Russia has among the most effective domestic vaccines in use around the world, but now, faced with uncertainty over whether other countries will accept them for travel, many of its citizens are still hesitant to sign up for doses. Read ...

Facebook has pledged to provide a more detailed explanation of what constitutes satire on its platform, after the company’s oversight board ruled that a meme commenting on the Armenian genocide was wrongfully removed. Read Full Articl...

New research by UK investment firm AJ Bell shows that 7% of British adult respondents reported they had bought crypto over the last year, compared to 5% who invested in stocks and shares ISAs (individual savings accounts). Read Full Art...

One person was killed and another injured when a truck drove into a crowd gathered for a pride parade near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The city mayor said the incident was a deliberate attack, targeting a congresswoman. Read Full Article ...

A six-foot-tall sculpture of George Floyd’s head has been unveiled in Brooklyn, New York City, both drawing praise and raising eyebrows. The statue was inaugurated by Floyd’s brother on the occasion of Juneteenth. Read Full Article ...

The Pfizer vaccines, which the Palestinian Authority (PA) rejected on Friday due to the fact that they were near their expiration date, were identical to those given to citizens inside Israel, the country’s Health Ministry said. Read ...

The US Air Force has warned that a much-anticipated test of its new air-launched hypersonic missile could kill four snails and 90 clams. No such precise estimates were offered for the weapon's human lethality. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Community leaders in the Democrat bastion of Evanston, Illinois have apparently decided that Covid-19 is a greater public-health risk on Independence Day than during Juneteenth and Pride Month celebrations. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Parts of the Serbian city of Cacak are being evacuated after an explosion hit a local ammunition plant, setting it on fire. A similar blast caused major damage to the facility around two weeks earlier. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Rescuers in the Belgian city of Antwerp have found the bodies of five construction workers after an unfinished school building partially collapsed on Friday, also injuring a dozen people and burying others under rubble. Read Full Articl...

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have been mocked by conservatives for a hammed-up political ad warning America that democracy will be “dead” in the future unless they support some Democrat-pushed voting bills. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The Joe Biden administration is poised to offer gender-reassignment surgery as a standard medical benefit for military veterans, boosting transgender services in a system with a history of delaying or denying basic care. Read Full Artic...

Police in Show Low, Arizona, have shot and arrested a man who allegedly drove his pickup truck through a bicycle race, leaving six victims in hospital, four of them in critical condition. Read Full Article at RT.com

It was a day of mixed fortunes for Cristiano Ronaldo as champions Portugal were humbled by Germany in Munich and the Juve star inched closer to another personal accolade - but his performance didn't come without a few flaws. Read Full A...

Inspired by a fantastic Robin Gosens, Germany beat holders Portugal 4-2 in their Euro 2020 meeting at Munich's Allianz Arena. With their first win of the tournament, the Germans head up to second in Group F behind France. Read Full Arti...

Pro wrestling and mixed martial arts have long been uncomfortable bedfellows but All-Elite Wrestling certainly weren't having any of it when the sports entertainment league promoted a 'mixed martial arts fight' at a recent event. Read F...

America’s newest federal holiday has bipartisan support in Washington, with Republicans joining their Democrat colleagues in cheering ‘Juneteenth’. However, hardly any Republican voters share their enthusiasm. Read Full Article at...

Fight siren Rachael Ostovich isn't leaving much to her fans' imagination after she uploaded a series of sizzling snaps online as she prepares for her upcoming bare-knuckle boxing bout with fellow stunner Paige VanZant. Read Full Article...

Munich's City Council has called for the Allianz Arena to be lit up in rainbow colors during Germany's Euro 2020 match against Hungary, in protest against new laws passed in Budapest. Read Full Article at RT.com

Fans of the Hungary national side made clear their opposition to the ongoing trend of taking a knee before games as they unfurled an anti-kneeling banner prior to kick off of their Euro 2020 fixture with France on Saturday. Read Full Ar...

Pope Francis has approved a decree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of French politician Robert Schuman, known as an ‘architect’ of the EU. The official decision is one of the first steps to Schuman potentially becoming a saint....

Four people have sustained minor injuries after a large fire broke out at a pyrotechnics warehouse in central Moscow on Saturday. Multiple videos from the scene captured fireworks exploding while smoke billowed across the city. Read Ful...

France were forced to wait to secure qualification for the Euro 2020 knockout stages after being held by a resilient Hungary in a ferocious 1-1 draw in front of a capacity crowd at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Max Keiser talks to Carlos Toriello Herrerias (aka Carlino) about Bitcoin Lake in Guatemala and the hopes for the region after El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender. Read Full Article at RT.com

A trucker who drove his rig through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis last year will escape charges, local media reported. The trucker was dragged from his cab and beaten before police intervened. Read Full Article...

Chaotic scenes played out at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Saturday, as home nation Hungary went 1-0 ahead in front of 61,000 roaring fans in a vital Group F clash against world champions France. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will have to remain an underground pasta-worshipping sect in Australia, after a tribunal ruled that the satirical religion was unworthy of formal recognition. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Lionel Messi celebrated Argentina's first win in the 2021 Copa America with a sweary post in which he was also captured taking an ice bath with teammates following a 1-0 victory over bitter rivals Uruguay in Brasilia on Friday. Read Ful...

The American ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, has said he “looks forward to returning to Moscow soon.” He has been absent from his posting since April amid heightened political tensions between the two military superpowers. Read...

Highly-rated Tampa Bay Rays prospect Tyler Zombro says that he is eyeing a return to the mound as he recovers from emergency brain surgery after absorbing a life-threatening line drive to the head in a game earlier this month. Read Full...

Officials in Japan have canceled all public viewing events in the capital Tokyo for its upcoming Olympic games, in a bid to reduce the risk of increasing coronavirus infections, it was announced on Saturday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian synchronized swimming star Varvara Subbotina has been forced to sit out the Olympics this summer following a nose operation but is keeping her spirits up by soaking up some vitamin D on the beach. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An unauthorized party in France’s Brittany region has had a truly chaotic start, as it was preceded by a night of clashes between the police and revelers, with five officers injured and one partygoer losing a hand in the violence. Rea...

The head of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has raised alarm over the potential abuses of facial recognition software, after several investigations found that the technology was not being properly deployed. Read Ful...

If there was any silver lining for England fans to take from their team's damp Euro 2020 showing against Scotland at Wembley, it could be that finishing second in Group D would actually make life easier for Gareth Southgate’s men. Rea...

The Russian oil and gas industry is profiting from the significant rise in oil prices and the uptick in global demand for hydrocarbons. Read Full Article at RT.com

Central banks are trying to stay relevant in the cryptocurrency age, so they may make preposterous claims as a way of trying to get the world to pay attention to them, says economics writer Jeffrey Tucker. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A 34-year-old American citizen, who previously served in the US military before moving to Russia and studying law, was found dead, on Saturday, near the city of Nizhny Novgorod. A suspect in the suspected murder has been detained. Read ...

A helicopter transporting ballots cast during Iran’s presidential election has crashed, resulting in one fatality and nearly a dozen injuries, according to media reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

London's Metropolitan Police say that 30 football fans were arrested for an array of offences following England's Euro 2020 stalemate with Scotland at Wembley on Friday evening. Read Full Article at RT.com

The price of the world’s major cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has pulled below the crucial $36,000 support level, amid global regulatory crackdowns and environmental concerns. Read Full Article at RT.com

Conservative judge Ebrahim Raisi has been declared the victor of Iran’s presidential election. As the clear frontrunner, Raisi received congratulations from rival candidates hours before preliminary results were announced. Read Full A...

The Industrial and Commerce Bank of China (ICBC) has enabled a feature allowing users to convert their digital yuan to cash at over 3,000 automated teller machine (ATM) locations in Beijing, Xinhua news agency reported. Read Full Articl...

Candidates in Iran’s presidential election have conceded the race to hardliner Ebrahim Raisi. Outgoing President Hassan Rouhani has also issued his congratulations, although the results have not yet been made official. Read Full Artic...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill prohibiting landlords from asking prospective renters about whether they have a criminal record, saying he put his name to the measure to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday. Read Full Arti...

Several people were killed and over a dozen injured after a twin-engine Let L-410 aircraft made an emergency landing in Russia’s Kemerovo Oblast in southwestern Siberia. A total of 19 people were on board the plane. Read Full Article ...

Multiple prosecutors in New York state have declined to press charges against many of those arrested for looting and rioting amid last year’s George Floyd protests, dismissing hundreds of cases, according to NYPD data. Read Full Artic...

Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley has declared that he won’t be inoculated against Covid-19 or abide by new NFL restrictions on unvaccinated players, and would sooner be forced into retirement than betray his beliefs. Read Full...

Canada and the US have agreed to extend travel restrictions between the two countries for another month, with PM Justin Trudeau citing the need to meet vaccine targets, despite vocal demands from US lawmakers to reopen the border. Read ...

Cruise ships may soon operate out of Florida once again, as Governor Ron DeSantis notched a court victory against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an epic injunction order blasting the “authoritarian” agency. Read F...

Grammy Award-winning singer Macy Gray marked the occasion of Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday, with a call to ‘cancel’ the American flag, suggesting it be replaced with a new design heavily focused on race. Read Full Article a...

The former chief of diversity and inclusion within the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command has been given his old job back, months after he was suspended over comparing former president Donald Trump to Hitler. Read Full Article at R...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has felt the wrath of voters loyal to his old boss, Donald Trump, and was booed and called a “traitor” as he began to give a speech at a conservative conference in Florida. Read Full Article at RT.co...

New Yorkers have been asked to help the police identify a masked man who shot another man on a busy Bronx street, miraculously not killing him – and missing a woman and a girl who found themselves in the line of fire. Read Full Articl...

England fans voiced concerns over the form of key man Harry Kane, after the Spurs striker put in another woeful display in the 0-0 draw against Scotland in their Euro 2020 Group D meeting. Read Full Article at RT.com

England and Scotland played out a Euro 2020 stalemate at Wembley as the visitors frequently got the better of their hosts and the Three Lions failed to secure early passage to the knockout stages. Read Full Article at RT.com

Doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine pledged by Israel were already too close to their expiration date when deliveries started on Friday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said, cancelling the deal to exchange 1 million shots. Read Full Artic...

US Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a document that will set out their position on pro-abortion politicians receiving Holy Communion. The vote is widely seen as a rebuke of President Joe Biden. Read Full Art...

The White House has denied freezing aid package to Ukraine ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. When Donald Trump held up a similar package, he was impeached by Democrats. Read Full Article at ...

Revelations that the Biden administration is hiring relatives of senior officials to various posts have triggered a Twitter diatribe from prominent ethics crusader Walter Shaub, but fellow Democrats mostly shrugged it off. Read Full Art...

US Representative Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), the ex-White House doctor who gave then-President Donald Trump a clean bill of mental health, is calling for President Joe Biden to take a cognitive test to assess his fitness for office. Read ...

PSG star and the game's most expensive player Neymar has dazzled the football world and fans online with a sublime piece of skill during a Copa America group win for his country Brazil over Peru in Rio. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

FIFA has banned Mexico fans from the stands for the country’s first two home qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup after homophobic chants were heard during two Olympic qualifiers earlier this year. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

NASA has climbed on the diversity bandwagon with a short video about their next mission – not visiting a planet or building a Moon base, but Equity – and encouraging minorities to sign up. But such buzzwords don’t launch rockets. ...

The new Boeing 737 MAX 10 took off for its first-ever flight on Friday, just six months after regulators allowed the rest of the plane’s ‘family’ of aircraft to return to the skies in the wake of two deadly crashes. Read Full Arti...

Despite lingering political tensions between the two neighbors, football fans in St. Petersburg still turned out to show their support for Ukraine in their Euro 2020 match against North Macedonia on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Denmark star Christian Eriksen, who last week shocked the football world when slumping into a cardiac arrest in his team's Euro 2020 opener against Finland, has been discharged from hospital in Copenhagen. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Police in Hong Kong have charged two senior bosses of the Apple Daily newspaper with “collusion with a foreign country” after officers entered the publication’s offices on Thursday and arrested five members of staff. Read Full Art...

Two people have died after two explosions went off near the office of an army-backed political party in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, on Friday, witnesses and rescue officials said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Under an opaque fast-track legal process that bypasses court hearings, thousands of people in England and Wales have reportedly been prosecuted for Covid-related offences with activists alleging widespread miscarriages of justice. Read ...

An MP for Britain’s Conservative Party has been charged with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in 2008, it was revealed on Friday after reporting restrictions surrounding the case were lifted. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The biggest group stage derby of Euro 2020 takes place on Friday, when England and Scotland clash at Wembley for pride and points in their second games of the campaign. Even fans who didn't get tickets are buzzing with excitement. Read ...

A Florida man has been slapped with felony charges for leaving tire tracks across an intersection painted in the rainbow colors of the LGBT pride movement. LGBT activists cheered the police for throwing the book at the suspect. Read Ful...

Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah has been handed a 20 year prison sentence over charges of rape, killings and even cannibalism in the first war crimes trial in a civilian court in Switzerland. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has firmly rejected allegations he ever killed unarmed detainees in Afghanistan, as well as claims he ordered a rookie to kill unarmed Afghan men in a “blooding” ritual. Read Full Article at RT....

Real Sociedad star Alexander Isak has been hailed as one of Euro 2020's breakout stars after another strong display in Sweden's 1-0 Group E win over Slovakia in St Petersburg wowed football fans on Friday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Moscow police are hunting an unknown suspect who threatened to blow up the city’s central government building if rules requiring masks in public places and the mandatory vaccination of service workers weren't dropped by officials. Rea...

Lithuania is considering a scheme this week that would allow tourists staying in the country for over seven days to receive a Covid vaccination, also extending the offer to its nationals living abroad. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An attempted sting operation backfired for Australian police, after they intercepted a shipment of cocaine, swapped it with icing sugar, then busted the recipient. Transporting icing sugar, it turns out, is not a crime. Read Full Articl...

A Belgian court has said AstraZeneca only needs to supply the EU with 80 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, out of the 120 million sought by the bloc, but it faces fines if it misses certain set delivery targets. Read Full Article a...

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly has voted in favor of reappointing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second term. His new five-year stint is due to begin at the start of 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com

Conor McGregor has taken to social media to have a dig at lightweight rival Dustin Poirier ahead of their meeting in Las Vegas on July 10, which will settle a seven-year trilogy currently tied at one win for each man. Read Full Article ...

Teams at Euro 2020 could be slapped with fines unless stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Pogba stop getting rid of bottles provided by sponsors at press conferences. Read Full Article at RT.com

As Moscow broke its record for daily confirmed Covid-19 cases on Friday, the city’s mayor revealed his belief that the capital is restarting its battle with the pandemic all over again “from scratch”, like in the spring of 2020. R...

Both parties backed efforts to make ‘Juneteenth’ a federal holiday, but even moderate conservatives aren’t jumping for joy. Black conservative Candace Owens drew outrage on Twitter when she called the new holiday “lame.” Read ...

People waiting for planned operations and other non-urgent medical treatment in Moscow will be denied care in the Russian capital’s hospitals if they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, but are eligible to receive a jab. Read F...

The UK’s Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has released new data showing that post-Brexit rules have hit the industry hard, with its exports to the EU falling by 47%, or £2 billion, in the first quarter of 2021 alone. Read Full Article...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reasserted his confidence that the UK will reopen on July 19 after lockdown measures were extended earlier this week, which sparked backlash from politicians and the public.  Read Full Article at RT.com...

A United Nations report released on Friday found that the number of people around the world classified as refugees or asylum seekers rose to more than 82 million in 2020, as people continue to flee drawn-out wars and persecution. Read F...

UEFA could shift its upcoming Euro 2020 final from Wembley Stadium to the Puskas Arena in Budapest unless the UK government makes VIP attendees exempt from its strict quarantine restrictions, according to reports. Read Full Article at R...

Two Ukrainian lovebirds who chained themselves together on Valentine’s Day, as a way to put their relationship to the test, have opted to remove the handcuffs and go their separate ways after four months of being stuck together. Read ...

Norway has announced that the third major phase of its plan to reopen society will take place on Sunday, with citizens allowed to welcome up to 20 people to their homes and hospitality allowed to stay open beyond midnight. Read Full Art...

Sweden fans were out in force in St. Petersburg ahead of their team’s crucial Euro 2020 meeting with Slovakia in sweltering sunshine in Russia’s northern capital on Friday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emissions-reducing regulations being considered by Brussels could soon mark the end of the road for the internal combustion engine, according to a report. The radical proposal has faced pushback from the bloc’s auto makers. Read Full ...

Violence broke out between Palestinians and Israeli security forces after Friday’s prayers at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Nine injuries and over a dozen arrests have been reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ireland’s finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, told CNBC on Friday that the nation is looking to reach a compromise over global taxation that recognizes “the role of legitimate tax competition.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Months after stepping down as head of the UK government’s much-derided Covid-19 contact tracing programme, Dido Harding has once again drawn public ire after news emerged of her pursuit of the top job at NHS England. Read Full Article...

Russia's capital has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with 9,056 positive tests in a 24-hour period and a renewed effort by authorities to encourage people to sign up for a vaccine. Read ...

The Spanish prime minister has announced that the law on mandatory mask-wearing outdoors is to be lifted next Saturday, June 26, as Spain’s vaccination campaign makes rapid progress. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iranians are heading to the polls to pick the next president of the country. Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s judiciary chief, is expected to secure a comfortable win, with most political heavyweights barred from running. Read Full Article at RT...