Month: August 2019

Follow RT on This weekend witnessed another politically-fueled hate-fest in the US as liberals raged against Donald Trump, blaming him for two mass shootings in as many days. Welcome to US election season. Second only to the news of innocent people having their lives cut tragically short is the realization that there are individuals who…

Follow RT on Uruguay has warned its citizens against visiting the United States in wake of two deadly mass shootings, citing the danger of violence, hate crimes and racism and the ‘inability’ of US authorities to stop them. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Montevideo issued an advisory on Monday, urging Uruguayans to “take precautions…

Follow RT on Russia’s Defense Ministry has sent its transport helicopters to assist with the fight against massive wildfires in Siberia. RT joined one of the crews on their water bombing run to see what it takes to deal with the disaster. The wildfires have been raging across Siberia for several weeks now, and were…

Follow RT on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “central scenario” is a no-deal Brexit and he has no intention of renegotiating the withdrawal agreement, according to European diplomats. “It was clear UK does not have another plan,” the Guardian quoted a senior EU diplomat as saying after a meeting between David Frost, the government’s new…

Follow RT on He sleeps two hours a night, plays guitar with a custom prosthesis, and has illegally implanted a microchip. When Evgeny Nekrasov was disfigured by an accident at 14, he decided to leverage future technology to build a new life. ‘Hands turned into mush’ Evgeny, now 21, has no recollection of “messing around”…

Follow RT on Just as the hype seemed to have calmed down, over two million UFO enthusiasts found their Area 51 meme-filled page suddenly blocked by Facebook, under the pretext of ever-elusive “community standards” violations. Spooked by the high volume of attendees, worried about the Las Vegas strip club’s pledge to bring its dancers to…

Follow RT on US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable” and Washington would prevent unilateral incursions, Reuters reports. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey, which already has a foothold in northwest Syria, will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area…

Follow RT on Many so-called Democrat ‘moderates’ would prefer Donald Trump to retain the US Presidency than for Bernie Sanders, or another genuine leftist, to defeat him. In this sense they are mirror-images of establishment Republicans, such as George W Bush and Colin Powell, who publicly expressed support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 contest.  …

Follow RT on Amazon has become the latest of the trio of tech giants to curb their secretive harvesting and processing of voice recordings via virtual assistants. The practice was rife with Google and Apple, as well. Amazon announced on Friday that it would allow users of its smartphone assistance app Alexa to deny the…

Follow RT on Some Syrian Army soldiers have been killed in a blast that rocked the Shayrat airbase located in the east of the Syrian Homs province, local media report without revealing the exact number of casualties. According to the state SANA news agency the explosion was a result of a “technical error” during the…