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A massive rally in Tbilisi sees clashes erupt near the Georgian Parliament as protesters denounce the controversial 'foreign agents' bill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Palestine supporters rally outside the British Parliament in London to denounce arms supplies to Israel as they are met with counter protesters calling on Hamas to free hostages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Mount Ruang, Indonesia has emitted a column of ash more than 300 meters high into the air over the past 24 hours, prompting evacuation of more than 11 thousand people in the North Sulawesi Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Russia is poised to outpace the US and Europe in economic growth, racing ahead of all other advanced Western economies in 2024, according to the IMF, which increased the country's growth forecasts. RT contributor Chris Emms comments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Over 150 representatives of the scientific community, pharmaceutical sector and political figures take part in the first joint African-Russian international Conference on combating infectious disease -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

The US National Security Agency (NSA) is getting close to expanding its surveillance powers, according to a new bill that is now headed to the Senate. The proposed legislation would widen the current list of providers obliged to send the NSA all the information required on the agency's targets and could include any company or individual providing internet-related services. We hear from former US Intelligence officer and host of The Whistleblowers show John Kiriakou, who explains the broad ramifications. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

150 people were injured due to an ammonia leak at a plant near Pattaya, Thailand. The reasons for the leak are still unknown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

US lawmakers have decided to break a controversial foreign aid package, which includes a $61B deal for Ukraine, down into several separate bills. Congressional members want to loan the money instead of donating it to Kiev. RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

The Russian Federal Security Service seized more than 300,000 SIM cards and 612 SIM boxes, through which accounts on social networks, instant messengers, financial wallets and bank accounts can be illegally activated, and could possibly be used by saboteurs and terrorists. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

A Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile system unit intercepted and destroyed missiles fired from territory controlled by Ukrainian troops ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

In less than 24 hours, nearly one billion voters will go to the polls in a six-week parliamentary election in India. RT's Runjhun Sharma explains what to expect from the election – and the coverage it's getting abroad. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

The bill on foreign agents has passed the first reading in the Georgian parliament, and now has to be adopted in two more readings to become law. We spoke with former Georgian lawmaker, Temur Maisuradze, who told RT that the nation is against the West potentially using a 'Ukraine playbook' of sorts, to manufacture a similar crisis there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Russian FM Lavrov is participating in a presentation on the socio-economic development of the Republic of Bashkortostan

As unprecedented rainfall battered Dubai into submersion and then carried on battering, chaos gripped the country. Flights have been canceled. Schools have been closed. Metro stations have been declared off limits. And more importantly, a cat was found in need of rescue. Dubai police shared the video of the cat as it clung desperately to a car door. It is unclear at this stage whether the cat owned the vehicle, whether it was trying to gain access to claw at the seats for some reason, or was just trying to stay undrowned. In any case, the cat was rescued by passing police, who uploaded the video with ‘every life counts in Dubai.’ All nine of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Hundreds rally in Athens against rising costs-of-living and for higher salaries as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike by public workers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Perched on a small, sinking piece of wood, the cat was far from its normal habitat of sitting on a laptop and knocking things off shelves out of spite. Perhaps it was on an epic journey to bring back spices from the Orient. Perhaps it just got washed away like the rest of the flotsam. Perhaps we will never know. The rescue attempt was fraught with peril: the water was rising, and cats have claws, even for their saviors. The first attempt ended in failure, as the boat overshot the target. However, the second ended with a very wet cat joining the crew. The cat was among over 13,000 people evacuated and displaced by floods in the Orenburg region, caused by an unprecedented swelling of the Ural River. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Even the smallest attack by Israel will bring a ‘massive and harsh’ response, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has warned. Speaking at an army parade at a barracks near Tehran on Wednesday, Raisi said that if any move was made against Iran by the ‘Zionist regime’ they would retaliate. The country continues to brace for a potential backlash from Israel. In response to a strike on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria which killed 12 people, Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel last weekend, in an operation dubbed ‘True Promise.’ Most of them were intercepted by Israeli air defense with help from the US and other allies, and it is not yet known what Israel’s ultimate response might be. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Drone footage shows the extent of the devastation that hit flood-affected suburbs in Russia's southern Urals with over 100 settlements underwater -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Water levels in Russia's Tobol River, which surrounds the city of Kurgan, register dramatic rises by the hour. Meanwhile, multiple districts in the region are urging residents to evacuate as fast as possible. RT's Magomed Buchaev reports from the scene. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Police evict France's largest squat in Vitry-sur-Seine forcing some 450 migrants to evacuate ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Russia pulls out its peacekeepers from Karabakh, a region that had previously seceded from Azerbaijan Details: https://on.rt.com/crxz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

We’ve never seen a housewarming quite like this. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un somehow manages to make it party time wherever he goes, and Tuesday’s opening of a new apartment complex in Pyongyang was no exception, where the event was turned into something akin to the opening ceremony for the Olympics. Crowds were seemingly overcome with joy at seeing Kim (or being given a free balloon), fireworks were set off, and there was even a flyover as the ribbon was cut by everyone’s favorite leather jacket model. Beats getting in a local reality TV ‘celebrity’ to do the deed, anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

More than 50 million people in Western and Central Africa are in danger of famine as a result of persistent conflicts and economic crises, the UN World Food Programme warns. RT’s Timothy Obiezu reports on the issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com