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- Iran announces successful test of ‘new missile’ amid rising Gulf tensions 24. August 2019Tehran successfully test-fired a new missile, according to the leader of the elite Revolutionary Guards. The launch comes as Tehran seeks to deter military escalation with the United States in the Persian Gulf. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Russian worker narrowly ESCAPES DEATH after 6,000-volt electric shock (VIDEO) 24. August 2019What could have been a tragedy turned into a small miracle when a bundler was electrocuted at a Russian ore dressing facility but survived the shock. The gut-wrenching moment was caught on film. Read Full Article at RT.com
- N. Korea launches 2 more projectiles… Trump says Kim ‘likes testing missiles’ 24. August 2019North Korea has reportedly fired two short-range missiles off its eastern coast, marking the seventh missile test since Donald Trump met with Kim Jong-un in June. The US president downplayed the launches as inconsequential. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Moscow vows reciprocal response after US test of previously banned missile. Here’s what it could be 24. August 2019Russia says it won’t sit idle after the US tested a missile that was banned by the INF. As a response, Moscow has an ace up its sleeves and it won’t need to enter into a Cold War-style arms race, military analysts have told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Fiddling while world burns: The unbearable pointlessness of G7 24. August 2019As leaders of countries that control 40 percent of the world’s GDP gather at a French resort to discuss economic inequality and other issues they consider pressing, the rest of the world wonders if the G7 still has a purpose. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Biden asks town hall ‘what if Obama had been assassinated?’ & internet cringes 24. August 2019Democratic primary frontrunner Joe Biden has raised a nation of eyebrows when he asked an audience to imagine the fallout from Barack Obama’s assassination, comparing the ex-president to Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Huawei, evil Chinese & decapitated cat: Bannon serving warmed-over propaganda to Trump & Americans 24. August 2019Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon has faced the "China threat" head-on with a lukewarm propaganda film dramatizing the Huawei case in Canada, hoping to galvanize the American people (and president) for a second Cold War. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Abandon sinking US dollar ship? Top UK bankster pushes for new 'synthetic hegemonic currency' 24. August 2019Bank of England head Mark Carney has urged his fellow central bankers to embrace tech like Facebook's Libra to build a multipolar system, warning against "swapping one currency hegemon for another" - unless it's their hegemon. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Was FBI-staged Russian ‘honeytrap’ the only ‘deep state’ anti-Trump plot? 24. August 2019Revelations by former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne about ‘Russian agent’ Maria Butina are yet another dot in the pattern of behavior by US intelligence agencies who were involved in the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Hong Kong protesters go ‘Baltic,’ but some struggle to explain why (VIDEO) 23. August 2019Demonstrators in Hong Kong formed a human chain throughout the city, all of a sudden inspired by long-forgotten protests from 3 decades ago. Many however seemed lost about the state of the current standoff with their government. Read Full Article at RT.com