With thousands of Afghans still camped around the airfield hoping to catch a flight out of the city, chaotic scenes were captured in videos circulating online early Thursday morning local time, some purporting to show Taliban fighters firing smoke and stun grenades to disperse crowds gathered a short distance outside …
Read More »Major warehouse fire sends massive column of black smoke into skies over Istanbul (VIDEOS)
The warehouse, reportedly used to store household appliances, caught fire in the western Istanbul neighborhood of Esenyurt on Friday afternoon. The flames spread extremely rapidly, engulfing the building in mere minutes, local media reported, citing eyewitnesses. Footage from the scene shows a large column of thick black smoke emerging from …
Read More »VIDEO shows smoke rising over Houses of Parliament in London. Alarm heard, no confirmed emergency at present
The footage, posted to Twitter on Sunday, shows thick white smoke or steam seemingly rising from London’s Houses of Parliament. Some kind of alarm can be heard over the video. The London Fire Brigade has not acknowledged any emergency, and commenters on Twitter claimed the video showed steam, not smoke, …
Read More »Elon Musk, less eccentric icon more con artist, represents the entire smoke-and-mirrors game of the US financial market
Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk recently overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person, a feat that happened largely in the span of less than a year. However, Musk, the eccentric billionaire with a wannabe Tony Stark image, is highly misunderstood – just like the circumstances of …
Read More »Panic as Indonesian volcano erupts, sending ash & smoke into the air (VIDEO)
A video by RT’s Ruptly video agency has captured a massive four-kilometer-tall (13,123 feet) plume of ash and smoke coming out of the Lewotolo volcano on the Indonesian island of Lembata. The island is located some 2,600km east of the country’s capital, Jakarta. The sight also scared the locals, as …
Read More »Major fire breaks out in France’s Le Havre port, smoke visible kilometres away (VIDEOS)
The fire broke out on Saturday. According to France’s emergency services, the building is an old warehouse that is currently abandoned. Le Havre police said on Twitter that they had started to evacuate residential buildings in the vicinity of the warehouse, and advised the public to stay away from the …
Read More »Trump’s anti-war rhetoric is smoke and mirrors
Nearly two years ago, I asked Russian President Vladimir Putin at his annual press conference whether he thought that American troops would really withdraw from the Middle East – a promise on which Donald Trump had campaigned, winning the support of those of us non-neoconservatives who are against pointless war. …
Read More »Blaze with black smoke breaks out near Beirut harbor weeks after disastrous port blast (VIDEO)
The fire apparently began earlier on Thursday, with social media users flooding their pages with footage of flames rising up in the devastated port area. Some publications suggested that the bang was heard before the blaze. As locals wondered what could have caused the blaze, a Reuters source in the …
Read More »In Kharkov, in the city Council threw a smoke bomb
In the city riots before city Council session. The incident occurred before the start of the session. After that the mayor of Kharkov Gennady Kernes asked to close the door so the smoke came in. According Lens, on the second floor of city hall sprayed gas. To the city Council …
Read More »In Kiev, a few districts were enveloped in the mysterious smoke. Video
In Kiev in Solomenskiy Obolon district and formed a light smoke and smell of burning. In Solomenskiy district, near the registry office formed a strange “cloud”. In social networks Kiev, writes that “in captivity” also Povitroflotskyi Avenue. Especially a lot of smoke near the eponymous bridge. Some users assume that …
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