Month: August 2019

Follow RT on US State Secretary Mike Pompeo has said that the Trump administration, himself included, will make an effort to secure Russia’s return to the G7, as it is what US President Donald Trump thinks Washington should do. Pompeo doubled down on Trump’s earlier statement that Russia, booted out of the cohort of the…

Follow RT on Tehran has mocked Israel’s intensified efforts to root out the Iranian presence in the region after the IDF struck targets in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq in one day, while threatening to continue attacks against Iran’s ‘accomplices.’ “These insane operations are absolutely last struggles of the Zionist Regime,” Qassem Soleimani tweeted after the IDF…

Follow RT on International political opponents of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and their media allies are cynically exploiting and exaggerating the impact of the fires in the Amazon to demonize the ‘Trump of the Tropics’. The plight of the Brazilian rainforest hasn’t dominated the international headlines to the current extent since the late 1980s heyday…

Follow RT on A US TV anchor has apologized to her black co-host live on-air after saying he looked like a gorilla in a previous segment. Alex Housden a host for Oklahoma KOCO news station was presenting a segment on a local baby gorilla at Oklahoma City Zoo last Thursday, before telling her black co-host,…

Follow RT on The AP’s six-year veteran White House reporter Darlene Superville has triggered a backlash in Africa and drawn the ire of many on Twitter after referring to South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa as an “unidentified leader.” The host of this year’s G7 Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron, invited the heads of five African…

Follow RT on A future deal on Russia’s Su-57 fighter jet has seemingly been brought up by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after his host, President Vladimir Putin, impressed him with the fifth-generation jet at the MAKS 2019 airshow. The two leaders inspected a Su-57 and peeked into its cockpit on the ground after attending…

Follow RT on Washington ending the INF arms control treaty has raised fears of a new “arms race.” This time it will be about more than just missiles, with China presenting strong competition to the US and Russia, a military expert tells RT. Last week’s test of a ground-launched Tomahawk cruise missile showed that the…

Follow RT on When two Seattle, Washington judges asked the local authorities to clean up garbage and human waste from the homeless camp outside their courthouse, one council member worried that power-washing the sidewalks might be racist. The King County courthouse in downtown Seattle is located near the social service centers and several homeless shelters….

Follow RT on Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is considering a complete closure of airspace to India and blocking Indian land trade to Afghanistan via Pakistan, Reuters quoted Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry as saying on Tuesday. “[The] PM is considering a complete closure of Air Space to India,” the minister tweeted. “A…

Click:candle jar Follow RT on Days after Seoul scrapped intelligence-sharing with Japan, all branches of its military descended on a handful of disputed islets for two-day drills, raising ire in Tokyo and fueling a brewing trade conflict between the neighbors. The wargames will see members of the South Korean Navy, Air Force, Army and Marines…