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Follow RT on Denmark is considering regulating social media influencers after Instagram personality Fie Laursen posted a suicide note which received 30,000 comments and 8,000 likes. The public suicide note remained online for two full days before Laursen herself took it down, having received treatment in a local hospital for an attempted pharmaceutical overdose.  In…

Follow RT on Former Tory PM Sir John Major has said he’d go to court to prevent the next Tory PM from proroguing parliament to get through a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. Could BoJo and Brexit be derailed by Europhile Tories, or will fears over a ‘Marxist’ Corbyn government unite warring Conservatives? It’s a major news story….

Follow RT on Syriza’s ignominious fall from grace in Greece is a salutary lesson as to the folly of promising the impossible and delivering the detestable. It all seems so long ago now that the left wing anti-austerity party swept to power pledging to end the country’s ‘fiscal waterboarding’ and humiliation at the hands of…

Follow RT on A four-deck riverboat cruising Russia’s Volga river briefly ran aground in low water in the Rybinsk reservoir. It was carrying 292 foreign tourists. The ‘Viking Helgi’ operates 14-day voyages on the Volga and its tributaries, departing from Moscow and St. Petersburg. On Monday, the boat became mired for a short time in…

Follow RT on Julian Assange’s team had plans to evacuate him from London to Russia or Cuba, but the Australian, who was watched round-the-clock by a Spanish security firm, refused to flee as it might be seen as defeat, a media report reveals. A private security company called Undercover Global SL was eavesdropping on Julian…

Follow RT on The Indo-Tibetan Border Police have released GoPro footage showing the final moments of a group of climbers who went missing in the Himalayas in May following a presumed avalanche. The group of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian tour guide were attempting to climb the Himalayas’ second-highest peak, Nanda…

Follow RT on Twitter will begin deleting tweets that contain “dehumanizing language towards religious groups,” the first step in a content policing overhaul that promises to get complicated. Starting Tuesday, the social media platform will remove reported tweets that directly attack religious groups with “dehumanizing language.” For example, the company says that hypothetical tweets like…

Follow RT on Former pound for pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather Jr was never put on seat of pants in a 50-0 pro career, that was until his ankles were ‘snapped’ by Larry ‘Bone Collector’ Williams in a celebrity basketball game. READ MORE: ‘Money May all motherf**kin’ day!’ Mayweather goads haters by flaunting wealth –…

Follow RT on Poland is repatriating gold from overseas, after it more than doubled its bullion holdings in the past year. Central banks all over the world have been stocking up on gold in recent years, shifting away from the US dollar. The National Bank of Poland (NBP) has bought 100 tons of the precious…

Follow RT on A music festival that charged white people double for entry as a way of compensating for unfair “privilege” has sparked a fierce debate, with RT panelists locking horns over whether the stunt was forward-thinking or racist. Afrofuture Fest, a small music event in Detroit, set ticket prices for minorities at $20, compared…