US President Donald Trump has said he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raise prices when a new round of tariffs takes effect, as is expected, this week. Trump said last week the new auto tariffs would come into force from April 3, when the US will begin collecting an additional …
Read More »Biden says he couldn’t connect with Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron was among the first foreign leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on his contested victory over Donald Trump back in November 2020, but he apparently wasn’t around to take the call when his US counterpart tried to return the favor after his re-election victory on Sunday night. …
Read More »‘I couldn’t comprehend why we were there’: how Americans hated the Vietnam War and forgot about it
In contrast to modern conflicts, the Vietnam War attracted the wrath of the political left as it campaigned vehemently against it, even attacking veterans. On Vietnam War Veterans Day, almost half a century after the last US troops left the country, RT tries to understand – what was it about …
Read More »Could Afghanistan be the next trendy travel destination like Vietnam? No, no it couldn’t
It’s probably not the first place you’d think of going to for your stag-do. Alcohol is a bit thin on the ground in sunny Kabul and there aren’t many discos because, though God must surely have created harmony if he created the universe, ‘he’ has a bit of a problem …
Read More »Russia ‘couldn’t care less’ about West’s claims election was rigged, ex-President Medvedev tells RT, pointing finger at US hackers
Speaking as part of an exclusive interview with RT broadcast on Tuesday, Medvedev was grilled over allegations that online voting was used to stitch up the vote in favor of the governing party, United Russia, which he serves as chairman of. Asked about claims from the US and EU that …
Read More »Like the Soviets with communism, US mission to ‘democratize’ Afghanistan failed as it couldn’t impose what it doesn’t have at home
The disaster is already being spun into a rousing tale of special-forces-to-the-rescue – the rights for a future movie titled something like ‘The Secret Soldiers of Kabul’ are probably being bought up in Hollywood as we speak. But across the world, the Great American Rout of Afghanistan will live in …
Read More »Bare-knuckle fighters ‘couldn’t possibly’ be ordered to vaccinate, says president – & talks over ex-UFC star VanZant’s future loom
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship president David Feldman acknowledges that a possible date at a New York venue such as iconic fight location Madison Square Garden could be scuppered if fighters need to be vaccinated. Coronavirus vaccinations have been an increasingly hot topic across sports, with UFC supremo Dana White announcing …
Read More »‘Looks very awful and ill’: Journalist tells RT he ‘couldn’t recognize’ Assange during High Court hearing on his extradition to US
Medhurst told RT said that he “literally did a double take” upon seeing Assange during the High Court preliminary hearing on Wednesday, which he was connected to remotely. “I couldn’t recognize that it was Assange, he looked extremely old,” Medhurst declared, adding that the WikiLeaks founder looked so “awful and …
Read More »A Western-backed war couldn’t destroy Syria, now sanctions are starving its people
As Syrian analyst Kevork Almassian noted, “Were it not for the CIA regime change war, arming & training tens of thousands of multinational terrorists, draconian sanctions, foreign occupation of North & East, looting the oil & burning the wheat, Syria would’ve now a brilliant economy & high standard of living.” …
Read More »‘You couldn’t make it up if you tried’: Twitter censors at home, but calls access to platform a ‘human right’ in Nigeria
Nigeria’s government “indefinitely” banned Twitter on Friday, after the US tech giant temporarily suspended President Muhammadu Buhari for a tweet promising a crackdown on armed separatists. Telecoms networks in the West African nation began enforcing the ban on Saturday morning, according to multiple media reports. “We are deeply concerned by …
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