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Follow RT on The UK Foreign Office has been ridiculed online after boastfully tweeting that Britain and the US “do more together than any two nations on Earth,” prompting many to highlight their damaging military relationship. What was ostensibly intended to be a post promoting the idea of a new exciting trade deal being forged…

Follow RT on Armed troops returned to try and arrest Almazbek Atambayev, after being repelled by his supporters the day before, leaving over 50 injured and a soldier killed. Sticks, stones and live shots were used to defend his mansion. As special forces started raiding the compound, reports emerged about flash grenade and gunshots. Soon…

Follow RT on IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who became a national hero after reportedly shooting down a Pakistani jet, and a viral sensation due to his striking facial hair, is set to receive one of India’s highest military honors. Varthaman reportedly shot down a Pakistani F-16 with his Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21 Bison…

Follow RT on Russian superstar Alexander ‘The Great 8’ Ovechkin visited one of the world’s most iconic landmarks bearing the same moniker when he took a trip to the Great Wall of China as part of a tour as an NHL ambassador. The forward, 33, was impressed by the relics of the Great Wall and…

Follow RT on An explosion has rocked a Russian Navy firing range during trials there, the Ministry of Defense has said. At least two service members were killed in the blast. A “liquid-fueled jet engine” exploded at the test site in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region, close to the city of Severodvinsk, home to a major base…

Follow RT on The “rules-based international system” is under increasing threat, with laws flouted and “norms” violated at every turn by disobedient members of the world community, warns a preachy Sky News op-ed. The dire warning, authored by Sky’s foreign affairs editor Deborah Haynes, defines this rules-based order as the “network of accords and institutions”…

Follow RT on A group of former intelligence agency directors and other trustworthy cybersecurity pros has launched a charitable initiative to protect US elections against foreign interference. So who are these noble guardians of democracy? The “US Cyberdome” claims to apply top-of-the-line cybersecurity capabilities to the country’s vulnerable election systems, motivated by nothing more than…

Follow RT on Powerful explosions which devastated an ammunition depot in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region produced massive blast waves across the cloudy skies, with the moment of the biggest explosion caught on video by a local resident. The footage, filmed not far from the town of Achinsk, shows two massive blasts. One of them produced a…

Follow RT on While ranked ‘only’ 13th in the water scarcity list, India has more than three times the population of all 17 other countries the World Resources Institute found to be facing “extremely high” water stress levels. A quarter of the world’s population residing in seventeen countries is facing “extremely high” levels of baseline…

Follow RT on The Philippines will never allow the US to deploy nuclear weapons on its soil to counter China’s growing influence in the region, President Duterte declared, slamming Washington’s untrustworthiness even in small arms deals. Following American withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia last week, Washington made clear that it…