A Chinese Z-10 attack helicopter has crashed in an area of Changsha in Hunan province just last week. After images in social media of the damaged aircraft began to circulate on the internet, the Chinese Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Z-10K attack helicopter crashed during a “routine training mission” on March 19. According to military sources, the Z-10 attack helicopter assigned to the army aviation brigade under the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force was on a routine training mission when it crashed on Friday. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Two pilots of the helicopter were pronounced dead. The Z-10 […]
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Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps By Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee. December 4, 2020 Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/mancamp-e1607089599886.jpg200px200px Above photo: Work camps like this one at the LNG project in Kitimat should be shut down to protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19 risks, say Wet’suwet’en chiefs. LNG Canada. Female chiefs say COVID-19 risk means work on oil and gas projects shouldn’t be classed as an essential service. Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation are calling on B.C.’s public health officer to shut down work camps operating on their territory as COVID-19 numbers rise in northern B.C. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080657747_0:183:3068:1908_1200x675_80_0_0_536d5d1433e7d0437213406c3d8371a6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010181080806176-thirteen-dead-over-100-injured-in-bomb-blast-in-afghanistans-ghor-province/ KABUL (Sputnik) – Thirteen people are dead and 102 others sustained injuries after a car bomb went off near the police headquarters in Afghanistan’s western province of Ghor on Sunday, the head of the central hospital said. The blast took place in the provincial capital of Firuzkoh. Along with the police headquarters, judiciary offices, women’s affairs department and a number of government agencies are located in the blast area. The hospital’s chief, Mohammad Omar Lalzad, said some of those injured were in critical condition. Breaking: At least 12 civilians were killed and more than […]
KABUL (Sputnik) – A car bomb has exploded at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province, a military spokesman said. The blast occurred in the province’s western Maiwand District on Saturday evening, a spokesman for the 205th Atal Corps in the south, Khwaja Yahya Alawi, said in a statement. According to Alawi, a vehicle loaded with explosives was intended to attack the ANA base but failed to reach the target as Afghan soldiers spotted it early and opened fire, leading to the vehicle exploding at around 8 pm local time on Saturday (16:00 GMT). The military spokesman […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009271080584013-over-dozen-people-reportedly-killed-in-van-accident-in-pakistans-sindh-province/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least 13 people were killed in a road accident involving a passenger van in Pakistan’s Sindh province, the Dawn newspaper reports. The accident occurred on Saturday night, when a passenger van carrying at least 20 people overturned and caught fire on the Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway, police told the newspaper. According to police, the seven survivors include the van driver and a child. Five people were taken to a hospital. Nooriabad Deputy Superintendent of Police Nazar Deeshak said, cited by the newspaper, that the van was on its way to Karachi from […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009111080425370-taliban-militants-attack-afghan-forces-in-nangarhar-province-at-least-16-killed-source-claims/ On Thursday, the Taliban confirmed that the opening ceremony of intra-Afghan peace talks will begin on Saturday, following a peace greement between the Taliban and the United States Taliban militants attacked the security forces of Afghanistan in eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving at least 16 soldiers killed and more injured, a local source told Sputnik on Friday. The militants targeted checkpoints of the Afghan army and police in the Gandumak area of Nangarhar’s Khogyani district, the source continued. The described attack comes amid the approaching first round of intra-Afghan peace talks between the Taliban […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107814/76/1078147686_0:-1:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_3ed89cd9fb123fd008b38a3e51bc51f9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009041080368937-shooting-in-canadian-province-of-ontario-leaves-5-dead/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – A shooting at a home in the Canadian city of Oshawa left five individuals dead, Ontario’s Durham Regional Police said in a statement on Friday. “On Friday, September 4, 2020, at approximately 1:20 a.m. [5:20 a.m. GMT], officers responded to a residence on Parklane Avenue in Oshawa after numerous reports of gunshots. Members of the Tactical Support Unit arrived quickly and entered the residence to find five deceased people inside and one adult female who was alive but suffering from a gunshot wound”, the statement said. The suspect died at the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106759/27/1067592722_0:128:3000:1815_1200x675_80_0_0_53602a5ffb625cbd2acda47df0c22e0c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202008291080313531-five-people-killed-as-hotel-collapses-in-chinas-shanxi-province-reports-suggest/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least five people have been killed and one more was wounded, as a hotel collapsed in China’s northern Shanxi province, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Saturday, adding that over 700 people are participating in search and rescue operations. The two-story building located in the province’s Linfen urban district collapsed at about 9:40 a. m. local time on Saturday (01:40 GMT). Reasons behind the incident are being investigated. According to the preliminary data, 33 out of 37 people trapped under the rubble were got out, according to the media. Those […]
Heavy rain has battered the northeastern Turkish province of Giresun and caused a flash flood overnight. The disaster has claimed at least four lives while almost a dozen people remain missing. One security officer and three civilians have been confirmed killed, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a Sunday morning update. Eleven people were reported missing. The flood hit the mountainous coastal province early on Sunday morning after a downpour in the central part of Giresun. Water levels rapidly roze by at least one meter, flooding some areas and causing landslides. Başta Dereli olmak üzere selden etkilenen tüm vatandaşlarımıza geçmiş […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105764/69/1057646924_0:87:2000:1212_1200x675_80_0_0_b5d8f54e5f8349de498ada451dc5ac30.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006281079742611-nine-taliban-militants-killed-during-clashes-in-afghan-province-of-paktia/ KABUL (Sputnik) – Nine Taliban* militants have been killed and five others were wounded during armed clashes in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, Hayatullah Nizami Ahmadzai, a spokesman for the provincial police force, said on Sunday. According to the spokesman, the clashes took place after militants launched an attack on a checkpoint in the Patan district of the province. No Afghan soldiers were killed or injured during the incident, the spokesman said. The Taliban has yet to make any comment on the attack. Earlier on Sunday, one police officer and 12 Taliban militants […]
KABUL (Sputnik) – At least five members of the Taliban group have been killed in a blast in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Paktia, the local police said on Sunday. According to a provincial police chief, the explosion took place while the militants were transferring landmines from the Bar Ghoreza area to the city of Gardez. A security source said on the condition of anonymity that in a separate incident last night, a checkpoint in the southern city of Tirin Kot, the capital of the Uruzgan province, was attacked by Taliban militants. The attack left a deputy commander of battalion killed and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104723/77/1047237730_0:150:3109:1898_1200x675_80_0_0_8545b5df28469de852cd97ab55fa0e16.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006241079705301-syrian-military-accuses-israeli-forces-of-attacking-army-positions-in-hama-province/ BEIRUT (Sputnik) – Israeli air forces have attacked the positions of the Syrian armed forces in two cities in Hama province and the country’s air defence systems repelled the attacks, the command of the Syrian armed forces said on Wednesday. “At 00:45 a.m. [21:45 GMT on Tuesday], Israel carried out a new act of aggression from the air, attacking several of our facilities in Salamiyah and Sabburah in the province of Hama,” the statement said. According to the Syrian military, the country’s air defence systems downed a big number of Israeli rockets that brought […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/30/1079703029_10:0:1368:764_1200x675_80_0_0_1e6d380f674486176323dcdb3b184c04.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006241079702893-videos-of-alleged-aftermath-of-airstrikes-in-syrian-hama-province-emerge-on-social-media/ Syrian air defences on Tuesday night repelled enemy attacks in Hama’s airspace and managed to hit a few targets, local media reported. Several locations in Salamiyah and Saburah, the Syrian province of Hama, have been targeted by Israel, according to SANA, citing a military source. The air defences managed to shoot down a large number of “hostile targets”, it added, with limited material damage. Alleged footage from the scene circulating on social media shows massive explosions that supposedly followed the strikes. This was the third violation of the Syrian airspace recently, occurring just hours after air […]
A new route has been charted on the map of patrols conducted by Russian and Turkish service personnel in Syria, according to Aleksandr Shcherbitsky, chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria. “For the first time, a joint Russian-Turkish patrol reached the village of Jennakra in Idlib province, with an itinerary of 40 kilometers,” he said. “Two BTR-82A armored personnel carriers and a Tigr armored vehicle took part in the joint patrol from the Russian side,” TASS quoted him as saying. He said that, on Wednesday, the 16th joint Russian-Turkish mission had patrolled the area along […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105620/80/1056208094_0:270:5184:3186_1200x675_80_0_0_fe9ebd7517d233a91516d795ab4d2834.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006081079559174-2-killed-8-more-wounded-in-terrorist-attack-in-turkeys-van-province—governor/ According to media reports, the attack was conducted by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which the Turkish authorities have designated as a terrorist group. At least two workers have been killed and eight more have been wounded in a terrorist attack in Catak, Van province, Governor Mehmet Emin Bilmez said on late Monday. According to the authorities, criminals targeted a civil service vehicle with handmade explosives at around 6 pm local time. Bilmez visited those injured in the hospital and confirmed that their lives are not in danger. Hain terör örgütü Çatak’ta bölge […]
Middle East 04:04 GMT 14.05.2020(updated 04:08 GMT 14.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107725/16/1077251688_0:106:2499:1511_1200x675_80_0_0_d0969f8cac8bdd46019c7fe0304e6d95.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005141079298269-yemeni-southern-separatists-seize-control-over-several-positions-in-abyan-province–source/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – The forces of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) have established control over several positions in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, a Yemeni military source said on Thursday. A source said that the STC had attacked the government troops and seized their positions east of the town of Zinjibar. The clash has left six people dead and 15 more injured. On Wednesday, the Yemeni government called on the STC to stick to the Riyadh deal. In late April, the STC […]