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Follow RT on In spite of everything that has happened in the EU in the last five years, its member states contrived to select four politicians who embody total continuity with all the policies that led the EU into this mess in the first place. None of the recent calamities have persuaded the bloc to […]

Follow RT on No hustings, no debate, no votes, no elections. In fact, there was no democracy at all. Not even puffs of white smoke from the Brussels chimney to tell hundreds of millions of EU citizens who their new governors were going to be. Just simple horse-trading, and what a donkey derby it was. […]

Follow RT on Yisrael Katz has visited the UAE for the very first time, discussing everyone’s favorite bogeyman – the “Iranian threat” – with an “unnamed official.” But is Tehran scary enough to cement ties between Israel and Gulf Arab states? Katz, the Israeli minister of foreign affairs – and intelligence – visited Abu Dhabi […]

Follow RT on Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday denounced a judge who freed the German captain of a charity rescue ship accused of forcing an Italian naval blockade. Salvini suggested the ruling was politically motivated. Judge Alessandra Vella freed Carola Rackete from house arrest on Tuesday, saying that by bringing migrants to port […]

Follow RT on The 14 officers who died fighting a disastrous fire on a Russian deep water research vessel have been named by the Russian Defense Ministry. The crew have sacrificed their lives to save fellow officers and save the submersible. “Thanks to their timely, dedicated and competent actions, the submariners extinguished the fire, and […]

Follow RT on Russian slapping champion Vasiliy ‘Dumpling’ Kamotskiy has given his own version of the viral ‘bottle cap challenge’ craze by doing what he does best – slapping the bottle off to create his own version of the gimmick. READ MORE: ‘My a** was red and blue!’ Russian ‘Booty Slapping Champion’ on brand-spanking new sport […]

Follow RT on The European Parliament elected Italian socialist lawmaker David Sassoli on Wednesday as its speaker for the next 2-1/2 years. Sassoli, 63, was elected after two rounds of votes by lawmakers at the first plenary session of the assembly which emerged from EU elections in May. A former journalist from Florence, Sassoli has […]

Follow RT on In the latest example of artificial intelligence at work, algorithms can now ‘undress’ a woman, or put false utterances into a politician’s mouth. What’s at stake is nothing less than our perception of reality. Young readers of comic books circa 1970s will certainly remember the back-page ad section, where everything from Charles […]

Follow RT on Despite its tender age, an Arctic fox has made headlines, broken records and baffled scientists who tracked its blistering 2,176-mile trek from Norway’s Svalbard islands to Canada in a mere 76 days. While 15-year-old Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff’s Wimbledon win over Venus Williams was undoubtedly impressive, this one-year-old Arctic fox may have made […]

Follow RT on Moscow has called on Tehran to show restraint amid the situation with the nuclear deal and observe key provisions of a deal on guarantees with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. Commenting on Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile that has exceeded the 300-kilogram limit, he […]