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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday appointed former finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk as the top official of the body responsible for coordinating national security. The national security and defense council comprises ministers, senior lawmakers and top regional officials and is chaired by the president. Danylyuk pushed reforms and cooperation with the International Monetary Fund while […]

The editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian branch of Russia’s Sputnik news agency was detained on arrival to the Vilnius airport and labeled “a threat to the national security” of Lithuania. He was deported back to neighboring Latvia. Marat Kasem himself told RIA-Novosti of his detention. The journalist said he has been banned from entering Lithuania for […]

The ‘Russian oligarch’s niece’ at the center of the corruption scandal that brought down the Austrian government was actually a Bosnian student paid to set up the then-vice-chancellor, an Austrian tabloid claims. Austria’s government collapsed on Monday after a no-confidence motion in parliament ousted Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from power. The scandal began two weeks earlier, […]

The United States walked out of a UN disarmament forum in protest after Venezuela took up the conference’s rotating chairmanship, insisting it would not participate in a conference led by a “rogue state.” “Whatever is discussed in there, whatever is decided, has absolutely no legitimacy because it is an illegitimate regime presiding over that body,” […]

US swimming legend Michael Phelps has opened up about mental health problems he experienced in the past, revealing that he sought the help of a licensed therapist to battle depression and anxiety. In a series of twitter posts, the most-decorated Olympian of all time detailed his experience of overcoming his darkest days, saying that consulting […]

While details of NATO’s new military strategy are still unknown, odds are the alliance is simply falling in line with recent updates to US doctrine and seeking to outgun all potential adversaries, a military expert tells RT. Citing a “new security situation” as well as “challenges in the east and the south” and a “nuclear […]

Malaysia has announced it will send 3,000 metric tonnes of non-recyclable plastic back to developed nations that illegally shipped it there, drawing a line in the sand and highlighting the world’s major waste problem. Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said 60 containers stacked with contaminated waste would be sent back from illegal processing facilities in […]

Senior Taliban officials including the group’s top political advisor met with Afghan political figures in Moscow on Tuesday, saying they were committed to peace in Afghanistan. The statement comes as US-led talks appear to have stalled, AFP said. Taliban co-founder and political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said the insurgents want an end to 18 […]

Planned Parenthood has said that Missouri State officials may not renew their license, which could bar the clinic, the last in the state, from performing abortions by the end of the week. If the clinic is forced to stop providing the service, it would be the first time since the 1973 Roe vs Wade Supreme […]

Britain’s equality watchdog is launching a formal investigation to determine whether Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has “discriminated against, harassed or victimized people because they are Jewish.” Click Here: Labour, Britain’s main opposition party, has promised to co-operate fully with the investigation, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. “We contacted Labour after receiving […]