Global debt has reached its highest level since WWII as governments continue to pump money into their economies in an effort to recover from damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.com

Locals are preparing for the worst, after a wave of mass rioting and looting swept across South Africa, following the arrest of its former president. The military has been deployed to help police maintain order. Read Full Article at RT....

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined several drugmakers for overcharging its health service. The body said the fines, linked to the sale of hydrocortisone tablets, should serve as “warning” to others. Read Fu...

Crude prices fell nearly 1% on Thursday with the market bracing for a surge in supplies after reports that an output deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies has been reached. Read Full Ar...

Kung fu film legend Jackie Chan has received a lukewarm reception on Chinese social media after revealing his dream of becoming a member of the country’s Communist Party (CCP). Some thought it was all just an act. Read Full Article at...

China has launched the construction of the world’s first multi-purpose small modular reactor in the country’s southernmost Hainan province. Work on Linglong One, also known as ACP100, began on Tuesday, Xinhua reports. Read Full Arti...

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has called for US military intervention following a weekend of protests in Cuba, arguing that previous US attacks elsewhere – from Panama to Kosovo – have gone swimmingly. His idea was not popular. Read Fu...

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham pledged to go to the barricades for his favorite sandwich joint after students at Notre Dame University protested the opening of a Chick-fil-A location on campus, citing its “anti-LGBT activism.” Re...

House Democrats are putting pressure on the company conducting an audit of the 2020 election in Arizona, demanding that Cyber Ninjas prove it has no ties to former president Donald Trump or QAnon conspiracy, among other things. Read Ful...

The World Health Organization is warning that the Covid-19 pandemic has entered the "early stages of a third wave" as the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus causes cases to spike, wiping out progress made through vaccines. Read F...

Thousands took to the streets in two of Greece’s largest cities to protest new health mandates, which bar the unvaccinated from many public spaces and require medical staff to take the shot, as well as plans to immunize teenagers. Rea...

Disruptions to healthcare around the world caused by the Covid-19 lockdowns have made millions of children miss their shots for other diseases, UNICEF and the World Health Organization have warned. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sexual assault allegations against the USA Gymnastics team's doctor were mishandled by the FBI, leading to delays in his arrest while dozens more girls were allegedly molested, a Department of Justice review has found. Read Full Article...

Twitter is discontinuing ‘fleets’, the disappearing-tweet function it debuted in November to a sea of eyerolls, seeming surprised that the feature hadn’t become popular despite imitating already-existing competitors. Read Full Art...

Two firefighters have died and at least 30 others remain missing after storms and torrential rain flooded several German states. The extreme weather left roads impassable and turned streets into rivers. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A 60-year-old Tennessee man apparently had a Twitter handle worth killing for, as teenagers extorting him to give up his social-media treasure made a false emergency call to police that led to his death, family members said. Read Full A...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized after ten days of hiccups, and may need emergency surgery. Stabbed, infected with Covid-19, and bitten by wildlife, Bolsonaro is no stranger to medical emergencies. Read Full Arti...

A senior figure within the Metropolitan Police says that Sunday's Euro 2020 final between England and Italy could have been abandoned had it not been for the response of the London police after hundreds of fans stormed Wembley. Read Ful...

Ex-President George W. Bush has denounced the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan, but his chief concern apparently isn’t the American, allied and civilian casualties suffered in two decades of fruitless fighting. Read Full ...

Five-time Pro Bowler and one of the finest defensive players of his generation Richard Sherman has been booked for 'burglary domestic violence' following a late night arrest in Seattle in which he was subdued by a police dog. Read Full ...

With Taliban fighters gaining ground in Afghanistan and US troops preparing a total withdrawal from the country, representatives of the militant group have called on Russia to support the lifting of sanctions against its leaders. Read F...

Police fired tear gas at demonstrators who threw rocks and bottles, set construction equipment on fire in Paris, and picketed state buildings across France, in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine and health pass moves. Rea...

Incoming Manchester United prodigy Jadon Sancho has spoken for the first time about his heartbreak after being one of three players to miss a penalty for England in the final of Euro 2020, calling racist abuse "nothing new". Read Full A...

Amid the spread of Covid-19 and economic shutdown, more than 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in the US last year – an increase of 30% since 2019, and a record high. The majority of these deaths were caused by opioids. Read Full A...

Turkish model and Instagram influencer Deniz Saypinar says that she was refused entry to an American Airlines flight last week after the company adjudged her denim shorts to be "too short" and accused her of being "naked". Read Full Art...

A top British runner who broke a record held by World Athletics boss and two-time Olympic champ Sebastian Coe last month has reportedly provided a drugs test sample containing small traces of cocaine, threatening his Tokyo place. Read F...

A spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has rejected US claims that Tehran was involved in a plot to kidnap a journalist based in New York who is critical of the Iranian government, dismissing them as “baseless and ridiculous.” Re...

As the Delta variant becomes increasingly prevalent, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has urged citizens to get their second Covid-19 vaccine shot. It is also reviewing reported side-effects of Johnson & Johnson’s jab. Read Full Ar...

Lionel Messi looks sure to end his career with Barcelona amid reports that the six-time Ballon d'Or winning star has agreed to take a sizeable pay cut in order to ink a new five-year contract with the cash-strapped Catalan giants. Read ...

As the Taliban continue retaking Afghanistan district by district, US President Joe Biden will shortly announce ‘Operation Allied Refuge,’ a plan to fly Afghan translators to the US, according to a Reuters report. Read Full Article ...

People in France have taken to the streets to protest against the government’s decision to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for health workers and to introduce a health pass to access bars and restaurants. Read Full Article at RT....

The problem with the Italian football team is that there’s just too many Italians on it, The Economist argued in a bizarre article linking Italy’s Euro 2020 victory to fascism, racism, and the defeat of multiculturalism. Read Full A...

A chart-topping superstar boyband with a famously dedicated online following are, according to one Ekaterinburg print shop, symbols of ‘non-traditional’ sexual orientation and a gateway to ‘perversion,’ a fan group has said. Rea...

Figure-skating great Evgenia Medvedeva has announced that she will not be traveling to Tokyo with Russia's olympic athletes, admitting that a trip would be "meaningless" because of the tight Covid-19 restrictions around the games. Read ...

Social media users have accused a UK race relations think tank of “promoting bigotry” after it warned that racism is “systemic” in England with ethnic minorities facing disparities in various areas, including education and healt...

Moscow and Washington have “common interests” when it comes to global warming, Russian President Vladimir Putin told US climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday, also noting that the capitals have similar approaches to the issue. Read ...

A species of algae with three sexes, including “bisexual,” that can all breed with each other has been identified by Japanese scientists for the first time. Researchers suggest the phenomenon might be present in other species too. R...

A religious leader in Brighton whose sons were killed while fighting for an al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria has been charged with inciting acts of terrorism, following an investigation by British counterterrorism officials. Read Full Article...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed plans to BAN fans from attending matches if they are found to have engaged in racist behavior online, amid claims that his government hasn't done enough to combat social media trolls. Read Fu...

In an attempt to combat racist attacks online, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that social media sites will be fined 10% of their global revenue if they fail to remove abusive posts. Read Full Article at RT.com

A brick wall adorned with an image of George Floyd has been reduced to rubble in Toledo, Ohio. While some suspected it may have been vandalized, authorities say witness reports suggest the damage was caused by a storm. Read Full Article...

German foreign minister Heiko Maas has accused Moscow and Beijing of playing political games with the coronavirus crisis, seeking to strengthen their international standing with exports of domestically produced Covid-19 vaccines. Read F...

China has hit back immediately at US Secretary of State Antony Blinken after he said Washington firmly stands with other southeast Asian nations and not China in ongoing disputes over territory in the contested South China Sea. Read Ful...

The lawyer of wrestling pin-up Candy Cartwright has said that she has put her claim against WWE star Matt Riddle "in the past", dropping a lawsuit that was filed last October and included a sexual assault allegation. Read Full Article a...

Some Britons have slammed the government after the UK parliament voted on Tuesday to make vaccines compulsory for care home staff in England unless they have medical exemption. There are others that back the move. Read Full Article at R...

Moscow has repatriated the body of Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, a French general who fought in Napoleon's failed 1812 invasion of Russia. His remains were found near Smolensk in 2019, where he died of a cannon wound. Read ...

Undefeated heavyweight kingpin Tyson Fury is understood to have opted against taking a second Covid-19 vaccine jab because he was concerned about falling ill ahead of testing positive for the virus ahead of third Wilder fight. Read Full...

Despite fighting the group for two decades, Britain will engage with the Taliban should it come into power in Afghanistan, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said, “provided it adheres to certain international norms”. Read Full Ar...

Oliver Stone has released a new documentary on the JFK assassination, revisiting a topic that made him a maverick in Hollywood. Despite what the mainstream narrative suggests, the evidence points to a clear conspiracy, he told RT. Read ...

The 84-year-old pontiff has left hospital 10 days after undergoing surgery to rectify a condition that had caused the narrowing of his colon. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the starting pistol on a new row with Kiev this week. The events in question, however, are not new – but very, very old, with Putin questioning the very basis of Ukrainian nationhood. Read Fu...

Beijing has welcomed Russia’s decision to cut the US currency from its National Wealth Fund and give the yuan a bigger role, China’s Foreign Ministry has announced. Read Full Article at RT.com

Marcus Rashford has described his emotions after a protest full of BLM placards was held at a Manchester mural of the England star and social justice campaigner, coming just hours after a man was arrested over abuse sent to him. Read Fu...

Authorities in Siberia's Yakutia region have rejected an offer of help from Leonardo DiCaprio, after the Hollywood A-Lister pledged to assist the area’s battle against wildfires that have now engulfed more than 600,000 hectares. Read ...

Harry Maguire, who was one of England's successful penalty takers in Sunday's Euro 2020 final against Italy, says that his father suffered injuries to his ribs when he was caught up in the chaotic scenes at Wembley. Read Full Article at...

A doctor who has joined other medical professionals in calling for Julian Assange’s release from prison told RT that the WikiLeaks co-founder’s arbitrary and cruel detention continues to put him at risk of suicide. Read Full Article...

Tesla shareholders are suing Elon Musk over the carmaker’s 2016 acquisition of solar panel producer SolarCity. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran’s president has said his country has the capacity, if authorities there deem it necessary, to enrich uranium up to 90%, nearly 25 times greater than the level stipulated in the JCPOA ‘Iran Nuclear Deal.’ Read Full Article at ...

At least 13 people, including Chinese engineers and Pakistani soldiers, have lost their lives following a fatal blast on a bus that was traveling to Dasu hydropower plant in northern Pakistan. More than 30 people were injured. Read Full...

The resignation of Kiev’s notorious Interior Minister Arsen Avakov may not have been his own personal decision, and he could have been “advised” to leave his position by the new acting US Ambassador in Kiev, George Kent. Read Full...

The Australian authorities have elected to extend a lockdown in the country’s largest city as the infection tally from the latest outbreak nears 900 and initial restrictions fail to deliver the intended impact. Read Full Article at RT...

The Chinese economy attracted over 607 billion yuan ($91 billion) in foreign direct investment (FDI), in the first half of 2021, which is a 33.9% increase year on year, the country’s Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday. Read Full A...

Crude oil has been having a great 2021 so far—a very different situation to last year’s when the pandemic devastated demand for all commodities fueling a price rout that lasted well into 2020. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Taliban have claimed control over a town in Kandahar province that serves as a major bordering crossing with Pakistan. In response, Pakistani authorities have reportedly halted transport through the checkpoint. Read Full Article at ...

A four-day “cruise to nowhere” that left from Singapore was cut short after one traveler tested positive for the coronavirus, with the scare prompting the cruise company to call off another voyage as a precaution. Read Full Article ...

Several Western news outlets have used an erroneously captioned photo showing a pro-government rally in Cuba, deeming it an opposition protest, while CNN opted for an image of a Miami demonstration instead, raising eyebrows. Read Full A...

A newly minted program intended to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine directly to people’s doors in a North Carolina town has sent chills down the spines of some residents, while others welcomed it as helpful service for the infirm. Read Fu...

One man was killed in clashes with police during an anti-government rally, Cuba’s Interior Ministry said, confirming the first death amid the protests as the US insists it will turn away any Cubans who flee the unrest by sea. Read Ful...

Vice President Kamala Harris met with fugitive lawmakers who fled Texas to block the state's Republican majority from passing election-security legislation, comparing them to suffragettes and other past champions of voting rights. Read ...

After Republican lawmakers voiced concerns that Tennessee health authorities were directly targeting schoolchildren for Covid-19 vaccinations, the state halted the program – and came under fire from outraged Democrats. Read Full Artic...

A US appeals court has ruled against a longstanding federal restriction that prohibits sales of handguns to adults younger than 21, finding that the age-based ban is unconstitutional. Read Full Article at RT.com

California's state health authorities are apparently backing down from an order directing K-12 public schools to bar students and staff who decline to wear masks from their classrooms. Read Full Article at RT.com

Praising his election in 2020 as the pinnacle of US democracy, President Joe Biden called Republicans domestic enemies of the country and said their state voting laws are the greatest threat to the US since the Civil War. Read Full Arti...

President Joe Biden has nominated former Republican Senator Jeff Flake as his ambassador to Turkey. While the appointment technically crosses partisan lines, Flake supported Biden over Donald Trump last year. Read Full Article at RT.com...

US Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) is demanding answers from Raytheon’s CEO over the giant defense contractor’s alleged use of critical race theory (CRT) in employee training, warning such courses appear to violate federal law. Read...

After being beaten and tear gassed by riot police, a mob of protesters in Beirut has smashed the entrance to the home of Lebanon’s interior minister, who they say is protecting those responsible for last year’s port explosion. Read ...

The US blockade of Cuba and the Cold War with the USSR could have both ended in 1963 had President John Fitzgerald Kennedy not been assassinated, filmmaker Oliver Stone said in an exclusive interview for RT’s Going Underground. Read F...

UFC star Conor McGregor has been handed a medical suspension which will rule him out of action until 2022, after suffering a horror leg break in his trilogy fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in Las Vegas on Saturday. Read Full Art...

British radio host Mike Graham, who’s no stranger to being accused of racism himself, has called for condemning racists to non-personhood by taking away their bank accounts, passports, public benefits and other resources. Read Full Ar...

Twitter has attempted to resume verifying accounts with a clean slate, years after its decision to verify a white nationalist figure outraged users. But its latest efforts to fairly hand out blue checks have tanked. Read Full Article at...

Italian brick wall Giorgio Chiellini has seemingly confirmed that he attempted to use an Argentine 'curse' on England teenager Bukayo Saka ahead of his penalty miss which handed Euro 2020 honors to Italy. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Despite scrutiny of the “revolving door” between political office and the corporate sector, a former UK foreign minister has been allowed to accept a senior post at an oil firm to which he reportedly had links while in service. Read...

Posting a picture of John McAfee’s alleged suicide note, his widow Janice argued it sounded more like a draft tweet. She continues to doubt the official explanation by the Spanish authorities that McAfee hanged himself in prison. Read...

Joining generational rival Rafael Nadal, tennis legend Roger Federer has announced that he will not be participating at the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo after picking up an injury. Read Full Article at RT.com

Riot police in Beirut have cracked down on protesters laying coffins outside the home of Lebanon’s interior minister. The demonstrators, who lost family in the port blast last year, blame him for protecting those responsible. Read Ful...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he’ll arrest Democrats who fled to DC to block a controversial election bill. Meanwhile, the Texas House of Representatives voted to round up the decamping Dems by force, if necessary. Read Full Art...

One of Kiev’s most long-standing and notorious political titans, veteran Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, announced on Tuesday afternoon that he will stand down from the job of overseeing Ukraine’s domestic security and policing. Rea...

UEFA has launched disciplinary proceedings following the chaotic scenes which took place in and around Wembley on Sunday after hordes of supporters attempted to force their way into the stadium ahead of the Euro 2020 final. Read Full Ar...

Cristiano Ronaldo has been relaxing on his luxury yacht after his Golden Boot exploits at the recent Euro 2020 tournament, as stunning partner Georgina Rodriguez engaged in a bikini snorkel dive at sea. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Portugal’s National Health Institute has released new data showing the Delta coronavirus variant now accounts for all Covid cases in the Algarve and Lisbon, with the strain’s prevalence standing at 88.6% across the country. Read Ful...

Moscow has rejected a new order from Europe's top civil liberties court that would require it to recognize LGBT+ marriages, after a joint complaint from three same-sex Russian couples was upheld by judges in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Read ...

Fans of football legend Cristiano Ronaldo are up in arms after the Portuguese Euro 2020 Golden Boot winner was omitted from the competition's Team of the Tournament released on Tuesday, and have taken to social media to vent. Read Full ...

ESPN mouthpiece Stephen A. Smith has issued a public apology after he was ripped online for comments made about baseball star Shohei Ohtani's continued use of an interpreter in interviews. Read Full Article at RT.com

Leftist philosopher Cornel West has decried the “spiritual rot” of Harvard University in a resignation letter to the elite school. West, who has clashed with Harvard before, said race and politics influenced his departure. Read Full...

The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said the COVAX vaccine-sharing program is struggling to hit its targets because of scant Covid jab supplies and competition between countries and agencies. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A US court has approved the settlement of a class action suit ordering a multimillion-dollar payment to women allegedly abused by the same gynecologist. The doctor is accused of having taken advantage of more than 5,500 patients. Read F...

A London-based think tank has said that TikTok is being used to distribute and promote misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines as the “Sounds” feature allows dubious audio content to proliferate with ease. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Football fans have lashed out at Instagram for the responses they received when reporting racist abuse lodged at English footballers after a trio of them missed penalties to hand Italy the Euro 2020 title at Wembley. Read Full Article a...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Covid jabs will not be mandatory in Germany, not even for healthcare workers, saying such a move would break public trust and people must decide for themselves whether to be vaccinated. Read F...

The US consumer price index jumped higher than expected in June, rising 5.4% compared to the same time last year. This marks its largest monthly gain since 2008, and the biggest surge in inflation the country has seen in 30 years. Read ...