Though relations between Russia and the West are at their worst since the Cold War, the unipolar world dominated by the US and its allies is now over, former Russian president and current head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told RT and RIA Novosti in an interview on …
Read More »Her Majesty’s Harassment: How sexual assaults by UK soldiers around the world go unpunished for years
The RT investigative unit The Detail has reviewed disturbing data on sexual assault allegations levelled at UK and US soldiers stationed abroad, identifying in excess of 1,100 such reports having been filed between 2015 and 2020 alone. Statistics gathered from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Sexual Offences in the …
Read More »‘The unipolar world has come to an end,’ Russia’s former president says
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev explained why “the unipolar world has come to an end” and weighed the odds of Europe abandoning the Russian gas. In a wide-ranging interview with Sputnik and RT, the former president assessed the actions of the West amid the Ukrainian conflict …
Read More »China rebukes US as ‘world’s biggest human rights violator’
Beijing has promised to respond in kind unless the US revokes the blacklisting of Chinese officials it said were guilty of human rights violations. Speaking at a regular press conference on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin accused the US of “smearing China, oppressing Chinese officials for no reason, violating …
Read More »Biden says US must lead ‘new world order’
US President Joe Biden raised eyebrows on Monday after he claimed a “new world order” would soon be established and that it was up to the United States to lead it. During a speech at Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting, Biden claimed the world was at “an inflection point” which …
Read More »Court delivers verdict on Russian appeal over football World Cup games
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed Russia’s request to postpone crucial Qatar 2022 World Cup playoff matches as an interim measure after organizers FIFA suspended the national team from competitions and awarded scheduled opponents Poland a bye to the final. Russia had been due to host Poland in Moscow on …
Read More »World’s largest free-trade pact comes into force
Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced on Friday that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has come into force in the country. The free-trade agreement encompasses an estimated 30% of both the world’s population and of its global GDP. According to the ministry, Malaysia is expected to be …
Read More »White House ‘not interested’ in World War III
President Joe Biden was apparently unmoved by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest plea for a no-fly zone amid Moscow’s military offensive in the former Soviet Republic, standing by his view that such a move would carry too much risk of triggering a wider war with Russia. “As we’ve said before, …
Read More »US envoy sends ‘world united’ warning to Russia, China and Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “madman” poised to kill thousands in Ukraine, but the world is united against him and others “thinking of doing bad things,” the US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides said in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Nides, who has represented Washington in Israel since December, spoke at …
Read More »World’s first scan of dying brain reveals final moments
For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain, discovering that it showed the same patterns as seen during dreaming, memory recall and meditation, a new study has revealed. Findings published in journal Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience on Tuesday showed the recording of the …
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