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Iran will not hold talks with the US “under any circumstances” while the rights of the Islamic republic are not respected, the spokesman of the Supreme National Security Council said on Thursday. “We have said clearly… as long as the rights of our nation are not satisfied, as long as words don’t change into action, […]

British PM Theresa May’s name will forever be synonymous with Brexit. Her long-awaited resignation now is a far too late attempt to preserve her own legacy, but there is scarcely anything left to preserve. May’s last-ditch attempt to push her hated Brexit deal through parliament on Tuesday was swiftly met with renewed calls for her […]

Last-ditch efforts by the European intelligence community, politicians and the mainstream media to find the “Russian trail” ahead of the EU parliamentary elections lead to nowhere. They tried. They really tried. For years the European establishment has been sounding the alarm about a seemingly ever-imminent Russian interference campaign in European politics. Accusations against Russian media […]

Volodymyr Zelensky went from playing the Ukrainian President on TV to taking on the job for real. Now he is bringing his showbiz friends into the government, because why not? The show must go on… Before Zelensky was sworn in on Monday, he spent years playing a fictitious president of Ukraine in the popular sitcom, […]

As US relations with Iran continue to plummet, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan confirmed military planners were weighing a new troop deployment to the Middle East. “What we’re looking at is: Are there things that we can do to enhance force protection in the Middle East?” Shanahan told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday, adding “It […]

The head of the United Nations organization for Palestinian refugees on Thursday rejected a US call to dismantle the agency. UNRWA’s Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl rebuffed the criticism from US envoy Jason Greenblatt during a visit to the Gaza Strip, AFP reported. “I unreservedly reject the accompanying narrative that suggests that somehow UNRWA is to […]

Defeated Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto will lodge a challenge to the result of the April 17 election in the Constitutional Court on Friday after complaining that the vote was rigged, Reuters reported. President Joko Widodo won 55.5 percent of votes to lead the world’s third biggest democracy, beating retired general Prabowo, who got 44.5 […]

The Philippines rejected Canada’s offer to take back its shipment of garbage by the end of June, ramming the message home that the waste should be returned as soon as possible. Manila had threatened to dump it all at the shore. Ottawa agreed to take back its garbage of discord on Wednesday, promising to pay […]

There is little hope for Julian Assange to be given a fair trial in the hands of the US justice system, former CIA analyst and whistleblower John Kiriakou, whose case was handled by the same District Court in Virginia, told RT. Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the government-sanctioned torture program in 2007 and was sentenced to […]

While the trade dispute between the US and China is leaving scores of companies in a state of confusion and uncertainty, some beneficiaries are emerging. RT’s Boom Bust talked to Richard Wolff, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, to find out which nations may capitalize on the trade turmoil, and if […]