Month: August 2019

Follow RT on Tehran has hit out at Bahrain for hosting a “provocative” conference on Gulf maritime security and for its rhetoric accusing Iran of attacking tankers. Manama said the July 31 meeting was held to discuss the “current regional situation,” Lebanon’s Daily Star reported. It was not announced who’d attended the event in Bahrain,…

Follow RT on Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday that Britain and the EU would be in talks for several years even if Britain walks away from the bloc without a withdrawal agreement. “It is not fully appreciated, this doesn’t end on October 31,” Varadkar told reporters in Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. “Some…

Follow RT on Russian UFC star Zabit Magomedsharipov will seek to cement his status as a serious featherweight contender when he takes on Calvin Kattar in the UFC Boston co-headliner. Dagestan fighter Magomedsharipov, 28, and Massachusetts native Kattar, 31, will face off at TD Garden on October 18. The news was first reported by ESPN’s Brett…

Follow RT on Venezuelans will be made to suffer under draconian sanctions until President Nicolas Maduro is forced out of office, journalist Aaron Maté told RT, describing the tactic as a page from Washington’s “regime-change playbook.” Support for opposition leader Juan Guaido has all but dried up, and Venezuela’s military continues to remain loyal to…

Follow RT on Talks between Ankara and Washington on a planned “safe zone” in northeast Syria have been “positive and rather constructive,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on Wednesday. The US is getting closer to Turkey’s views on the issue, he said, according to Anadolu. Ankara has told the US it would…

Follow RT on UK PM Boris Johnson’s approach to handling Brexit appears to be steering Britain towards a crash exit out of the EU, former and current Scottish leaders are warning. Johnson’s proclaimed desire to secure Brexit smacks of “selling something that is not true” and crosses the fine line between “optimism and delusion,” Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on…

Follow RT on The New York Times was forced to alter its front page headline after it was savaged online by high-profile Democrats who didn’t like how the paper framed President Donald Trump’s speech about mass shootings. The US newspaper got into trouble after print editor Tom Jolly shared a preview of Tuesday’s front page….

Follow RT on Most people never visit the web’s thriving undergrowth, and the mainstream media exploits their ignorance to create Reefer Madness-style boogeymen out of niche subcultures, presenting them as petri dishes of far-right ideology. 8chan MSM view: A site for right-wing domestic terrorists to congregate and plot their shootings, cheer each other on, and…

Follow RT on New Zealand TV presenter and sports reporter Toni Street commented on an awkward wardrobe malfunction she suffered during a live TV show, saying that what viewers saw on screen was not actually “her nipples.” The 35-year-old was widely discussed over the weekend after an unfortunate mishap during Friday’s Seven Sharp show made…

Follow RT on Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry blasted New Delhi for making moves to dismantle the decades-old autonomous status of the Indian-controlled part of disputed Kashmir. On Monday, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind signed a decree effectively abolishing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state, which forms the part of Kashmir administered by India….