Month: January 2020

Key point: Russia’s ballistic missile submarines will be in somewhat better shape in 2030. In March 2017, Russia’s new Yasen-class nuclear attack submarine Kazan launched at the northern port city of Severodvinsk. Perhaps the quietest Russian submarine ever, the event was further evidence the Kremlin can still build capable and lethal subs capable of a variety…

California officials are searching for a car that drove off a cliff in California on Monday, as well as possible passengers inside the vehicle. The SUV was spotted by a witness driving off a cliff at Gray Whale Cove State Beach, about 18 miles south of San Francisco. A six-hour search for bodies was suspended…

Police searching for car seen in video driving off highway cliff in California originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Authorities in California are desperately searching for an SUV and its occupants after it was captured on video driving on a highway shoulder and then flying off a cliff. In the 170-second video released by the San Mateo…

Dramatic video captured by a motorist appears to show a vehicle plunging off of a cliff in California this week — but authorities have yet to find the SUV or the driver. In the video, a dark SUV can be seen speeding off of the road at a curve. Without slowing down, the vehicle then…

YouTube/3W-News A terrifying video shows Australia’s one of raging fires creating a tornado filled with fire. Filmed on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, the video shows the terrifying weather event, created as high winds combine with bushfires. A similar so-called “fire tornado” killed a volunteer firefighter in a different part of Australia on Monday. Kangaroo Island,…

RAMMB/CIRA/CSU; Business Insider Australian bushfires sparked in September have spread for months, leading to a state of emergency in many regions. As of the new year, the blazes have scorched more than 14 million acres of land, killed about half a billion animals, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. The blazes are so large…

Former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic escape from Japan prompts Interpol wanted alert originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Lebanon has received a wanted notice from Interpol over former Nissan and Renault executive Carlos Ghosn, who dramatically fled Japan this week ahead of his upcoming trial for charges of financial misconduct. Ghosn’s high-profile trial was set to…

FBI investigators claim former deputy director Andrew McCabe admitted to misleading them about his involvement in a media leak and subsequently apologized for the lie, according to newly released transcripts of McCabe’s interviews with investigators. The transcripts, released by the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office (OIG) — which found McCabe “lacked candor” with investigators…

Donald Trump says that Iran general Qassem Soleimani was “caught” as he was “plotting to kill” many Americans, after years of anti-US military actions that have left thousands “killed or badly wounded”. The president ordered the air strike on Soleimani, the leader of the elite Quds Force, on Friday morning, raising concerns of unrest and…

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday the attack that killed Iranian military leader Gen. Qasem Soleimani was in response to an “imminent attack.” “This was an intelligence-based assessment that drove this,” Pompeo told CNN. “He was actively planning in the region,” he said, adding the U.S. action “saved American lives.” Pompeo declined to…