French and foreign politicians are reacting to sentences handed down on Monday by a Paris court in a case against the right-wing National Rally party (RN) and several of its most prominent figures, including Marine Le Pen, the party’s former leader who currently heads its parliamentary faction. Le Pen and …
Read More »Putin hosts Iran’s Pezeshkian: As it happened
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian have signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement in Moscow on Friday, according to the Kremlin. The two leaders have said that the landmark document, which covers areas ranging from defense and energy cooperation to culture and science, provides a new impetus …
Read More »The conviction of Donald Trump: how it happened
Former US President Donald Trump was found guilty on Thursday of falsifying business records, with a Manhattan jury agreeing that this normally minor offense influenced the 2016 election. Trump has condemned the result of the “rigged trial” and vowed to appeal. How did Trump end up in court?Trump stood accused …
Read More »Phone call records shed light on what happened near Kiev
Ukrainian security officials and Western journalists who went looking for Russian atrocities northwest of Bucha in the Kiev region found no signs of human rights abuses, according to phone call records obtained by RT. Instead, locals told journalists the Russian troops gave them food and treated them well. Meanwhile, a …
Read More »‘This wouldn’t have happened if I was president’: Trump blasts Biden and chaos in Afghanistan after US soldiers killed in Kabul
Trump blasted Biden for not ensuring a sooner evacuation of American nationals and allied Afghans and for leaving behind US military hardware, which later fell into the hands of the Taliban. The hasty withdrawal of US troops was “the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to our country,” the …
Read More »I’ll likely only see my family on a screen from now on, because I don’t want the Covid jab. What happened to ‘my body, my choice’?
My country, Canada, has chosen to implement increasingly draconian and frankly unscientific policies in the name of ‘protecting’ people. What Canadian authorities are really doing is ensuring an uptake of the experimental jabs. Don’t want to take them? No worries, but you’re not welcome in Canada. Recently, my RT colleague, …
Read More »As it happened: Putin & Biden meet for first time since US president took office to discuss stability, hacking & Covid-19 (PHOTOS)
The two leaders, along with Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Washington’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sat down behind closed doors to discuss a range of geopolitical issues. The agenda included the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation in Eastern Ukraine, allegations of Russian meddling in recent US elections and the …
Read More »Syrian election that hasn’t happened yet ‘will neither be free nor fair,’ declare US and allies
The five foreign ministers “wish to make clear that Syria’s May 26 presidential election will neither be free nor fair,” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Jean-Yves Le Drian of France, Heiko Mass of Germany, Luigi Di Maio of Italy, and Dominic Raab of the UK in a joint …
Read More »‘I don’t know what happened’: Edson Barboza lands bizarre delayed KO as rival staggers on before collapsing at UFC 262 (VIDEO)
Into the third round of their entertaining featherweight contest on the UFC 262 main card at the Toyota Center in Houston, Brazilian star Barboza stepped up the pace as he caught Burgos with a lightning-quick overhand right. At first Burgos appeared to have eaten the punch as he remained on his …
Read More »As it happened: Russia mourns deaths of seven children & two staff slain in bloody Kazan school shooting by teen gunman (PHOTOS)
Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of the majority Muslim Russian region of Tatarstan, of which Kazan is the capital, has declared Wednesday to be a day of mourning in honor of those who lost their lives. Riot police officers work at the scene of a shooting at Gymnasium No. 175 in …
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