Month: August 2019

Follow RT on The US Treasury Department has blacklisted the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya – recently freed from a month-long detention in Gibraltar – and sanctioned its captain after an attempt to legally confiscate the ship failed. The Office of Foreign Assets Control added the ship, formerly called Grace 1, and its captain Akhilesh…

Follow RT on Over a dozen migrant boats landed on Greece’s Lesbos island within minutes of each other on Thursday in the first such mass arrival from neighboring Turkey in three years, officials said. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias summoned the Turkish ambassador on Friday to “express Greece’s deep discontent” with the rise in flows from…

Follow RT on Russia’s ‘northern capital’ St. Petersburg will host the 2021 UEFA Champions League final at the city’s Krestovksy Stadium, with Allianza Arena in Munich hosting the 2022 final, according to a report from The Associated Press. On Friday, AP said they had spoekn to “two people with knowledge of the process say UEFA…

Follow RT on The French nuclear agency has admitted it axed plans to build a prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor – at least, in the foreseeable future – after spending over a decade and hundreds of million of euros on its development. The decision to not build a prototype of any sort for the ASTRID project…

Follow RT on After devastating the Middle East through sanctions, warfare, and the backing of extremists to fight proxy wars, the Indo-Pacific region – not the Middle East – is now the Pentagon’s “priority” region. Just this week, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made the call to expand base locations in the Pacific region…

Follow RT on Chinese Huawei’s next flagship smartphone will not come with Google’s popular apps including Maps, YouTube, and Gmail, which are part of the Android operating system. US search giant Google told Reuters that under the current US restrictions on trade with Huawei, the new phones cannot be sold with licensed apps. This means…

Follow RT on Police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia will name all suspects’ nationality as a way to counter “clumsy deception.” The move comes after allegations of police and media covering up criminals’ origins. All future police press releases in Germany’s most populous state will contain information about the nationality of suspects as…

Follow RT on Lawrence O’Donnell’s walkback of a supposed “bombshell” story involving a claim that Donald Trump received loans co-signed by Russian billionaires is the latest sign that journalism has become accountability-free. Indicating that MSNBC deliberately chose to prioritize hype over facts, O’Donnell admitted on air that the claim needed “a lot more verification before…

Follow RT on Women accusing the late financier Jeffrey Epstein of abuse and sex trafficking have called him a “coward” at his final court hearing, saying his suicide robbed them of justice. Questions around Epstein’s death remain unanswered. The hearing was convened on Tuesday, where prosecutors were set to formally dismiss Epstein’s case following his…

Follow RT on More than 200 footwear manufacturers and retailers, including Nike and Foot Locker, called on US President Donald Trump to cancel the proposed higher tariffs on Chinese imports that take effect next month. The companies signed a letter warning that the new tariffs could cost US consumers an additional $4 billion a year…