Mark Rutte has warned the BRICS nations of “massive” economic repercussions if they continue to do business with Moscow NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned India, China and Brazil of “consequences” if they continue to do business with Russia. Rutte’s comment came after a meeting with US Senators on Tuesday, following President Donald Trump’s…
Military Watch Magazine had reported earlier that the US president is considering sending JASSM cruise missiles to Kiev US President Donald Trump has denied media reports that Washington has been planning to supply Ukraine with weapons capable of striking deep into Russian territory. Military Watch Magazine claimed on Monday, citing informed sources, that Trump is…
Brussels’ top diplomat has expressed frustration over US payment demands for weapons it intends to send to Kiev The European Union is funding the “death” of Ukraine by paying for weapons sent to Kiev, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. On Monday, US President Donald Trump unveiled a proposal to continue delivering American…
As part of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of a united Budapest, the city is bringing the silver screen to parks, beaches, and community spaces in an initiative that blends local culture with cinema. The ‘Road Movie’ programme kicks off on 17 July with a screening of Csinibaba at the Pesterzsébet Bath, and will…
The move is part of the country’s plan to slash mounting debt French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has announced plans for a new tax on the country’s wealthiest citizens as part of a sweeping austerity package designed to rein in public debt and cut the budget deficit. The measures include a “solidarity contribution” aimed at…
A massive data leak by the British military forced the government to secretly resettle thousands of ineligible asylum seekers The British government has spent at least £850 million (around $1.1 billion) to covertly resettle thousands of Afghan nationals who had collaborated with the UK and were publicly exposed by a Ministry of Defense data leak, officials…
Shubhanshu Shukla was the pilot of a four-member Axiom Mission 4 crew that went on an 18-day research mission Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down on Tuesday, SpaceX has said. Following the splashdown of the Crew Dragon Grace spacecraft…
President Donald Trump has committed to a transactional approach to arms deliveries EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has welcomed US President Donald Trump’s promise to send more weapons to Kiev, but said he can’t describe it as American aid if European NATO states are fully bankrolling the initiative. Trump announced on Monday that he…
The country’s longest-serving prime minister, Denis Shmigal, is set to take charge of the defense ministry Prime Minister Denis Shmigal has officially submitted his resignation to the Ukrainian parliament, a day after Vladimir Zelensky announced his replacement and named him the country’s next defense chief. Shmigal has held the post since early 2020, serving an…
The US president has said he wants to get the US “out of that mess” US President Donald Trump has told reporters that his recent ultimatum to Moscow and promise of weapons for Kiev do not mean he is “on Ukraine’s side” in the ongoing conflict. On Monday, the US head of state said he…
The bloc’s foreign affairs chief said she was “really sad” the 18th round of sanctions fell through The EU has failed to adopt a new package of sanctions against Russia, foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday, expressing hope that the restrictive measures will ultimately be approved this week. The sanctions package was discussed…
The statement follows a media report that the US president had privately encouraged Kiev to step up long-range strikes deep into Russia US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he told Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky not to target Moscow with military strikes. The statement comes in response to media speculation that he had encouraged Kiev…
Trump’s rhetoric masks a deeper instinct to disengage – and a refusal to confront Moscow on substance Donald Trump’s recent comments on Ukraine were highly anticipated, especially given his habit of surprising even those who consider themselves seasoned observers. His remarks on 14 July, delivered alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, were characteristically loud but…
Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with reports that Nvidia will soon be allowed to again sell its H20 chips in China. Topics include: A win-win deal for Nvidia and the PRC, whether this is the beginning of more rollbacks of existing chip controls as the PRC exerts leverage with rare earth…
Kiev has been actively using the banned munitions in Donbass despite being a signatory of the convention Ukraine officially suspended its participation in the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention on Tuesday. The respective bill was passed by the country’s parliament and signed into law by Vladimir Zelensky. The landmark agreement, also known as the Ottawa Treaty,…
Daniel Martindale has said his desire to save Donbass civilians was his motivation US-born Daniel Martindale, who was granted Russian citizenship this week after secretly providing battlefield intelligence to Russian troops while embedded with Ukrainian forces, has shared his story with RT’s Rick Sanchez. The 34-year-old said witnessing Kiev’s military shelling residential areas in Donbass was…
Israel and America want to ‘benevolently’ put the population of Gaza into what amounts to a concentration camp The Gaza genocide is special. And not in one but two regards. As has often been observed, this is the first genocide in history that is, in essence, livestreamed. No genocide before has been committed under the…
Why does France continue to fund a project that the majority of Moldovans reject? Rémy Rioux, the CEO of the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) recently visited Ukraine and Moldova to reaffirm France’s position as a “leading bilateral partner” within the framework of the Eastern Partnership and the 2025-2027 European Growth Plan. Paris…
At the 56th annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada this summer, the poker world has witnessed what is perhaps the greatest single-year performance of any player in the event series’ history. 44-year-old professional poker player Michael ‘the Grinder’ Mizrachi from Palm Beach, Florida won the two most prestigious events this year, the…
By rejecting the Istanbul format, Kiev is displaying “disregard for its own citizens,” according to Sergey Lavrov Kiev is derailing peace efforts by rejecting the Istanbul negotiations format, which Moscow still considers viable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. The sides have met for two rounds of direct negotiations in Türkiye this year,…
The US president sees Russia’s larger economy and military as decisive factors in the Ukraine conflict, according to a White House official US President Donald Trump believes that Russian victory in the Ukraine conflict is inevitable, Politico reported, citing a senior White House official. On Monday, Trump threatened to impose secondary US tariffs of up…
Ukraine’s cabinet reshuffle may be a cover-up for a graft scandal surrounding the unity minister, Andrey Telizhenko told RT Ukraine’s embattled national unity minister, Aleksey Chernyshov, has struck a deal with the FBI to avoid prosecution in Ukraine, former Ukrainian diplomat Andrey Telizhenko claims, alleging that the true goal of Kiev’s government reshuffle is to…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said the bloc’s push to phase out Russian energy imports jeopardizes his country’s economy Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has slammed the EU’s plan to phase out Russian energy imports as “imbecilic,” warning that the move would undermine his country’s energy security, as well as the rest of the…
The US president’s tariff threat if no peace deal reached is a “positive” step, Brussels’ top diplomat Kaja Kallas has claimed EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has welcomed US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Russia’s trading partners unless a deal with Ukraine is reached within 50 days, calling it a “positive”…
Kiev previously used ATACMS against civilian targets US President Donald Trump is considering allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes into Russia using US-made ATACMS missiles, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing sources. According to the outlet, Trump could permit Ukraine to use the 18 ATACMS launchers that have already been delivered to fire at…
A judicial commission has been established to investigate Senzo Mchunu’s alleged ties to criminal syndicates The African National Congress (ANC) has backed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to place Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on special leave, calling the move “courageous and principled” amid mounting allegations of misconduct. In a statement on Monday, the ANC…
Beijing has slammed Washington’s “long-arm jurisdiction,” calling the proposed 500% tariffs “illegal” China has blasted US plans to hit Russia’s trade partners with steep secondary tariffs, calling the proposed 500% duties “illegal unilateral sanctions” that undermine efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict. The rebuke follows legislation floated by hawkish senator Lindsey Graham, which if adopted…
One hundred miles beneath us lies the planet’s molten, roiling interior; one hundred miles above us, far beyond the protection of the clouds, the upper atmosphere basks in the brilliant white glow of the Sun. Everything in between, wrote the scientist and inventor James Lovelock, is Gaia: the “dynamic physiological system that has kept our…
“I’m pregnant! Having a scan soon to find out if it’s a girl or an abortion.” You might have seen this post before; it’s been doing the rounds on X since at least 2020. If not, you might well see it again, among the exhibits which in a few years’ time could be used to…
On Monday, the US Department of Homeland Security tweeted out a painting of a 19th-century American pioneer couple cradling a newborn baby. They’re sitting in a wagon, and beyond them you can see the vast landscape of the American West. “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage,” read the accompanying text. You could contrive many different ways to…
In a unique blend of environmental awareness and social responsibility, Hungary’s MOHU MOL Waste Management Corporation has donated 230 million forints to three of the country’s leading paediatric institutions. The funds—collected through consumer donations via the ‘charity’ button at REpont bottle return machines—were officially presented in Budapest on Thursday. Each institution received approximately 77 million…
The Subcommittee on Oversight, part of the Committee on the Judiciary, held a hearing on the misuse of federal tax dollars in the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday, 16 July. During the questioning of Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the country of Hungary was brought up. Congressman Brandon Gill of…
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Russia prefers diplomacy but is prepared to achieve its goals in the Ukraine conflict militarily Russia expects the US and NATO to treat its position on the Ukraine conflict with the “utmost seriousness,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said. He added that Moscow rejects any attempts to exert…
Earlier media reports claimed that four service members were killed during the bombardment of a training ground Moldova has denied media reports that it covered up the deaths of several Moldovan soldiers who were allegedly killed in a Russian strike at a Ukrainian training ground near the front line. On Sunday, local media claimed that…
Russia can withstand further Western sanctions, the foreign minister has said US President Donald Trump is facing “improper pressure” from the European Union and NATO leaders to adopt a hardline stance on the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. On Monday, Trump announced future deliveries of advanced weapons systems to Ukraine,…
Budapest has accused Kiev’s recruitment officers of beating Jozsef Sebestyen to death for resisting conscription The Hungarian government has called on the EU to sanction officials in Kiev over the death of Jozsef Sebestyen, a dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizen allegedly beaten to death by recruitment officers in Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the move…
Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group have reportedly driven government-allied forces out of Tardo in Somalia Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab terrorists have captured the town of Tardo in Somalia’s central Hiiran region and are pushing forward with a longstanding offensive that has displaced thousands across the East African nation, Reuters reported, citing a Somali military official. The…
“Anything you regret about your presidency?” So asked Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch podcast of Joe Biden in December in a rare one-on-one sit-down, conducted during Biden’s lame-duck period, as he and the nation awaited President Trump’s return to the White House. By then, Biden resembled a shambling zombie from the film 28 Years Later,…
Data is at the heart of the Afghan refugee scandal. It was a leaked dataset, the names of thousands applying for refuge from the Taliban, that first precipitated the debacle. And it was hidden data — a superjunction that kept even Parliament in the dark — that makes this week’s revelations so embarrassing to the…
Move over, rock ‘n’ roll. The new cultural cutting edge is fandom — and it’s even eaten politics. Corbynism was a fandom, and so, too, is MAGA. But the most influential early innovators in this field came from the “alt-Right”, the online ecosystem that flourished from the mid-2010s until roughly the end of the first…
Heard of Alex Phillips? Neither had I, until last month when she popped up on the BBC calling for non-Christian faith schools and the burqa to be banned. In the spring of last year, as Reform UK’s spokesperson for culture, media and sport, she was given a standing ovation by the party faithful for a…
Not since Jack Nicholson screamed, “You can’t handle the truth!”, at a young, unspoiled Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men has there been a meltdown like the ongoing imbroglio in Trumpworld, after the President’s Justice Department attempted to quash the conspiracy theories surrounding the arrest and suicide of Jeffrey Epstein. There was, they said,…
Hungary and China celebrated a new chapter in their diplomatic and cultural relations as Blossoms of the Dynasty, a highly acclaimed Chinese television series, prepares to premiere on Hungarian television. The occasion also marked the signing of a media partnership between Chinese and Hungarian broadcasters in Budapest. At the signing ceremony, Dániel Papp, CEO of…
Defense chief Thierry Burkhard said the Russian leader had named his nation as Moscow’s primary adversary in Europe France’s top military officer falsely claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled the country as Moscow’s main adversary in Europe, French media have reported. General Thierry Burkhard, France’s chief of the defense staff, claimed on Friday that Russia…
A raid involving multiple kamikaze aircraft has left 24 injured, the Voronezh Region governor has said Two videos circulating online appear to show the moment a Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in the Russian city of Voronezh during a raid early Tuesday. According to Voronezh Region Governor Aleksandr Gusev, the attack involved multiple explosive-laden…
A large part of the cyber fraud originated in Southeast Asia, according to the Home Ministry Indians lost about $820 million to online scams in the first five months of 2025, the Indian Express newspaper has said, citing a report for the country’s Home Ministry. More than half the money was lost to scammers based…
The US president used a White House meeting to showcase his shift in policy from foreign aid to direct trade and private investment On July 9, 2025, the White House hosted a high-profile gathering framed as a new beginning for US-Africa relations. Five presidents from West and Central Africa (Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal)…
Donald Trump, apparently “disappointed” by Russia’s increasingly intense attacks on Ukraine over the past month, is on the warpath. News that the mercurial American president has agreed to provide Ukraine with billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment, paid for by Nato allies, and threaten Russia with “100% tariffs” has come as a shock to…
In a landmark political and ideological victory, California Governor Gavin Newsom has successfully pushed through changes to the state’s notoriously obstructionist environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), among other housing and building reforms. This was done over the objections of many within his own political coalition. The breakthrough represents more than a policy shift on…
Britain is a wealthy country, yet its people feel poor and its governing politicians stagger between fiscal ruin and ruinous unpopularity. It took a radical political turn half a century ago for the UK to reach this dire predicament, and nothing short of another radical political turn can extricate the country from it. A year…
At this point, six months into Donald Trump’s second term and a year after the assassination attempt that made it inevitable, it’s becoming difficult even for the most dyed-in-the-wool rationalist to go on believing that his political career can be understood in the prosaic terms of politics as usual. For a full decade now, the…
