At least 46 people, believed to be migrants, have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas. A fire official said 16 people including four children had also been taken to hospital. The survivors were "hot to the touch" and suffering from heat stroke and...... more
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Monday shared video footage of what it said was its military destroying a Russian anti-aircraft system on Snake Island. The ministry posted the video on Twitterand wrote "[t]he occupiers lost an anti-aircraft system Pantsir (SA-22 Greyhound)." On Facebook, Ukraine's Operational Command South said "[m]ore than 10 hits have been recorded"...... more
A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east. Authorities in the eastern province of Sakhalin initially issued a tsunami warning but this has now been lifted. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was of a magnitude of 8.3, but Russian authorities estimated the size of...... more
A man is in a 'critical condition' after jumping from a bridge into the River Thames when he was Tasered three times by police officers. The man was involved in a confrontation with officers from the Met Police on Chelsea Bridge this morning and the incident has been referred to the...... more
Obinna Igbokwe, a Nigerian man resident in the United States, has reportedly shot his wife and mother-in-law before later killing himself. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office, in a statement, said it responded to a call reporting a shooting in Aldine Westfield Road, Spring Texas, on Wednesday. It said upon arrival, officers discovered two...... more
A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation. Nepal's air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers. But it...... more
...as Putin pounds Odesa with hypersonic missiles The bodies of 44 civilians have been found in the rubble of a building destroyed by Russian airstrikes in eastern Ukraine, according to officials. The civilians were inside a five-storey building that collapsed amid a bombardment in the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region in...... more
World richest man, Elon Musk, has given reason why he is okay with going to hell. Musk, who is the chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX, gave the reason on his official Twitter page on Monday, 9th May, 2022 while responding to a Tweep. The billionaire had made a disturbing...... more
Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has taken to Twitter and shared what rather seem to be a prediction about his death. Taking to the micro-blogging platform, which he recently bought for $44 Billion in the early hours of Monday, May 9, Musk sounded his own death knell about dying under...... more
Russia confirmed on Friday that it carried out an airstrike on Kyiv during a visit by the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. Russia’s defence ministry said it had deployed “high-precision, long-range air-based weapons” that “destroyed the production buildings of the Artyom missile and space enterprise in Kyiv.” The attack was the...... more
•PHOTO: Police respond near the scene of a shooting on Friday, April 22, 2022, in northwest Washington. The suspect in a shooting in northwest Washington, DC, that left four people wounded on Friday afternoon has died, DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said. “The suspect that we believe is responsible for...... more
•PHOTO: Taliban fighters and medical staff stand outside the gate of a hospital as they prepare to attend to the casualties after an explosion at Imam Sahib District in Kunduz province on April 22, 2022. AFP A blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people...... more
Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellite network 'rapidly' fought off an attempt by Russian attackers to jam the network in Ukraine, the Pentagon has revealed. An official from the US Office of the Secretary of Defense said the US military would have taken much longer to counter the attack against the SpaceX network. Starlink is a constellation...... more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost his ninth colonel in battle since launching his brutal invasion of Ukraine in February, as Moscow's losses continue to mount up. A funeral was held for Colonel Alexander Bespalov on Friday in the closed Russian city of Ozersk, according to a local announcement, which said he was killed 'during...... more
...Hundreds of desperate civilians trying to flee fighting hit More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike in east Ukraine Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said. The strike was on Kramatorsk's train station,...... more
Two teenage sisters were allegedly raped by Russian troops in a small village outside Kyiv which was brutally occupied by Putin's forces for as month, its deputy mayor has claimed. Ivankiv, fifty miles north-west of Kyiv, was finally reconnected to the rest of the wartorn country thanks to a pontoon bridge built...... more
An emergency air-and-sea rescue operation was underway in the English Channel tonight after a plane with two people on board crashed after taking off in the UK. The Piper PA-28 was in a group of aircraft which was heading to the northern France resort of Le Touquet on Saturday morning. 'It...... more
At least five people have been killed in what Israeli police officials are calling a terror attack. A gunman on a motorcycle reportedly opened fire in a crowded area in central Israel in the second mass shooting this week. While the circumstances were initially unclear, there were two reported shootings at different locations...... more
A Ukrainian woman was allegedly raped several times in front of her child, just moments after her husband was shot dead in their house by Russian soldiers. The victim was allegedly sexually assaulted as her small child was in the same room of their home in a small town next to...... more
United States President Joe Biden said Monday that it’s “clear” Russia is considering the use of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine and warned of a “severe” Western response if it chose to do so. “His back is against the wall,” said Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting that Russia...... more
Russia used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west, the defence ministry said. Russia has never before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first...... more
Vladimir Putin's 'decimated' forces could lose the war in Ukraine, the UK's top military commander has suggested. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said Russia's troops were 'in a mess' and the invasion was 'not going well'. His comments yesterday represent the most optimistic assessment yet of how the conflict may end – but...... more
Russian forces attacking Ukraine have lost three senior commanders, according to a western official, in the latest sign that Russia’s military plans have continued to be frustrated by logistical problems, poor planning and Ukrainian resistance. Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, who was killed by Ukrainian sniper fire, a divisional commander and a regimental...... more
* No-fly zone would drag us into war, NATO says * EU looking at more Russia sanctions, including in IMF * Ukraine says: Help before it's too late * NATO warns the worst is yet to come in Russia's war on Ukraine BRUSSELS, March 4 (Reuters) - NATO on Friday rejected...... more
* Zelensky accuses Putin of 'nuclear terror' and says he is trying to cause a repeat of Chernobyl Russian troops have seized Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine after a firefight that set part of the complex ablaze with President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Putin of resorting to 'nuclear terror' and...... more
Russian soldiers taking part in the invasion of Ukraine are in ‘complete disarray’, according to voice recordings obtained by a British intelligence company. The intercepted radio messages indicate that troops are refusing to obey central command orders to shell Ukrainian towns and are complaining about running out of supplies of food...... more
The Russian military advance on Kyiv has momentarily stalled, hampered by Ukrainian resistance as well as fuel and food shortages, a senior US defense official said Tuesday. “We generally sense that the Russian military movement… the overarching movement on Kyiv, is stalled at this point,” the official told reporters. “We do think that some...... more
FIFA have thrown Russia out of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup after the IOC called for sporting competitions to remove Russian athletes in wake of the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian men's national team were scheduled to play Poland in a play-off for Qatar 2022 on March 24 - a match Poland...... more
Published on 26 Feb 2022 Invading Russian forces have closed in on Ukraine’s capital in an apparent encircling movement after a barrage of air attacks on cities and military bases around the country. Frequent artillery blasts could be heard in Kyiv in the early hours of Saturday, coming from an unspecified...... more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sparked one of the biggest security crises in Europe since World War II by invading Ukraine, with barrages of missiles and artillery accompanying troops as they entered the country from multiple directions. Putin said he acted to protect civilians in separatist regions from Ukraine's military, though...... more