They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear Security Administration. A half-dozen staff members left a unit in the agency that builds reactors for nuclear submarines. And a biochemist and engineer…
At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets, and drones, causing damage to eight multi-storey buildings and 30 vehicles, according to the…
Traffic ground to a halt at one of France’s busiest train stations on Friday after an unexploded World War II bomb weighing more than 1,000 pounds was uncovered just north of Paris, the authorities said. The bomb was discovered in the Saint-Denis suburb during overnight work on tracks that lead into the Gare du Nord,…
A South Korean village near the North Korean border was mistakenly shelled on Thursday by two fighter jets from the South’s own air force, leaving seven people injured and damaging homes and a church. The jets were taking part in a joint exercise with the United States military when each of them dropped four bombs,…
NEW DELHI: American Airlines New York JFK-Delhi nonstop (AA 292) diverted to Rome following a bomb threat for the flight. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner had taken off from JFK on Saturday (Feb 22) 8.14 pm and was over the Caspian Sea when it turned back towards Europe.In a statement, the airline said, “AA 292, operating…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: The court of an additional sessions judge in Nanded on Saturday acquitted nine accused in the 2006 bomb blast in a house at Patbandhare Nagar in Nanded that killed two people and left four injured.Two of the total 12 accused in the case died in the blast that occurred during the night intervening…
A harrowing chapter in American history remains shrouded in mystery: Who planted pipe bombs outside offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington on the eve of the attack on the Capitol? Hoping to generate new tips from the public, the FBI is releasing more information about its pipe bomb investigation, including an…
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a plot by Ukraine to kill a high-ranking Russian officer and a pro-Russian war blogger with a bomb hidden in a portable music speaker. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that a Russian citizen had established contact with an officer…
The year 2024 was no stranger to bomb threats, but what shocked many was the alarming number of threats targeting schools. This year saw several incidents where not just one or two but dozens of schools received bomb threats simultaneously. Although all these threats turned out to be hoaxes, they left students, parents, teachers, and…
School bomb threats in 2024: The exam season is no stranger to desperate measures, but 2024 saw an unprecedented turn when students weaponised hoax bomb threats to dodge tests. In a year already marked by numerous bomb scare incidents across India, the revelation that some of these threats were orchestrated by students to postpone exams…