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Month: August 2019
Better call Trump? Pakistan’s options limited after India strips autonomy of disputed Kashmir
Follow RT on India raised the stakes in its dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir by revoking the decades-old special status for its part of the region. This left Pakistan fuming, but there isn’t much it can do in response, analysts told RT. For decades, the Indian constitution gave the part of disputed Kashmir under India’s…
‘Those playing with fire will perish by it’: Beijing sends warning to Hong Kong protesters
Follow RT on The Chinese authorities slammed the violence and riots seen in the massive protests over a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong. The activists, however, vow to stay on the streets. Beijing warned protesters to not underestimate the “immense strength of the central government” and said that all rioters will “eventually be punished.”…
Google seeks to meddle into 2020 elections to derail Trump – former employee
Follow RT on Tech giant Google is plotting to meddle into the 2020 US presidential election to make sure President Donald Trump doesn’t win, a former employee has claimed, accusing the company of persecuting conservatives within its ranks. Former Google engineer Kevin Cernekee sounded the alarm over the tech giant’s alleged plans to intervene into…
Terrorists carry out artillery strike on Russia’s airbase in Syria, hit civilians – military
Follow RT on Terrorists have carried out an artillery strike against the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, injuring four civilians, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday. At around 11:30am GMT, air defense equipment at the Khmeimim airbase “detected the launch of three multiple launch rockets in the direction of the Russian airbase from north of the…
‘Horror film’ mid-air: Smoke fills British Airways plane, prompts emergency landing (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Follow RT on A British Airways flight from London to Valencia, Spain was forced to make an emergency landing after the craft’s cabin filled with smoke. As of yet, no injuries have been reported. Flight BA 422 from London’s Heathrow Airport was on landing approach when the cabin began to fill with smoke on Monday…
DJ Salvini? Shirtless Italian pol lives it up at beach party, rocks out to national anthem (VIDEO)
Follow RT on Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has appeared in a video guest-starring in the DJ booth at a recent festival, dancing with bikini-clad women and partying shirtless with equally (un)dressed revelers. Salvini, who doubles as Italy’s interior minister, can be seen manning the mixers during a music festival at Papeete Beach in…
Irish Times’ Brexit Sinn Féin fantasies betray fact that English-Irish misunderstanding is mutual
Click:小型辦公室 Follow RT on The Irish Times, led by its celebrity brain du jour, believes Ireland can prevent a no-deal Brexit by pulling strokes in London, instead of Brussels. It’s a doltish recipe for disaster. Around the turn of the millennium, Dublin’s “paper of record” had quite a few ‘star’ columnists. The most famous was…
Russian investigators probe alleged $15mn money-laundering scheme by Navalny’s anti-corruption fund
Follow RT on A probe has been launched into alleged money laundering by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), an NGO led by an opposition activist Alexey Navalny. The announcement was made amid ongoing opposition protests in Moscow. Click Here: cheap pandora Rings Samples taken from Kremlin critic Navalny show no signs of poison – doctors Members…
Millions of ‘slaves’ around the world still making stuff we buy today
Follow RT on There were 40.3 million people living in conditions of slavery in 2018, mostly women, a recent report by the Walk Free Initiative shows. Researchers say slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century but just changed form. The initiative undertakes research to build the world’s most comprehensive evidence-base of modern…