Month: September 2019

Follow RT on Speaking in Serbia, the anti-mainstream Czech President Miloš Zeman said he’d like his goverment to withdraw recognition of the breakaway Kosovo province as an independent state. This has immediately attracted attention in the US. Zeman expressed his Kosovo wish on Wednesday, during his official visit to Belgrade. He also said that he…

Follow RT on The promotional video of US jets carpet-bombing an “ISIS infested” island in Iraq comes amid tensions between Washington and Baghdad, and may have more to do with that than with the supposedly long-defeated terror group. The video, complete with dramatic music, shows F-15 as well as F-35 jets dropping what was said…

Follow RT on Russian MPs have voted to grant police and other security services the right to take control of UAVs remotely or shoot them down if they jeopardize the security of people and infrastructure. The measure is intended to protect critical infrastructure such as energy, transport, and communications facilities, and secure citizens during mass…

Follow RT on Lincolnshire’s Fire & Rescue service is dumping much-loved cartoon character Fireman Sam as its official mascot, because Sam is too male. This didn’t sit well with a large portion of the public, which is wondering “who’s next?” The move followed a persistent campaign by various organizations and individuals that peddle the so-called…

Follow RT on At least two young people were injured as they attempted to firebomb a police cordon protecting the bomb disposal unit in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Monday night. Police were bombarded with at least 40 petrol bombs in a “brutal and sustained attack” following evacuations in the Creggan area of the city. The…

Follow RT on The Taliban has taken over another district in Afghanistan, the second in two weeks, saying that the US will “regret” abandoning key peace talks that stalled after Donald Trump called off a much-awaited meeting with the group. Yangi Qala, a district in Afghanistan’s northern province of Takhar, fell into the hands of…

Follow RT on A two-year-old interview of former Beatle Ringo Starr, saying that he would have voted for Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum if he had been in the UK, has prompted an avalanche of abuse from pro-remainers. The video clip from a 2017 interview with the former drummer on BBC Newsnight went viral…

Follow RT on The European Union has completed contingency preparations for any ‘no-deal’ Brexit, the incoming head of the European Commission said on Tuesday. Announcing her team to lead the next EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen said she would ask the bloc’s current Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier to continue in his role, Reuters reported….

Follow RT on Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday that Turkey “continues to provoke” in its approach towards the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus. The PM made the comments during a meeting with visiting Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, the first foreign head of state to visit Athens since Mitsotakis won elections in…

Follow RT on Washington on Tuesday said it was unacceptable that Iran was not fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation of its nuclear program, but repeated it remained open to talks with Tehran on a “comprehensive deal,” Reuters reports. “Any indication that Iran is providing insufficient cooperation to the IAEA on a…