The European Union has imposed sanctions on a series of senior Russian officials – including Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and presidential chief of staff Anton Vaino – as well RT’s own editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, accusing each of helping to “threaten the territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Responding to Moscow’s decision to …
Read More »US nuclear submarine violates Russian waters – Defense Ministry
A US Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine has been detected and chased away in Russian territorial waters off the Kuril Islands, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday. The vessel was found submerged off the small uninhabited island of Urup while Russia’s Pacific Fleet was holding exercises in the area. Russian vessels …
Read More »Pope Francis praises nun who ran LGBT ministry
Decades after she was barred from pastoral work by the Vatican, Pope Francis has sent a letter of thanks to an American nun who held services for LGBT people, in which she questioned some teachings of the Church. Since the late 1970s, Sister Jeannine Gramick ran workshops for LGBT Catholics, …
Read More »Ministry of Defence accused of ‘failing British troops and taxpayers’
In a new report, the Labour Party accuses the government of having “wasted” £13 billion ($17.61 billion) of taxpayers’ money on military projects since 2010, after multiple endeavors were either canceled or hit by costly delays. The UK’s official opposition released the damning assessment of the government’s spending at the …
Read More »‘Terrorist attack’ on Iraqi PM’s home involved 3 drones – Interior Ministry
Two of the drones that targeted Al-Kadhimi’s residence in Baghdad’s Green Zone were downed and one reached the house, the ministry said. Some members of his security detail were injured, but the senior official was unharmed. Images of the damage caused by the drone were released to the public. The …
Read More »Sudan facing full military coup, Information Ministry warns, as military arrest prime minister, raid radio and TV stations
On Monday morning, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was detained by security forces and taken to an unknown location, according to a Facebook post by the country’s Information Ministry. The update came just hours after Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV reported that troops had besieged the home of the prime minister and …
Read More »Russia bans Scientology: Justice ministry puts key Scientologist groups on list of ‘undesirable’ organizations
An updated list of “undesirable” organizations was released by the Justice Ministry on Friday, just over a week after the Russian Prosecutor General’s office advised a ban for several Church of Scientology groups. Two California-based groups, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International (WISE) and the Church of Spiritual Technology …
Read More »Russian Foreign Ministry denounces ‘aggression’ that aims to ‘silence’ RT after YouTube bans two German-language channels
The Google-owned video platform deleted RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP) channels on Tuesday, saying they attempted to circumvent a ‘community guidelines’ strike for ‘medical misinformation’ in four videos. Describing the move as “an act of unprecedented information aggression” and “obvious manifestation of censorship and suppression of freedom of …
Read More »Chinese Foreign Ministry mocks US over Afghanistan, says its ‘war machines’ have become Taliban playground
On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a video on his Twitter account, claiming Afghanistan was the “graveyard of EMPIRES and their WAR MACHINES.” As highlighted by the outspoken Foreign Ministry diplomat, the video shows Taliban troops tying a rope to the wing of a captured aircraft and …
Read More »Head of Russia’s Emergency Ministry dies in line of duty after ‘saving a person’s life’ in exercises near Arctic city of Norilsk
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