Despite the huge amount of aid Pakistan gets from the US, the relations between the troubled allies are plunging into deeper crisis. An expert told RT that the Pakistani people would be better off if the US was not subsidizing the Pakistani military.
With over 33 people already confirmed dead and about 1,500 injured during Egypt`s revolution 2.0, the toll is expected to rise as the police have started using live ammunition on protesters. RT’s Paula Slier is in the eye of the Tahrir storm.
The West continues to increase pressure on Tehran over its suspected nuclear program. But will the latest set of sanctions help it reach its goals? Some experts believe the measures will only fuel nationalistic feelings in Iran and boost the regime.
The middle-class in America is shriveling at an unthinkable rate, as a new study pulling from US Census data reveals that more families are finding themselves among the very poor or very rich.
With the credibility of an IAEA report on Iran`s secretive nuclear activity being questioned, some experts say the Iranian people should ask their government why their country is still a member of the UN nuclear agency.
The APEC Forum in Hawaii is over. Russian political scientist Igor Panarin thinks that the forum saw the start of open rivalry between the two superpowers: China and the USA. In an article for RT, the analyst explains his view.
"The fuze is already burning," says Russia`s former Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin. He says the global economy is balancing on the brink of another recession and the second financial crisis is already upon us.
NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over, with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich state are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it.
Russia and Georgia have signed landmark agreement, giving the green light to Russia`s WTO accession.
Though it has been decades since the Cold War came to a close, the United States government spends more money on nuclear warheads now than it did during its stand-off with the Soviet Union.
Berlusconi has named as his likely successor a former justice minister, Angelino Alfano, who gained notoriety for going above and beyond the call of duty in his efforts to keep the Italian Prime Minister immune from prosecution.
The eurozone crisis is developing at an unprecedented rate and Italy has become the latest country to be sucked into a debt spiral from which it might not return.
After 13 years of planning and two years of construction, the Nord Stream pipeline has started to deliver its first supplies of Russian gas to an estimated 26 million homes in the EU.
The Indian government has announced a drop in the number of poor people in the country by massaging the criteria used to measure poverty. By its reckoning, less than a dollar a day is enough to get by - but the numbers don`t tell the whole story.
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has said Russia and the EU are his country`s major trading partners and urged the neighbors to lift sanctions and resume co-operation with Belarus as it struggles to emerge from crisis.
Sochi 2014 organizers have been forced to give up their plans to build an ice rink in the center of London during next year`s Olympics after their proposal was turned down by the city`s authorities.
The German news magazine Spiegel has revealed a French plan to sell Greece up to four new warships - on credit. It is valued at around 300 million euros, even though Greece is struggling to meet its current massive debt obligations.
The crucial summit of Europe`s finance ministers which was expected to provide details of a euro zone rescue plan has been cancelled, leading to more anxiety on stock markets around the world.
European banks agreed early on Thursday to write off 50 per cent of Greek debt. The deal was reached during an emergency summit in Brussels overnight. The EU and the IMF will also give the country another one hundred billion euros in rescue loans.
Tensions are rising in Kyrgyzstan as the country gears up for presidential elections on Sunday. Fears are growing of a repetition of the 2010 unrest when hundreds were killed in inter-ethnic carnage.
China, as the country with the world`s biggest financial reserves, has thrown its weight behind the EU`s efforts to contain its financial crisis, offering European countries its broad financial shoulder to lean on.
Sunday`s meeting of European leaders aimed at resolving the region`s debt crisis has brought proposals on the recapitalization of EU banks, bailout package volumes for Greece, the modernization of EFSF and creation of new economic government.
With Ukraine`s medical infrastructure and legislation making vital transplant organs hard to come by, the illegal trade in human organs is thriving as desperate people turn to the black market.
Twenty years since Kazakhstan abandoned its nuclear test site, country’s atomic arsenal has gone from being the world`s fourth-largest to nothing. Decades on from seeing hundreds of explosions, the environmental and human cost is still being felt.
Russia and most of its CIS partners have signed an agreement committing to creating a free trade zone during Tuesday’s meeting of the Commonwealth in St. Petersburg.