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Pensacola shooter ‘held mass-shooting dinner party’ where fellow Saudi students watched disturbing videos – report The Saudi gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Florida on Friday had reportedly held a dinner party days earlier, at which guests watched video footage of mass shootings. At least ten Saudi military students were being held at Naval Air Station Pensacola and several more were “unaccounted for” after the Friday shooting that left at least three dead and eight injured, an anonymous US official told AP on Saturday. While the gunman was shot on the spot, the source said that another student videotaped the scene of the shooting on Friday, while another two watched from inside a car. All three are reportedly Saudi nationals, w...

‘We can make a deal together’: Trump thanks Iran for ‘very fair negotiation’ that led to prisoner swap In a reprieve from the usual bellicose rhetoric, President Donald Trump thanked the leaders of Iran for swapping an American prisoner with a detained Iranian scientist. Senior officials, however, told a different story. Princeton scholar Xiyue Wang left Iran for the US on Saturday morning, while Iranian Scientist Massoud Soleimani returned to Tehran from America. Wang had been in Iranian custody since 2016 and was serving a ten-year term on espionage charges, while Soleimani was arrested in Chicago last year for sanctions violations and was awaiting trial.  The prisoner exchange came after weeks of negotiations, a senior US official told reporters ...

'I had a sombrero on': Andy Ruiz explains HUGE weight difference ahead of Anthony Joshua rematch Ahead of the fight of his life on Saturday night against Anthony Joshua, Andy Ruiz has been forced to address concerns about his weight but blames his increased mass on, among other things, the sombrero he wore on the scales. Ruiz will become the heaviest man to fight in a heavyweight world title fight since 7ft tall Russian Nikolai Valuev when the first bell sounds in Riyadh but has been forced to allay concerns as to his weight after registering a considerable 283lbs during Friday's weigh-in - some 15lbs heavier than in their first meeting. However, the Mexican-American fighter isn't blaming his ballooned weight on any excesses he may have enjoyed sinc...

Rain on their parade: Ruiz vs Joshua venue in Saudi hit by downpour amid fears of disruption to blockbuster boxing event The blockbuster boxing event featuring the heavyweight rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr and Anthony Joshua could face disruption as rain hit the venue in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, according to reports. The card is already underway at the purpose-built 15,000-seater stadium, and while the ring is covered spectators are largely exposed to the elements. Fans are taking cover under umbrellas as the rain falls, while there is reportedly a high chance that it will still be raining when Joshua and Ruiz start their ringwalks at around 9pm GMT. While it would take a serious deterioration in conditions for the main event to be cancelled, according...

Get your Ballons d'Or out! Lionel Messi to display record SIXTH golden ball before Barcelona's game with Mallorca Barcelona have announced that Lionel Messi will parade his sixth Ballon d'Or award to fans ahead of their La Liga fixture with Mallorca on Saturday evening days after the Argentine pipped Virgil van Dijk to the trophy in Paris. Messi added yet another to honor to his impressive tally of individual awards on December 2 when he claimed the title of the best men's player in football at the glitzy ceremony in the French capital, stretching one in front of perennial rival Cristiano Ronaldo on the all-time list of winners.  Also on rt.com Ballon d'Or 2019: Lionel Messi bags record SIXTH award as no-show Cris...

N. Korea envoy at UN says denuclearization ‘already off the table’ in talks with US DETAILS TO FOLLOW Also on rt.com All-out war could erupt between US and North Korea ‘at any moment’ – N. Korean media N. Korea envoy at UN says denuclearization ‘already off the table’ in talks with US Source: RT

Establishment would ‘never accept’ Russia in NATO, but why would Russia join anyway, even if invited? What if Russia became part of NATO upon Trump's invite? Sounds unthinkable given the Western elites' mentality, but that's how a German paper sees warming up ties with Moscow – and sends "a signal of despair," analysts told RT. Never free of discord, relations between Moscow and the North Atlantic bloc are now at their lowest point in decades. Since the 2014 Ukrainian crisis, NATO has singled out Russia as one of its official adversaries, and not a single month passes without reports on NATO making power moves in Eastern Europe – to which Russia responds in kind.  It seems that the animosity will persist for quite a long time – despite some recent a...