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Indian politician calls for burqa ban claiming ‘terrorists’ use them to hide from police The state of Uttar Pradesh’s labor minister Raghuraj Singh has called for an outright ban on women wearing burqas, suggesting that terrorists have been using them to elude authorities. In an apparent reference to the recent violent protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which have swept India, Singh claimed that criminals and “terrorists” were using the burqa to conceal their identities.  Also on rt.com Indian women's college bans burqas as part of dress code crackdown The poitician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party called for India to ban the Muslim veil, citing the example of Sri Lanka...

Merkel's would-be successor Kramp-Karrenbauer steps down as CDU head amid coalition mayhem Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Germany's Defense Minister and Angela Merkel's protégé, is resigning as leader of the Chancellor's CDU party and will not seek to compete for the country's top job in the next election. Kramp-Karrenbauer, or AKK, as she likes to be known, made headlines on Monday by announcing that she will not lead the Christian Democrats (CDU), according to German media citing party spokesman. Likewise, it will be someone else to run for Chancellor in the next election. AKK, who will still keep the position of Defense Minister, will arrange the selection of a candidate by summer. She will give up the leadership as soon as she makes sure that the C...

At least 8 killed, many reported injured in car bomb blast in Syria's Afrin (PHOTOS, VIDEO) A car bomb that exploded in Afrin, Syria has killed eight people and wounded others, according to media reports. A video purportedly taken at the scene shows a large fire on a city street, as dark smoke billows from what appears to be the charred remains of a vehicle. ‼️??‼️#Suriye #AfrinAfrin'de patlama meydana geldi; yaralıların olduğu belirtiliyor#Suriye #TSK #İdlib #Rejim #Muhalifler #Halep #SMO #SonDakika #BreakingNews #BREAKING #syria pic.twitter.com/lyUM4EI4Ub— Bizim Fikir (@BizimFikir) February 10, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Car bomb explodes in Afrin, SyriaThis is a busy marketplace I walk...

Сhina unveils mobile app that DETECTS coronavirus close contact A mobile application developed by the Chinese government and a state-run tech company is reported to warn users when they are at imminent risk of contracting the killer coronavirus, which has claimed more than 900 lives. The "close contact detector" has become available to Chinese users, requiring only their name, phone number and ID for installation, Xinhua reported on Monday. The app then lets the user know if they have been in contact with someone infected by the deadly 2019-nCoV virus. Read more China coronavirus outbreak epicenter reports 70 more deaths as WHO says ‘no effective therapeutics’ yet The General Office of the State Council, the...

Forgive us, artificially inseminated cows! Joaquin Phoenix wins best actor Oscar for Joker, goes on passionate woke tirade The ‘Joker’ star used his time on the Oscars stage to preach to people about eating cereal, drinking milk and even cancel culture in one of the most wide-ranging, strangest acceptance speeches ever. After winning the Best Actor Academy Award for his role in the hit film ‘Joker,’ Joaquin Phoenix took the stage and ranted about everything from drinking milk to “plundering” the world’s resources. The actor, who is an outspoken vegan, shamed people for using milk for their cereal and coffee at one point. Joaquin Phoenix is really out here at the #Oscars lecturing us about how we oppress cows for their milk pic.twitter.c...

Oscars take less than 20 minutes to go political as Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt gives cringe shoutout to John Bolton The Academy Awards went political straight away as the night's first winner, Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt, 'joked' his 45 second acceptance speech was '45 seconds longer' than the Senate gave John Bolton in impeachment trial. Less than 20 minutes into Sunday night’s ceremony, Pitt decided to mention the elephant in the room — President Donald Trump. While Hollywood award shows have been increasingly criticized for political tirades by filmmakers, that didn’t stop celebrities at the 92nd Academy Awards from continuing the trend. Also on rt.com RT presents… The Alternative Oscars based on artis...

Maybe Trump doesn’t know difference between communism and socialism, but he benefited from the latter – Sanders One of Democratic presidential nomination frontrunners, Sen. Bernie Sanders, laughed at Donald Trump calling him a ‘communist’ and explained how the US President, who doesn’t seem to know the difference, profited from ‘socialism.’ Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, asked the Vermont Senator, who identifies as a social democrat, an ubiquitous question about him being slammed by his opponents as a communist. The program played a clip of Trump saying that he thinks “he is a communist.” Bernie Sanders reacts to jabs from President Trump and Joe Biden on his self-proclaimed label of Democratic Socialist. #FNS #FoxNews pic....

Russia is ready to extend New START arms control treaty & negotiate on new weapons, yet US ignores the offers – Lavrov Moscow is ready to prolong the crucial New Start arms control treaty without any preconditions – and even negotiate on its new, state-of-art weaponry – yet the US is dodging the talks, Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov has said. One of the last obstacles on the path of the unhinged nuclear arms race, the US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is set to expire in a year. Still Moscow and Washington have been unable to engage into any meaningful discussion on it yet, since the US has been ignoring the repeated calls for dialogue, Lavrov said during an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper. Moscow’s position is clear –...