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…
‘Yes, you can buy it’: Putin shows Erdogan Russian 5th gen Su-57 fighter jet (VIDEO)
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…
What the new arms race will look like in a post-INF world
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…
Seattle courthouse drowning in waste, but cleaning it up would be… racist?
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….
Pakistan govt considering closing airspace to India again – minister
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…
South Korea needles Tokyo with military drills around Japanese-claimed islets
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…
‘I’d beat the sh*t out of Conor’: 66-year-old Mayweather Sr. on McGregor pub assault video
Follow RT on Despite a more than 30-year age gap between the two, Floyd Mayweather Sr. forecasts an easy win against UFC star Conor McGregor should they ever meet in the ring as the fallout from McGregor’s pub assault video continues. Mayweather Sr. was ringside to watch his son, Floyd Mayweather Jr., defeat McGregor by…
‘They’ve got it all wrong!’ Trump says entire G7 laughing at US ‘fake news’
Follow RT on With their ‘inaccurate’ coverage of his meetings with world leaders, the US ‘fake news’ media have become the laughing stock of the G7 summit in France, US President Donald Trump has claimed. “In France we are all laughing at how knowingly inaccurate the US reporting of events and conversations at the G-7…
Bust of 1st human in space Yury Gagarin unveiled at Russian Cultural Garden in Cleveland, Ohio
Follow RT on A bust of the first human in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, was unveiled on Sunday at the Russian Cultural Garden in Cleveland, Ohio. The event was attended by the mayor Frank G. Jackson. Mark Kalinin, the head of the Russian Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., delivered Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s message to…
Enough is enough: Can we just cancel reboot culture?
Follow RT on Whether out of fear of failure or complete lack of original ideas, big movie and TV studios have turned to reboots, remakes and sequels to decades-old hits, anything to keep the dollars flowing. Trouble is, they’re all terrible. Just this year, Disney has released “live-action” remakes of its 1990s animated classics Aladdin…