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No agreement will be made without Beijing, the American secretary of state has said · US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. © Getty Images / Janos Kummer · [RT] Any future nuclear arms control agreement must include China alongside the US and Russia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. He stated that Washington will continue pressing for trilateral talks with Beijing and Moscow. · The New START treaty, the last…

Should NATO provide Kiev nuclear weapons, it would provoke Russia and risk a wider conflict, Aleksandar Pavic has told RT · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / FPG · [RT] Nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be a “recipe for disaster” as it would risk sparking a wider war by provoking Russia, Serbian lawmaker Aleksandar Pavic has warned. · Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service alleged this week that France and the UK are plotting to…

On today’s Sanchez Effect, Rick asks why Trump has been driving up tensions across the Middle East. Could it be because of Israel’s influence? Rick thinks all the evidence points in that direction. · The second major topic is corruption in Ukraine. Today, he discusses the issue with the ideal guest: Vasily Prozorov, who was a high-ranking officer in the Ukrainian security services before the 2014 Maidan coup. He says that since…

A record 129 media workers lost their lives last year, most of them in Gaza, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / Doaa Albaz;  Anadolu · [RT] A record 129 media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, marking the second consecutive annual high for such deaths, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The New York-based…

The UK and France are planning to smuggle nuclear materials or a warhead into Ukraine, according to Russian intel · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / Gerasimov174 · [RT] An alleged Franco-British plot to secretly provide Ukraine with nuclear materials or a warhead shows just how desperate European NATO member states are to “maintain relevance,” RT contributor Thomas Penn has said. · On Tuesday, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence…

Budapest has ordered units to guard critical infrastructure sites in areas bordering Ukraine amid the Druzhba oil pipeline standoff · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. ©  Getty Images / Janos Kummer · [RT] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered military units and additional police to guard energy infrastructure sites in his country’s east, citing the threat of potential Ukrainian attacks. · Orban announced…

The Russian president has outlined plans to develop the bioeconomy at the Future Technologies Forum in Moscow · Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a plenary session of the Future Technologies Forum in Moscow, Russia on February 25, 2026. © Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov · Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed joint bioeconomy projects with other BRICS nations, positioning the economic bloc at the forefront of…

Citizens are trying to avoid the draft using methods ranging from comical to horrifying · A Ukrainian military recruitment poster. ©  Andriy Andriyenko / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images · A Ukrainian court has ordered the military to remove a citizen from the list of potential conscripts after the person underwent gender transition. Less drastic methods have also been employed by draft dodgers amid the…

How Trump’s tariff defeat exposed the limits of White House power · By Anton Grishanov, Chief Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary International Issues of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry · RT composite. ©  Getty Images / Bill Chizek; Roberto Schmidt · The constant change of scenery in President Donald Trump’s America has trained observers not to overreact to each new sensation from…

Yesterday, President Trump delivered his 2026 State of the Union (SOTU) address, boasting about his record on immigration, the economy, tariffs and more. Trump spoke for an hour and 48 minutes, which was the longest SOTU since 1964. The President claimed credit for a “turnaround for the ages,” and called on Congress to back a number of his administration’s initiatives. · Alex Krainer · Not surprisingly, the overall tone of his speech was…