President Obama’s final year in office marks the Guantanamo Bay detention facility’s 15th year in operation. RT interviewed David Remes, a lawyer who has advised over a dozen Gitmo inmates, about the rising stakes facing the remaining prisoners there. Remes, who left a lucrative position in corporate law in 2008 to...
Two people were reported injured and many vehicles were tossed about as a twister touched down in Coconut Creek, Florida. Heavy storms on Wednesday morning soaked the area, just a few miles inland from Florida's Atlantic coast, between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. At Broward College, the twister picked up cars, tossing...
Twelve suspects have been arrested in two Canadian provinces, mostly in Quebec, during a major bust on an alleged online child sexual exploitation ring. The operation was the result of a three-year-long investigation. The suspects, aged 27 to 74, were detained on Wednesday in Quebec City, Montreal, Trois Rivieres, Toronto,...
Two elderly metro passengers in Munich were attacked by a group of young men of Middle Eastern appearance this weekend as they tried to protect a young female from being sexually harassed. The alleged asylum seekers went berserk when the old men intervened. The assault that took place on a train going from Sendlinger Tor...
Scars can be life-long reminders of abuse, so tattoo artist Flavia Carvalho decided to do something about it. Her project “A Pele da Flor” (The Skin of the Flower) is about giving hurt women tattoos free of charge. For two years, Carvalho has helped women cover scars left from knives and bullets, and from...
The Brazilian government is deploying more than 200,000 troops to spread awareness of the Zika virus, which has been linked to sever birth defects. The host country of this year’s Olympic Games is experiencing an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. The uniformed soldiers would conduct door-to-door walks and hand out...
Europe is on a dangerous, slippery slope of increasing xenophobia and racism engendered by the influx of refugees. Denmark’s new confiscation law is a sign of the brooding, baleful climate. But the real answer to the problem is dealing with Europe’s support for Washington’s criminal wars. In other words,...
The day has finally come for all UFO lovers and those who still believe ‘the truth is out there’. The CIA has released thousands of declassified documents on flying saucers. The agency humorously noted that X-Files’ Fox Mulder would certainly love to use them to prove the existence of extraterrestrials....
A new study discovered that a planet previously thought to be a loner actually orbits a star 1 trillion kilometers away from it. It takes it a million Earth years to orbit its sun, making it the largest solar system found to date. The giant gas planet – identified only as 2MASS J2126−8140 by scientists – lies...
A majority of people coming to Europe from the Middle East and Africa are economic migrants using asylum-seeker status as a cover, according to a top EU official. The EU may reinstate internal border controls if the crisis isn’t resolved in two months. “More than half of the people now coming to Europe come from...
Natural oil seeping from the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico was found to be capable of sustaining life, scientists discovered. It appears the plankton was engineered by evolution to naturally thrive in something we know to kill living things. The discovery, the first of its kind, was made by complete surprise. Oceanographers...
Nazi Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann who was executed by Israel back in 1962 for numerous war crimes, considered himself “a mere instrument in the hands of the leaders,” a letter to the then-president asking for clemency reveals. The information was released on Wednesday by the office of Israel's President...