Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says Washington plays a role in the turmoil in Syria by supporting the armed gangs to destabilize the country. Assad told the German ARD television channel on Sunday that the United…
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US Ambassador to Switzerland Donald Beyer has ruled out the likelihood of Washington’s military option against Tehran, given the exacerbating economic woes in the United States. In an interview with the Swiss daily Der Bund,…
The large landing ship The Ponce, re-equipped to carry US Navy special mission units, has arrived in the Persian Gulf, a spokesman of the Fifth Fleet of the US Navy reported on Saturday. Recently, four…
A “defecting” general, the Houla massacre, and more—so much of the news out of Syria seems pretty far from the truth. If you’re not asking questions yet, you should be. Friday, we read in the…
RIA Novosti/Ilya Pitalev Search and rescue is over in southern Russia, where flash floods have killed 171 people. The Emergencies Ministry is focusing on rebuilding the water-damaged cities. Residents are trying to cope with the…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/clinton-lavrov-syria-talks-103/i8a87ffcf24615e44447902ccd2efbadf_00af14fc.flv] Washington and Moscow have a good chance of progressing on Syria in Geneva on Saturday, said Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov as he emerged from an hour of tense talks with US Secretary of…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/america-surveillance-society-drake-697/i6fc7f24f7cf8227f19b232c59561ae85_int0907.dv.flv] If America gets its hands on the WikiLeaks founder, they may go as far as execute him, a known National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Andrews Drake told RT, adding that in the US, security…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/long-flood-aftermath-krymsk-713/i2cb050394776360419d5ba71ecfe16fd_barton0907_0800.dv.flv] As Russia mourns for the victims of the catastrophic floods in Krymsk, residents are already trying to piece their shattered lives back together. And while the world tries to understand the disaster, locals are…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/annan-damascus-talks-iran-740/ie1879fe49cc0497e6c136b7a9251488d_annan-iran-talks-syria.flv] UN peace envoy Kofi Annan is in Iran after finishing a round of talks with Syrian authorities in Damascus. The trip reinforces Annan’s belief that Tehran is one of the key players in finding…
In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia…