaccines, given the importance of fighting the pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.com

The National Health Service (NHS) has been forced to review its Covid vaccine booking system after finding a “seriously shocking failure” that could leak confidential medical data from the site used to make appointments. Read Full A...

The International Olympic Committee has accepted an offer from Pfizer to supply jabs to athletes and support staff at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, asking everyone at the showpiece to "accept the vaccine where and when possible." Read Ful...