After the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) unveiled the team’s uniform this week, some of the Western media exploded with angry messages claiming that the country’s tricolor could clearly be seen on the kit presented by Zasport. Russian athletes at the Tokyo Games this summer will be barred from competing under the national flag and with the national anthem, as the result of sanctions imposed by... 

China is experimenting with digital money with an expiration date, meaning that citizens will be forced to spend and not save. The “digital yuan” could usher in an era of total population control as people who aren’t allowed to save money will be more dependent on the government. “Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a... 

RT takes a look at the possible origins of the so-called ‘black holes’ – massive craters that are being formed across the Yamal Peninsula in northern Russia. Giant round craters seemingly appear out of nowhere in the remote areas of Western Siberia, mesmerizing and, sometimes, scaring nomadic reindeer herders and scientists alike. One such crater opened up just last year, while more than a dozen... 

Eyewitnesses told Radio Free Asia (RFA) in a report published Thursday that Chinese Communist Party officials imprisoned them in mobile “brainwashing” centers designed to make them renounce Christianity, where they faced routine beatings, indoctrination, and solitary confinement designed to induce self-harm. Christianity is legal under the communist regime in China only under the Chinese Catholic... 

The Center for Global Policy released a shocking new report about the slavery of Uighurs and other Turkic minority groups in Xinjiang, China. The report provides evidence that human slavery is being used on a massive scale to advance the Chinese cotton market. More than half a million people, imprisoned in camps, are now being forced to pick cotton as slaves. One fifth of the world’s cotton production... 

Taiwan said it is now mass producing a long-range missile capable of striking deep into China and is actively developing three more models – with the missile program deemed “a priority” by Taipei. Speaking in parliament on Thursday, Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said the research and development of missiles has “never stopped.” “We hope it is long-range, accurate, and mobile,” he said.... 

A bomb went off outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar during Sunday service. Police believe it was a suicide attack. The moment of the blast was caught on a CCTV camera. A video from the scene shows debris scattered near the gate at the building’s side entrance. Indonesian media quoted the South Sulawesi Regional Police spokesperson, Kombes E. Zulfan, who described the explosion... 

Homosexuality can be classified as a “psychological disorder,” a Chinese court has ruled, upholding a decision in favor of a textbook publisher. It found only a ‘difference of opinion’ – not fact – between plaintiff and publisher. The inclusion of homosexuality as a psychological disorder in a popular university textbook constitutes “not factual error but a divergent academic view,”... 

A rooster named Raja will appear in court in India after he killed his owner with a knife while attempting to flee an illegal cockfight. The incident took place on February 23 in the Jagtial district in the Indian state of Telangana. Raja was brought by his owner Thanugula Satish to a cock fight at the Yellamma temple on the outskirts of Lothunur village in Gollapalli mandal. Satish affixed a three-inch... 

China has slammed the Western world, especially the CIA for attempting to feminize men and turn them into “sissy pants”. They’ve done this 2 years ago back in 2019. Today, they finally came up with a solution and their solution is simple. Most of their teachers in school are women, they are going to fire half of them and hire men as well, by their words, they are going to “balance... 

BBC World News has been banned from the Chinese airwaves, Beijing’s state-controlled TV network announced. The tit-for-tat move comes after the UK media regulator, Ofcom, revoked the broadcast license of the Chinese CGTN network. China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should... 

This comes as the World Health Organisation holds a press conference in Wuhan after spending four weeks in the city investigating the origins of the virus. The original animal carrier of COVID-19 has not yet been identified, WHO said during a press conference in China’s Wuhan on Tuesday. According to Liang Wannian, a Chinese expert from Tsinghua University, bats and pangolins have been ruled... 

Offended Jews worldwide are expressing their collective outrage and disappointment after they discovered that a Korean pop star posed for a humorous picture with a mannequin dressed in a “Nazi” uniform: Fans have demanded an apology from a K-pop star who was seen embracing a Nazi mannequin in a set of photos. Sowon, a member of popular girl group GFriend, came under fire after sharing the images... 

Law enforcement agencies could not succeed in catching the man for two years, as he was elaborately hiding guarded by a group of Thai kickboxers. While living in secret, however, he attended lavish parties and even lost $85 million at a casino in Macao in a single night. Alleged drug kingpin, Tse Chi Lop, 57, also dubbed “Asia’s El Chapo”, was detained on Friday as a result of a two-year search... 

Researchers have developed a rejuvenating gene therapy for human skin that has the potential to make “ageing a reversible phenomenon.” RT spoke to the lead scientist, Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho, about the astonishing breakthrough. Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have discovered a way to make skin cells “grow younger.” They claim the original technique...