Dozens of protesters faced off with riot police at a power plant in the city of Myitkyina on Sunday. The city is located some 1,480 kilometers from capital Yangon in the northern part of the country, which has been gripped by protests against the military rulers since the February 1 …
Read More »Why is Google failing to compete with video game makers when the sector is booming? RT’s Boom Bust finds out
The corporation also pledged to close its Los Angeles and Montreal-based studio offices, saying that most of the Stadia Games and Entertainment team working at them will be “moving on to new roles.” The move shows that Google is giving up hope of competing with gaming mainstays like Sony, Microsoft …
Read More »‘MI6 collusion’ video: Like many Americans believe Trump colluded with Moscow, plenty in Russia see Navalny team as Western agents
In June 2016, Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya because she suggested that she had compromising material about Hillary Clinton, who at the time was challenging Trump Jr.’s father for the US presidency. When news of the meeting emerged, the outrage was enormous. It “borders on treason,” …
Read More »Moscow protests over Navalny’s sentencing dispersed by riot police (VIDEO)
Navalny was originally sentenced in 2014 to three and a half years of probation for embezzling 30 million rubles ($400,000) from two companies, including the French cosmetics brand Yves Rocher. The Moscow City Court ruled on Tuesday that he had violated the terms of his sentence by not reporting to …
Read More »Man sets himself on fire on busy Moscow street in shocking video shared by Russian social media users (GRAPHIC)
A shocked passerby filmed the incident, as police and other pedestrians ran to help extinguish the blaze. A worker who had been clearing the pathway can be seen attempting to shovel snow onto the man in an attempt to put out the flames. The incident, which reportedly led to the …
Read More »Airline pilots capture video of ‘extremely bright UFO’ during flight in Pakistan (VIDEOS)
It emerged Wednesday that the pilots saw the strange object during a flight from Karachi to Lahore at around 4pm on January 23. The plane was travelling at an altitude of 35,000 feet when the sighting occurred. “The UFO was extremely bright despite the presence of sunlight,” the pilot said, …
Read More »VIDEO shows smoke rising over Houses of Parliament in London. Alarm heard, no confirmed emergency at present
The footage, posted to Twitter on Sunday, shows thick white smoke or steam seemingly rising from London’s Houses of Parliament. Some kind of alarm can be heard over the video. The London Fire Brigade has not acknowledged any emergency, and commenters on Twitter claimed the video showed steam, not smoke, …
Read More »Alibaba’s Jack Ma issues video message, ending nearly 3-month ‘disappearance’ after a run-in with Chinese regulators
The high-profile entrepreneur delivered a virtual address during the Jack Ma Rural Teachers Award ceremony on Wednesday morning. China’s entrepreneurs must help to promote “rural revitalization and common prosperity,” Ma told the group of educators, adding: “We’ll meet again when the [Covid-19] epidemic is over.” The state-run Global Times published …
Read More »‘You have to go home now’: Trump urges supporters who breached capitol to leave, says ‘I know how you feel’ (VIDEO)
“I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us,” Trump said in the video, which followed multiple tweets calling for calm as the US Capitol descended into chaos on the same day Congress is supposed to certify Joe Biden’s victory. “This was …
Read More »Arabian slights: How a deepfake video caused a rift in the Arab world and led to a three-year blockade of Qatar
In early June 2017, a major fissure in the already fragile relations between the six members of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) emerged, leading to a total blockade of Qatar. The crown princes of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), and the …
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