The US Army has offered soldiers extra time off if they can avoid getting arrested for drunk driving or failing drug tests Read Full Article at RT.com
A one-armed MMA fighter left the cage during a post-match interview in Russia to attack a man who had insulted him Read Full Article at RT.com
Soaring energy bills will push 3 million Britons into poverty, Resolution Foundation says Read Full Article at RT.com
Ukraine’s state energy major Naftogaz plans to boost gas production and to change its system to supply gas to the EU next year, its CEO says Read Full Article at RT.com
Russian world number one Daniil Medvedev will meet in-form Australian Nick Kyrgios in the fourth round after beating China’s Wu Yibing Read Full Article at RT.com
US President Joe Biden is set to host a meeting of Pacific Island nations to deepen cooperation on security and a range of other issues Read Full Article at RT.com
Further damage to the embattled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine “cannot” be allowed to happen, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.
World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
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Sep 02 (IPS) - Tarik, age 42, lives in a village adjacent to a decades-old coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the day we visited, Bosnian cities were some of the most polluted places on Earth. Describing the devastating health toll the air pollution took each year on the village’s older residents he voiced his fear for his aging parents, who had lived there for over 40 years: “The older people in this village are desperate. They put up with this air for months. They don’t get out, they don’t socialize, they can’t get groceries or medication. It’s a terrible existence.”
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The Pentagon has created a special task force to facilitate arms sales to US allies, a senior official has told the Wall Street Journal Read Full Article at RT.com