RT NEWSLETTER (October 12, 2018)

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12 October

RT NEWSLETTER (October 12, 2018)

US News

12 October

‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown

Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November's crucial midterm elections. Facebook says they broke its spam rules, they say it’s censorship.

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World News

12 October

New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster

If the establishment media were truly balanced, social media’s purge of alternative news outlets would be a front-page splash. The fact it isn’t proves that those who shout loudest about “free speech” may be its greatest enemies.

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US News

12 October

Trump under pressure to stop arms sales to ‘good partner’ Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi affair

As public pressure mounts on the Trump administration to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the US defense industry is alarmed while critics of the Yemen war hope for the best.

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US News

12 October

FBI investigating as Facebook says hackers accessed data of 29 million users

Facebook has admitted that hackers accessed the data of 29 million users on the social network by using people's friends lists to steal access tokens. The FBI is currently investigating.

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World News

12 October

Ganging up on Beijing? Five Eyes intel network now looks at China

The intelligence agencies of the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand have been cooperating closely on countering China’s “foreign activities” since the start of the year, Reuters reports.

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Russian Politics News

12 October

Kremlin promises to defend Russian Orthodox Christians in Ukraine

Russia will protect Orthodox believers in Ukraine if religious disputes go beyond lawful confrontation, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said, adding that Moscow would only use political and diplomatic methods.

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World News

12 October

War in Syria won’t end while the US remains there – Lavrov to French media

The illegal US presence in Syria is one of the reasons why war there cannot end, especially since Washington is apparently trying to create a quasi-state on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, the Russian foreign minister said.

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Sport News

12 October

‘They are almost naked’: Beach handball players' bikini outfits deemed 'too revealing' (PHOTOS)

Female beach handball players competing at the Youth Olympics in Argentina have sparked a heated debate over bikini outfits they are wearing for matches in accordance with the International Handball Federation (IHF) rules.

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World News

12 October

How Russia's trusty space launch escape system saved 6 lives after initial deadly start

Thursday's aborted launch of the Russian Soyuz spaceship may have sent the International Space Station's work into disarray, but it also highlighted how much effort Soviet space engineers put into their creations.

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Sport News

12 October

14yo Russian teenager Trusova wins Junior Grand Prix stage, lands quad

Russian figure-skating prodigy Alexandra Trusova has extended her winning run in junior skating by delivering yet another phenomenal performance at the Junior Grand Prix stage in Armenia, where she landed a quad jump.

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