Month: July 2019

Follow RT on ​Volodymyr Zelensky’s party defeated the old nationalist elite in Sunday’s vote, but there are reasons to question whether Ukraine’s new president will push for reform and make peace in Donbass, a top political analyst told RT. ​Zelensky’s Servant of the People party won more than 42 percent of the vote in last…

Follow RT on Queen Elizabeth has accepted Prime Minister Theresa May’s resignation, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday. British lawmakers earlier in the day gave the outgoing PM a standing ovation as they applauded her out of the House of Commons chamber after her final appearance as leader, Reuters reported. During her last duty in the…

Follow RT on The Federal Trade Commission announced on Wednesday that Facebook agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations. The penalty follows an investigation into the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal. “The $5 billion penalty against Facebook is the largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy and almost 20…

Follow RT on The US Department of Justice is investigating whether Silicon Valley tech giants unlawfully stifled competition in their rise to power, adding to the legal headaches of companies like Google, already under the microscope. In probing how Big Tech players grew and solidified their grip on their respective markets under the nose of…

Follow RT on Boris Johnson has been flooded with well-wishes from around the world after being named the next prime minister of the UK, even receiving congratulations from Ivanka Trump for becoming the leader of the “United Kingston.” Donald Trump’s daughter took to Twitter on Tuesday to comment on Boris Johnson’s selection as the head…

Follow RT on “Iran will use its best efforts to secure the region, particularly the Strait of Hormuz, and will not allow any disturbance in shipping in this sensitive area,” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media. Araqchi did…

Follow RT on British police have released shocking dashcam footage showing a pensioner speeding down a busy motorway in the wrong direction, while almost twice the legal alcohol limit. The potentially catastrophic incident happened in April this year, when a driver reported an erratic Volvo performing a U-turn in the middle of the M6 motorway…

Follow RT on Two men who dined on raw dead squirrels at a London vegan food market in a disturbing protest against veganism have been convicted of public order offences and fined. The men, Deonisy Khlebnikov, 22, and Gatis Lagzdins, 29, chowed down on the uncooked squirrels at the Soho Vegan Food Market on March…

Follow RT on The New York Times’ editorial board, fresh from peddling anti-Russia conspiracies for two years, has made a remarkable about-turn. Now the paper wants closer relations with the Kremlin, all to thwart China’s ambitions. ‘Russiagate’ has maintained an iron grip on American political discourse for two years now, even after Special Counsel Robert…

Follow RT on Online services that claim to anonymize users’ personal data aren’t as secure as we think, according to researchers who found over 99 percent of people can be identified from a handful of supposedly anonymous data points. Doubters will be quickly silenced with the online tool the researchers developed to accompany their paper,…