Month: May 2019

While details of NATO’s new military strategy are still unknown, odds are the alliance is simply falling in line with recent updates to US doctrine and seeking to outgun all potential adversaries, a military expert tells RT. Citing a “new security situation” as well as “challenges in the east and the south” and a “nuclear…

Malaysia has announced it will send 3,000 metric tonnes of non-recyclable plastic back to developed nations that illegally shipped it there, drawing a line in the sand and highlighting the world’s major waste problem. Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said 60 containers stacked with contaminated waste would be sent back from illegal processing facilities in…

Senior Taliban officials including the group’s top political advisor met with Afghan political figures in Moscow on Tuesday, saying they were committed to peace in Afghanistan. The statement comes as US-led talks appear to have stalled, AFP said. Click Here: Taliban co-founder and political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said the insurgents want an end…

Planned Parenthood has said that Missouri State officials may not renew their license, which could bar the clinic, the last in the state, from performing abortions by the end of the week. If the clinic is forced to stop providing the service, it would be the first time since the 1973 Roe vs Wade Supreme…

Violent protests targeting a minority community in a predominantly Muslim area have erupted in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province after a Hindu vet was accused of wrapping meds in pages ripped out of a holy book. Footage from the scene showed shops ablaze with furious crowds calling for extrajudicial vengeance. The mob of angry protesters began…

Whoever wins the bitter trade row between the two biggest world economies, the US or China, the consequences are set to spread far beyond… erasing up to $600 billion off global GDP, according to a Bloomberg forecast. Trade representatives from Washington and Beijing had been soothing the markets as they indicated that they were on…

Russian Washington Capitals star forward Evgeny Kuznetsov has denied using illicit drugs after a video of him sitting beside two lines of white powder circulated online, prompting the NHL franchise to investigate the episode. The video clip, which was posted on Twitter on Monday, shows Kuznetsov talking to someone in Russian via FaceTime on his…

Several Russian media outlets have caused confusion by reporting that the Russian Orthodox Church is opening a new temple in Westeros – not the fantasy continent from ‘Game of Thrones’ but a city in Sweden pronounced the same way. Västerås is a city of some 120,000 people in central Sweden, some 100 kilometers west of…

Russian underdog Vitalia Diatchenko may not have won her French Open 1st round match against US great Serena Williams, but she won widespread attention in the media with a strong showing of her bulging biceps during the match. READ MORE: Serena Williams gets 1st win in ‘zebra’ outfit at French Open despite dropping opening set…

A Swedish court has rejected a request to postpone a hearing on the detention of the WikiLeaks founder. Julian Assange’s lawyers requested the court session be postponed due to their client’s ill health. Swedish prosecutors reopened a rape case against Assange earlier this month after Assange was hauled from London’s Ecuadorian embassy and jailed for…