The US intelligence report on Covid-19 origins that didn’t rule out the possibility of it coming from a laboratory has nothing to do with science and is aimed at “scapegoating” Beijing, the Chinese Embassy in Washington has said. ...

Russia is expanding the infrastructure of the Krasnaya Polyana resort to adapt it to a Las Vegas business model by 2026. Read Full Article at RT.com

The electrification of homes is touted as one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector as the US Administration aims for a net-zero economy by 2050. But going all-electric will not be as easy as it seems. Read Fu...

A Chicago judge has reportedly restricted a mother’s parental rights, requiring her to get vaccinated against Covid-19 if she wants to see her 11-year-old son in person. The woman said she plans to appeal the ruling. Read Full Article...

A campaign rally for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was abruptly called off after a rowdy group of demonstrators crashed the event, with the PM’s Liberal Party saying it canceled the appearance for “safety reasons.” Read F...

A lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps said he was relieved of duty after voicing frustration with American leaders for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, insisting officials take responsibility for their failures. Read Full ...

The Pentagon said it launched a drone strike to take out an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) member, believed to be involved in organizing attacks against the US in Kabul. It comes after a blast killed 13 American servicemen. Read Full...

A California parole board has voted to release Sirhan Sirhan – who killed US Senator Robert F. Kennedy – from prison after more than 50 years behind bars. The 77-year-old has said he shot the lawmaker over his support for Israel. Re...

The official Twitter account for the British Embassy in Afghanistan has been deleted without explanation, with the page suddenly disappearing just as UK forces wrap up chaotic evacuation efforts in Kabul. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its report on the origins of Covid-19. The much-awaited report failed to live up to the hype, revealing that US intelligence agencies were split on the issue. Read ...

The Taliban has ordered people living in the Afghan capital to surrender weapons, ammunition, and “state property” in their possession to the “relevant authorities” controlled by the militant group. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Tennis stunner Eugenie Bouchard has taken a swipe at men's number one Novak Djokovic, calling the Serb superstar a "cry baby". Read Full Article at RT.com

While some outlets are kept from the White House press room, others are let in to ask questions about President Joe Biden’s pet dog amid numerous crises, including the evacuation effort in Kabul. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton is eyeing up Pakistan, viewing the end of war with Afghanistan as a chance to start another, this time with its nuclear-armed neighbor – a “dramatic change” to “wake people up,” he hint...

Manchester City football player Benjamin Mendy was remanded in custody on Friday after appearing in a UK court to be charged with four counts of rape and a sexual assault in offences allegedly committed against three women. Read Full Ar...

Cristiano Ronaldo's seismic switch has divided fans of his ex-employers, with some savaging the superstar after his underwhelming spell in Italy came to a shock end. Read Full Article at RT.com

An open letter published Friday by nearly a dozen Russian media outlets, decrying a number of recent decisions that they believe impedes press freedom in the country, potentially merits consideration, the Kremlin has acknowledged. Read ...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ordered the evacuation of all residents living outside the city’s levee system, and advised those inside to consider leaving too, as the city braces for Hurricane Ida’s landfall. Read Full Artic...

Bruno Fernandes has dubbed himself an 'agent' in the bombshell coup that has seen Cristiano Ronaldo join Man United, with legendary boss Sir Alex Ferguson, ex-captain Rio Ferdinand and other club heroes driving the shock switch. Read Fu...

A Florida judge has handed a victory to critics of Governor Ron DeSantis by ruling that the Republican’s controversial ban on mask mandates in schools was an overreach. Read Full Article at RT.com

A study conducted in Saint Petersburg has shown that fully vaccinated Covid patients are five times more likely not to require hospitalization. Russia is currently being hit by a wave of infections related to the Delta variant. Read Fu...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky is facing backlash for using CNN to discuss the “serious public health threat” not from Covid-19, but from gun violence. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Manchester United fans aren't the only ones grinning at Cristiano Ronaldo rejoining the club after the world's most marketable footballer sent the club's value soaring – with some claiming its value grew by $200 million in hours. Read...

Cristiano Ronaldo has issued a first public message since sealing a sensational return to Manchester United, addressing fans at former club Juventus to thank them for the “pretty beautiful story” they shared. Read Full Article at RT...

Berlin’s renowned Humboldt University has gotten in hot water after its Students Council published an ad for the position of anti-discrimination counselor. The ad was branded discriminatory as it discouraged whites from applying. Read...

After Amazon took aim at his Starlink satellite internet project, SpaceX’s Elon Musk fired a verbal shot at Jeff Bezos, sarcastically claiming he retired to take up a “full-time job filing lawsuits” against the aerospace firm. Rea...

The Polish military has started constructing a barrier along the Belarusian border, with soldiers seen erecting barbed wire fences to halt the flow of migrants after thousands tried to enter the country in recent months. Read Full Artic...

The whirlwind transfer saga that has stunned the world has ended in sensational style after Manchester United announced they have signed Cristiano Ronaldo for a second spell at the club – 15 years after he first joined them. Read Full...

A new Chinese vaccine, developed by Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Co., has been shown to be nearly 82% effective in preventing severe forms of Covid-19 in trials, which may prove useful in the country’s inoculation efforts. Rea...

An already chaotic scene outside the Kabul international airport was turned into a living nightmare by a terrorist bombing attack. RT spoke to an eyewitness of the blast, who shared harrowing details of what had happened. Read Full Arti...

Stockholm has announced that its evacuation mission from Afghanistan has drawn to a close in the wake of Thursday’s fatal attacks at Kabul airport, but could not rescue everyone it intended to on its ‘Sweden list’. Read Full Artic...

The UK foreign secretary has announced that two British nationals and the child of another Briton were among those killed on Thursday when Islamic State terrorists targeted military and civilian personnel at Kabul airport. Read Full Art...

Debate in the Texas House of Representatives over a controversial voting bill became so heated this week, Republican leadership insisted on accusations of ‘racism’ being banned from the floor. Read Full Article at RT.com

England boss Gareth Southgate has revealed he received more abuse for a UK government video that urged youngsters to receive Covid-19 vaccinations than at any point during the Three Lions' recent run to the Euro 2020 final. Read Full Ar...

The Danish government has decided to stop categorizing the virus as a “socially critical disease,” saying it has it under control. The decision means abandoning the legal basis for restrictions and lifting them in September. Read Fu...

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has accused the mega-wealthy Manchester clubs of not acting "for the future" in the race to sign Cristiano Ronaldo – with surprise reports claiming Man City have dropped their interest in him. Read Full Art...

A parole hearing for Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is expected to take place soon – 10 years after the right-wing extremist murdered 77 people and injured over 300 more during two domestic terrorist attacks. Read Full...

The Pentagon has said that despite previous reports, it now believes there was only one suicide bomber in Thursday's Kabul airport attack, with no explosion near the Baron Hotel. Read Full Article at RT.com

Europe’s largest organization representing journalists and reporters has panned a decision by Ukrainian authorities to attempt to shutter one of the country’s leading independent online news outlets on ‘national security’ ground...

The anti-Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan are a minor nuisance that can be solved either through talks or by military force, a spokesman for the military movement has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

A ruling military council in Myanmar has said its vaccination campaign against coronavirus will now include at least some of the Rohingya people, considered to be stateless since Myanmar’s change of power several years ago. Read Full ...

Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of the second largest party in Ukraine’s parliament, has called on Europe’s top court to step in after he was charged with ‘high treason’ based on as-yet undisclosed evidence from security agencies....

The mayor of Tbilisi has hit out at Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, after she said in an interview that it would take at least 20 years for Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova to meet the necessary criteria for EU membership. Read Full A...

The Lebanese parliament has stated that the judge investigating the blast at the Port of Beirut last year overstepped his power by issuing caretaker PM Hassan Diab a subpoena after he failed to turn up for the inquiry. Read Full Article...

The UK government has been accused of spin doctoring after it emerged that a communications ‘playbook’ given to health trusts reportedly directed them to describe newly built wings and major renovation projects as “new hospitals.�...

Giant Australian basketball star Andrew Bogut has blasted tight Covid-19 restrictions and claimed that he was made a mysterious financial offer to tell the public to stay at home and follow government regulations. Read Full Article at R...

Microsoft has warned thousands of its business customers this week that a vulnerability left their cloud databases exposed and susceptible to edits. Read Full Article at RT.com

Trade turnover between Russia and Finland in the first six months of 2021 has surged by 16% compared to the same period last year, reaching nearly $6 billion. Read Full Article at RT.com

More than 30 fire trucks have been called to a blaze at a high-rise building in the Chinese city of Dalian. No causalities have been reported, although footage appears to show the inferno engulfing the residential bloc. Read Full Articl...

The close military cooperation between Russia and China is cause for great concern, and the authorities in Washington must seriously reconsider its current strategy of "containment" towards the two large Eurasian superpowers. Read Full ...

Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache was convicted of corruption and handed a 15-month suspended sentence on Friday over an illegal €10,000 ($11,760) donation to his party, dubbed the ‘Ibiza affair’. Read Full A...

Warships and boats of the Russian Navy will soon be carrying advanced new missiles designed to take out enemy vessels in a single, critical blow, after Moscow’s Ministry of Defense signed a contract with their manufacturer. Read Full ...

Sabre fencing great Orga Kharlan has said that Russian and Ukrainian athletes representing military groups do not think about political arguments when they are on a podium together. Read Full Article at RT.com

Cristiano Ronaldo told boss Max Allegri on Thursday that he had "no intention" of playing for Juventus, the manager has revealed at the same time as the star has been filmed driving away from the club. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Taliban patrol reportedly vowed to protect portraits of Queen Elizabeth II in the UK’s embassy in Kabul from looters after diplomatic officials left the country in a haste last week before the group captured the city. Read Full Arti...

The Danish parliament forced through an emergency law on Friday ending a strike by medical professionals over wages that began in mid-June, imposing a 5.02% wage increase that had previously been rejected by the nurses’ union. Read Fu...

Leon Panetta, one in a host of voices of the US national security establishment objecting to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, says Joe Biden will have to “go back in” to deliver on a pledge to avenge the deaths of troops in Kabul. R...

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined popular travel website Booking.com 1.3 billion Rubles ($17.5 million) for abusing its dominant position in the country’s hotel market, the government body revealed on Thursday. R...

Moscow and Brussels are set to start consultations regarding the EU’s claims against the Russian import substitution policy in September, TASS reports, citing a source in the European Commission. Read Full Article at RT.com

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have manufactured a facemask that claims to neutralize the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 (the Covid-19 virus) through its layers of copper and silver. Read Full Article a...

Montenegro’s national police force announced the seizure of more than a ton of cocaine on Friday in the country’s biggest ever drug bust, detaining two people who tried to smuggle it across the border in a shipment of bananas.  Rea...

In recent years, the media has become obsessed with purported Russian interference in US elections. While the claims turned out to be entirely unsubstantiated, the West itself openly engages in efforts to influence votes abroad. Read Fu...

Former US President Donald Trump has accused Joe Biden’s administration of incompetence after American troops were killed in a suicide bombing amid the evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan. Read Full Article at RT.com

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly left Juventus's training ground after saying his goodbyes to his teammates teammates, with an exit to Manchester City expected to be confirmed later today. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

As the global semiconductor chip shortage drags on, the world’s largest manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, has announced it is raising prices by as much as 20% to keep up with demand. Read Full Article at RT.com...

A massive blaze has broken out in the British town of Leamington Spa, with reports of an explosion at an industrial estate triggering the fire, which has sent black clouds billowing up above the regency town. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The UK’s defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has announced that the government’s evacuation from Afghanistan is down to a “matter of hours” after closing the Kabul processing centre ahead of America’s full withdrawal from the coun...

The Chinese government has now administered more than two billion vaccines to protect against Covid-19, with nearly 900 million citizens having been fully inoculated, as preventative measures continue to keep case numbers down. Read Ful...

In a frantic rush to abandon their embassy, British diplomatic staff in Kabul left papers strewn around, some of which detailed the names and contacts of local embassy staff still in Afghanistan, the Times has reported. Read Full Articl...

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has called on Chinese citizens to avoid using virtual currencies, which have not been legalized in the country and are not backed by real value. Read Full Article at RT.com

Michel Barnier has officially joined the race for the French presidency in next year’s election, entering an already packed tent of center-right politicians seeking to elbow out the candidacy of Marine Le Pen. Read Full Article at RT....

As the August 31 deadline for evacuations from Afghanistan creeps closer, the threat of further attacks on foreign troops from groups like Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is heightened, the UK defence secretary has warned. Read Full A...

Social media sensation Alica Schmidt has admitted she is "not satisfied" after ending a season that included failing to race at the 2020 Olympic Games. The 'world's sexiest athlete' is now targeting Paris in three years' time. Read Full...

A local Russian politician has called for the country’s ruling party to be declared extremist, claiming that the group “leaves as much ruin behind as other banned terrorist organizations,” such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. ...

Shortly after the deadly Kabul bombing, President Joe Biden has said that the US military may have shared data on Americans and allied Afghans with the Taliban in order to streamline evacuations.  Read Full Article at RT.com

The Spanish effort to evacuate its personnel from Afghanistan has drawn to a close, with all diplomatic staff safely removed from Kabul to Dubai, and 1,898 Afghan allies flown to Spain as the Taliban’s adopted deadline nears. Read Ful...

The Cuban government will officially recognize cryptocurrencies for payments on the island, according to a resolution published in the Official Gazette. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s gold and foreign currency holdings grew by another $1.8 billion in the week through August 20, according to the latest data published by the country’s central bank. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US Supreme Court has vacated a stay on a lower court’s decision to end the latest federal eviction moratorium, arguing that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) far overstepped its authority by imposing it. Read Full Article at R...

At least 28 Taliban members perished in two suicide bombings that rocked the Afghan capital, an official from the group told Reuters, vowing to beef up security at the Kabul airport to prevent future terrorist attacks. Read Full Article...

The DC police officer who fatally shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt said his decision to open fire would not have changed even if he had known she was unarmed, in his first on-record comments since the unrest on January 6. Read Full Art...

The New York federal jail where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in what was ruled a suicide has been ordered to shut down, for now, amid reports of numerous violations, including filthy conditions. Read Full Ar...

A plane set to airlift ex-marine and animal activist Pen Farthing from Afghanistan was cancelled over safety concerns, leaving him stranded with staff and scores of rescued cats and dogs as activists try to arrange a new flight. Read Fu...

Manchester City have reportedly opened negotiations with superagent Jorge Mendes over a sensational move for his top client, Cristiano Ronaldo. But what's behind what would be one of the most remarkable coups in modern times? Read Full ...

Vice News was taken to the woodshed after sharing a story suggesting the US Marine Corps is infested with “neo-Nazis,” hours after bombings in Afghanistan took the lives of at least 13 American soldiers, most of them Marines. Read F...

Addressing the deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, US President Joe Biden vowed retaliation against ISIS and said that the US won’t stop the evacuation, while noting that attacks are likely to continue “beyond today.” Read Full ...

Talk show host Todd Starnes has called for the destruction of an Afghan city for every American killed after an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 12 US citizens. Read Full Article at R...

The Taliban has belatedly reached out to calm the nerves of Kabul residents after the terrorist attacks at the airport, explaining the most recent explosions are only the US military destroying ammunition ahead of their departure. Read ...

The last German planes left Kabul on Thursday, as Berlin officially ended its evacuation mission in Afghanistan. All German soldiers left the country unharmed, the defense minister has confirmed. Read Full Article at RT.com

TV presenters looked scared as a huge fracas broke out at a face-off between boxing yob Jake Paul and ex-UFC champ Tyron Woodley – with the MMA star reacting furiously after his devoted mom was targeted. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan's capital, according to the terrorist group's propaganda outlet. Read Full Article at RT.com

A shadowy US agency software used to screen immigrants’ backgrounds for red flags can reportedly lead to naturalized Americans being stripped of citizenship if its algorithms find anything considered “derogatory” in their records ...

Another explosion was heard from the direction of Kabul’s airport, RT's senior correspondent Murad Gazdiev reported on Thursday. This comes as dozens have been killed and injured from a double blast at the airport earlier. Read Full A...

Seven US Capitol Police officers have filed a lawsuit against former president Donald Trump and multiple right-wing groups over their alleged responsibility for the treatment they received during the January 6 Capitol riot. Read Full Ar...

Tennis veteran Venus Williams has joked that she is looking for men who don't "talk too much" after withdrawing from the US Open, while sister Serena's coach has admitted that her future is in the balance after she pulled out. Read Full...

At least 13 US military personnel were killed when two Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) suicide bombers mounted attacks on the Kabul airport and a nearby hotel on Thursday, officials with US Central Command have confirmed. Read Full Ar...

The US pullout from Afghanistan has been “completely botched” and demonstrates Washington’s lack of political will to do things right, a US Afghan war veteran told RT, adding that the war lasted for too long in the first place. Re...

Israel has permitted more commercial goods to enter Gaza after hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated and called for Tel Aviv to end its devastating blockade on the area. Read Full Article at RT.com

A coroner’s report has confirmed that late BBC Radio presenter Lisa Shaw died from “complications” related to AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com

Manchester City have suspended France star Benjamin Mendy pending an investigation after police announced the Premier League winner has been charged with four counts of rape. Read Full Article at RT.com