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A Canadian court has declared two men in a polyamorous relationship with a woman as legal parents of a child in the first such case in the country’s history. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2liykaU

Hundreds of millions of Indians are in need of clean water and demand may twice exceed the available supply by 2030, a government think tank has warned. 200,000 people already die annually due to drought and water contamination. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2tikUPI

The Austrian government’s push against “political Islam” has drawn popular support, a recent poll shows. While more than 60 percent approve of the measures, 14 percent of the respondents say they were “too soft.” Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2lftBqb

If you’ve ever worried about friends or family shutting themselves off in front of a computer, frantically pushing buttons for hours, you had every right. Video game addiction has now been classified as a mental health disorder. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2HZfKxc

A CCTV video has captured the terrifying moment a helicopter’s rotor blades smashed into a building during an attempted take-off in the Tyumen region of Siberia in Russia. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JLhlwd

Chancellor Angela Merkel's September 2015 decision to open borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees was a blow to Germany's internal order and to the European security, former OSCE Assembly vice-head Willy Wimmer told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JLvutE

If you’ve ever wondered how people rose to power in Ancient Rome newly discovered political ads in the famous city of Pompeii offer fresh insight on the age-old practice of propaganda. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2M1npNV

The deputy speaker of the Swedish Parliament has come under fire for claiming that Jews and Sami people are “not Swedes.” Police even received a formal complaint about the comment, according to local media. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2I2DyAe

Ryanair has called for a ban on booze at Irish airports after drunken passengers forced an Ibiza-bound flight from Dublin to divert to Paris. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2HYvTDj

Nicholas II owned Europe’s most lavish car park, with 56 cars in 1917 – more than any other European monarch. #Romanovs100 takes a closer look at the Tsar’s unique collection from 4-tonne limos to his son’s tiny Peugeot Bebe. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2K2MZom

Australian politician Lucy Gichuhi has been called “shameful” and “clueless” for claiming her $200,000 (USD$148,921) a year salary is not a lot of money. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2linnWI

A Finnish-Russian team has discovered “one of the most legendary ships of the Russian fleet” on the bottom of the Gulf of Finland. It sunk in 1941 during the evacuation of Tallinn after hitting a German mine. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JNt4ur

Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has declared a nine-month-long state of emergency, after rioters torched a plane and other property in the country’s southern highlands province. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2MxCGam

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has praised plans for a national polar station in the Antarctic to be built by 2019. It will put Ankara on par with almost 30 other countries having a voice on human activity there. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JKITSC

Renowned conductor Valery Gergiev took his famed Mariinsky Orchestra to Saudi Arabia to show the best of Russian classical music and pave the way for cross-cultural exchange between Russia and the conservative kingdom. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2t4SPfm

The Russian military has released footage showing an Iskander tactical missile being fired from a mobile launcher at an undisclosed location in Russia’s Far East. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2lewJTa

A picture circulating online of an alleged dog cull in Russia actually depicts Pakistan, during an attempt to reduce the number of stray animals on the streets of Karachi in 2016. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JVfpgS

As well as killing at least three people and injuring hundreds, a powerful earthquake in the Osaka region has briefly brought chaos to local transportation systems and caused substantial damage to housing and infrastructure. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2tl4MwW

Israeli Air Force jets have carried out a series of strikes on Gaza, reportedly destroying several Hamas military targets in retaliation to alleged arson attempts and “explosive kites and balloons” being launched at Israel. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JX2tHn

At least three people have been confirmed killed and more casualties are feared, after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit north of Osaka Prefecture in western Japan, local media report. Read Full Article at RT.com from RT World News https://ift.tt/2JVVQ8b