Footage shows the recovery of a bronze Nazi eagle embossed with a swastika that was salvaged from the shipwrecked Admiral Graf Spee warship off the coast of Montevideo in 2006. The statue is now set to go on auction, and bids are thought to start at $26 million.
Weighing between 300 and 400 kilograms and measuring 2.74 meters wide, the eagle was found on the stern of the sunken Graf Spee battleship. The Nazi German vessel was scuttled by its captain off the coast of Uruguay in 1939 following a sea battle with the UK Royal Navy.

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The war of words between the US and North Korea is generating headlines, amid growing fears it could erupt into a real confrontation. Almost 80% of Americans believe North Korea is capable of launching a missile that could hit the US, despite many experts saying Pyongyang’s weapons are not sophisticated enough.
RT’s Daniel Hawkins has been taking a look at who actually benefits from this scaremongering.

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Police used pepper spray and blast balls on rival demonstrations in Seattle on Sunday, just one day after violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaving one dead and dozens injured.
The demonstrations came a day after protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly.

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RT is continuing its campaign to find relatives of Russian speaking children, stranded in an Iraqi orphanage. ‘Bring them home’ is the call we are trying to spread internationally. Among those identified so far are sisters, 5 year old Khadija, and three year old Fatima. These youngsters had reportedly been taken to Iraq by their parents who joined Islamic State. The girls’ relatives in Russia recognized them in video we filmed in Baghdad just a few day ago.

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The deadly car ramming incident took place in Charlottesville, Virginia when a car plowed through a group of anti-fascist activists who were protesting a far-right rally.

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Two men found themselves chasing after their runaway car in the Russian city of Tyumen.

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The deadly car ramming incident took place in Charlottesville, Virginia when a car plowed through a group of anti-fascist activists who were protesting a far-right rally. RT wraps up what is known about the incident so far.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewelry, tantalum, tungsten, and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.

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About 80,000 people descended on Sydney’s streets on Sunday for the annual City2Surf race, raising around 3.5 million Australian dollars (2.76 million US dollars) for over 950 charities.
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Wildfires in Italy have torn their way through thousands of hectares so far this year. That’s partly due to a record breaking heat wave, but as Kate Partridge explains, there are more sinister reasons too.

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The escalation in the Korean Peninsula is sparking fears of conflict with phrases like ‘how to survive nuclear war’ trending online. RT’s Sameera Khan has more on how people are preparing for Armageddon.

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Rarer than they are cute (if that’s possible) these white lion cubs made World Lion Day extra special when they were born on Thursday in Crimea.
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Stunning air show marks 105 years of Russia’s military aviation forces
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Fighting has broken out at a ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia between right-wing protesters demonstrating against the removal of a Confederate-era statue from Emancipation Park, and counter demonstrators. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/8k6x

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At least one person has been killed and 19 injured after a car has ran into protesters at the Charlottesville protests between Unite the Right and counter demonstrators. RT journalist on the scene said that there were “extremely heavy injuries” sustained during the incident.

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A car has plowed into a group of counter-protesters at a ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, RT’s correspondent on the scene said, adding that there are “extremely heavy injuries.”

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Fighting has broken out at a ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia between right-wing protesters demonstrating against the removal of a Confederate-era statue from Emancipation Park, and counter demonstrators.

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The White House has reviewed a proposal to outsource the job of training and assisting Afghan forces to private contractors, said Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm formerly called Blackwater.

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A German city’s campaign to encourage citizens to throw away their trash has angered the area’s Turkish community because it includes garbage bins that urge people with names such as ‘Mehmet’ and ‘Gülcan’ to pick up their litter.

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Men save little girl who nearly fell from 2nd-floor window in Astana, Kazakhstan
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US President Donald Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric against the leader of North Korea. After the regime’s latest threat of a missile strike near a U.S. territory in the Asia region, the President sent the following warning to Kim Jong-un.

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Dozens of white supremacists staged a nationalist rally in Virginia, local media reported, adding that the torch-lit demonstration resulted in scuffles, injuries and possible arrests.
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