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Trump handed Putin a soft power victory that earned him thunderous applause from the World Majority. · Andrew Korybko · Trump declined to enforce the US’ de facto blockade on Cuba for a Russian oil tanker that was carrying enough fuel to meet the island’s needs for approximately one week. In his words, “We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload, because they have to survive. If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now,…

In this episode of RT’s Sanchez Effect Rick discusses the Iran war with Trita Parsi, co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Amid news and speculation about a possible US ground invasion of Iran, Parsi says it would be a disastrous mistake for Trump because right now, he still has the backing of many Americans, with Fox News and legacy media ‘misinformation’ helping him. · However, …

No help from the US. As Washington's war on Iran sends shockwaves across the global energy market.. Donald Trump tells oil-poor nations to buy pricey American Petrol, or attack the Strait of Hormuz themselves. Israeli hardliners celebrate the passing of a hugely controversial bill that green-lights the hanging of those convicted of carrying out deadly terror attacks in West Bank. Critics say the law discriminates against…

American forces reportedly fired a missile that disperses small tungsten pellets at the city of Lamerd · FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises after US-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, on March 13, 2026. ©  Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu / Getty Images · The US struck a school and sports hall in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd with a ballistic missile previously untested in combat, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing its own…

Tyler Robinson’s defense team may use this argument in an attempt to get the charges against him dropped · Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, September 10, 2025 ©  Getty Images;  Trent Nelson · Investigators could not match the bullet that killed conservative influencer Charlie Kirk to the rifle used by his alleged assassin, lawyers for the suspect have…

Tehran has warned Kiev it would become a legitimate target if its involvement in the US-Israeli war continues, Farhad Ibragimov has said · A missile fired from a vessel during Iranian navy drill in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean, August 21, 2025 ©  Masoud Nazari Mehrabi / Iranian Army via AP · An Iranian strike that reportedly destroyed a depot of Ukrainian anti-drone systems in Dubai served as a “slap in the face” to…

From selling out to the US to admitting green-power failures to aiding the war on Iran, the bloc is wearing out its knee pads at a record pace By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rachel-marsden/rachelmarsden.com · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ©  Kena Betancur / Getty Images · Hey, good…

Finnish MP Paivi Rasanen was fined €1,800 over statements in a decades-old church pamphlet she had written · Paivi Rasanen testifies on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation," the US Capitol, Washington, DC, February 04, 2026. ©  Heather Diehl / Getty Images · [RT] The Finnish Supreme Court has found Christian Democrat MP and former cabinet minister Paivi Rasanen guilty of “insulting homosexuals” in a 2004 church…

The government of Kosovo has said it will back Trump’s so-called stabilization force in the Palestinian enclave · FILE PHOTO. Soldiers of the Kosovo Army during a simulation training on February 24, 2021. © Getty Images / Ferdi Limani · The breakaway region of Kosovo has approved sending troops to Gaza as part of a force proposed by US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’, its prime minister, Albin Kurti, announced…

American forces are bound to face heavy losses, ex-officer and military commentator Stanislav Krapivnik has told RT · US President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of troops to the Middle East and said he wants to seize Iran’s foremost crude export hub, Kharg Island, to “take the oil.” However, such an assault promises heavy losses and a logistics quagmire for Washington, according to former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik. ·…