If there’s one type of person we can turn to for sanity, it’s a Minecraft Twitch streamer. Unable to gain clout from nudity because of a recent Twitch ban (and also because Minecraft players and nudity don’t really go), many streamers have turned to riskier stunts to up their viewer count. On Monday evening, Twitch streamer Bodiggles was doing... whatever it is you do in Minecraft (mining and crafting?) when he noticed a weird smell in his room, suspecting it could be gas. Announcing ‘Methane check!’ Bodiggles clicked a lighter on, and viewers were met with a screen full of flames for a second before the stream cut out. Bodiggles later posted to X to say that he and his cats were ‘fine’, and said that God was ‘clutch’. He also posted a few pictures, which appeared to be taken from a hospital room. Nightmare-inducing as all this is, many viewers are convinced the explosion was a fake, pointing out that the fireball could have easily been added with simple video editing software. They also pointed to a similar case less than a month earlier, involving a different streamer, forks and toasters, which was later found to have been faked. Real or not, it seems the explosion worked wonders for Bodiggles’ profile, getting him millions more views than usual. The internet is divided on whether the explosion was genuine, and now so are you guys in the comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

Police have carried out a series of raids across Germany against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state in an armed coup. Some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany's 16 states against followers of the so-called Reich Citizens movement, federal prosecutors said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

As yet another, fifth batch of sanctions against Russia is being discussed, the EU members seem to fail to agree on it, having been warned about a potential blowback for the bloc itself. Former Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl shares her thoughts on the situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com

The federal security service has published a video of a Ukrainian military intelligence agent being detained in Kursk, Russia. He was collecting information about the Russian Defense Ministry’s military infrastructure. The agent confessed that he had been recruited by Ukraine in February 2018. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com