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Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed plans to boost economic ties with Saudi Arabia by setting up a $1 billion oil plant there. He also reaffirmed Moscow’s commitment to the OPEC agenda of keeping the o...

Russia is planning to abandon the US dollar in favor of euro and rubles for currency settlements in global energy transactions in order to minimize reliance on the American currency....

It has been a year since banks and building societies committed to treating victims of financial abuse better. But has anything changed?

Time travel has always fascinated mankind, but a Star Trek kind of warp drive has till now been impossible to build. This hasn’t discouraged scientists to continue researching it. Sci...

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The US and China have reached a “very substantial phase one” deal, US President Donald Trump has declared. Tariffs due to take effect on Tuesday have been canceled, and markets responded with elation....

An Australian farmer has launched a legal action against Bayer agricultural chemicals unit Monsanto after being diagnosed with a type of leukemia. According to the Australian Broadcas...

Four in ten Africans, or over 416 million people, lived on less than $1.90 per day in 2015, according to a new report released by the World Bank on Wednesday. It said extreme poverty...

Bitcoin and crypto miners do consume vast amounts of power, but how much power do they really use, and are they actually a big burden on the grid? For some crypto buffs, critics who s...

Ahead of high-level US-China trade talks on Thursday, Washington added China’s top artificial intelligence startups to its blacklist, citing Beijing’s alleged mistreatment of Muslim minorities....

A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday said that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man over his claims that a drug manufactured by the US firm caused him to grow breasts....

US imports from its largest supplier China have slumped by 12.5 percent due to the ongoing trade war. Meanwhile, Mexico and Vietnam have been filling this gap with massive import increases....

The United Kingdom has reportedly used a third country to bypass US sanctions in settling a $1.6-billion damages claim with Iran’s Bank Mellat. Iran’s largest private bank, in which t...

Russia and Venezuela have agreed to develop an official long-term cooperation agenda. The document will determine trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural relations between the countries....

Popular US skating shoe brand, Vans, has faced a massive backlash after removing a top-ranking design in support of the protests in Hong Kong from its annual competition in a bid to keep away from politics....

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The Trump administration has opened another front in its global trade war, slapping the EU with a hefty 25 percent tariff on a variety of industrial and agricultural products, risking a tit-for-tat response....

The Dow plunged 490 points by the close of markets on Wednesday, and the Nasdaq and S&P500 also saw their steepest declines since the end of August, closing down 1.6 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively....

Russia’s annual production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to grow in the next 15 years, largely thanks to the Yamal LNG project, said President Vladimir Putin at the Russian Energy Week....

Russia never wanted to turn away from the US dollar but American policies have forced it, as well as many other countries, to do so, President Vladimir Putin told participants of the Russian Energy Week forum on...

The situation with the oil market is unpredictable, with geopolitical factors applying a lot of pressure, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Ru...

The share of yuan-denominated assets among Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves has climbed to 14.2 percent of the country's $532 billion total holdings, according to central bank data as of the end of Ma...

Russia has halved the US currency share from its international reserves in one year, opting instead to increase gold, yuan and euro holdings, recent data from the country’s central bank shows....

The two global superpowers, China and the United States, have moved into the next phase of their global struggle for economic supremacy – capital wars. As part of the ongoing trade wa...

The ongoing trade war between the world’s two biggest economies has led WTO economists to have a gloomier growth outlook for global trade this and next year, downgrading previous expectations....

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has recently warned that oil prices could spike if the world does not join the kingdom’s push to isolate Iran. RT correspondent A...

Rating agency Fitch has downgraded Saudi Arabia’s credit rating from A+ to A citing geopolitical risks and a downturn in the kingdom’s fiscal position. Riyadh called Fitch’s decision “somewhat speculative.”...

The 5G technology boom could be explosive for smartphone makers, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street bank significantly increased its 5G smartphone estimates for next year. Go...

Some 470,000 diesel car owners in Germany are seeking refunds from Volkswagen over emission tests cheating. Hearings began with the automaker rejecting the judge’s call to settle the case, citing a lack of legal...

The US government is working hard to break China’s dominance over critical mineral supplies, launching a plan to boost lithium, cobalt and rare earths mining across the globe. The Ene...

The New York-based rating agency S&P Global has affirmed the ‘A+/A-1’ credit rating on China, predicting that the country will maintain above-average gross domestic product (GDP) growth and improved fiscal perfo...

China’s largest oil and gas producer CNPC has announced the discovery of an oilfield that could hold over a billion tons of reserves in the northwest of the country. According to CNPC...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman warned that oil prices could skyrocket if the world does not join forces to deter Iran’s alleged aggression. He noted, however, that he would rather see a political solutio...

Authorities in Ukraine intend to resume regular passenger transportation with Russia’s Crimea, according to the country’s Ministry of Infrastructure. Crimean authorities have welcomed the plans....

Saudi Arabia is eyeing long-term investment in India’s key sectors such as petrochemicals, infrastructure and mining, citing the country’s growth potential and the need to diversify the Arab nation’s own economy...

The US is not planning to blacklist Chinese companies from trading on US stock markets, according to a Department of the Treasury statement. Rumblings of a possible cut-off came on Friday and sent shivers throug...

Georgian Airways, the flagship airline of the Eurasian country, has praised recent statements by Russia’s foreign minister about the possible lifting of a ban on direct flights between the two countries....

Forecasting the imminent demise of European banks, an expert talks RT’s Keiser Report through last week’s repo market meltdown and what it may indicate. “The treasuries that settled l...

Calls for urgent review of pensions rules grow as the number of people hit by some taxes doubles in a year

More than one in 10 UK adults think it's 'reasonable' to exaggerate income on a mortgage application

From the midst of the ongoing crypto revolution, one of its main ideologists tells RT that outdated models are going to disappear, giving way to the ultimate promise of the internet – freedom of speech, commerce...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump clinched a trade agreement this week that cuts tariffs on farm and industrial products. It will open new markets for $...

The European Union has included Japan in its Asia “connectivity” plan, signing a landmark deal to coordinate transport, energy and digital projects amid concerns over China’s dominance in infrastructure funding....