Reunification with China best serves the interests of Taiwanese people and will be achieved by peaceful means, Chinese President Xi Jinping insisted, warning foreign nations about interfering in the issue. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

In a blow to the Joe Biden administration, Texas has received a green light to enforce its strict abortion ban again – a mere two days after a federal judge ruled to suspend the law that has sparked an intense legal battle. Read Full ...

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has a capped supply of 21 million coins, with almost 90% already mined. Analysts are now speculating what will happen to the crypto economy when no new coins are being issued. Read Full Art...

Beijing has called for an immediate expansion of coal production in Inner Mongolia by nearly 100 million tons, Reuters reports. This comes amid a global energy crunch and coal shortages in the country. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The top US health agency said that any Covid vaccine approved by the World Health Organization will be permitted for foreign visitors, Reuters reported, as Russian officials push the WHO to give its official blessing to Sputnik V. Read ...

US officials are set to meet with the Taliban in Qatar over the weekend for the first in-person round of talks since the US withdrawal, and are expected to press the group to form an “inclusive government” and aid evacuations. Read ...

The US Department of Justice said it will not seek federal civil rights charges against the Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake during a domestic incident last year, noting it could not prove “excessive force” was used. Re...

The 18-year-old student who was arrested earlier this week for shooting three people at a high school near Dallas has stirred online outrage by enjoying a welcome-home party after posting bail following less than one day in jail. Read F...

Joint military, taxation and court agreements in Bosnia-Herzegovina have been used to violate Serb rights and the 1995 peace deal, said Milorad Dodik, a member of the country’s tripartite presidency from Republika Srpska. Read Full Ar...

A man accused of assaulting his girlfriend and threatening to kill his mother in New York’s Queens borough is in a unique, days-long standoff with police. He simply clambered into a tree outside his house and refused to come down. Rea...

As President Joe Biden signed a law funding the treatment of 200-plus US officials who claim to have been affected by so-called Havana Syndrome, German police said they were looking into more possible cases. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Militant groups in northern Mali’s Kidal region have been trained by French officers, Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga claimed in an interview with RIA Novosti, saying two-thirds of his country is “occupied by terrorists.” Rea...

The US government spent $85 billion on the Afghan military, only to see it surrender to the Taliban without a fight. Now the son of a former defense minister is spending millions to buy a luxury mansion with a view of Los Angeles. Read ...

Iceland will no longer administer Moderna’s mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, with the country’s chief epidemiologist citing the risk of rare heart inflammations seen in other Nordic countries. Read Full Article at RT.com

The intricacies of identity politics were laid bare when a transgender white woman behind Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ boycotted the firm for the “dangerous transphobic content” of black comedian Dave Chappelle. Confused yet?...

The New York Times had to issue a doozy of a correction on an article by its Covid-19 reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, who somehow inflated the number of US children hospitalized with the virus to 14 times the actual level. Read Full Articl...

Donald Trump claimed his Trump Hotel in DC brought in $150 million while he was in the White House, but a House committee has issued a damning report claiming the hotel actually suffered more than $70 million in losses. Read Full Articl...

Social media giant Facebook, along with its subsidiaries Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, is offline for the second time in less than a week, leaving competitors to rescue its customers from an existential crisis. Read Full Article a...

Two people were shot dead at a senior living home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC on Friday, leading to a lockdown of a nearby school until police were able to rule out the possibility of additional victims or suspects. Read Full...

Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny has raised eyebrows during his defense of 'infectious' star Callum Robinson, who refuses to get vaccinated despite catching Covid twice. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US only added 194,000 jobs in September, far short of the expected half a million. While the stock market dipped and financial analysts fretted, the White House claimed things weren’t really so bad and blamed the coronavirus. Read...

Russia has responded to a list of questions on the alleged poisoning of Alexey Navalny from 45 OPCW members, Moscow’s envoy to the chemical watchdog told RT, adding that the case has been “extremely politicized” by the West. Read ...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will scrap the city’s gifted and talented program, which critics say discriminates against black and Hispanic students. However, the mayor was accused of dumbing down his schools to appear woke. Read Full...

The long-serving editor of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, has reacted to his unexpected Nobel Peace Prize award win by paying tribute to jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny and to slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Read...

The nominees for the prestigious Ballon d’Or award for the world’s best footballer have been revealed, with Lionel Messi in the running for a record-extending seventh win while Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski feature. Read ...

The Lithuanian government has received €29.6 million ($34.2 million) of its allocated aid from the European Commission to help tackle Vilnius’ influx of migrants seeping in from neighboring Belarus.  Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An Australian police watchdog is probing a “violent struggle” in the state of Queensland, but confirmed use of force by its officers during the situation in which an Indigenous man lost consciousness during efforts to detain him. Re...

British boxer Shannon Courtenay said the onset of her menstrual cycle caused her to miss weight as she came in over the limit for her showdown against Jamie Mitchell, leading to her being stripped of the WBA bantamweight belt. Read Full...

Swiss police used a water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas to break up an anti-Covid protest on Thursday after a crowd of demonstrators broke through barriers outside the federal capital’s parliament building. Read Full Article at ...

The president of Sierra Leone officially abolished the country’s death penalty on Friday, three months after its parliament backed ending the ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’ practice of capital punishment. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Social welfare expert Baroness Louise Casey has been named lead of the Met Police review of its culture and standards as the force attempts to rebuild public trust in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder by a serving officer. Read Full ...

If you believe in a “Deep State” embedded in the US government, then you’re falling down the conspiracy “rabbit hole,” the Washington Post claims. Yet the Post believes this theory too. It just doesn’t call it a ‘Deep Stat...

Mobility in Sydney during lockdown has been 50% lower during weekdays and down 70% at weekends, data from an Australian company studying people’s movements has revealed. In Melbourne, mobility has also dropped, down 40%. Read Full Art...

By condemning the integration of Russia and Belarus, members of the European Parliament are trying to influence cooperation between Moscow and Minsk, in what amounts to foreign interference in the internal affairs of two nations. Read F...

The Russian Ministry of Justice has included Netherlands-based digital investigations team Bellingcat in a list of ‘foreign agents’ published on Friday, along with journalists working for US state-run media RFERL and the UK’s BBC....

A fire has broken out at Andorra's Estadi Nacional, which is where the tiny country's national football team are set to play England in a 2022 World Cup qualifier on Saturday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s national tourism agency has announced plans to offer visitors a route covering President Vladimir Putin’s past holiday destinations across the vast expanses of Siberia, citing interest in where the world leader unwinds. Rea...

Moscow has called the key players in Central Asia together for a summit to discuss the security of the region and the situation in Afghanistan. Russia has invited both diplomats from Beijing and representatives of the Taliban. Read Full...

A 100-year-old man, the oldest person to stand trial in Germany for Nazi-era crimes, who is accused of aiding and abetting the killing of thousands of prisoners at a concentration camp, insists he is innocent. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A top British cyclist has described being attacked and robbed of his expensive custom bike worth almost $14,000, by four balaclava-wearing thugs on motorbikes wielding a machete in southwest London on Thursday afternoon. Read Full Artic...

Eight armed, uniformed French police boarded a Eurostar train on Thursday afternoon, after it made an emergency stop in Lille, to forcibly remove a passenger who was accused of “not wearing the right type of mask.”  Read Full Artic...

Natural gas prices skyrocketed this week and had Europe on edge. The only way to stabilize the situation is to know the root causes of the price spike, the head of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) has told RT. Read Full Arti...

WBO female super featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer became involved in a bizarre racism spat after commenting on the upcoming Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder fight, where she backed the 'Gypsy King' to win. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Brussels’ top diplomat in Moscow has claimed that any politicization of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine is the fault of the Kremlin, not of EU officials, despite a months-long delay in approving the tried and tested formula. Read F...

Ukrainian MPs have voted to remove parliamentary speaker Dmitry Razumkov after clashes over a new bill that aims to reduce the influence of oligarchs on the political system. Razumkov disagreed with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Read Fu...

California has become the first US state to prohibit ‘stealthing’ – the practice of removing a condom without verbal consent during sex, in a move that allows victims to sue perpetrators for damages. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson called on Greece to fully investigate allegations the country’s coast guard had illegally used pushback tactics to force migrants into the Aegean Sea. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Met, the UK’s largest police force, has reportedly been ranked the worst in England and Wales for solving sexual and violent crimes. A new analysis found charges were brought in only one in 20 offences probed by Scotland Yard. Rea...

Following Warsaw’s landmark verdict that ruled Polish law takes supremacy over some parts of the EU’s treaties, the bloc’s chief has said Brussels will do everything in its power to ensure EU laws retain primacy. Read Full Article...

Cristiano Ronaldo has scooped the Premier League’s Player of the Month Award for September, but some fans and pundits have called the decision a travesty against flying Liverpool forward Mo Salah. Read Full Article at RT.com

Eco-warriors from Insulate Britain have once again caused disruptions to the major M25 orbital, as well as one of London's busy roundabouts at Old Street, despite running the risk of facing harsh penalties. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The world’s food price index in September rose for the second consecutive month to its highest level in 10 years, data from a press release of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) shows. Read Full Article ...

A fire has broken out at a Siberian gas refinery, sending emergency services scrambling to fight the blaze and potentially damaging energy processing equipment, as Russia steps up its output to meet a growing demand from China. Read Ful...

The mother of the young woman videotaped and photographed with Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer as the pair danced in his steak restaurant in Ohio last week has revealed she is concerned about her daughter's wellbeing. Read Full A...

The EU should withdraw its policies aimed at tackling climate change as they’re the reason for the record surge in energy prices on the continent in autumn, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, has said. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The EU provided Russia with instructions on applying for recognition of Covid-19 vaccination certificates in July, but Moscow hasn’t completed the required documents, meaning inoculated Russians must still quarantine upon arrival. Rea...

Perennial Premier League underachievers Newcastle United have been taken over by a Saudi consortium with endless funds. But what are some of the questions thrown up by the coup and how does it affect the modern game? Read Full Article a...

The UK’s daily meat consumption has dropped by 17% over the last 10 years, an Oxford University study has found, as Britons seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diets to meet an ambitious 2030 climate target. Read Full Art...

A huge explosion ripped through a Shiite Mosque during Friday prayer in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province. Sources say that at least 60 people have been killed by the blast. Read Full Article at RT.com

UFC strawweight contender Mackenzie Dern has suggested ‘beautiful’ female fighters are forced to prove themselves more because of their looks, as the popular BJJ queen geared up for the main event spotlight in Las Vegas. Read Full A...

Rescue workers and bystanders let out a jubilant cry on Friday morning in Georgia’s second city, Batumi, after a child was saved from beneath the wreckage of a collapsed residential building, where other people remain trapped. Read Fu...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has expressed its concern about an incident in the South China Sea in which a US submarine collided with an “unknown” object, sustaining significant damage and injuring several mariners. Read Full Articl...

Tokyo will not agree to sign a peace treaty with Moscow if the two capitals can’t resolve their territorial dispute over the Southern Kurils, a group of four islands currently under the jurisdiction of Russia but claimed by Japan. Rea...

Poland’s prime minister welcomed a court verdict that found parts of Warsaw’s constitution are incompatible with EU treaties, ruling the country’s laws take precedence, a move that angered some bloc-member states. Read Full Articl...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that tougher regulation is needed to prevent the rapid growth of cryptocurrencies in emerging markets as it could lead to financial instability there. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chinese state media has warned Canberra to stay out of its internal affairs as Australia’s former prime minister rallied behind Taiwan during a visit to the island, which Beijing deems an inherent part of China. Read Full Article at R...

One of the world’s most visited websites, Pornhub, became even more popular this week, its data analysis shows. With Instagram and FB inaccessible, Internet users entertained themselves online with “adults only” content. Read Full...

The Nobel Committee has awarded Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov the 2021 Peace Prize for “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,” alongside Filipino investigative reporter Maria Ressa. Muratov is the head of Novaya Gazeta. Re...

France’s European affairs minister has claimed Britain is failing with Brexit, but French fishermen must not pay for the UK’s misfortune as he demanded more fishing licences for gallic trawlers and warned of electricity cuts. Read F...

A federal magistrate judge in Nevada says the rape case against Cristiano Ronaldo should be dropped as he sided with the football megastar’s lawyers against the attorney for accuser Kathryn Mayorga. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Meteorologists are predicting a particularly cold winter, and it could send oil prices to the highest level since 2014. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emergency services are responding after part of a five-story apartment building collapsed in Georgia's second city, Batumi, on Friday, with reports indicating that an unknown number of people are injured or trapped beneath rubble. Read ...

Russia has been gradually increasing gas deliveries to Europe over the past nine months, boosting exports by 15% compared to last year and edging toward record gas deliveries via all routes, including Ukraine, Gazprom Export says. Read ...

A chilling archive of footage purportedly showing the abuse of inmates in Russian prison colonies has already sparked a probe and cost several officers their jobs. The group behind the leak tells RT there’s still more to come. Read Fu...

China’s newly-established Beijing Stock Exchange is prepping to start trading by the end of the year, having successfully run the first technical test with market players, with the second test planned later this week. Read Full Articl...

A former inmate at a Saratov prison tuberculosis hospital was forced by guards to sign a document claiming he had no complaints against staff, before being threatened with rape and extorted to send money to guards, he has told RT. Read ...

The decision by NATO chiefs to slash the size of Moscow’s delegation to the military bloc makes the job of diplomacy far harder at a time when hostility and mutual suspicion are already running high, the Kremlin has cautioned.  Read ...

An official Facebook page of the USS Kidd, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has fallen victim to hackers, or so it says, after the account was caught streaming a classic strategy game. The player did not show much skill, however. Read ...

The French ambassador to Australia, who will soon return to the nation after being recalled by Paris amid a spat over a secretly negotiated deal for US-made nuclear subs, said Canberra was “childish” to keep the sale under wraps. Re...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has vowed not to enforce a local vaccine mandate, saying he’s not willing to lose employees by demanding that they get their Covid-19 shots or be fired. Read Full Article at RT.com

Covid-19 rules for this month’s holidays will be less strict than last year in Canada’s Ontario province, but health officials have attached some strings to the eased guidelines, including a quieter trick-or-treating experience. Rea...

Google and its subsidiary YouTube will no longer monetize content that goes against the “scientific consensus” on global warming, removing all ads from posts with inaccurate claims in an effort to combat “climate change denial.”...

Electric car-maker Tesla is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Houston, Texas, its co-founder Elon Musk has announced at the annual shareholders’ meeting, citing limits to expanding the company in the Bay Area. Read...

The 18-year-old arrested for shooting three people at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas has been released on a $75,000 bail after less than a day in jail. His attorney insists this wasn’t a “standard” school shooting. Rea...

The US Navy has acknowledged that an attack submarine operating in international waters of the Indo-Pacific region struck an underwater object, injuring multiple crew members and damaging the vessel. Read Full Article at RT.com

US President Joe Biden fumbled and stumbled his way through a speech promoting vaccine mandates, seemingly referring to Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot as “Mister Mayor” and almost saluting the nonexistent “Ohio Pennsylvania President....

The US Marine Corps is charging Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, who publicly criticized the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, with six crimes in a special court-martial. He reportedly wants to resign instead. Read Full Article at...

Research by the American Academy of Pediatrics estimated that 120,630 children went through the death of a primary caregiver during the coronavirus pandemic, while an additional 22,000 lost their secondary caregiver. Read Full Article a...

France’s top bishop has been summoned by the interior minister for stating that sex abuse revealed to priests during confession would stay a secret. Days earlier, a shocking French report revealed decades of abuse by clergy. Read Full...

Lawyers for Donald Trump have reportedly asked a Florida judge to make Facebook halt its suspension of the former president, saying his banishment would do “irreparable harm” to Republicans in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Read Full ...

Poland’s constitutional tribunal has ruled that some EU laws clash with the Polish constitution. The EU – already perturbed at Poland’s nationalist government’s policies – argues otherwise. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tributes have poured in for US bodybuilder George Peterson III after he was reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida, where he was due to compete in the Mr. Olympia competition. Read Full Article at RT.com

After Iranian media showed a video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats marking their holiday by ‘dominating’ American ships in the Persian Gulf, a US Navy spokesman denied any incident had taken place. Read Full Article at RT...

A former Amazon warehouse employee has filed a lawsuit claiming the online retail giant violated Colorado state law by not paying for time taken to get Covid-19 tests. Read Full Article at RT.com

A new Gallup poll shows that Americans’ trust in mass media outlets has tumbled to the second-lowest level on record, and the relatively few US adults who think they’re seeing truth in news reports are predominantly Democrats. Read ...

The US Justice Department has formed a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to investigate crimes committed by, with, and involving virtual currency exchanges, days after JP Morgan’s CEO predicted such regulation was imminent. Rea...

The chorus of condemnation generated by the Saudi-backed takeover of Newcastle United will echo long after the ink has dried on the £300 million deal – just don’t expect fans to be listening all that intently. Read Full Article at ...

Russia’s space agency will check if a newly developed self-driving combat robot prototype is capable of repelling attacks on the Vostochny spaceport in the Far East. The technology could be eventually used for Moon exploration. Read F...

The Japanese capital and surrounding areas have been hit by a strong earthquake, causing power cuts and stopping trains, although no major damage has been reported and no tsunami risk has been flagged. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Supporters of Premier League club Newcastle have gathered near the club’s St. James’ Park home to release their joy after the news that a £300 million Saudi-led takeover of the club had been confirmed. Read Full Article at RT.com ...