New Zealand won’t be dragged into US hostilities with China, with which it has a ‘mature’ relationship that allows for disputes and differences to be resolved in a calm manner, PM Jacinda Ardern said. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The rise of cryptocurrencies over the last decade has taken the world of finance by storm, with millions of people opening virtual wallets in an effort to join the ‘crypto-frenzy’ and make easy money betting on them. Read Full Artic...

A tall waterspout, a tornado-shaped funnel of air over water, was filmed in the skies of Melilla, a small Spanish enclave on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, on Friday morning. Read Full Article at RT.com

Eight people were killed and several more injured in a stampede during a sold-out hip-hop music festival in Houston, Texas, the fire department said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Special forces troops in the US military are sounding alarms over potential safety violations at an elite combat diving program after two trainees were reportedly killed in the span of as many months during training. Read Full Article a...

After marathon behind-the-scenes negotiations and at the urging of President Joe Biden, House lawmakers have approved the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. This leaves his ‘Build Back Better’ bill hanging. Read Full Articl...

A copy of the diary of US President Joe Biden’s daughter has reportedly been confirmed as genuine. The FBI has raided multiple homes as part of an investigation into its alleged theft, media reported. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Unofficial merchandise using the NASCAR logo alongside the words ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ – a political meme meant as a coded slur toward President Joe Biden – is illegal and will not be tolerated, according to the company’s top e...

Shares of German biotech company BioNTech, which co-developed a Covid-19 vaccine with US company Pfizer, took a dramatic 20% plunge on Friday in the wake of a damning whistleblower report. Read Full Article at RT.com

At least 125 people were injured in fierce clashes between police and protesters as angry crowds attempted to storm Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. Read Full Article at RT.com

Austria will soon bar the unvaccinated from entering a long list of public places, among them bars, cafes and hotels, the country’s chancellor said, pointing to an unexpectedly rapid surge in Covid-19 cases. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Americans unsure whether to get a Covid-19 test over 600 days into the pandemic can now use an online tool developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and volunteer some personal information to get a recommendation. Read Full A...

Clashes have erupted between police and participants of the annual Million Mask March in London, as anti-establishment demonstrators set off fireworks at officers and burned an effigy of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Read Full A...

Employers in Latvia have been granted the right to suspend or dismiss staff that refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as the Baltic nation battles a wave of infection and an inoculation rate that lags below the EU average. Read Ful...

Asked if she had a plan to lower the skyrocketing gasoline prices at US pumps, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughed it off as a “hilarious” idea, before falling back on the Biden administration’s talking points about OPEC. R...

While New York City is paying children to get the jab, Chicago is to cease all public school classes for ‘Vaccine Awareness Day’, to promote inoculation against Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

NFL star Aaron Rodgers has hit out at reports that he 'lied' about his vaccination status as he reveals that he has been taking advice on alternative Covid therapies from podcast host Joe Rogan, including the use of Ivermectin. Read Ful...

If anyone still doubts whether former US president Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, new revelations this week should put the question to bed for good, with an FBI document showing it to be a fabrication. Read ...

Multiple bomb threats were called in simultaneously around the Yale University campus in Connecticut, resulting in students being evacuated from several buildings during an hours-long scare. Read Full Article at RT.com

Describing the UN climate conference in Glasgow as just “blah blah blah” and a failure, teen activist Greta Thunberg insisted the world needs immediate and drastic change in order to avoid an impending disaster. Read Full Article at...

Alexandre Benalla, former security adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron, has been handed a three-year jail term for assaulting May Day protesters three years ago. However, he reportedly won’t spend even a night behind bars. Rea...

Political commentator and activist Candace Owens has lashed out at Joe Biden after watching a fiery face-off between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington, who have both supported the US president's predecessor, Donald Trump. Read Full Artic...

The BBC’s decision to give Huw Edwards’ a dressing down over his conduct and impartiality, after he tweeted his concern about the removal of a British “hero” from a Cardiff museum, has provoked the ire of some Britons. Read Full...

British police have issued a call for anyone related to a potential victim of necrophiliac killer David Fuller to come forward, setting up a direct hotline after he admitted guilt in at least 100 corpse abuse cases. Read Full Article at...

A new Pew Research poll on discrimination during the Covid-19 pandemic has received pushback for classifying Latino Americans based on the darkness or lightness of their skin tone. Read Full Article at RT.com

Heavy rain which poured down on Bosnia overnight has caused power outages and freak flooding in the capital Sarajevo, forcing some school closures and even evacuations for residents in the worst-hit parts of the city. Read Full Article ...

The Chinese Defense Ministry has lodged official protests with the US over the Pentagon’s latest wartime potential assessment of China’s military. It is not Beijing but Washington that poses a threat to the world, China said. Read F...

Victoria Jensen, a nurse who recently went viral after filming herself being escorted out of her hospital for refusing to get the Covid vaccine, has told RT her religious beliefs had not been taken seriously. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Twitter has warned that governments’ attempts to tackle anonymous accounts on social media would be “ineffective” at reducing online abuse, which it described as a “social problem” that can’t be fixed with “tech solutions....

Gina Carano has become something of a political firebrand after being fired from her starring role in Disney's 'The Mandalorian' earlier this year. Now the forthright star has again courted controversy with an anti-vax statement. Read F...

Spanish police have shot and killed a man who arrived at a vaccine center brandishing a knife on Friday, reportedly threatening passersby before turning on cops, in the Madrid neighborhood of San Cristobal de los Angeles. Read Full Arti...

Three different coronavirus shots – those mainly available in the US and Europe – have shown a dramatic decline in efficacy over time, a study of nearly 800,000 Americans reveals. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chechen supremo Ramzan Kadyrov watched on as one of his sons was lavished with adulation after winning a boxing match, with an announcer calling the youngster Muhammad Ali as he was awarded a belt. Read Full Article at RT.com

At least seven people have been arrested by Turkish authorities, suspected of having connections to the self-exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of being behind the 2016 coup attempt. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Donald Trump’s former UN ambassador Nikki Haley has suggested politicians over a certain age should undergo a cognitive test before running for a senior office, prompting an outpouring of criticism and mockery. Read Full Article at RT...

The French Agriculture Ministry has ordered the country’s poultry farmers to keep their fowl indoors to prevent the potential spread of a highly contagious bird-flu strain via migratory birds. Read Full Article at RT.com

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police while protesting against a women’s prayer group that had attempted to worship at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, after Benjamin Netanyahu amplified calls to prevent the “desecration.�...

A 21-year-old Chelsea fan has been lambasted by a judge after he was sentenced to prison for posting anti-semitic abuse aimed at fans of London rivals Tottenham, including images of Auschwitz and a man performing a Nazi salute. Read Ful...

Food prices have surged to a new global peak, hitting their highest level since July 2011 and extending the 30% increase recorded last year, according to the latest United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report. Read Ful...

Final preparations are underway in the US as NASA gets ready to launch a spacecraft destined to deliberately collide with an asteroid at high speed. The crash will be a test of the agency's "planetary defense" mission. Read Full Article...

Labour politicians’ home addresses and personal phone numbers were reportedly stolen during a “cyber incident” affecting the party’s IT provider – sparking personal security fears in the aftermath of Tory MP David Amess’ mur...

Police are hunting a man accused of a $35 million heist on a mansion belonging to the daughter of ex-F1 Bernie Ecclestone and further raids on two Premier League managers, with reports claiming he is hiding in Belgrade. Read Full Articl...

Drugmaker Pfizer is ramping up production of its yet-to-be-approved antiviral pill, after a small-scale study showed great promise in preventing serious cases of Covid-19. The company has not announced the price of its product. Read Ful...

Freight ships are huge carbon emitters and if countries and companies hope to meet Paris Agreement targets they must change the way freight shipping is managed, making it greener by using electric batteries or alternative fuels. Read Fu...

Czech President Milos Zeman has vowed to serve until the end of his term in 2023, despite spending nearly a month in intensive care with an undisclosed diagnosis, as senators consider declaring him unfit for office. Read Full Article at...

A 14-year-old transgender golfer has filed a lawsuit through a civil rights group against lawmakers in Tennessee, hitting out at laws stopping school athletes from participating on teams that do not match their gender at birth. Read Ful...

Legendary former Barcelona midfielder Xavi is set to complete his return to the Camp Nou after Qatari side Al-Sadd confirmed that Barca have paid the release clause in his contract ahead of confirming him as their new boss. Read Full Ar...

Iran has increased its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium to 25kg, state media has revealed. The announcement comes shortly after a date was set for the resumption of nuclear talks between Tehran and other world powers. Read Full Article...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies led by Russia have decided to keep decreasing their collective oil output cuts by 400,000 barrels per day during the next month, sticking to their original plans. Read Ful...

One West Ham supporter will be returning home from his side's away fixture against Genk a little lighter than he arrived after a grisly social media clip showed that the unknown fan severed a FINGER during goal celebrations. Read Full A...

A Russian diplomat was found dead last month outside the country's Embassy in central Berlin, it emerged on Friday. According to a report from Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine, the man fell from a window. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russia and China have launched a new joint bid to slash sanctions against North Korea, circulating a draft resolution at the UN Security Council. Everyone agrees it is very unlikely to pass, but that’s no reason to ignore it. Read Ful...

A woman who believed she would dodge prison because of her “white skin” and that all Capitol riot participants deserved a pardon from then-president Donald Trump has been given a 60-day jail sentence. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Beijing has said it will hold supporters of Taiwan independence criminally liable for life and has listed several punishments, including prohibiting all accused or their families from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Read F...

US Marine Corps have denied claims they were wiped out and forced to surrender by the British during a fierce simulated battle in a Californian desert. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iconic UFC announcer Bruce Buffer has revealed he took a cocktail of antibodies but ignored a drug made famous by commentator Joe Rogan when he caught Covid, urging his many fans to "play it safe" by becoming jabbed. Read Full Article a...

The Dutch Supreme Court has overturned a 2014 ruling by a Hague-based arbitration tribunal that ordered Russia to pay $57 billion to former shareholders of Yukos, a defunct oil giant once owned by ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Read ...

After a bid by the tech giant’s parent company, Alphabet, for a lucrative Pentagon cloud-computing contract, Google’s employees have hit back – three years on from a worker protest that led to a prior defense deal being scuttled. ...

National butterfly record holder Svetlana Chimrova took gold at 200m and the nation's women's 4x50m relay team also triumphed on a glorious day for Russian swimming at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan. Read Full...

The residents of Delhi have woken up to find their city under a blanket of toxic smog, after revelers defied a ban on the use of fireworks as millions celebrated the Hindu festival of lights on Thursday night. Read Full Article at RT.co...

New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced plans to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin, saying that he would make his city the “center of the cryptocurrency industry.” Read Full Article at RT.com

US Republican Party politician Lauren Boebert went to a social event in a “Let’s Go Brandon” dress, apparently mocking the Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s look at the Met Gala. Read Full Article at RT.com

An academic invited on MSNBC to discuss the election of Winsome Sears – an immigrant who became the first black woman to hold statewide office in Virginia – bashed the Republican as a purveyor of “white supremacy.” Read Full Art...

Richie McGinniss, who witnessed the Kyle Rittenshouse shooting first-hand, has told the jury that one of the men killed was attempting to get hold of Rittenhouse's rifle at the very moment the teen pulled the trigger. Read Full Article ...

A group of activists mobbed the car of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin over his opposition to a proposed spending package, claiming the lawmaker attempted to run them down. Videos of the standoff have made the rounds online. Read Full Ar...

Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas saw intense violence as local National Guard officers faced off with a migrant caravan moving north to Mexico City. Scuffles reportedly resulted in injuries on both sides. Read Full Article at RT.com...

An aide to US President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus after traveling overseas with the commander in chief, the White House confirmed to media outlets, noting that Biden’s own test came back negative. Read Full Art...

Top White House Covid adviser Anthony Fauci insists he carries no blame for the coronavirus outbreak, shooting back after GOP Senator Rand Paul demanded he own up to funding potentially dangerous viral research in Wuhan, China. Read Ful...

The White House said that President Joe Biden is still in favor of cash payouts to migrant families separated under the previous administration. The clarification came after he denied reports they could receive $450,000 each. Read Full ...

Microsoft’s virtual conference Ignite 2021 was all about hybrid work, metaverse and the cloud, but it opened with “land acknowledgments” to local native tribes and featured speakers describing their race and preferred pronouns. Re...

Cellular providers Verizon and AT&T have been forced to delay their full 5G rollout as the Federal Aviation Administration warns that expanding into a certain bandwidth will seriously interfere with bands used for aircraft safety. Read ...

Activist-philanthropist Bill Gates has raised alarms with critics by suggesting that billions of dollars be invested into a global pandemic task force running “germ games” to prepare for future outbreaks or biological attacks. Read ...

The US Navy has relieved the captain, executive officer and chief sonar technician of USS 'Connecticut', the nuclear-powered attack submarine that struck an undersea mountain in the South China Sea last month. Read Full Article at RT.co...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says her state has joined a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its latest “unconstitutional” vaccine mandate. However, Noem herself is facing a mandates-related lawsuit. Read Full Article...

The English town of Whitehaven may soon have a brand-new coal mine for the first time in decades – and the locals told RT they're looking forward to seeing the project reversing an economic decline. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

At least two suspected gang members were killed after gunfire erupted at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun Resort in Mexico, local offiicals confirmed. Guests and employees were rushed into hiding by staff amid reports of a shootout. Read F...

At least 60 people are reported to have been killed in what appears to have been an attack by jihadists affiliated with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in a remote area in the southwest of the country. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to buy up to $650 million worth of air-to-air missiles and related equipment from Raytheon, the former employer of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The lawsuit filed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin against rival billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX firm – and the US government, which picked SpaceX over Blue Origin – has been dismissed. Read Full Arti...

With details of President Biden’s private-sector vaccine mandate revealed, commercial pilot Jason Kunisch told RT that such mandates already risk cratering the aviation industry, which is dealing with “severe” staffing shortages. ...

Newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams will be taking his first three checks in his position in bitcoin, to make good on his promise to make the city the “center of the cryptocurrency industry.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville has split the Democrats with a warning that the party’s move towards “stupid wokeness” was behind its election losses in Virginia. Read Full Article at RT.com

A 28-year-old woman has been sent to prison for life by a court in Germany, after she killed five of her six children in an extreme and shocking act of revenge against her ex-husband. Read Full Article at RT.com

Serious questions are expected to be asked of Zimbabwean boxing authorities after the death of highly-rated Taurai Zimunya, 24, shortly after he collapsed during a professional bout in the capital, Harare. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Maryland school board has come under fire for giving kids a “psychoeducational lesson” about what it called the US’ “dual pandemic” of Covid-19 and “systemic racism.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Introducing an HPV vaccine as part of the NHS effort to prevent cervical cancer has saved hundreds of British women from developing the disease, a fresh study says, citing 13 years of observations. Read Full Article at RT.com

President Joe Biden’s controversial workplace vaccine mandate has been revealed, and could soon be made permanent and expanded to small businesses. The Biden administration has already been sued for overreach. Read Full Article at RT....

A juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial has been excused after joking to a sheriff’s deputy about the 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse is on trial for killing two men at protests sparked by Blake’s shooting. Rea...

The Russian and Belarusian presidents have signed a revised Union State military doctrine, as well as a package of other integration documents, paving the way for bringing the two nations closer together. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Vladimir Putin has been using a state-of-the-art Russian-made presidential limousine since 2018, and a new RT documentary now tells the story of how the unique vehicle was conceptualized and built from scratch in just five years. Read F...

Children as young as five in San Francisco, California will soon be required to present proof of Covid-19 vaccination for access to certain indoor venues such as restaurants, public health officials have revealed. Read Full Article at R...

A figure skating coach has caused controversy by claiming that the points scoring system could be changed for the likes of ice legend Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, with one former champion branding his ideas a joke. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Conservative Owen Paterson has resigned as the MP for North Shropshire amid an ongoing lobbying scandal that forced the government into an embarrassing U-turn. Paterson has vowed to remain a “public servant.” Read Full Article at RT...

An undercover video released by Project Veritas has shown a poll worker allowing a man claiming to be a non-citizen to fill out a ballot for the New Jersey gubernatorial race that was called for Democrat incumbent Phil Murphy. Read Full...

Heroin is almost impossible to get in North America, where it has been virtually replaced by fentanyl, Vice News says – leading some sarcastic commenters to wonder if this means the CIA will ask Congress for more money for coups. Read...

A group of Democrat lawmakers wants the Justice Department to crack down on “unruly” airline passengers, amid a spate of “confrontational behavior” triggered by mask requirements. Read Full Article at RT.com

Retired UFC icon Khabib Nurmagomedov has called on his pal Kamaru Usman to put a beating on his arch-rival Colby Covington in the UFC 268 headliner this weekend in Madison Square Garden. Read Full Article at RT.com

US agents have arrested the Russian analyst who served as the primary source for Christopher Steele’s dossier of salacious gossip about Donald Trump. The dossier was used to justify FBI wiretapping on Trump’s campaign. Read Full Art...

Russia saw its crude oil and condensate production rise in October for a second consecutive month as it increased output under the OPEC+ agreement to ease the collective production cuts. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Chinese foreign ministry has hit back at the US, demanding Washington refrain from interfering in Taiwan, after American General Mark Milley said his forces were capable of defending the island nation against Beijing. Read Full Arti...