Month: September 2019

The former Netherlands defender has been reflecting on the Red Devils’ famous 1998-99 season ahead of a reunion game this weekend Jaap Stam says Paul Scholes is the former Manchester United team-mate he would most like to sign. Stam played alongside Scholes at Old Trafford for three years between 1998 and 2001, taking in their…

A massive overhaul upon Florentino Perez’s return to the Liga giants made the winger expendable at the club but he found an eager suitor in Bayern Arjen Robben says politics at Real Madrid, and not just Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrival, forced him to suffer a “difficult” exit from the club, but added his subsequent move to Bayern Munich…

The Armenia international has, after discussions with his club, taken the decision not to travel to Azerbaijan for a continental showpiece in Baku Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been accused of making a “political statement” in missing the Europa League final, with Azerbaijan’s UK ambassador claiming the Arsenal forward had the necessary assurances to travel to Baku….

Follow RT on Days after saying he had “no problem” meeting his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and soon after firing his hawkish adviser John Bolton, US President Donald Trump has hinted he may lift some sanctions on Tehran. Iran has been under crippling US economic sanctions since the US unilaterally withdrew lat May from the…

Follow RT on South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have agreed to form a transitional government by the middle of November, the country’s information minister said on Wednesday. The two men signed a pact a year ago to end a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced…

Follow RT on Within hours of his firing by President Donald Trump, the hawkish national security adviser John Bolton was embraced by mainstream media outlets and even some Democrats, even if only as an excuse to criticize the White House. Trump announced Bolton’s ouster via Twitter on Tuesday morning, stunning even those in Washington who…

Follow RT on Jack Ma, the self-made Chinese business magnate with a net worth of nearly $42 billion and founder of the online shopping giant Alibaba, has officially retired from the company he started. The billionaire, who announced his retirement as chairman of the company last September, fulfilled his pledge to step down on his…

Follow RT on The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Wednesday declined to rule on a controversy over the new prime minister having omitted a vow to uphold the constitution when he was sworn in as a civilian leader. The court said on Wednesday that the swearing-in was between the king and the cabinet, and “the…

Follow RT on Video games might be the most popular and profitable form of modern entertainment, but many Russians still consider them a waste of time, merely damaging health and provoking aggression, a new poll has revealed. Some 58 percent of those surveyed expressed the belief that video games harm those who play them, state-run…

Follow RT on A large explosion went off in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, moments after midnight on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, footage from the scene shows. A column of smoke was captured in photos early Wednesday morning, thought to be near the US Embassy…