37 h. ago Russian bus passengers ordered to rush to bomb shelters over 'imminent nuclear strike'

A video going viral on Russian social media shows a woman passenger as she heard the warning today on the intercom of bus 191 to Grachevskaya station in the Russian capital

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38 h. ago Moscow bus passengers told to rush to bomb shelters as nuclear warning played

Terrified Russian bus passengers were played a message warning of an imminent nuclear strike by pranksters. The incident in Moscow saw people on a bus ordered to run to a bomb shelter

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48 h. ago Huge 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of packed island

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian region of Papua on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said there was no tsunami threat

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4 d. ago As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold warNuclear weapons – their lethal menace, dark history and future spread – are back in the headlines again and, as usual, the news is worrying, bordering on desperate. Russia’s decision last week to formally abandon the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banning medium- and short-range nuclear missiles completes the demolition of a key pillar of global arms control. It will accelerate an already frantic nuclear arms race in Europe and Asia at a moment when US and Russian leaders are taunting each other like schoolboys.Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, has repeatedly threatened the west with nuclear weapons during his war in Ukraine. Last November, Russian forces fired their new Oreshnik hypersonic, nuclear-capable intermediate-range missile at Dnipro. It travels “like a meteorite” at 10 times the speed of sound and can reach...

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7 d. ago Earthquake strikes just miles from US volcano that's set to erupt

Reports of shaking near a US volcano set to erupt are flooding in after an earthquake struck the area. No injuries or damages have been reported yet.

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8 d. ago Russia nuclear submarine base damaged after earthquake – report

Satellite images show damage to floating pier at Rybachiy base after last week’s 8.8-magnitude earthquakeA nuclear submarine base in Russia’s remote far east region was damaged last week after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the area in decades, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing satellite images.Photos captured by Planet Labs, a commercial satellite imaging firm, show damage to a floating pier at the Rybachiy submarine base on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Huge 8.8 magnitude earthquake 'damages Russian nuclear sub base'

The Rybachiy base, which hosts nuclear-powered submarines from Russia’s Pacific Fleet, is around 80 miles from where the powerful earthquake that struck last week

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9 d. ago Russia warns US 'be very careful' in chilling response to Trump's nuclear move

Donald Trump last week ordered the 'repositioning' of US nuclear submarines in response to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's 'highly provocative' social media comments

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1 week ago US nuclear submarines 'closing in' on Russia: Trump warns 'I want to be ready' as he ramps up tension in chilling war of words with former Russian president

Donald Trump ordered the submarines, packed with nuclear warheads, towards Russian waters after an online spat with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

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4 w. ago Tsunami alert as huge 7.2 magnitude quake hits off Alaska coast

A tsunami warning has been issued for Alaska after a 7.2 magnitude tremor struck at a depth of 22 miles rocked the Pacific and sparked a massive alert for the US state.

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