Month: June 2019

Follow RT on YouTube has been accused of “injecting” itself into Irish politics after a leaked document revealed that it blacklisted abortion-themed search queries during the nation’s 2018 constitutional referendum. In May 2018, Ireland overwhelmingly voted to abolish constitutional restrictions on abortion. The referendum received considerable media coverage worldwide, and YouTube, along with its parent…

Follow RT on Opioid use is twice as high as previously thought, a UN report has found, with two-thirds of the 585,000 global drugs deaths in 2017 caused by the addictive prescription pain medications heroin and fentanyl. The World Drug Report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed that in 2017 some…

Follow RT on A crew member from a Brazilian military plane used to arrange travel for the president was arrested in Spain with a bagful of cocaine in his luggage. The Brazilian leader said the man was not from “his team.” The Air Force service member was arrested by Spain’s Civil Guard on Tuesday at…

Follow RT on North Korea has denied claims made by South Korean President Moon Jae-in about “behind-the scenes talks” to schedule a third summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Moon made the bold claim while speaking to several media agencies in Seoul on Wednesday. However a top official in NK’s Foreign Ministry, Kwon Jong…

Follow RT on A US Navy Freedom-class combat ship so new it hasn’t even been commissioned yet has smashed into a berthed Canadian freighter in Montreal, another black mark on the reputation of the troubled combat vessels. The American littoral combat ship, slated to be commissioned as the USS Billings, hit the Quebecois dry bulk…

US President Donald Trump accused former special counsel investigator Robert Mueller of scrubbing communications between FBI agents investigating his 2016 presidential campaign for alleged ties to Moscow. Appearing on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday morning, the president argued Mueller had incriminating text messages erased from official records. Special counsel Robert Mueller “terminated the…

Kim Kardashian West’s newly unveiled shapewear brand ‘Kimono’ has received a furious backlash from Japanese people accusing her of being “ignorant” and “butchering [their] culture.” The reality TV star launched a Spanx-like brand on Tuesday to “celebrate and enhance the shape and curves of women.” However, the brand name ‘Kimono’ seems more a play on…

Lionel Messi’s Iranian doppelganger Reza Parastesh has denied tricking 23 women in his native country into sleeping with him after taking on the Argentine football icon’s identity to seduce them. Spanish sports publications Marca circulated the accusations earlier this week that Parastesh had told the women he was in fact Barcelona’s all-time top scorer, which…

We live in a post-truth world, one in which daring to speak truth in defiance of establishment orthodoxies is to be guilty of heresy. Ask Nick Clegg if you don’t believe me. Britain’s former deputy prime minister, and erstwhile leader of the country’s Liberal Democrats, is now a top executive with Facebook in the US….

The right to life should be guaranteed for embryos, the Russian Orthodox Church has said as it presented a document which calls for abortions and scientific experiments on human embryos to be banned. “An embryo is a human being, who therefore has certain rights that should be protected,” the paper, rolled out for public discussion,…