Delta hit land in southwest Louisiana on Friday night, inflicting widespread damage and knocking out electricity for some 379,636 people in the state and another 108,402 in neighboring Texas, according to PowerOutage.us, a project that aggregates data from utility companies around the country. Footage circulating on social media showed powerful …
Read More »Police departments across US report ‘nationwide’ 911 OUTAGE, possibly caused by Microsoft cloud glitch
Police and sheriffs departments in at least Minnesota, Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have noted issues with their emergency call systems on Monday, directing residents to use alternative numbers while they work to correct the issue, allegedly caused by a technical failure in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services. No …
Read More »Tens of thousands again hit streets of Minsk as protests continue across Belarus for 4th consecutive weekend (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
Marchers gathered on Sunday afternoon in the centre of the capital next to a war memorial and headed towards the presidential palace. The protesters are demanding that the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, step down, accusing him of grossly falsifying the August 9 election results and then brutally suppressing the ensuing …
Read More »Gas pipeline explosion causes ‘cascading blackout’ across Syria in suspected ‘terrorist act’
The blast “may have been caused by a terrorist act” and “led to power cuts in all of Syria,” SANA reported, citing the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. While there were no reports of injuries in the blast, several photos and videos have circulated on social media purporting to …
Read More »The Russians have offered to settle evenly across the country.
To improve the quality of life in Russia it is necessary to develop the country . To do this, Moscow needs to expand the program of the far Eastern hectares and introduce a special tax conditions for each region. Such opinion in interview URA.RU was expressed by the owner of …
Read More »Aisen Nikolaev: the bridge across the Lena will give Russia another outlet to the Pacific ocean
The project of the bridge across the Lena has already received the support of the government and the decision on its construction can be made before the end of the year, said the head of Yakutia Aisen Nikolaev. In an interview with RIA Novosti he said that when the …
Read More »Discussion of gas supplies across the Caspian from Turkmenistan to the EU has reached a new level
The world Bank wants to discuss with Turkmenistan to supply natural gas to Europe. This was announced by chief expert on oil and gas, world Bank Alexander Huurdeman in the framework of the international conference “Oil and gas of Turkmenistan-2019” 22 Oct. Huurdeman noted that Turkmenistan’s position on the natural …
Read More »From the Urals to Syktyvkar: the Protest is gaining momentum across the country
Hot summer 2019 may develop into no less a hot political autumn. This will happen if the level of protest moods of Russians will remain at the current, very high level. According to a recent survey by “Levada-center”, 27% of Russians ready to take part in protests against declining living …
Read More »In Kiev dismantle the bridge across the Dnieper
The bridge was recognized as emergency in the early 2000s. The bridges that connect the right and left take care of the Dnieper in Kiev perform an extremely important function, and even a partial overlapping of one of them leads to a significant increase of the load on the other. …
Read More »In Kiev, the motorcycle hit a pedestrian who was running across a six-lane road
To the underground passage was a few metres away. 15 August in the evening in Kiev on the street in Solomensky district pedestrian tried to cross the roadway from six lanes. He was hit by a motorcycle. “I was driving along the waterfront near the bridge. And again. And runs …
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