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US political activist and author, Candace Owens, speaks exclusively to RT's Rick Sanchez at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum. · A Ukrainian strike on a train in Crimea leaves one person dead and three others wounded. The peninsula has now come under Kiev's drone attacks, every day for more than two weeks. · Iran's military demands the IDF pulls back its troops in Lebanon. That's as a new ceasefire agreement between Israel, Washington and…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has urged the participants of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) to begin every conversation with Western journalists with the word “Starobelsk.” Starobelsk is a town in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic where 21 people, mostly teenage girls, were killed and dozens more injured in a multi-wave Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm on May 22. · Western politicians…

The murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak has sparked national outrage in the UK after police bodycam footage submitted to court showed officers arresting and handcuffing him as he lay dying, while his killer remained uncuffed after falsely claiming to be the victim of a racist attack. The case has triggered protests, renewed accusations of two-tier policing, and an investigation into how British authorities handled the incident. · Who was…

Burned villages. Families slaughtered in their homes. Women, children, and the elderly hacked to death with axes and pitchforks. Thousands of Jews beaten, tortured, and murdered during pogroms that accompanied the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. These are some of the atrocities associated with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - movements whose legacy remains one of the…

Kuwait says an Iranian attack on its main airport has killed one person. Tehran says it's in retaliation for Kuwait's co-operation with the US which is using Gulf States as colonial tools. · Ukrainian forces carry out a terrorist attack in the Donetsk Republic. Eight people are killed and many wounded as a drone takes direct aim at a civilian bus. · Russian foreign intelligence obtains information that the EU is attempting to expel the…

Russia has issued one of its strongest warnings yet about the future of the international order, arguing that the world is moving dangerously close to a global confrontation as the post-World War II security framework comes under increasing strain. By INR International Desk · Addressing the United Nations Security Council during a debate on upholding the UN Charter, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia,…

A Colombian mercenary captured by Russian forces after being wounded in combat has spoken with his family for the first time since his detention, describing his decision to fight for Ukraine as the worst mistake of his life. William Andres Gallego Orozco’s relatives in Colombia learned he was alive after seeing an interview he gave to RT last month. Following the broadcast, family members reached out and contact was established, leading to an…

Russia carries out a series of massive strikes across Ukraine, deploying an arsenal of hyper-sonic missiles in retaliation for Kiev's terror attacks on Russia, of course Vladimir Putin had promised such a response. Outrage in Poland. · Vladimir Zelensky renames an elite military unit after a group that Warsaw considers responsible for the Volyn massacres of World War 2. While Donald Trump tries to broker a ceasefire between Hezbollah and…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has condemned the French seizure of an oil tanker in international waters as “borderline piracy.” Paris had hailed the move as the enforcement of anti-Russian sanctions. The crude oil tanker Tago was boarded by French commandos in the Atlantic, with support from the UK and other countries, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday while presenting footage of the raid. · Macron claimed the vessel posed…

The UK authorities have denied The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur entry into the country days ahead of two events where he was due to speak, apparently over his repeated criticism of Israel. Uygur’s nephew, Hasan Piker, who is a left-wing political streamer in his own right, has said his British visa has also been revoked “at the behest of Israel.” On multiple occasions over the past few years, pro-Palestinian activists have accused the UK’s…