A witness to the Barcelona vehicle ramming attack, whose daughter survived the terror attack at the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015, said he felt horrible for the victims and blasted the media for helping the terrorists instill fear in people.
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At least 6 civilians were injured before Catalan police neutralized 5 terrorist suspects in the coastal town of Cambrils, some 100km from Barcelona. Police said a bomb squad was set to carry out several “controlled explosions.”
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With scars across her face, an injured hand and tear-stained eyes, Mariam struggles to talk about the trauma she has faced. The Russian-speaking girl is in a Baghdad orphanage, and told RT her mother is dead and she doesn’t know where her father is.
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An investigation conducted by Syrian authorities indicates the Idlib chemical incident in April was orchestrated by terrorists, Syria’s deputy Foreign minister has said, and that the US used it as a pretext to attack the Shayrat Airbase.
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A 400-million-year-old fish fossil has been found with a jaw structure that is believed to be part of the evolutionary lineage to humans.
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Hopes of returning to normal existence lie with the Syrian army, residents of the ISIS-besieged city of Deir ez-Zor told RT in exclusive footage recorded just a stone’s throw from the frontline, where armed forces are making a final push to liberate the city.
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The United States and China have agreed to enhance their direct military communication line in order to reduce chances of any “miscalculations” amid the Korean peninsula crisis and other standing issues between Washington and Beijing.
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Rescuers have recovered 400 bodies from a mudslide that wiped out entire communities outside Freetown in Sierra Leone Monday, with the number of dead expected to rise as “thousands” remain missing.
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Russia’s defense ministry has granted unlimited access to 360-degree photos of the impressive Navy Day celebrations, which saw some 50 combat ships and submarines taking part in the parade in St Petersburg.
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Israeli police detained billionaire Beny Steinmetz and four other men Monday, as part of an international fraud investigation spanning four continents.
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Prominent Libyan military commander General Khalifa Haftar, who represents one of the major forces in the fractured country, has visited Moscow. He met top Russian officials, including the foreign and defense ministers.
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North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has urged Washington to make the “right choice” and avert any confrontation after he was briefed on the plans of an “enveloping” strike on the US territory of Guam. The Pentagon meanwhile warned that any strike against the US could “very quickly” escalate into war.
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Six people were injured, including two seriously after an explosion rocked an apartment building in downtown Lisbon, starting a fire. Residents have blamed authorities for negligence, saying that they complained about the smell of gas from floors used as tourist accommodation.
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At least 17 people, including foreigners, were reportedly shot dead as suspected Islamist militants attacked a Turkish restaurant in central Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina-Faso, and started a gun battle with the military.
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The Kuwaiti authorities are working to contain an oil spill that has tarred the beaches and left long black slicks in the area of Ras al-Zour, but activists have accused it of covering up the full scale of the damage.
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Threats of a military operation against Venezuela are an attempt by US President Donald Trump to drag Latin America into a conflict and destabilize the continent, said Jorge Arreaza, the Venezuelan foreign minister.
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Danish inventor Peter Madsen, charged in court Saturday with the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who disappeared on Thursday after boarding his private submarine, has denied any guilt. He previously said he dropped her off on one of Copenhagen’s harbor islands.
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General Khalifa Haftar, the Egypt-linked Libyan military commander, is arriving in Moscow on Saturday for a series of meetings with Russian diplomatic and military figures. The general represents one of major centers of power in the divided country.
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North Korea wouldn’t stand a chance against the US if the war of words between the two states escalates into a military conflict, Leonid Ivashov, a political analyst and retired Russian Colonel-General, told RT, urging a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
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An Ethiopian imam who allegedly publicly called for the killing of non-practising Muslims has been charged by Swiss prosecutors.
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A French health and medicine authority issued a warning to citizens after the number of reported cocaine poisonings doubled in one year.
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North Korea may well fulfil its threat to hit US targets on South Korean territory if continued pressure by Washington puts Pyongyang at an impasse, Pavel Zolotarev, a retired Russian Major General, told RT.
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The Nepalese government has made it a criminal act to force women into cowsheds while they’re on their periods. The ancient Hindu tradition sends menstruating females into the sheds to keep so-called “impurity” out of the home.
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The Syrian Army has been fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants as part of an operation to break the siege of the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, which has remained encircled by the terrorist for more than two years.
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German police have detained 12 men from Nigeria, Somalia and Ivory Coast, taking a risky hike underneath the cargo of a freight train originating in Italy. Officials say there has been a rise in stowaways after other entry points were tightened up.
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North Korean state media has outlined details of the country’s Guam strike plan expected to be ready by mid-August. The attack will reportedly include four missiles fired over Japan and landing within a few dozen kilometers of US territory.
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The largest ever wildfire in Greenland, according to satellite records, has been captured on film from space.
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On August 8, 2008, Georgia launched an attack on civilians and Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia. Despite an EU probe concluding that Tbilisi initiated the conflict, no one in Georgia has been brought to justice “to pay the price” of the war, a Georgian politician has told RT.
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A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang, with tremors reportedly felt in neighboring Kazakhastan.
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North Korea has successfully developed a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside a missile, a new US defense report warns.
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A four-year-old Chechen boy has been brought back to Russia after living with his jihadist father, who was fighting alongside ISIS in Mosul. Russian authorities are now seeking the return of several dozen such children from Iraqi orphanages.
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A video showing a confrontation between Italian soldiers and immigrants on the streets of Naples has gone viral. In the clip, the troops appear to arrest a man before being confronted by others, who attempt to wrest the detained man free.
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In an unusually soft tone, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has called himself a “humble friend” of Washington while meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. It comes despite Duterte recently calling the US “lousy.”
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Caught between the Taliban, Islamic State and US airstrikes, Afghan civilians have been forced to flee their homes to the outskirts of Jalalabad, where they found refuge inside an unfinished university building.
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Following an intense battle over the weekend, the Syrian army has liberated the town of al-Sukhnah, the last major Islamic State stronghold in Homs province. RT’s Ruptly video agency brings you exclusive footage from the recaptured city.
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The Syrian foreign ministry has, in correspondence to the United Nations, accused the US-led coalition of new atrocities against its civilians. It includes an attack on hospital in Raqqa and the use of “internationally banned white phosphorus munitions” against the Syrian people.
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The crisis in Venezuela entered a new phase after the country’s newly elected Constituent Assembly, during its first day of work and amid the ongoing violent protests, dismissed from office, the main opposition figure and Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega.
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Taliban militants have taken control of a key area in the north of Afghanistan, a local official has said, blaming the latest defeat on the central government’s failure to provide adequate military support to fend off the attack.
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Amid expectations of the US launching investigations into China’s alleged theft of American intellectual property as well as unfair trade practices, Beijing appears unmoved by the imminent probe while US businesses fear reprisals in case the row unintentionally escalates.
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A powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey reports.
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German authorities were allegedly aware of Ahmad A.’s extremist tendencies for at least a year and tried to recruit him as an informant before the 26-year-old refugee went on a supermarket stabbing spree in Hamburg last week, killing one and injuring several others.
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Beijing has declared an area the size of West Virginia off-limits to civilian vessels, ahead of extensive three-day naval exercises near the coast of North Korea. A similar drill took place in the area at the end of July.
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An activist aboard the German NGO ship Iuventa, which has been impounded by Italian authorities on suspicion of conspiring with human traffickers, told RT that the seizure took place during a seemingly routine check and nobody has yet been officially charged.
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The US military is shifting towards a “more global” exercise program in preparation to deter what they term a “more assertive Russia” as well as countering other complex threats, a senior officer commanding the US forces in Europe has said.
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A massive blaze which engulfed one of the tallest residential buildings in the United Arab Emirates has been brought under control. Dubai’s firefighters battled the huge fire for hours before snuffing out the flames at the 79-storey Dubai Torch Tower.
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Iran has vowed to pursue smart and carefully considered countermeasures against the US after Donald Trump signed a bill which authorizes new sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Tehran believes the latest punitive measures violates the terms of P5+1+EU nuclear deal with Iran.
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The US establishment has fully outwitted Donald Trump and used his administration’s weakness to declare a fully-fledged economic war on Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said, adding, that the move leaves no doubt that bilateral ties will never improve.
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Ukraine’s Security Service have launched an investigation into a journalist and blogger whom they accuse of treason as well as his alleged attempts to violate the country’s territorial integrity via publications critical of the government in Kiev.
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The German populace with a migrant background has hit a new record of 18.6 million people, the Federal Statistical Office has revealed, partially attributing the rise to the years of Angela Merkel’s so-called open door migrant policy.
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The local government of Calais has rejected a court ruling mandating the notorious migrant hub town to provide better facilities for refugees, arguing it will only encourage more asylum seekers to flock to northern France with the hope of crossing into the UK.
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