The drama is unfolding in the coastal city of Bar in the south of the country. Police have evacuated residents of nearby houses and cordoned off the area around the bank, where the man took hostages earlier on Tuesday. Read Full Article...

Belarus has unveiled its proposed new constitution, opening up the possibility of the country stationing nuclear weapons on its territory and potentially enabling veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko to stay in office until 2035. Read Fu...

Russia and the US will hold talks on arms control and the situation in Ukraine on January 10, ahead of a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council and an assembly of the OSCE later that week, it was reported on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s petulant behavior is having a debilitating effect on Manchester United, according to former teammate Gary Neville, after the Portuguese star cut a frustrated figure in the draw against Newcastle. Read Full Article ...

Queensland’s PCR testing requirement for Covid-19 causes long lines and increased the risks of infection, yet its head stubbornly refuses to switch to self-administered rapid tests, the top NSW official lamented. Read Full Article at ...

Russia’s foreign minister has shared some stern words amid another spat between Moscow and the military bloc Read Full Article at RT.com

As China and Japan continue their long-running spat over contested islands in the East China Sea, Tokyo and Beijing are set to establish a communications line in a bid to improve relations, Japanese defense officials have said. Read Ful...

A private jet has crashed in a residential area in El Cajon, San Diego County, California, knocking out power lines and bursting into flames on impact. It is unclear yet if there were any casualties. Read Full Article at RT.com

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a $768 billion defense package. It represents an overall increase in military spending and includes $300 million to be set aside for security initiatives related to Moscow and Beijing. Read Fu...

Syrian air defences were activated after the country’s principal port city of Latakia came under missile attack, sparking a major fire and resulting in significant damage to the port, Syria’s state media reported. Read Full Article ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has cut its guidance regarding quarantine for those infected with Covid-19 from 10 days to five, saying the virus is typically passed on early in the course of the illness. Read Fu...

The Syrian government has sharply denounced an Israeli plan to double the population of Jewish settlers in the occupied Golan Heights – captured from Damascus in 1967 – and argued that the move is fomenting tensions. Read Full Artic...

White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci has broken the bad news to Americans awaiting his guidance on New Year’s Eve parties, saying they should again forego large gatherings because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Full Article at RT...

How is a white rapper from Canada spearheading a cultural revolution that is undermining cancel culture, wokeism, the Biden administration, and everything the left values? Read Full Article at RT.com

Airplane makers Boeing and Airbus have renewed their warnings that 5G cell phone signals – scheduled to be rolled out in earnest in early January – may threaten the ability of aircraft to operate safely in low-visibility areas. Read...

US President Joe Biden has apparently backed down from his pre-election pledge to stop Covid-19 in its tracks, telling governors it’s up to state governments to end the pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.com

After breaking for Christmas, jurors returned to a federal court in Manhattan on Monday to decide the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell. Accused of grooming and abusing four young women, Maxwell faces 80 years behind bars if convicted. Read Ful...

Minnesota’s state health department has adopted new ethical standards that include considering a person’s skin color in determining who can receive a potentially life-saving treatment for Covid-19 patients. Read Full Article at RT.c...

There is no intention to remove the body of former Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin from his mausoleum on Red Square, and such a move won’t take place in the foreseeable future, the Kremlin has revealed. Read Full Article at RT....

Had Moscow not reabsorbed Crimea in 2014, radical groups from Ukraine as well as Western private military soldiers would have made it their stronghold, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has claimed. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Chinese government has filed a complaint with the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, claiming that its space station had to take evasive action to dodge starlink satellites on two occasions this year. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Speaking during a briefing for military attachés and other foreign diplomats, in Moscow, on Monday, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin accused NATO of readying up for an all-out war with Russia. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Delta Air Lines halted service to Shanghai so suddenly that it turned back a flight from Seattle that was already halfway to China, reportedly leaving some passengers stranded with expiring Covid-19 tests and visas. Read Full Article at...

Covid testing providers are “alphabet hacking” the UK government's list of approved firms by using punctuation and numerals to beat the site’s filters and promote their products as the preferred choice, an investigation has found....

Supporters of Russian figure skater Elizaveta Tuktamysheva have launched a petition for her to be called up to the Beijing Olympics, after a disappointing performance at the national championships means she is set to miss out. Read Full...

Israel’s minister of public security recently invoked the fury of right-wingers after he vowed to fight “settler violence.” The news was announced by the official in a Twitter post on Monday.  Read Full Article at RT.com

The EU’s policy towards Russia is not helping to bolster relations and is merely a manifestation of “political Kama sutra”, Moscow’s top diplomat has claimed as tensions flare on the continent.  Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Beijing has received visa applications from more than a dozen US officials for the Winter Olympics, according to a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ethiopian Airlines announced on Monday it plans to resume flying Boeing 737 MAX planes in its fleet in February 2022, saying it was satisfied with their safety. Read Full Article at RT.com

Poland national team manager Paulo Sousa has been dubbed a 'deserter' by a furious local press after his intentions to leave the post became clear, as the Poles prepare to face Russia in a World Cup playoff in March. Read Full Article a...

Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge is encouraging those with hang-ups about needles to avail of virtual reality to distract them from the jab. The VR headsets display soothing nature scenes while workers administer the shot. Read Full ...

The travel chaos that broke out during Christmas is spilling over into the week leading to New Year’s, as global airlines have canceled thousands of flights more on Monday due to rising Covid-19 cases among staff. Read Full Article at...

In Russia’s first such legal case, Andrey Kirsanov has been accused of selling thousands of cheats for World of Tanks and World of Warships, causing an estimated $9m in damages. He could face up to five years in prison. Read Full Arti...

Israel has begun administering a fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose to triple-vaccinated test subjects. The Jewish state is already planning on offering an extra booster shot to the elderly and vulnerable. Read Full Article at RT.com

From Saturday, people as young as 16 can legally change both their gender and name in Switzerland without needing to undergo hormone therapy or medical evaluations as the country brings in new rules to remove bureaucratic hurdles. Read ...

Astronomers have found dozens of ‘rogue’ exoplanets roaming the Milky Way without a parent star to hold them in orbit. At least 70 such cosmic nomads have been confirmed, but the number could be as high as 170, a new study says. Rea...

Poland’s president has shot down a media bill that would have tightened the screws on foreign-funded media, with a US-owned channel among the obvious targets. Read Full Article at RT.com

A court in Belarus has sentenced a prominent anti-government activist to 11 years behind bars for allegedly encouraging mass unrest and threatening the security of the Eastern European nation. Read Full Article at RT.com

The British overseas territory of Gibraltar could soon host the world’s first integrated bourse, where conventional bonds can be traded alongside major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Dogecoin. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Opposition politician Mikhail Delyagin claims that Kiev is preparing to attack Russia. Read Full Article at RT.com

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This weekend, Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued the key US abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade, in 1973, passed away. The Supreme Court decision remains at the forefront of division in America. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK police have apologized to the family of former Aston Villa icon Dalian Atkinson, who died after being Tasered and kicked by an officer during an arrest in 2016. Read Full Article at RT.com

The White House is coordinating a package of ‘high-impact’ restrictive measures to slap on Moscow in case it invades Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com

A Maori leader has demanded that Australia stop deporting violent criminals to New Zealand. Many of them are “products” of Australian society who have no ties to New Zealand, he argued. Read Full Article at RT.com

Buying, selling, investing, and any other dealings in cryptocurrencies should be forbidden in India, according to Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), an affiliate of the nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Read Full Article a...

German police have detained a 50-year-old man suspected of piercing tires on 402 vehicles with a pair of nail scissors near the town of Andernach in Rhineland-Palatinate. Read Full Article at RT.com

Scientists have uncovered a secret passage beneath Panama through which “wind” from the Earth’s mantle layer is “blowing.” The discovery could explain why the nation has few active volcanoes despite being in a geological hotsp...

An anti-vaccine former kickboxing champion died at the age of 41 shortly after discharging himself from hospital and apparently suffering Covid complications, according to reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

World War II drama ‘First Oscar’ tells the story behind the creation of ‘Moscow Strikes Back’ – the first film to win an Oscar for a documentary Read Full Article at RT.com

The head of the Chechen Republic says he would have invaded “long ago” if he were instructed to do so Read Full Article at RT.com

US boxer Danny Kelly Jr. was gunned down in front of his family in a Christmas Eve shooting which may stem from a road rage incident, according to police in Maryland. Read Full Article at RT.com

Turns out US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first Twitch stream ahead of the 2020 election broke the record for most successful debut stream. Read Full Article at RT.com

Repairs to the Palace of Westminster could last for two decades and cost £14 billion, exceeding initial estimates more than three times, the British media has learned. Read Full Article at RT.com

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 can within days move from the respiratory system into the brain, heart, and nearly every organ system in the body, and stay there for months, a new study says. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The number of revenge porn incidents in London reported to the Metropolitan Police has increased sharply since December 2020, figures released by law enforcement show. Read Full Article at RT.com

NFL star Cole Beasley has been hit with a whopping $100,000 in cumulative fines for repeatedly breaching Covid protocols, according to reports. Beasley is one of the highest-profile vaccine holdouts in the league. Read Full Article at R...

Claims that Russia is deliberately causing natural gas shortages in Europe are baseless, according to Sergey Kupriyanov, spokesman for energy major Gazprom. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukrainian boxing great Vasiliy Lomachenko has handed his Olympic gold medals to a Russian workshop to make a unique gift for his father’s birthday. Read Full Article at RT.com

World number five Andrey Rublev’s plans for the Australian Open have been thrown into uncertainty after the Russian star revealed he has tested positive for Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

Facing growing anti-migration sentiment, Europe’s largest state is rolling out a drastic new policy. Read Full Article at RT.com

Japanese media has revealed details about last month’s military drills that focused on repelling a ‘foreign invasion’ of disputed islands claimed by China. Read Full Article at RT.com

Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker and TV producer Jean-Marc Vallee unexpectedly passed away at the age of 58. His work includes ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and the hit series ‘Big Little Lies’. Read Full Article at RT.com

Somalia’s president has suspended the powers of the prime minister for a second time this year. The two clashed over which of them was standing in the way of a highly sensitive parliamentary election. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

In a landmark event, the Moscow Metro has opened 10 new stations on its Big Circle Line. Read Full Article at RT.com

Opponents of compulsory vaccination and other strict Covid measures held a candlelight vigil in Austria’s capital, Vienna on Sunday after the authorities once again extended the lockdown for the unvaccinated. Read Full Article at RT.c...

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The UK’s efforts to ‘protect the NHS’ from being overwhelmed during the Covid-19 pandemic reportedly extended to asking families of disabled minors whether they should be resuscitated in the event their heart stopped beating. Read...

The Windsor Castle Christmas Day intruder has been detained under the Mental Health Act, as British tabloids uncovered a video in which he allegedly threatened to assassinate the queen, in “revenge” for the UK’s colonial crimes. R...

Canada’s Public Health Agency has admitted to secretly tracking location data from at least 33 million mobile devices to analyze people’s movement during Covid-19 lockdowns. Read Full Article at RT.com

America’s blood banks are reportedly running short of supplies as the Covid-19 pandemic reduces donations and disrupts their staffing. Read Full Article at RT.com

Customers fled from a Moscow shopping mall after a suspected shoplifter, caught by security, produced an object resembling a hand grenade. The suspect managed to flee amid the scare, but reportedly got caught shortly after. Read Full Ar...

Airlines worldwide canceled more than 2,300 flights on Sunday, the third straight day of cancellations. Staff shortages due to positive tests for Covid-19 have been blamed for the holiday chaos. Read Full Article at RT.com

One of the most vaccinated nations on earth is seeing increased public pushback over Covid-19 jabs, as demonstrators in South Korea are demanding accountability for deaths that they blame on the shots. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The expansion of NATO into former members of the USSR is a matter of “life and death” for Russia, the Kremlin has warned. Read Full Article at RT.com

Number 10, the Department of Health, and the NHS have been considering a radical way to drive up Covid vaccine intake in England; according to media reports, door-to-door teams might be sent to those who have not yet got a jab. Read Ful...

Scientists in China have reportedly built a machine ‘prosecutor’ that uses artificial intelligence to press charges. The system can file a charge with 97% accuracy when given a verbal account of events, researchers claim. Read Full ...

The extreme new sanctions threat has sparked consternation and criticism in equal measure. Read Full Article at RT.com

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva brought the house down more than any other figure skater at the Russian Championships this weekend. But sadly for Tuktamysheva and her legion of fans, her Olympic dream seems to have slipped away yet again. Read F...

With the Omicron variant of Covid-19 becoming dominant worldwide, its symptoms thankfully range from mild to moderate. However, the new strain has caused some previously-unreported symptoms, including nausea and vomiting. Read Full Arti...

A dam collapse in the northeast of Brazil has led to evacuations and prompted local officials to seek urgent help to deal with the flooding. Read Full Article at RT.com

With Merkel out of the picture, Berlin is contemplating a high-stakes shift of policy towards Moscow. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Taliban has dissolved a number of “unnecessary” ministries and electoral bodies, including Afghanistan’s two election commissions. The group plans to replace them with a “grand council” structure, a spokesman said. Read Fu...

A mockup of an Israeli nuclear installation was destroyed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during military drills. The life-size target was obliterated by multiple ballistic missiles and suicide drones. Read Full Art...

A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a packed bar, killing six and injuring 13 people who were celebrating Christmas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Oregon father who added “Let’s go Brandon” at the end of a live-streamed Christmas Eve phone conversation with Joe Biden said he is now being “attacked” for “utilizing freedom of speech.” He claims it was meant as a jo...

Thirty years have now passed since the USSR collapsed. The largest state in the history of the world has left a mixed legacy and much of the promise of the Perestroika-era has never been fulfilled. Read Full Article at RT.com

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett abruptly left a cabinet meeting on Sunday to self-isolate at home after his daughter tested positive for the coronavirus. Read Full Article at RT.com

CCTV footage in Jakarta, Indonesia has captured a security guard who luckily survived a direct hit by lightning, according to local media. Read Full Article at RT.com

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers made history in his team’s Christmas Day win against the Cleveland Browns, but the NFL icon’s post-game actions with a Fox TV presenter left some fans scratching their heads. Read Full Art...

Meme-based crypto token Dogelon Mars, named after Elon Musk and which celebrates his space aspirations, has surged in price this week, on course to dethrone meme-token investor darlings Shiba Inu and Dogecoin. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Shortly after assuming the post, Germany’s foreign minister has called into question Berlin’s arms sales outside the EU and NATO, calling for a rethink of military contracts. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Alpha Covid variant, in the process of mutating, has gained specific ‘skills’ to block the innate immune system response. The scientists who discovered this hope it will lead to a better understanding of how the virus evolves. R...

Uzbekistan launched its first gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant on Saturday, aiming to cut dependency on imports of oil products by converting domestically produced natural gas into valuable synthetic liquid fuels. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The European Union has “neither moral nor legal right” to claim compensation for losses caused by Russia’s counter sanctions, Moscow claims. Read Full Article at RT.com

An anti-Semitism watchdog has reportedly ranked the BBC in third place – behind Iran and Hamas – on its annual list of the world’s worst offenders after it allowed anti-Jewish bias to “creep into its reporting” over the past y...

Algerian footballer Sofiane Loukar has died after collapsing while captaining his team Mouloudia Saida in a second division match on Saturday. Read Full Article at RT.com

John Shipton, the father of Julian Assange, told RT his son’s prolonged incarceration fits the patterns of “corruption, criminality of enormous depth” by the US and its allies that Assange exposed. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A hospital in Sydney, Australia has blamed possible human error for informing more than 400 patients they tested negative for Covid just before Christmas. In fact, PCR tests show the people were infected with the virus. Read Full Articl...

Women in a range of professions, up to 60 years old, will have to register for the draft. Read Full Article at RT.com