China’s mission to the EU has explained why Beijing endorsed Moscow’s call for NATO expansion to be curbed. The statement came as part of a response to the US-led military bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who had accused Beijing of “denying sovereign nations the right to make their own choices.” …
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A team of researchers from Osnabruck University in Germany claim to have observed a behavior in chimpanzees that was previously thought to be specific to humans: giving each other medical assistance. The findings were reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday. Many species of animals are known to engage …
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Russia could collect up to 1 trillion rubles ($13 billion) per year by regulating and taxing cryptocurrency transactions, analysts for the government believe, according to Moscow-based news outlet The Bell. The report follows intense debate in Russia over how to deal with cryptocurrency, with some suggesting it should be completely …
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Moscow is ready to offer political asylum to Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko and others who face political persecution by Kiev, Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. The Russian president noted that he’d first floated an offer of asylum to …
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Despite a number of recent warnings that Russia could be on the warpath, NATO sees no signs that Moscow is poised to order an invasion of the Baltic states, one of the US-led military bloc’s top officials has revealed as tensions mount in Eastern Europe. Speaking to reporters in Vilnius …
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Francis Fukuyama is best known for having mistakenly announced the coming of a global liberal quasi-utopia, billed as “the end of history,” a third of a century ago. Now, though, the American scholar has identified the linchpin of what he sees as a worldwide battle between secular good and evil. …
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RT America spoke to several protesters on Monday involved in the Ottawa trucker demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions as some politicians likened the protest to an occupation that needs to be lifted. RT America’s John Huddy spoke to truckers at the scene of the protest as the demonstration entered its tenth …
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A judge has ordered the US military to hand over more than $230 million to survivors and family members of those killed in a 2017 mass shooting in Texas, in which a former Air Force member took the lives of 26 people. The incident became the deadliest mass shooting in …
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Joe Rogan has been offered a $100 million deal to leave Spotify and take his podcast to Rumble, including all deleted episodes, the platform’s CEO Chris Pavlovski has announced. “How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both old and new, with no censorship, for 100 million bucks over …
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US President Joe Biden threatened on Monday to shut down Nord Stream 2, a crucial Germany-Russia pipeline, if Russian troops cross the border into Ukraine. Biden made the threat as he was speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Sholz at the joint press conference in the White House on Monday. “We …
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