Nearly $100 billion has been erased from the cryptocurrency market, with bitcoin dropping to its lowest level in four weeks. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Netherlands has ordered an Italian drug maker to cough up nearly 20 million euros ($23.58 million), after the pharma firm inflated the price of one of its medications by an eye-watering 30,000%. Read Full Article at RT.com

South Korea’s prime minister and defense minister have issued an apology for government failings as hundreds of Covid-19-positive sailors were flown to Seoul after their navy destroyer was plagued by the virus. Read Full Article at RT...

Premier League club Everton have confirmed that they have suspended an unnamed first-team player amid a police investigation, without giving details of the footballer or the circumstances of the case. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences, according to reports in the UK. The player is said to have been suspended by his club. Read Full Article at RT.com

Jeff Bezos is scheduled to make his debut trip into space on Tuesday. The world’s richest man was upstaged by fellow billionaire Richard Branson, who skimmed the outer atmosphere earlier this month. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Amazon has pulled the plug on infrastructure and other services that it offered to Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, following allegations that the company’s spyware was being used to snoop on journalists and activists. Read Full A...

Twitter has slapped Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene with a temporary suspension, saying the Georgia Republican ran afoul of the site’s Covid-19 misinformation policy. Greene rejected the move as state-backed censorship. Read Ful...

Several explosions were heard in central Kabul, Afghanistan on live TV while President Ashraf Ghani and other top officials were offering prayers to mark the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Haiti’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has agreed to resign. While both the US and UN backed his rule soon after President Jovenel Moise’s assassination, Western diplomats recently changed course and endorsed Joseph’s rival. ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is calling for children over two years old to wear face coverings at school, even if they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19, exceeding US CDC guidelines as some states ban mask mandates. Read...

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) seems to have once again helped ignite a deadly wildfire in California, contributing to the carnage in the most populous US state for the fourth year in a row, according to a report on its website. Read Ful...

Liberal and conservative Americans alike were dismayed after progressive Congressman Rohit Khanna (D-California) praised none other than neoconservative imperialist Bill Kristol as a defender of democracy and liberal values. Read Full A...

US Senate Democrats are reportedly preparing to overhaul the nation’s military Selective Service System to require that all Americans, including women, be required to register for the draft. Read Full Article at RT.com

Compelling Indiana University (IU) students to take Covid-19 vaccines or face stringent rules isn’t coercion that violates the US Constitution but a legitimate public health interest, a federal judge in South Bend has ruled. Read Full...

Canada's government plans to start allowing non-essential US travelers to cross its border for the first time since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, beginning August, as long as they're fully vaccinated against the virus. Read F...

Syria’s air defenses intercepted an Israeli strike in the Aleppo countryside, according to Syrian state media, while blasts were also reported near the al-Nayrab airport. Read Full Article at RT.com

Donald Trump blasted Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) for refusing to kill the filibuster – now the roadblock to partisan Democrat bills – and complained that former allies allowed Joe Biden to steal the presidency from him. Rea...

The State Department has announced that Afghan nationals who aided the military efforts in Afghanistan will be housed at a military base with their families, with thousands more still awaiting processing amid the US’ withdrawal. Read ...

France is currently facing down a “fourth wave” of coronavirus infections, and vaccination coverage so far is “insufficient,” a government spokesman has said. Meanwhile, a bill has passed mandating jabs for certain professions. ...

Between the government of Belize, the 2008 financial crisis, predatory lawsuits, and 49 children all over the world, software guru John McAfee went from millionaire to penniless and died before he could rebound, his widow says. Read Ful...

Fast-talking conservative pundit Ben Shapiro has risen to the top of the Facebook news heap despite the platform’s supposedly stringent controls on “disinformation,” NPR declared on Monday, pearls clutched firmly in fists. Read Fu...

Tennis sensation Naomi Osaka has clashed with online critics including journalist Megyn Kelly after being blasted for taking a break from sport for mental health reasons but still unveiling a host of high-profile media activities. Read ...

A roadside bomb blast has ripped through a market in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, reportedly killing more than 25 people. The bombing is the third to hit the majority-Shia neighborhood in recent months. Read Full Article...

After Facebook protested US President Joe Biden’s claim it was “killing people” by allowing “misinformation” about Covid-19 vaccines, he told reporters it’s not what he really meant, but insisted they needed to censor more.�...

A tourist area in Spain's resort city of Marbella turned into a scene of horror as a car veered into a pedestrian area, plowing through sidewalk cafes and reportedly injuring about a dozen people. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sports Illustrated has unveiled Leyna Bloom as the first-ever transgender model to feature on the cover of its iconic Swimsuit Issue, meeting with mixed reviews, while tennis star Naomi Osaka also graces one version of the cover. Read F...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis “NOT to buy” Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, after the American company announced it would stop selling its products in occupied Palestinian territories. Read Full Articl...

In recent years, Vladimir Putin has mentioned several times the ideas of Lev Gumilev – one of the fathers of modern Eurasianism – in the context of the roles of civilization and cultural factors in Russian domestic politics. Read Fu...

Football superstar Lionel Messi has opened up his temporary Florida home to greet adoring fans, who had been waiting outside the residence waiting for a glimpse of the six-time Ballon d'Or winner currently holidaying in the US. Read Ful...

Amid England's reopening, UK Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has revealed that proof of full inoculation against Covid will soon be needed to enter clubs and big venues, and a booster shot programme is in the works. Read Full Article at...

A large white cross that stood on a popular mountaintop lookout point on Canada’s Vancouver Island for decades was cut down and removed at some point in the last week – and some have called for it to be replaced by a totem pole.  R...

A Florida man faces eight months behind bars for participating in the pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill in January. The man committed no violence, but prosecutors still claimed he took part in a “threat to democracy.” Read Full Article...

Combat sports pin-ups Paige VanZant and Rachael Ostovich have spoken ahead of their blockbuster bare-knuckle showdown this weekend, with VanZant claiming she does not fear the punching power of her rival. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The head of Israel’s Meretz party, part of the country’s governing coalition, has demanded the Defense Ministry answer questions about the export of NSO spyware and its use to hack the phones of reporters and activists. Read Full Ar...

The Norwegian government has claimed that Chinese hackers were responsible for a cyberattack on the country’s parliament in March this year, and called on Beijing to tackle and prevent such “malicious” activities. Read Full Articl...

Two more Texas House Democrats who traveled to Washington, DC to protest an elections integrity bill have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total infected up to five. Read Full Article at RT.com

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Britons eager to obtain lateral flow Covid-19 tests through the UK government website were met with a message on Monday saying that no more could be ordered online or by phone, in what health officials later said was a “glitch.” Rea...

Welsh journalist Guto Harri has reportedly resigned as a presenter at GB News, a day after accusing the station of becoming an “absurd parody” and pandering to the far right over his suspension for taking the knee while on air.  Re...

Controversial Australian basketball star Liz Cambage is now officially under investigation by her country's federation for a possible 'breach of the integrity framework and code of conduct' following her Olympics withdrawal. Read Full A...

The number of positive Covid-19 infections has doubled overnight in Singapore, with cases linked to two hotspots. As the numbers tick upwards, restrictions have been reimposed just a week after they were eased. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, who has previously been accused of being “transphobic” after her 2020 essay, has doubled down on her rejection of toilet sharing with trans people amid a flurry of abuse and threats. Read Full Arti...

Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada has pulled out of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, amid controversy over decades-old interviews in which he boasted about physically and sexually bullying a disabled classmate. Read Full Articl...

A 'panties crisis' appears to have broken out in beach handball after the Norwegian women's team defied the rules and wore shorts for their European Championship bronze medal game at the weekend. Read Full Article at RT.com

Moscow has agreed to allow state-of-the-art domestically made rocket engines to be sold to the US, despite Washington’s sanctions against Russian industry that are significantly hampering the ability of the country’s space agency. R...

Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination activists rallied in London on Monday, despite nearly all coronavirus-related restrictions having been lifted the very same day. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that negotiations with the Taliban are an essential part of the internationally agreed strategy to end the decades-long conflict in Afghanistan, as American troops pull out of the country. Read Full...

UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace has claimed that there was “no evidence of espionage” behind the discovery last month of a “soggy heap” of classified papers at a bus stop. The blunder has been pinned on an unidentified individua...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan an “occupation” that needs to stop, while brushing aside the militant movement’s warning about deployment of Turkish troops in Kabul. Read Full ...

France’s president has spoken of the creation of a new South Pacific coastguard network to counter “predatory” behavior, aimed primarily at preventing illegal fishing, without naming China specifically. Read Full Article at RT.com...

A group of investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have financed the buyout of UK diagnostic technologies firm Mologic, which has developed a 10-minute coronavirus test. Read ...

Germany’s interior minister has refuted opposition criticism that a “systemic failure” of government resulted in the high death toll in last week’s floods, saying “local knowledge” is the only way to manage such catastrophes...

Russia's state media regulator, Roskomnadzor, has pointed the finger at Google's video-streaming platform, YouTube, as the leading offender in both hosting illegal material and making unaccountable decisions to censor clips. Read Full A...

A female gymnast on the USA Olympic team in Tokyo has tested positive for Covid-19, officials have confirmed, while a teammate who was in “close contact” has been placed under additional quarantine restrictions. Read Full Article at...

A Moroccan national, Abdul Latif Nasir, has been released from the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility after spending some 19 years imprisoned without ever facing any charges. Read Full Article at RT.com

Employees of Ukraine’s Security Service have been suspended after it was revealed that the government agents attacked their own country’s border guards in the Sumy region near the international frontier with Russia. Read Full Articl...

Healthcare workers should don some form of label identifying their Covid vaccination status, the head of Switzerland’s centrist Green Liberal Party has argued, while stressing that inoculation should remain voluntary. Read Full Articl...

Karen Buck, Labour’s shadow minister for social security and an MP for Westminster North, caused an uproar among the UK’s left-wingers after she posted a quote from American free-market conservative icon Ayn Rand. Read Full Article ...

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station may soon have to stop going on walks outside the craft, because the existing spacesuits are near the end of their working life, and no contract has been signed to make more. Read Ful...

A group of far-right sympathizing Lazio ultras have reportedly confronted their club's new signing Elseid Hysaj after he sang the famous protest song ‘Bella Ciao’ as part of his initiation process last week. Read Full Article at RT...

The self-described leader of Belarus' opposition movement, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has called on US politicians to support her bid to remove her country's embattled leader, Alexander Lukashenko, as part of her visit to Washington. Read ...

Demonstrations opposing the military junta’s coup have been held across Myanmar to mark the Martyrs’ Day public holiday, as activists remember the fallen heroes who fought for the country’s independence. Read Full Article at RT.co...

After PM Naftali Bennett stoked tensions by saying Jews and Muslims had “freedom to worship” at Jerusalem’s holy site housing al-Aqsa mosque, his office has claimed that he meant both groups had “freedom of visitation rights.”...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has declared that Iran and other Muslim nations must resist the “wickedness of Western powers” and their meddling in the region in a speech delivered during the holy period of Hajj. Rea...

The president of South Korea will not travel to Japan to have a summit with its prime minister during the Olympic Games. The decision was taken after a Japanese diplomat made a crude remark which has outraged the Korean public. Read Ful...

As the corruption trial of former South African leader Jacob Zuma continues, many communities are still reeling from the devastating riots that followed his arrest. More than 200 people have died in the unrest. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Rating agency Standard & Poors (S&P) has confirmed Russia’s foreign currency sovereign credit rating at BBB-/A-3, giving it a stable outlook. Read Full Article at RT.com

Criminal hackers backed by China’s Ministry of State Security are responsible for a massive ransomware attack exploiting Microsoft Exchange email servers earlier this year, the Biden administration has alleged. Read Full Article at RT...

Major sponsors Toyota won’t be airing any Olympic-themed ads on Japanese TV during the Tokyo Games this summer, the company has said, as hostility towards the event continues to simmer among the local population. Read Full Article at ...

India’s highest court has ordered the release of a political activist arrested in May over a Facebook post claiming cow dung didn’t cure Covid-19 following a state politician’s death. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Monday that one of its warships, the Admiral Gorshkov, has conducted the successful test-fire of a high-tech missile, ahead of the rockets being rolled out to submarines and naval ships. Read ...

France’s secretary of state has revealed that localized curfews could return, as coronavirus cases are rising above a proposed incidence threshold in many regions. Read Full Article at RT.com

German authorities have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly African swine fever (ASF) among domesticated pigs with three farms affected so far. The country’s wild boar population has been plagued by the disease for months already. Rea...

The Saudi government has moved to ban people from travelling abroad unless they have had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, amid fears one shot is not enough to protect against virus variants, according to the state press agency. Read Ful...

Members of the Washington Nationals and San Diego Padres baseball teams have spoken on the scary scenes which played out following a shooting outside National Park during their MLB game on Saturday night. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Two dams in Inner Mongolia’s Hulunbuir have collapsed following torrential rain, according to an announcement from China’s water ministry on Monday, citing concerns about the safety risks of aging infrastructure in the region. Read ...

A leaked list of over 50,000 phone numbers is believed to include targets marked by clients of Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group for hacking. Some of the phones were reportedly infected with its flagship malware, Pegasus. Read Full Ar...

Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan has appeared to dispel the “myth” that Olympic bosses designed cardboard beds to dissuade athletes from getting up close and personal at this year’s Covid-hit Games in Tokyo. Read Full Article at RT....

A prominent group of Russian rights activists and lawyers has announced it will cease to exist after officials blocked access to its website over claims it had published content from a Czech group banned in the country. Read Full Articl...

Who is truly civilized? Well, according to a column in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post over the weekend, it certainly isn't Russia or China. While the content is unoriginal, its Neo-Cold War attitude sparked outrage online. Read Fu...

Formula One ace and reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton has received racist abuse online after winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday, where he crashed with rival Max Verstappen on the first lap. Read Full Article at...

New regulations concerning listings of Chinese firms on foreign exchanges are likely to mean that Beijing aims to put a lid on the US IPO market altogether, market experts say. Read Full Article at RT.com

South Korea’s military has experienced its worst mass coronavirus infection to date, with most of the crew of a destroyer on an anti-piracy mission testing positive for coronavirus. Read Full Article at RT.com

Victoria’s five-day Covid-19 lockdown, set to expire Tuesday, will be extended in the Australian state, local authorities have said. The restrictions were imposed to curb the spread of the highly-contagious Delta variant. Read Full Ar...

A former Australian army officer has set fire to his campaign medal after accusing the government of failing to provide refuge to Afghan civilian contractors as part of Canberra’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The Taiwanese government has approved the use and production of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp, marking another major step in the island’s fight against the virus. Read Full Article a...

Greenland is abandoning its ambition of 50 years of becoming an oil-producing nation, suspending its oil exploration strategy because of environmental and climate concerns. Read Full Article at RT.com

Two-thirds of Japanese people don’t believe the Tokyo Olympics can be held safely during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new poll has shown. Infections were recorded in the Olympic Village just days before the games are set to begin. Read Fu...

Former US Army Special Forces operative Michael Taylor and his son Peter have been sentenced to jail by a Tokyo court for helping former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn flee Japan to avoid prosecution for alleged financial crimes. Read Full Ar...

Partygoers all across England flocked to newly reopened nightclubs to mark what has become known as “Freedom Day,” as the bulk of Covid-19 restrictions were lifted at the stroke of midnight. Read Full Article at RT.com

The British Foreign Office has backed Venezuela’s opposition figurehead Juan Guaido in his battle for the country’s gold reserves. A court ruled earlier that London may have recognized President Nicolas Maduro as de facto leader. Re...

The Australian government has said it will be sending Katie Hopkins back to the UK as soon as logistically possible after the TV personality claimed to have breached lockdown rules, sparking backlash and calls for deportation. Read Full...

Most Americans, including those who are fully vaccinated, are growing concerned about the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to a new poll. Read Full Article at RT.com

Kabul has called back its ambassador and senior diplomats from its embassy in Islamabad, citing security threats days after the Afghan ambassador’s daughter was briefly kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants. Read Full Article a...

Donald Trump has been accused by critics of embracing the anti-Covid-19 vaccine movement with a statement claiming Americans’ refusal to get inoculated comes down to a lack of trust in the White House. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Cricket clumper Liam Livingstone hit two sixes over the towering roof of UK stadium Headingley to help England thump Pakistan in their T20 match, although not everyone was completely convinced by the scale of his achievement. Read Full ...

Basketball icon LeBron James has hit back at "haters" who have panned his newly-released sequel to the Michael Jordan classic 'Space Jam', bragging about the critically-derided movie's takings at the box office on opening weekend. Read ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) has argued people in his state are not getting vaccinated because of “partisan comments” on Covid-19 from the White House, but his governor has pointed to “bad information” as the reason. Read Ful...

The entire South Africa football team have been forced to quarantine after two players became the first athletes in Tokyo's Olympic Village to test positive for Covid-19, while Japan's captain has called for fans to be allowed in. Read ...