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US envoy accuses Beijing of ‘intimidation’ in South China Sea US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has decried Beijing for preventing other nations from accessing resources in the South China Sea. A dispute over the strategic waterway has caused a major rift in US-China relations. Acting as the US representative at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bangkok, O’Brien told assembled world leaders that China was guilty of strong-arm tactics in the region. “Beijing has used intimidation to try to stop ASEAN nations from exploiting the off-shore resources, blocking access to 2.5 trillion dollars of oil and gas reserve alone,” O’Brien said in his address to the summit. He also read a message from US President Donald Trump i...

‘Like a giant ISIS recruiting poster’: Trump’s Syria oilfield occupation policy slammed by ‘moderate’ rebel recruiter Joe Biden Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, who back in the good old Obama administration days lobbied for the arming of ‘moderate’ rebels in Syria, has slammed Trump for downgrading the US military to an oilfield occupation force. “Leaving troops behind like [Trump’s] doing now – he says that what he wants to do is we’re going to occupy the oil fields and we’re going to take ‘em…” Biden told the Wall Street Journal. He expressed deep regret that the vacuum, left by the US troop pullback, has disastrously been filled by the legitimate Syrian government, Russia and (probably worst of all) Iran. Oh, and Islamic State terrorist...

Trump urges his UK ‘friends’ Boris Johnson & Nigel Farage to unite ahead of Brexit British PM Boris Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage may not want join forces ahead of upcoming elections, but US President Donald Trump thinks they should, wading into UK politics once again.  “I like them both,” Trump replied when asked who of the two British political figures he supported. However, Trump said that he believed that PM Johnson really had what was needed to lead the UK during its partition with the European Union. “Look, I think Boris is the right man for the time. He’s really for the times, he’s a great gentleman, he’s a wonderful guy, he’s tough, he’s smart and I think he’s going to do something,” he said. A...

Macron is either naive or a US accomplice: Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei blasts French president’s failed mediation efforts Talking to the Americans is pointless as their demands are “endless,” and it’s strange that French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t understand this, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. Macron made a vain attempt to mediate talks between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September. As part of this effort, the French leader wanted to persuade Tehran that “a single meeting with the US president will solve all the problems,” Khamenei told students in Tehran, with the comments later reposted on his Twitter page. One wonders if he is really so naive, or just an...

Djokovic wins Rolex Paris Masters as battle with Nadal to end year as world no. 1 set to go to the wire Serbian tennis icon Novak Djokovic added yet another title to his impressive haul after defeating Canadian youngster Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Rolex Paris Masters 1000 on Sunday. The 32-year-old star, participating in his 50th ATP Masters final, needed just two sets to dispatch his less decorated rival and pick up his 34th Masters 1000 crown. READ MORE: Get the Barty party started! Aussie Ashleigh Barty nets record $4.42mn prize money as she beats Elina Svitolina to win WTA Finals Djokovic took the initiative right from the first minutes, racing to a 3-0 lead in the opening set which he easily claimed 6-3. ...

Nasty Russians harassed a sick American diplomat? That’s ‘fake news’ says Foreign Ministry The New York Times has spun a tale of Russian treachery based on its usual anonymous sources. Though the Russian Foreign Ministry stepped in to correct the record, the paper didn’t let facts get in the way of a good story. According to the Times, the debacle kicked off in August, when Russian officials delayed a sick American envoy from leaving Moscow for treatment, part of a Cold War-style “harassment campaign” against US diplomats. The man in question, a military attache at the American embassy in Moscow, fell ill and needed evacuation to Germany for hospital treatment. According to the NYT, his plane was delayed “for hours for no apparent reason,” despite p...

Trump tweets praise for Masvidal after US president attends UFC 244 Donald Trump has tweeted his congratulations to Jorge Masvidal after the US leader saw the fighter crowned the UFC’s ‘Baddest Motherf*cker’ in New York City on Saturday night. Trump was in attendance at Madison Square Garden for UFC 244, which was headlined by the inaugural ‘BMF’ title fight between Masvidal and fellow MMA cult hero Nate Diaz. Also on rt.com ‘Headlock him up!’ Protesters gather outside Madison Square Garden as US president Donald Trump watches UFC 244 (VIDEO) Diaz was stopped by doctors from heading out for the fourth round due to a nasty gash above his right eye, handing Masvidal victory in an anticlimactic end to a bout h...