MOSCOW, APRIL 8 — RT has made it to the finals of the Shorty Awards — a leading digital and social media competition — in 21 categories. Among this year’s finalists are RT’s video agency RUPTLY, an augmented reality...

Swedish authorities are resorting to refrigerated shipping containers, ice rinks and canteen fridges to store the nation’s dead as the Covid-19 death toll rises and burials are postponed across the country....

One driver escaped unharmed, and another was taken to hospital for treatment of a minor chest injury after the bridge they were driving on collapsed. The incident occurred at approxim...

European stock markets traded lower on Wednesday after eurozone finance ministers failed to reach a deal on additional stimulus to weather the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic....

Despite a state-wide ban on sporting events due to covid-19, reports suggest UFC 249 will go ahead at Tachi Palace Casino Resort in California, a location on tribal land which would allow the promotion to bypass...

Italian ports cannot be considered safe because of the coronavirus epidemic, the government said, adding that it will not let charity migrant boats dock.The decision was taken late on Tuesday after a ship operated...

The number of novel coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 1,175 over the past day – a record daily rise – reaching 8,672 in 81 regions, according to the crisis center.Over the past day, 86 people have been disch...

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The Bank of France said on Wednesday that the country’s economy shrank around six percent in the first quarter of this year, its worst performance since the end of WWII. According to...

France’s sole aircraft carrier ‘Charles de Gaulle’ had to suspend its Atlantic Ocean mission and turn back to port shortly after around 40 of its crewmembers were placed under medical observation with suspected...

The coronavirus pandemic and the oil price collapse are rapidly deteriorating the sovereign rating outlook - with more multi-notch downgrades on the way, Fitch Ratings said in a statement.  ...

A mighty gust has stripped the roof from a 5-storey apartment complex in Kazakhstan, with wind speeds approaching 100 kilometers per hour. The frightening display took place in Kazakh...

The United Nations has ordered its military and police forces across the globe to suspend rotation in an effort to mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus. DETAILS TO FOLLOW...

As the Covid-19 pandemic grips the globe, one bakery in Kolkata has taken merchandising to a new level, passing out virus-themed confections to all takers without charge. But the idea has left some residents fee...

Local authorities in Germany have been left red-faced after unknown fraudsters ‘sold’ them a nonexistent batch of face masks. The World Health Organization (WHO), meanwhile, says the garment is mostly useless ag...

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Texas can enforce a ban on abortions as long as the governor’s coronavirus emergency declaration is in effect, a federal appeals court has ruled - a day after another court struck down Oklahoma’s effort to impos...

Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has been convicted in absentia of bribery and sentenced to eight years in prison while the country languishes in a coronavirus disaster that his successor’s austerity po...

US President Donald Trump said Washington will pause funding to the World Health Organization, halting contributions from the agency’s largest donor as many of its 194 member - states are being ravaged by coron...

A now-deceased truck driver has been identified by police after stabbing and killing three women and putting another in the hospital during a bloody encounter at a Tennessee truck stop....

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is the latest figure on the left to call for a news organization to stop airing President Donald Trump’s press briefings on coronavirus, but what good would that do the Americ...

Claims by the EU diplomatic service that RT is spreading fake news about the coronavirus pandemic are misleading and based on bad methodology, according to a duo of Manchester researchers focused on monitoring R...

Brazil football legend Ronaldinho has been freed from a Paraguayan jail after being held in custody for 32 days after being caught attempting to enter the country with an altered passport....

Conditions in Belmarsh prison, where Julian Assange is held, might be worse than London is willing to admit, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told RT, adding that Covid-19 could swiftly tear through...

US President Donald Trump has dismissed the Pentagon’s inspector general from the top watchdog role over the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill. Opinions were split on whether it was “cleaning house” or “blatan...

People are preparing to leave Wuhan following the lifting of a ban on outbound travel, after more than two months, in the Chinese city where the Covid-19 pandemic began. Crowds flocke...

A day after issuing a formal apology for calling the ousted captain of Covid-19-stricken aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt “too naive or too stupid” for command, acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has r...

A Labour Party UK mayor made national headlines after she said that Boris Johnson contracting coronavirus served him right for his sloppy handling of the outbreak. The PM remains hospitalized in intensive care w...

The Taliban on Tuesday recalled its negotiators from Afghanistan hours after they suspended talks on a prisoner exchange process with the Afghan government, a spokesman for the Islamist group tweeted.Suhail Shaheen...

The death toll in France from Covid-19 has not exceeded 10,000, with 607 patients dying in hospitals in the last 24 hours, according to the country’s director general of health. Confi...