Follow RT on SpaceX’s ‘Starhopper’ – the test vehicle for a reusable long-haul spacecraft project – has burst into flames after a series of tests in Texas. The craft was left damaged by the blaze. After successful tests last week saw the Starhopper literally hop several inches off the ground, SpaceX’s engineers lined up a…
Month: July 2019
Not yet: Vote on Trump impeachment fails in Democrat-controlled House
Follow RT on The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted against a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, sponsored by those hoping to capitalize on the backlash to Trump’s attacks on four progressive congresswomen. The majority of Democrats sided with Republicans to put a pin in the resolution, which was tabled with a final…
Duterte snubs UN human rights panel, says he’ll ‘only face a trial in a Philippine court’
Follow RT on Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has defiantly refused to cooperate with a UN human rights tribunal, saying that if he is ever to be put on trial over his ‘War on Drugs’, it would have to be in the Philippines. The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution last Thursday to…
Dunce’s cap for Russiagate coverage should go to CNN (by George Galloway)
Follow RT on If there was a dunce’s cap awarded to the most gullible – or worse, complicit – news outfit in the whole ‘Russiagate’ affair, it would surely go to CNN. The small consolation is that its ratings have plummeted in direct proportion to its fake news agenda. Unless trapped in a hotel room…
Russia calls on OSCE to facilitate dialogue between NATO & post-Soviet security bloc CSTO
Follow RT on Moscow has urged the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to pay attention to the address made by the post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to NATO, to consolidate dialogue between the two organizations. Speaking at an OSCE forum in Vienna on Wednesday, Russian permanent representative to the organization Aleksandr…
Attacks on ‘white & male’ Moon landing proves no US achievement is too big for liberals to destroy
Follow RT on Attempts to diminish the triumph of Apollo 11 and to reassign credit don’t just taint the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but presage the technological decline of the US if it persists with identity politics. With the Founding Fathers now rarely mentioned in the media without side notes about their slave…
Sudan’s military council signs political accord with opposition groups
Follow RT on Sudan’s ruling military council and an opposition coalition signed a political accord on Wednesday as part of a power-sharing deal. The final version of agreement, which was reached earlier this month, was signed in Khartoum in the presence of African mediators following a night of talks. The deal is meant to pave…
London has fallen: May & Khan fiddle while crime destroys capital
Follow RT on As Theresa May prepares to vacate Downing Street, Britain has never appeared so broken, fragmented and rudderless. In London, long held up as one of the world’s major capital cities – a beacon of multiculturalism, dynamism, enterprise and opportunity – death stalks the streets and alleys of its vast sprawling housing estates….
‘If you’re not happy, you can leave’: Trump stands by his tweets slamming Dem Squad
Follow RT on US President Donald Trump ramped up his Twitter feud with four Democratic congresswomen who he says ‘hate America,’ accusing one of them of supporting Al-Qaeda and saying they are welcome to leave the country if they so wish. “If you’re not happy here, then you can leave. As far as I’m concerned,…
No-deal Brexit now ‘more likely than it had been’ – Irish finance minister
Follow RT on Irish finance minister Paschal Donohoe said on Tuesday that the prospect of Britain leaving the EU without a deal was now more likely than it had been. Both candidates to replace Theresa May as UK prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, have said that they would be prepared to pursue a…