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Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has unveiled to independent experts an unprecedented Global Transparency Initiative that will open its code. The audit is a bid to stave off US accusations the company is working for Russian security services. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2xZ12pR

A Canadian man was left “shocked and upset” after police found his singing was so bad they considered it screaming and slapped him with a $149 fine. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2la3Bzx

Parents in the town of Leguevin, near Toulouse, France, have named their baby son… Jihad, local media report. The baby’s parents may face charges for the controversial choice of name. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2z0zSPA

A man armed with a knife attacked and injured a female journalist after forcing his way in the Echo of Moscow radio station in Moscow, its editor-in-chief reported. The woman was taken to hospital. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2yLWBhi

A Polish historian, who claimed in a notorious article the situation with Jews “did not look very bad” after the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, has been awarded an education ministry medal, for what it said was his “special contribution” to education. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2zuJEFQ

Media favorite Nemo, the dog of French President Emmanuel Macron, has been caught in a steaming hot controversy after derailing a filmed meeting with top officials by urinating on a gilded fireplace at the Elysee Palace. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2gAkX72

Catalan authorities will not follow orders from Madrid, but will only listen to the will of the Catalan people, Catalonia’s Foreign Affairs spokesman told BBC Radio. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2yC5vhM

A British-Palestinian academic and activist spoke to RT about the ordeal he endured while his name was featured on the World-Check database, which is owned by Thomson Reuters and used by banks to blacklist customers. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2hZceYU

A CCTV camera has captured a man calmly pushing a woman on rail tracks at a Hong Kong train station, then walking away in cold blood. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2hYQ1Kq

Thousands of people poured into the streets of the Maltese capital, Valletta, on Sunday to voice their indignation over the death of a prominent investigative journalist, known for exposing state corruption, who was killed by a car bomb last week. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2gBkFNh

The US embassy in Jakarta was forced to apologize after the head of the Indonesian armed forces was denied entry into the US at the last minute despite having a valid visa and an invitation by the US chief of staff himself. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2gzLYr8

A 17-year-old teenager charged passers-by with an ax and attempted to escape in a car before pulling up at a gas station to attack several more people in the eastern Swiss municipality of Flums. Police said the attack was not terrorism-related. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2xYtw34

A note written by Albert Einstein describing his theory on happy living has surfaced after 95 years and is up for auction in Jerusalem. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2gC1RNY

Fifteen members of the radical Jewish group Lehava suspected of attacking and threatening Arab men dating Jewish women have been arrested in Israel, including the group's controversial leader, Ben-Tzion Gopstein. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2xYjFFD

A string of radio telescopes have been used to measure a span of 66,000 light-years from Earth to a star-forming area of space at the other side of the Milky Way. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2yCnLrc

German federal prosecutors are overstretched with more than 900 terrorism cases – a fourfold increase from 2016, according the federal prosecutor’s office. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2yGEIzY

The crisis over Catalonia’s independence, which could have been avoided through negotiations, was escalated by the repressive actions of a Spanish government that doesn’t seem eager to change its ways, analysts say. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2l9Dusb

At least 8 people, including three minors, have been charged in France for a “criminal terrorist conspiracy,” prosecutors said. Their intended targets were reportedly mosques, people of North African descent and politicians. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2hWOggC

Some 140 people have been arrested in connection with a series of fatal attacks on people suspected of being ‘vampires’ in Malawi. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2xXwyQ5

At least two people died as typhoon Lan struck the southern regions of Honshu, the largest and most populous island of Japan. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT News http://ift.tt/2gu7dqT