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A Ukrainian drone strikes a bus full of children in Western Russia. The youth football team from Belarus were on the way to a coastal city on a summer trip. · Top Russian officials react to the deadly UAV attack with Vladimir Putin denouncing Kiev's strike as a terrorist act. · Donald Trump says that the peace agreement with Iran is not set in stone and warns that fighting could resume even with the Geneva signing ceremony just days away.

At least 250,000 British girls suffered sickening sexual abuse by Pakistani gangs, who were enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to commit “child rape on an industrial scale,” British MP Rupert Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Report’ has detailed. Published on Tuesday, the 218-page report makes for sobering reading. It details the decades-long abuse of hundreds of thousands of white British girls – and smaller numbers of…

Israel has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of anti-Semitism after he compared its actions in Gaza to the horrors of the Holocaust. In a recent interview with Al Arabiya, Lukashenko condemned Israel’s destruction of Gaza and said West Jerusalem should be more careful, given the level of global outrage over its military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. · “They have already received such a rating in the world community that…

US President Donald Trump has signaled that Washington will refocus on efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict after peace talks were put on hold by the crisis in the Middle East. The prospect of renewed US engagement has reportedly unsettled EU officials, who fear the bloc could once again be sidelined if Washington resumes direct negotiations with Moscow. Here is RT’s breakdown of where the peace process stands and what could come next. · …

One of the most talked-about moments from UFC Freedom 250 came after heavyweight fighter Josh Hokit scored a dominant victory on the White House South Lawn and delivered a post-fight comment that immediately set social media ablaze. By David Lindfield · After defeating Derrick Lewis by technical knockout on Sunday night, Hokit grabbed the microphone and addressed the crowd gathered for the historic event. · Hokit shouted a claim about former…

Federal investigators have raided the headquarters of a Soros-funded Democrat voter mobilization organization in Ohio as part of what multiple reports describe as an ongoing fraud investigation. FBI agents executed search warrants at the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) on June 11 and reportedly conducted interviews with members of the organization across the state. · According to reports, agents arrived with subpoenas and, in…

A Hague-based arbitration tribunal has rejected Ukrainian maritime claims against Russia, including attempts to challenge Moscow’s sovereignty over Crimea and surrounding waters. Ukraine launched the case in 2016 before the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Kiev argued that Crimea remained Ukrainian territory and claimed that the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait should be treated as…

The US and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to end the hostilities in the Middle East, following weeks of direct and indirect negotiations mediated by Pakistan. A formal ceremony to sign the Iran-US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will take place in Geneva on Friday. According to Washington, the deal was signed digitally over the weekend. The text of the agreement has not yet been released to the public, while Tehran and Washington…

Tehran warns that violence against Lebanon must be halted if any peace deal with Washington is to progress - that's as negotiations are scheduled to take place later this week in Geneva. · The US-Israeli war on Iran is also a key topic in bilateral talks between the top Russian and Turkish diplomats, with Sergey Lavrov stating the Middle East remains a powder keg as big issues have not been resolved. · On American soil, Iran secures a hard…

In Kiev, a historic monastery goes up in flames with Ukraine and its sponsors accusing Moscow of taking aim. Russia's defence ministry says the church was hit by Kiev's own air defences gone awry. · A crystal clear message. Peace with Iran cannot be brokered without Lebanon as part of the deal. That's as Tehran and Washington are set to sign a finalised agreement this Friday. And, that's as Israel insists it will not comply with the peace deal…