Global economic losses from the Covid-19 pandemic could be as much as $10 trillion, the head of the Russian Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, said this week, blaming the plunge on the health systems’ inadequacy. Read Full Article at RT...

UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has strongly urged the public to get Covid-19 booster jabs as soon as they can so restrictions don’t return for Christmas. Read Full Article at RT.com

Conservative pundit and talk show host Candace Owens said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to give children $100 for Covid-19 vaccination was akin to brainwashing them. Read Full Article at RT.com

The purported assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi involved three drones, the nation’s Interior Ministry has said, branding the act a “terrorist attack.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The alleged assassination attempt of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was orchestrated by a foreign power seeking to destabilize the country, a senior Iranian security official said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russo-Chinese trade turnover from January to October grew by 30.9% year on year, amounting to $115.66 billion, China’s General Customs Administration reported on Sunday. Read Full Article at RT.com

The United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk – named after the assassinated gay rights activist and politician – was christened on Saturday by a transgender veteran, to both praise and cries of “vile nonsense.” Read Full Article at ...

UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman retained his title by repeating his 2019 win over Colby Covington – and the fight official aimed a joke at the feuding pair as he separated them in the immediate aftermath of the bout. Read Full ...

A spokesperson for the political wing of an Iraqi Shia militia says the alleged assassination attempt on Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi could have been staged to distract from the reported deaths of election protesters. Read Full Art...

Strawweight champion Rose Namajunas ground out a successful defense of the title she won in April from Zhang Weili at UFC 268, receiving her belt from actress and MMA fan Halle Berry in the octagon after her win. Read Full Article at RT...

Mexican icon Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez cemented his legacy as a pound-for-pound great by stopping an obdurate Caleb Plant in the 11th round of their super-middleweight title unification fight in Las Vegas. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

NFL star Henry Ruggs III is facing four charges of felony and up to 46 years in prison after being arrested on suspicion of 'DUI resulting in death', appearing in court in a neck brace after a horrific car crash. Read Full Article at RT...

The US government has offered to assist the investigation into what the Iraqi military claims was an assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, calling the incident an “apparent act of terrorism.” Read Fu...

The bodybuilding world is mourning after former Mr Olympia champion Shawn Rhoden was reportedly found dead of a heart attack at the age of 46. Rhoden had made history by winning bodybuilding’s biggest prize in 2018. Read Full Article ...

In his first fight since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov more than a year ago, Justin Gaethje earned a unanimous decision against blood-splattered former Bellator MMA champion Michael Chandler at UFC 268. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Iraqi military says that Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt after a drone hit his residence in Baghdad. The apparent attack comes in the wake of clashes over recent election results. Read Full Articl...

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk asked the public whether he should sell 10% of his stock in his electric car company, Tesla, promising to abide by the result in a move which shocked social media users. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Israel opposes the plan of US President Joe Biden’s administration to re-open America’s consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Naftali Bennet has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

At least one security guard may have been drugged as a stampede broke out at the Astroworld Music Festival, leaving eight dead and dozens injured, police said. The investigation into the incident is ongoing. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

CNN has stirred controversy and been accused of pushing “propaganda” by critics for once again deploying the ‘Sesame Street’ puppets to promote Covid-19 vaccines, this time to children. Read Full Article at RT.com

The home of Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe was reportedly raided by the FBI following two other search warrants executed on people connected to the company, over the allegedly stolen diary of Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley. Read Full...

Hundreds of people took to the streets of the German city of Leipzig on Saturday to protest against the government’s Covid-19 measures. They were faced with counter-protests and police. Read Full Article at RT.com

A German football player is planning legal action and will consult with a lawyer after receiving a seven-month ban for allegedly spitting at a player during a second division match - an act he denies. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Naomi Osaka could end her tennis exile by defending her Australian Open title after dropping a huge hint to her millions of fans – and has been backed by the US Open, which threatened her with a possible ban earlier this year. Read Fu...

A US federal appeals court has issued a stay on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers, freezing the requirement over constitutional concerns. Read Full Article at RT.com

US President Joe Biden is now saying he’s in support of “some kind of compensation” for migrant families separated at the border, after calling a report about potential $450,000 individual settlements “garbage.” Read Full Arti...

Costa Rica has become the first nation in the world to make Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for children. Parents face sanctions – and potentially, forced jabbing of their kids – if they don’t comply. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

German national team manager Hansi Flick has rushed to defend his controversial star Joshua Kimmich, who has received backlash at home and abroad for recent comments on his refusal to receive a Covid vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com...

England and Barcelona football legend Gary Lineker has continued to put his money where his mouth is by preparing to welcome a second refugee into his $5.4 million mansion, according to British media reports. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Instagram influencer Wanda Nara has dealt a low blow to her allegedly cheating ex-partner Mauro Icardi, after posting an old family photo of herself with former husband Maxi Lopez and their three sons. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is the latest Democrat politician to face public backlash over video of him breaking Covid-19 masking protocols, while dancing the night away in Puerto Rico. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Protesters are poised to target government buildings in Georgia and cause traffic chaos in the capital, Tbilisi, at the direction of jailed ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili, the ex-Soviet country’s security service has alleged. Read F...

The digital ruble, a prototype of which will be revealed as soon as this year, is expected to receive separate legal regulation. The detailed amendments will reportedly be adopted after the experiment, scheduled for 2022. Read Full Arti...

Fans and pundits have savaged struggling Manchester United after Cristiano Ronaldo was unable to perform another rescue act in a dire 2-0 defeat at home to arch-rivals Manchester City – following up their 5-0 mauling by Liverpool. Rea...

The French Catholic Church must move beyond apologies and admissions of guilt to truly protect children and compensate victims, sexual abuse survivors told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com

A bizarre night of chaotic MMA contests stunned viewers who watched on a site better known for sex webcams, featuring bare knuckle fights with headbutts, two-against-one battles, a sex doll analyst and female foes in a phone box. Read F...

The price of Bitcoin Cash popped nearly 5% on Friday morning on reports that grocery giant Kroger would begin accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment. However, the report turned out to be false. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The US-snubbed multilateral agreement on Iran’s nuclear program should be revived in its original form rather than replaced with a new deal, Moscow and Tehran say. Read Full Article at RT.com

Neymar has joined the likes of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in mourning and disbelief after one of the PSG ace's favorite artists, the musician and singer Marilia Mendonca, died in a horrific plane crash on Friday in Brazil. Read ...

Jeff Bezos, a fan of private rockets and superyachts, is “ruthlessly unimaginative,” Edward Snowden has said, pointing out that with his fortune, the billionaire could “even pay for a union” if he wanted to. Read Full Article at...

Tyson Fury raised a fist and a rallying cry as he filmed a video for fans while being driven to Manchester United's huge clash with arch-rivals Manchester City which will kick off the weekend action in the Premier League. Read Full Arti...

A football match was called off amid chaotic scenes after a player was hit by a firework in England on a night when a game in Ireland was also marred by a pyrotechnic fiasco. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ten Covid-19 patients have died after a fire broke out inside a hospital ICU in Ahmednagar, a city in India’s western Maharashtra state, on Saturday morning. One person was also injured. Read Full Article at RT.com

Saudi Arabia’s state-run energy giant, Saudi Aramco, has increased the official selling price of the Kingdom’s crude to Asian and US buyers. Global oil prices reportedly saw a smaller weekly loss as a result. Read Full Article at RT...

One of the most successful players in the history of English cricket has strongly denied telling a Pakistani player at the center of a racism scandal that there are "too many of you lot" and "we need to do something about it.” Read Fu...

A knife attack occurred on Saturday morning on a train line connecting Regensburg and Nuremberg. It left three people injured, one of them seriously, according to local media. Read Full Article at RT.com

A tanker truck explosion at night in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown caused massive loss of life, with dozens reportedly dead. Many of the victims were allegedly trying to collect fuel after an accident on the road. Read Full Article...

Australia has accomplished its goal of fully vaccinating 80% of people aged 16 and older, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said as the country eases Covid-19 restrictions. Read Full Article at RT.com

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...