Tense footage shows massive fire in NYC apartment building
Everyone is safe, but a fire has totally decimated the 5th floor of this apartment building in New York City. Crazy! Full credit to: @iScarlyy_ on Twitter
Everyone is safe, but a fire has totally decimated the 5th floor of this apartment building in New York City. Crazy! Full credit to: @iScarlyy_ on Twitter
Montenegro's finance minister on Friday tried to ease concern over a near $1 billion Chinese-backed road project, insisting the country could afford to repay the debt and did not need EU help.
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A snake catcher in Queensland said he found one of the biggest carpet python skins he had ever seen during a callout to a home on April 14.Catcher Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 said that he was called out to a house in Buderim, where he found the gigantic skin dangling from a hole in the side of the roof – but no snake in sight.“It’s more than double you,” McKenzie’s colleague can be heard saying as he stands next to the skin.According to McKenzie, they searched the roof space, the top of the roof, and around the yard, but were unable to find the python, and asked that if anybody in the area spotted a large snake, to give them a call.“Wowzas! Its great to see that there are still some big snakes getting around,” he said on Facebook. Credit: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 via Storyful
The Kremlin said on Friday that there were fewer ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine where Russian-backed separatists have faced off against Ukrainian government forces since 2014. But Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said there were not yet grounds to fully relax and signalled Russia, which has massed troops nearby, would continue to watch the situation closely. Ukraine blames a recent spike in violence in its eastern Donbass region on the Russian-backed separatists.
A "parliament" working in hiding to oust Myanmar's junta from power announced a new shadow government Friday, with deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi at its helm alongside ethnic minority politicians.
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Police officers shot and killed a gunman who opened fire near the San Antonio International Airport on April 15.According to the San Antonio Police department, a man was travelling down a roadway near the airport terminal on the wrong side of the road when he was confronted by a police officer. The man then stopped the vehicle and started firing at both the police officer and in the direction of the terminal. Police returned fire, hitting the suspect who was then taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said police were familiar with the man because of previous interactions.Footage uploaded to Instagram shows user Lee Ann Munson Yarbor seeking shelter in a restaurant as the airport was placed under lockdown. Credit: Lee Ann Munson Yarbor via Storyful
The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow and Washington did not share the same vision of creating mutually beneficial ties and that President Vladimir Putin would decide what counter sanctions to hit Washington with. The Kremlin was speaking a day after the United States imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market. Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had repeatedly said that Russia was ready to cooperate with the United States as much as Washington wanted to cooperate with Moscow.
High demand during lockdown and supply problems following the Suez Canal blockage have caused a shortage of garden gnomes in Britain, the BBC reported on Thursday.
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Put together a list of the most stressful life moments to go through and it is likely having a baby and moving house would come close to the top of the list.
Rabat had been due to host the opening meeting on May 23 but Gateshead will now be the first stop on this year's circuit, which ends in Zurich in September. It will be the first time that Gateshead has hosted a Diamond League meeting since 2010. "It was absolutely essential for us to be able to support our athletes' preparations for Tokyo with the staging of a world-class event next month, as well as assist the Diamond League," said UK Athletics CEO Joanna Coates.
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A group representing the ousted civilian government announces the formation of a national unity government including different ethnic groups. In a video posted on Facebook, Min Ko Naing, prominent pro-democracy leader and member of The Committee for Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a group of MPs from Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party made the announcement before signing off with a three-finger salute, symbol of the pro-democracy protesters.
The chief executive of Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest maker of vaccines and a critical supplier of the U.N.-backed COVAX facility, asked President Joe Biden on Twitter to lift the U.S. embargo on exporting raw materials needed to make the the jabs. Vaccine makers and experts in India have been concerned that the use of the Defense Production Act by the U.S. to boost their own vaccine production was resulting in exports of critical raw materials being stopped.
Another leg of Japan's Olympic torch relay has been scrapped and a BMX test event postponed over rising virus cases as uncertainty about the viability of the Games grows ahead of their opening in July.
Texans are still paying for the blackouts caused by a winter storm in February that knocked out power for millions. Last week, electricity prices in the state spiked again as a cold front passed through while half of the state’s power plants remain offline for maintenance. Throughout the crisis, energy economists have been clear: Upgrading the grid for extreme weather is technically easy.
One highlight at Switzerland’s doc film festival Visions du Réel (VdR) is the Pitching section on its Industry platform. 29 projects have been invited to participate. One of them, an exciting new documentary project on the Siege of Sarajevo by award-winning French filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot (“A German Youth”), promises to attract many potential collaborators. The […]
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