More than 40 people remained stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey on Saturday, 19 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven. The accident occurred around 5.30pm Friday at
ISTANBUL (AP) — One person was killed and seven injured Friday when a cable car pod in southern Turkey hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials and local media said. Scores of other people
Attacks on the UK’s undersea cables orchestrated by rogue states can be deterred using a “seabed warfare” strategy, a report has recommended, as military chiefs warn the country’s infrastructure is “extremely vulnerable” to sabotage. A new report from the Policy Exchange think
A cable car crashed in a skiing region in western Austria on Tuesday and all four people on board were seriously injured, police said. A tree apparently fell on the cable of the Acherkogelbahn in the Hochoetz skiing area of Tyrol province,
Russian state company Rostelecom will not seek compensation for damage to a fiber optic cable that was severed in the Baltic Sea last month and will complete the repair at its own expense, a company source told Reuters on Wednesday. The company
Finland, which reported damage to an undersea telecom cable that runs to Estonia, has launched an investigation into sabotage. Sweden has also reported partial damage to an undersea telecom cable that runs to Estonia, a week after Finland’s discovery. Both damages to
Damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity,” Finnish officials said Tuesday, adding that authorities were investigating. Finnish and Estonian gas system operators on Sunday said they noted an
Former Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable took a swipe at Sir Ed Davey over the party’s reluctance to talk about Brexit. Sir Vince insisted the Liberal Democrats need to be vocal about their pro-EU credentials as he joked about the focus
Pakistan’s prime minister has paid tribute to the commandos and volunteers who rescued six children and two adults from the broken cable car where they dangled over a valley in a 16-hour ordeal. At the ceremony Thursday in Islamabad with the eight
A military rescue is currently underway for six children and two adults trapped in a cable car over a 1,200 foot valley in Pakistan. The group was on their way to school when one of the cables snapped, leaving it dangling 900