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Donald Trump's special envoys arrive in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin in a fresh bid to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Ukraine's anti-corruption agency exposes an alleged fraud and money-laundering scheme involving allies of Vladimir Zelensky, with five arrests made. A Philippine court lifts an arrest order on Vice President Sara Duterte after she posts bail. And as Germany's AfD eyes its first local election victory, we examine its…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova joins RT on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok to discuss the Ukraine conflict and the current political situation in the world.

Ukraine's Security Service headquarters is hit by a drone, a day after a street shoot-out between rival intelligence agencies in Kiev. Moscow denies Berlin's claim of an attempted explosive drone attack at a German airport, while Germany's opposition questions the account. Estonia's Defense Minister quits amid a €70m scandal over undelivered shells for Ukraine. In the DRC, health workers face attacks from locals claiming the Ebola outbreak is a…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is calling for tighter controls over AI-powered automatic licence plate readers, warning that surveillance of ordinary citizens' movements has become “out of control”. His intervention highlights a growing international debate over where legitimate law-enforcement technology ends and mass surveillance begins. INR Report: Based on reporting by Frank Bergman for Slay News HERE · Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has…

America’s falling birth rate has acquired a political dimension. Research cited by Slay News finds a persistent fertility gap between conservatives and liberals, but the evidence points to a more complicated mix of attitudes, geography, economics and lifestyle than the headline claim of political “doomism” alone might suggest. INR Report: Based on reporting by Frank Bergman for Slay News HERE · The United States has been experiencing declining…

Vladimir Putin says that the ultimate resolution of the conflict with Ukraine must be handled by Moscow and Kiev only while noting that Ukraine's current Western sponsors are complicit in international terrorism. Moscow says Vladimir Zelensky's threats to civilian infrastructure and his terrorist tactics are an attempt to draw attention away from Kiev's frontline losses. On the eve of a shooting in Kiev between Ukraine's spy agencies, one…

BRICS has grown into one of the most significant non-Western groupings in international affairs, but expansion alone will not determine whether it succeeds. Russian foreign-policy analyst Timofey Bordachev argues its real challenge is more fundamental: developing a coherent idea of international order capable of binding very different countries together — and persuading others that there is a credible alternative to institutions historically…

The murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy has become the focus of a wider debate over postpartum mental illness, criminal responsibility and whether race and class influence public perceptions of defendants. Former US congressional attorney and women’s rights advocate Reese Everson has told RT she believes an African-American woman accused of the same acts would have been viewed very differently. INR Report: Based on reporting and…

A Turkish airline has resumed flights to Russia after earlier cancellations, following Vladimir Zelensky’s warning that aircraft over Russian airspace could be at risk. Vladimir Putin says Moscow would respond if civilian aviation is threatened. Tehran has vowed retaliation after a US airstrike hit a wedding, killing at least four and wounding more than 60. Meanwhile, catastrophic flooding and landslides in Nepal have killed more than 1,000…

With the multipolar world on full display Vladimir Putin highlights that trade activity between member states of the Shanghai Cooperation organization is surging. Vladimir Zelensky's chief of staff reveals Ukraine's army needs to mobilize 30 thousand citizens every month just to maintain what it has. Numbers that appear to highlight Kiev's true losses on the battlefield. The acting Venezuelan president, who stepped in for Nicolas Maduro after…