Month: July 2019

Follow RT on Greece’s new parliament was sworn in on Wednesday after elections in early July. The six-party legislature will officially begin its functions after electing a speaker on Thursday. New prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will outline his government’s policies at the weekend before a vote of confidence late on Sunday. The cabinet has vowed…

Follow RT on Radiation levels in the Marshall Islands, where the US government tested its nuclear arsenal during the Cold War, are even higher than those found in Fukushima and Chernobyl, according to a newly released peer-reviewed study. The research, published by scientists at Columbia University in New York, found that tests of soil samples…

Follow RT on With Washington consumed by debate over whether US President Donald Trump’s “go back to where you came from” tweets are racist, the mayor of Philadelphia suggested Trump should follow his own advice and go back… to hell. Democrat Jim Kenney came out swinging at Trump as he unveiled a new, pro-immigrant initiative…

Follow RT on The Trump administration announced new restrictions on asylum applications from immigrants traveling to the US through Mexico, the latest move in an immigration crackdown. According to a new rule added to the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another “safe” country en route to the United States will be ineligible for…

Follow RT on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran may be prepared to negotiate over its ballistic missile program, but was soon rebuked by the Islamic Republic, which vocally denied the claim. At a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Pompeo said that Tehran had signaled an interest in negotiations,…

Follow RT on President Donald Trump has said Washington will not sell Turkey its next-generation F-35 jet fighter, after Turkey took delivery of the Russian-made S-400 air defense system. Turkey has been a partner in the F-35 program. “The situation with Turkey is very complex and tough. We are in contact with Turkish officials,” Trump…

Follow RT on Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt has arrived in Turin to finalize the details on a €75 million ($US85 million) switch to Juventus from Ajax. The Serie A champions shared footage of De Ligt, 19, jetting in to Turin where he is expected to complete a medical on Wednesday. The former Ajax skipper…

Follow RT on Germany’s population reached a record high of more than 83 million people last year. This was largely because of migration, most of which came from eastern Europe, data showed on Tuesday. Click Here: kanken mini cheap Net migration fell to some 400,000 people in 2018 from 416,000 in the previous year, the…

Follow RT on A bipartisan proposal in the US Senate would require the White House to seek the approval of Congress before it can eliminate or relax the trade limitations imposed on the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Introduced on Tuesday by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), the ‘Defending America’s 5G Future…

Follow RT on The OSCE’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Desir, tweeted on Monday that he hopes the upcoming court hearing in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on July 19 “will lead to the release of journalist Kirill Vyshinsky in Ukraine.” The head of RIA Novosti’s Ukraine portal’s “lasting pre-trial detention is of serious concern,”…