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A view shows a Polar Airlines' Antonov-24 passenger aircraft following its landing on the Kolyma river near an airport in Zyryanka in the Yakutia region, Russia, Thursday. — courtesy Russia's Eastern Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office/Handout/Reuters
Russian passenger plane lands on frozen river by mistake
MOSCOW — A Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft carrying 30 passengers landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia’s far east on Thursday because of pilot error, transport prosecutors said.The Polar Airlines An-24 landed safely on the Kolyma river near Zyryanka in the Yakutia region, the prosecutors said.“According to preliminary information, the cause of the aviation incident was an error by the crew in piloting the aircraft,” a spokesperson for the Eastern Siberian transport prosecutor said in a statement.Prosecutors published pictures of the aircraft on a frozen river. The Izvestia newspaper published pictures of passengers disembarking.“The An-24 aircraft landed outside of the runway of the Zyryanka airport,” Polar Airlines said in a short statement. “There were no...
December 30, 2023

Russian passenger plane lands on frozen river by mistake

A picture of a damaged house, shared by a Russian official, in what he said to be a Ukrainian attack on Belgorod. — courtesy Reuters
Ukraine war: Missile and drone attack launched against Russia
MOSCOW — Russia says it has destroyed dozens of missiles and drones fired at its territory from Ukraine. Local officials reported two people, including a child, were killed in the attack.The Russian Defense Ministry said 13 missiles and 32 drones were shot down over several Russian regions.A child was reported killed in Bryansk region, while a man in Belgorod region was also said to have died.The attacks follow strikes on Ukraine, which killed at least 34 people.An initial statement from the Russian Defense Ministry said 13 missiles were destroyed over Belgorod.Later, it said 32 drones had been shot down overnight in the Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk and Moscow regions.The governor of Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said two villages were targeted and a child, born in 2014, had been killed.A...
December 30, 2023

Ukraine war: Missile and drone attack launched against Russia

L'Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyer first woman to amass $100bn fortune
PARIS — L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has become the first woman to amass a $100bn (£78.5bn; €90.1bn) fortune, according to a ranking of the richest people in the world.The French beauty empire founded by her grandfather is on track for its best stock market performance in decades.L'Oréal shares rose to a record high in Paris on Thursday.The firm has seen its sales rebound after the pandemic, when people under lockdown used less makeup.The net worth of Ms Bettencourt Meyers, aged 70, crossed $100bn on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making her the 12th richest person in the world.She is still a distance away from French counterpart Bernard Arnault, who was second on the list with a net worth of $179bn. Arnault is the founder of LVMH, the world's biggest...
December 29, 2023

L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyer first woman to amass $100bn fortune

An Air Algeria plane prepares to land
Airplane stowaway in critical condition in Paris
PARIS — A stowaway was found alive but in critical condition in the undercarriage bay of an Air Algeria airplane at Paris Orly airport on Thursday morning, December 28, a security source briefed on the matter told Reuters.The person was in a life-threatening condition and was being treated at a nearby hospital, the source said.The plane was coming from the western Algerian town of Oran, a two-and-a-half hour flight from Paris.Stowaways in the unpressurized wheel-houses and cargo holds of planes can face temperatures of between minus 50 Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit) and minus 60 Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit) as well as a lack of oxygen.In 2019, the body of a suspected stowaway fell hundreds of meters from a plane flying over southwest London, landing in the garden of a man’s home, just...
December 29, 2023

Airplane stowaway in critical condition in Paris

Vladimir Egorov
Pro-Putin regional politician found dead outside his house
MOSCOW — A politician from the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in a courtyard outside his home, local media reported Thursday, adding to the growing list of Russian elites who have died under unclear circumstances in recent months.Vladimir Egorov, a Tobolsk City Duma Deputy from the ruling United Russia party, was reportedly 46 at the time of his death, which was reported by Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Tyumen Region in Russia.There were no “external signs of criminal death” on Egorov’s body, investigators told Kommersant. The committee “could not confirm the information about the circumstances of the deputy’s death” to Kommersant, it said, as they are “still conducting an...
December 29, 2023

Pro-Putin regional politician found dead outside his house

Firefighters work on a site of a building damaged after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023
Moscow unleashes biggest-ever aerial barrage on Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russia launched 122 missiles and 36 drones against Ukrainian targets on Friday, according to officials.At least 28 people were killed across the country in what a Ukrainian airforce official said was the biggest aerial barrage of the 22-month war.Most of the incoming missiles and drones were shot down -- but scores of people were reported injured. An unknown number were buried under the rubble of hit buildings.Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Kremlin’s forces used a wide variety of weapons, including ballistic and cruise missiles.Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on his official Telegram channel: “The most massive aerial attack” since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the previous biggest assault...
December 29, 2023

Moscow unleashes biggest-ever aerial barrage on Ukraine

Flames were spotted in a metal section close to the top of the landmark
Blackpool Tower: Fire crews called to iconic landmark
LONDON — Firefighters have been called to a blaze at Blackpool Tower.Flames were seen emerging from a metal section close to the top of the seaside resort's iconic landmark.Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS) deployed six fire engines and a "rope rescue" team. Lancashire Police officers are also in attendance.People have been told to stay away from the area and ordered not to fly drones since doing so may obstruct emergency operations.In a statement, LFRS said: "We have 6 fire engines, the drone team and the rope rescue team currently in attendance at a fire on Promenade, Blackpool."Please stay away from the area."The drone team are in operation so please do not fly drones in the area."Built between 1891 and 1894, the tower is 158m (519ft) high and...
December 28, 2023

Blackpool Tower: Fire crews called to iconic landmark

The bulk carrier Vyssos was photographed in the Bosphorus days before the attack
Cargo ship damaged by Russian mine in Black Sea, Ukraine says
KYIV — A Panamanian-flagged cargo ship has been hit by a Russian mine in the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials say.Two of the ship's crew were injured in Wednesday's explosion, which caused the ship to lose speed and control.Ukraine says the vessel, the Vyssos, had been heading to one of its ports on the Danube river to load grain.Kyiv has continued to export grain along unilaterally declared maritime corridors after Moscow pulled out of a UN-backed Black Sea grain deal.Ukrainian authorities have published a photo appearing to show the explosion, which caused a fire on the upper deck.Reports suggest the captain ran the ship aground to prevent it from sinking.An operation is underway to try to tow it to port for repairs.Ukraine has managed to reduce the threat to shipping posed by...
December 28, 2023

Cargo ship damaged by Russian mine in Black Sea, Ukraine says

People tried to scoop fuel from the tanker after it had tipped over into a ditch
Liberia fuel tanker explosion kills more than 40
MONROVIA — More than 40 people have died after a fuel tanker crashed and exploded in central Liberia, the country's chief medical officer Francis Kateh has said.The tanker overturned along a road in Totota town, about 130km (80 miles) from the capital, Monrovia.It burst into flames soon after people rushed to the site to scoop fuel from the tanker, eyewitnesses said.A pregnant woman was among the dead, and some of the bodies were burnt to ashes, Dr Kateh said.He told local broadcaster Super Bongese TV that more than 83 people had been admitted to hospital for their injuries following Tuesday's disaster.Patients with more serious injuries had been transferred to hospitals in Monrovia for treatment, Dr Kateh added.The cause of the crash is unclear.Video footage shows that a large...
December 28, 2023

Liberia fuel tanker explosion kills more than 40

Artyom Kamardin read a poem criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine in September 2022
Russian poets get jail sentences for anti-war poetry reading
MOSCOW — Two Russian poets have been handed long jail sentences for taking part in a reading of anti-war poems in Moscow.A Moscow court gave Artyom Kamardin seven years and Yegor Shtovba five and a half years for "inciting hatred" against Russian troops and making "appeals against state security".Both had pleaded not guilty.The pair are the latest to be sentenced under what rights groups have condemned as an unprecedented crackdown on dissent in Russia.A third poet who had taken part in the poetry reading, Nikolai Dayneko, was given a four-year sentence earlier this year after pleading guilty and cooperating with the investigation.On 25 September 2022, Kamardin, 33, recited a poem at the Mayakovsky Readings - a poetry event that has attracted dissidents and activists...
December 28, 2023

Russian poets get jail sentences for anti-war poetry reading

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