On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at approximately 9 a.m. local time. The siege ended on September 3, 2004, with more than 330 killed, including 186 children, and more than 700 people wounded. Some reports suggest 31 of 32 […]
“An updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna that targets two coronavirus variants (known as a “bivalent” vaccine) has today been approved for adult booster doses by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) after it was found to meet the UK regulator’s standards of safety, quality and effectiveness,” read an official […]
Blasts ripped through the warehouse storing fireworks at a market in Yerevan on Sunday, causing parts of the building to collapse and injuring dozens of people. Video shared by the emergencies ministry showed a smoldering pile of rubble and twisted metal. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the scene along with officials, the ministry said. It […]
Emergency service workers tend to a woman injured in a shelling in Opytne, Ukraine, on August 1. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The Ukrainian military’s general staff has acknowledged that Russian forces have had some success advancing westwards from the outskirts of Donetsk city. It said Russian forces continued to fire at several settlements to […]
Three weeks of driving from south to east in this sprawling country through front line villages, towns, past trenches and along hedgerows which are this wars strategic equivalent of high ground, is an education, and one that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use. Almost six months on, the disastrous war that he launched is stagnating. […]
Soon after Kurayan’s kidnapping, his Facebook and Instagram pages, and a new TikTok account registered under his name, began posting messages entirely out of character for the man known to family and friends as a proud Ukrainian, a passionate activist and avid gardener. At first, Kurayan’s captors painted him as a patriot, posting old photos […]
Disaster struck at the Medusa Festival in the town of Cullera near Valencia at 4:18 a.m. local time “due to a strong gust of wind,” they said. The man killed was 22 years old, the Spanish Civil Guard told CNN. The Civil Guard, Spain’s paramilitary police unit that is in charge of the investigation, also […]
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters attend to a fire at an oil depot in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on August 2. Russian tanks near the settlement of Olenivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on July 29. Students at a military school write letters to Ukrainian servicemen during a lesson in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 27. Firefighters rest […]
The Harry Potter creator said she felt “very sick” after hearing the news and hoped the novelist would “be OK”. In response, a user said “don’t worry you are next.” After sharing screen shots of the threatening tweet, Rowling said: “To all sending supportive messages: thank you police are involved (were already involved on other […]
An analysis of river water from Monday showed evidence of “synthetic chemical substances, very probably also with toxic effects for vertebrates,” the ministry said on Thursday, adding that it remained unclear how the substance entered the water. According to local broadcaster RBB, the state laboratory found high levels of mercury in the water samples. The […]
