Hamas cannot release the hostages it is holding in Gaza until the Israeli military stops its bombing campaign against the Palestinian enclave, Basem Naim, a member of the militant group’s political bureau, told RT during his delegation’s visit to Moscow this week. Naim said Hamas could not collect necessary information …
Read More »US Republicans demand FBI release Trump search affidavit
Republican lawmakers are demanding the affidavit used as the basis for the search warrant issued for former US President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home be unsealed, arguing the extraordinary step of sending the FBI in to seize documents from a former president’s residence requires proof of equally extraordinary justification. Unsealing …
Read More »US urged to release frozen Afghan funds
Washington should release the assets of the Afghan Central Bank it froze last year after the Taliban takeover and return them to the Afghan people, a group of more than 70 renowned economists said in an open letter on Wednesday. The economists and academics from the US, the UK, India, …
Read More »iPhone 14 release schedule at risk due to supply chain disruptions
Apple is putting pressure on suppliers as lockdown measures in China put the iPhone 14’s release date at risk, Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday. The engineering verification test (EVT) in which manufacturers finalize all parts and processes before rolling out production is said to be delayed, potentially pushing the typical …
Read More »Russian pilot Yaroshenko speaks to RT after release from US jail
Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko returned home after spending some 10 years in a US prison over his alleged involvement in a drug smuggling scheme. Yaroshenko spoke to RT about the horrors he has endured. “I was kidnapped by the US authorities, their intelligence, the DEA, and Liberia’s NSA on May …
Read More »Artist threatens to release new music on Spotify if Joe Rogan isn’t removed
Several artists have withdrawn their music from Spotify in an attempt to make the website part ways with its biggest star Joe Rogan, but self-deprecating British singer James Blunt has now come up with a counterstrategy to achieve the same goal. Blunt took to Twitter on Sunday to make it …
Read More »Trump asks Supreme Court to block Jan 6 docs release
In an emergency petition filed on Thursday by his lawyers, Trump argued that releasing White House documents and communications with senior staff set a bad precedent – a legal argument his team had unsuccessfully made in the lower court in the past. The petition is seeking a review of the …
Read More »Fresh fears for tennis star after release of 2 bizarre clips (VIDEO)
Tennis bosses and human rights campaigners have been pushing for footage to prove that the former doubles champion is safe after she ‘disappeared’ from public view following allegations of sexual abuse she made against the country’s former vice premier. A ‘message’ from Peng as the campaign gathered momentum was widely considered not to …
Read More »Release of US vaccine data ‘may take till 2076’
The FDA approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for people aged 16 and over in August, and, last month, extended its emergency-use authorization to children as young as five. This week, FDA regulators are expected to permit booster doses of Pfizer’s product for adults aged 18 and over. When a group of …
Read More »Release of JFK records delayed again, with Biden citing Covid-19 and national security
In a memo on Friday, Biden wrote that the remaining files concerning the assassination “shall be withheld from full public disclosure” until December 15 next year, nearly 60 years after Kennedy was shot dead as his motorcade rolled through Dallas, Texas. Biden’s memo states that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, …
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