Russian citizens are being duped by Kremlin propaganda into buying “cheap” flats in Mariupol. The occupied Ukrainian city is located on the coast of the Sea of Azov and was captured by Putin’s army last May after a horrific months-long siege that
Thick smoke and roaring flames tore through a historic British pub last night, just five days after the new owner acquired it. The Crooked House in the Black Country was completely destroyed despite firefighters’ best attempts to save it. Fire crews were
Russia recently ended a deal that allowed Ukraine to ship grain to other world markets from the Black Sea port of Odesa. Since the deal ended, Russia has been hammering Ukrainian ports with strikes. On Aug. 2, 2023, Russian hit a Ukrainian
The granddaughter of a pensioner who had to have a double leg amputation after she became trapped under a bus when the driver pulled away has said the incident “destroyed” her family. Joan Scott, then 83, was trying to get on a
Brazil’s petrochemical giant Braskem said Friday it had reached a $356 million settlement with a coastal city where four decades of the company’s rock salt mining destroyed five urban neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of people. Around 200,000 people in the
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kherson is being bombarded by the Russian military using heavy weapons, as the residents are being evacuated due to the flooding risk after a nearby dam was blown up. Two law enforcement officers have sustained
A Ukrainian farmer has designed a remote-controlled mine-clearing tractor using parts from destroyed Russian tanks. Oleksandr Kryvtsov, who runs an agricultural company in the eastern Ukrainian village of Hrakove, is using panels stripped from Russian armor to protect his tractor from any mines
A black bear was “destroyed” over the weekend in Canada’s Jasper National Park after the animal confronted a pair of hikers on a trail and killed one of their dogs in a predatory act, officials said. The attack happened around 4 p.m.
The former home of a man serving a life sentence for killing and eating an acquaintance in a case that appalled Germany two decades ago burned down early Monday, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the overnight blaze in the
A selfless gardener who dedicated her allotment to help feed the community in a cost-of-living crisis has opened her heart to vandals who destroyed it. Carly Burd, from Harlow in Essex, suffers from multiple sclerosis and lupus, but has spent her time