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Here's a look at the death of gas giant Total's CEO, Christophe de Margerie, and how it relates to the current currency war against the petrodollar involving China and Russia.

Welcome to North Korea where you have to follow your guide’s instructions and only take pictures of what we say. To some the people are repressed, though they prefer to describe themselves as "protected," at least on camera. Life here is the result of a unique 70-year social experiment in which the people are "shielded" from the "corrupting influence" of the outside world. Dynastic leader Marshal Kim Jong-un, who inherited the job from his father and grandfather, continues their political heritage. An RTD film crew was granted rare access to this unique country, which may seem to have leapt from the pages of a dystopian novel, to see what life is really like and what the people really think of their homeland and its leader.

The Seattle Times - a prominent U.S. newspaper with nine Pulitzer prizes to its name - is taking action after it was revealed the FBI used its logo to lure in a terror suspect. RT's Marina Portnaya has the story.

The World Health Organization has promised millions of Ebola vaccine doses will be ready by the end of 2015, but warns they're not a magic bullet solution. The virus has already killed nearly 5,000 people. So there's demand for a cure - and a quick one. One vaccine was actually created a decade ago - but spent all that time on the shelf.

Vladimir Putin criticized the West for "sawing at branches" with sanctions against Russia and releasing a "genie in a bottle" with color revolutions. RT looks at the Russian President's best quotes from his speech in Sochi.

Here's a closer look at the real reason why oil prices are falling, which involves a secret deal with Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Terror is happening right at Canada's capital city. This week, shootings in Ottawa have raised the threat level in Canada as two Canadian soldiers have been killed by suspected terrorists. Here's what happened.

It is exactly one month since the US started its bombing campaign on Islamic State in Syria. And it's been quite a profitable operation for the arms industry of course - on the first day 47 Tomahawk missiles worth over 65 million dollars were dropped. One month on and the jihadists are still in place.But the war has produced new contracts for American weapon makers.

World Health Organization says it hopes to test two new Ebola vaccines in West Africa by January. They will be given to twenty thousand front line health care workers to begin with. And while the epidemic could be a lucrative market for drug companies others are already cashing in. Gayane Chichakyan investigates.

We're now witnessing the worst Ebola outbreak in history. But why? Here's a look at the conspiracy behind the Ebola virus and the truth behind Ebola.

President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain his "Ebola czar," knowledgeable sources tell CNN. The president on Thursday signaled his openness to the idea to have one individual coordinating the entire federal response to any threat of an outbreak in the United States. But who is he?

The United States military is sending hundreds more troops to join the 4-thousand already in West Africa, helping tackle the Ebola crisis. Speaking on Wednesday, the chief-of-staff for the first time revealed the full extent of America's global military presence - saying it has troops stationed in 150 countries - that's three quarters of all states. Gayane Chichakyan reports.

Enterovirus D-68 has now infected patients in 44 states and the District of Columbia, with the first case in Florida confirmed Tuesday. Here's what you need to know.

As President Barack Obama announced that he would be sending American military personnel to West Africa to help combat the epidemic, VICE News traveled to Monrovia to spend time with those on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak.

German industry takes its biggest hit since the 2009 financial crisis - adding to the chorus of discontent over the EU's sanctions against Russia.

China is poised to overtake the US as the world's largest economy way ahead of schedule. The IMF predicts that by the end of the year China's GDP, adjusted to the countries relatively low cost of living, will be $17.6 trillion, topping the US essentially that means, even though a typical person in China earns less than their American counterpart, they can afford more with their money.

Aleppo is Syria's largest metropolitan area and a millennia-old commercial capital. Today, however, it is a relative ghost town, threatened by regime bombing from the air and a militant offensive on the ground. For two weeks over the summer, VICE News embedded with the Islamic Front, a coalition of Islamist rebels fighting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad on one hand, and Islamic State militants on the other. From their secret tunnels beneath the ancient city to their threatened frontline outposts in Aleppo's ruined medieval centre, VICE NEWS followed the Islamic Front as, against overwhelming odds, they battled to retain control of the capital of the Syrian revolution.

The fight for freedom of information has never been harder in America, so says the head of the Associated Press's bureau in Washington. She's written an article listing the main obstacles facing those trying to report without bias. Watch as RT's Gayane Chichakyan takes a closer look at the reporters' struggle.