One person has been killed and more than 20 injured in a shooting in suburban Chicago Read Full Article at RT.com
Czech President Petr Pavel has denied hinting that World War II-era internment policies could be used against Russians Read Full Article at RT.com
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has visited Beijing, meeting his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang and other senior officials Read Full Article at RT.com
Theft at some Russian grocery stores has reached 3-5% this year, pressuring large supermarket chains Read Full Article at RT.com
Seven people are wounded in a Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Belgorod Region, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Mounting debt and sanctions policies have dented US credibility as a reliable economic partner, Anatoly Aksakov says Read Full Article at RT.com
Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe was ordered to hide her T-shirt, which contained an aboriginal slang word Read Full Article at RT.com
NAIROBI, Jun 19 (IPS) - In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded. He saw leprosy patients inside the hospital still and expressionless. The smell of leprosy filled the air, the smell of pus from open sores.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 19 (IPS) - Drinking water is running out in Uruguay — this headline got the small South American country onto international news. Prolonged drought has brought the reservoir and river that supply the capital Montevideo down to 10 per cent of their normal water level. Unless the rain comes, there is sufficient water only until mid-June, at best.
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A senior United Nations relief official said on Sunday that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.