Month: September 2019

The Waratahs have been forced into a late backline reshuffle, with Karmichael Hunt ruled out of Friday’s Brumbies match. Hunt suffered a hamstring injury at training on Wednesday, forcing him out of the side to travel to Canberra. Kurtley Beale moves to inside centre with Israel Folau back to fullback and Curtis Rona, who was…

Reds captain Samu Kerevi has continued the Quade Cooper blackout, refusing to speak directly about his former clubmate ahead of the flyhalf’s Suncorp Stadium return. The Reds have stuck closely to the mantra that they are focused only on themselves ahead of Saturday’s clash against the Rebels, despite the shutdown of Cooper and another former…

Follow RT on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to fight on even as exit polls showed him tied or lagging behind his main opposition rival, with a slim chance of assembling the coalition needed for a fifth term. “We won’t have and can’t have a government dependent on anti-Zionist Arab parties,” Netanyahu proclaimed as…

Follow RT on Russia and Iran will transfer payments using an alternative system to the internationally recognized SWIFT money transfer network, the governor of the Iranian central bank, Abdolnaser Hemmati, announced. Instead of SWIFT, a system that facilitates cross-border payments between 11,000 financial institutions in more than 200 countries worldwide, the two countries will use…

Follow RT on Juventus forward Gonzalo Higuain erupted in a furious outburst during training with the Turin club as he lashed out at a club coach and destroyed a nearby advertising hoarding. Juve are currently preparing for their opening Champions league group stage match at Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, but Argentine forward Higuain was clearly…

Follow RT on A conspicuously ‘woke’ New York City official has proposed that male statues inhabiting the metropolis’s famed Central Park should be replaced with monuments honoring women. This is a great idea, nobody on Twitter said. Hank Willis Thomas, a painter who serves on the Public Design Commission, told his fellow commission members that…

Follow RT on Russia’s FSB said the Coast Guard arrested one North Korean ship and its crew poaching fish in Russia’s exclusive economic zone, but sailors on board another vessel violently resisted detention, injuring three troops. The crew of a North Korean vessel attacked Russian border guards as they tried to stop them from poaching,…

Follow RT on An explosive essay calling out the lack of legitimate expertise about Iran ought to be a wake-up call for the US foreign policy field. Yet the same problem also affects Washington’s analysis of Russia, China and many other places. Imagine a field of study in which less than a third of the…

Follow RT on ‘Thoughts and prayers’ is a phrase bandied about by well-wishers after almost every national tragedy but, according to a new study reported by CNN, atheists would actually pay not to receive them. Sending thoughts and prayers to the afflicted in the wake of a disaster is often criticized as a self-serving and…