Rioters threw rocks, blocked roads and scuffled with police in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, as anger over Israel’s Covid-19 measures continues to spill into the streets. Read Full Article at RT.com
China is expanding trials of its sovereign digital currency in the capital Beijing, the nation's most populous city of Shanghai and leading tech hub Shenzhen this year. Read Full Article at RT.com
Not so long ago, police descending upon a baby shower would’ve made a great idea for a grotesque comedy sketch, but this is reality in Britain during the pandemic and it doesn’t seem funny at all. Read Full Article at RT.com
Iran won’t be using US vaccines due to a mix of public health and political concerns, instead relying on Covid-19 jabs from its allies and a homemade immunization, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told RT’s Worlds Apart show. Read Full Article at RT.com
Mexican regulators are expected to greenlight Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use sometime in the coming days, the county’s deputy health minister said, hours after medical experts gave a preliminary nod to the jab. Read Full Article at RT.com
Steeve Strange – co-founder of the conservative news site The Scoop, whose personal page was banned on Facebook over an anti-Biden group – has told RT that he flouted no rules and was swept up in a broader anti-conservative purge. Read Full Article at RT.com
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Senate has voted to end Governor Tony Evers’ face mask order, with lawmakers arguing the government overstepped its authority by extending emergency mandates without approval from the legislature. Read Full Article at RT.com
Accused child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has offered a novel reason for dropping the charges in her case: The federal grand jury that indicted her didn't have enough black and Hispanic people. Read Full Article at RT.com
US President Joe Biden said his administration will soon buy another 200 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, set for delivery this summer, but added that masks, not inoculations, are the “best defense” in the coming months. Read Full Article at RT.com
In the latest decree supposedly aimed at combating racial inequality, President Joe Biden has ordered the Justice Department not to renew contracts with private prisons – for-profit institutions that have a grim history in the US. Read Full Article at RT.com
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