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North Korea shifts education costs onto the public with new funding law

North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the cost of educational development away...

Built by Pyongyang: The North Korean company behind Africa’s most iconic monuments

North Korea has long relied on unconventional means to earn hard currency in the...

N. Korea arrests official for quoting Kim Il Sung in Kim Jong Un session

A provincial party official in North Hamgyong province was seized by State Information Bureau...

North Korean elite school student expelled for tutoring during school holiday

A student at an elite provincial school in North Hamgyong province has been forcibly...

The world-beating Soviet gymnast whose triumph turned to tragedy

In the quiet corner of a Moscow cemetery, a black slab of marble stands surrounded by the December snow. ...

Moscow reveals when Russia & US will hold crucial security talks

Russian and American negotiators will hold talks early next year on reducing the worsening tensions between Moscow and NATO, the two nations’ top diplomats...

‘Show some damn respect’: UFC champ accuses FIFA of ‘bullsh*t’ towards Africa

MMA champ Francis Ngannou has accused FIFA of being "so disrespectful" to Africa, while football legend Samuel Eto'o has warned of a perception that...

Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo found in egg

A perfectly preserved fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg has been rediscovered at the back of Chinese museum, having been...

Welsh fined for trips to work but not for pub crawls

Workers in Wales now face fines for unnecessary trips to their jobs but can freely enjoy pub crawls and social life, according to controversial...

Europe faces full-blown energy crisis

Amid a shortage of natural gas, lowered wind power output, outages at nuclear energy facilities and cold weather with winter just starting, power prices...

France extends Covid vaccination to children aged 5-11

French Health Minister Olivier Veran has announced that the Covid vaccination campaign for children aged 5-11 is now open, proceeding with a plan announced...

Military medics tout new vaccine to end Covid-19 pandemic

A candidate vaccine that uses a novel platform and may be good enough to deal with existing and emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 viruses, will...

WATCH LIVE: Russian FM Lavrov speaks in exclusive RT interview

With tensions rising between Russia and the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is to speak in an exclusive interview with RT, where he...

Berlin forces EU satellite operator to take RT’s German TV broadcast off air

European satellite operator Eutelsat 9В has removed the 24-hour German-language RT DE channel from its platform under pressure from Berlin. RT has called the...

Germany ditching nuclear power at worst possible time

Germany is on track to close nearly half of its nuclear reactors before the end of 2021. The shutdowns are set to place a...

Russian asks for pardon in Belarus

Sofia Sapega, the Russian partner of the detained political activist Roman Protasevich, has applied for clemency from the Belarusian president, after being charged with...

Russia gets nuclear boost in the Pacific

The Russian Navy has added two brand new nuclear-propelled vessels. The ballistic missile submarine Knyaz Oleg and the cruise missile submarine Novosibirsk have become...

Lukashenko ‘fan shop’ opens in Minsk

A pop-up shop selling merchandise bearing quotes by embattled Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has opened its doors in Minsk. The somewhat unlikely concept follows...

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