shows a considerable part of the building being destroyed in the blast . A police dog helped to find a cache with more than a kilogram of explosives of unknown origin . A bomb - disposal expert said extracting the explosives would be definitely unsafe and bomb technicians rolled in a water cannon , a source within Russia ’s Federal Security Service ( FSB ) told RT .
A suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others in a popular tourist area . Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man takes a photograph near the site of the explosion in Istanbul 's historic Sultanahmet district . Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosiondisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionin Istanbul Turkish police cordon off a street in Istanbul . Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man looks at the Blue Mosque near the site of the blast in Istanbul . Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul Police investigate the scene .
Reporter for Ukrainian Pravda and critic of leaders in Ukraine , Belarus and Russia was driving to work when car exploded A car bomb in Kiev has killed Pavel Sheremet , a pioneering journalist and outspoken critic of leaders in Belarus , Russia and Ukraine . Security camera footage showed the car had entered an intersection when an explosiondisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionripped through it from underneath . Passersby ran to pull Sheremet out of the vehicle , which later caught on fire . Sheremet had been on his way to host his morning radio show .
A screenshot from a video allegedly showing a loitering munition being used to kill Armenian " volunteers " recently . ( YouTube / AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES Qarabag ) Azerbaijan may be using a new kind of Israeli drone that explodesdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionon impact in its ongoing conflict with Armenia . The Washington Post unearthed a video that appears to show an Israeli - made “ loitering munition ” fired by Azerbaijani forces at Armenians in the disputed region Nagorno - Karabakh . A loitering munition is a drone with a missile attached to it .
Accepting international disaster assistance would not set a precedent and has happened in the past , but Babcock did n’t provide examples . Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Canadian authorities have a handle on the crisis and what ’s truly needed is a break in the weather . “ The decision was made by the firefighters in the emergency management system that ( foreign help ) was n’t necessary because of the nature of this blazedisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion, ” Goodale said following question period . “ This beast is so big the only thing that will fix it is rain . ” READ MORE : ‘ Ocean of fire’ destroys 2,400 structures but 85 % of Fort McMurray still stands
OTTAWA – The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and fire fighting specialists to battle the growing infernodisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionaround Fort McMurray , Alta . The proposal was made late last week by Vladimir Puchkov , the Russian minister of emergency measures . A spokesman for Russia ’s embassy in Ottawa , Kirill Kalinin , said Sunday that they continue to stand “ ready to help our Canadian partners to fight the ongoing wildfires in Alberta . ”
Scientists fear asteroids , killer robots and deadly diseases could wipe out humanity This is the disarmingly named bomb which was devised during the Manhattan Project and then dropped on Hiroshima . It explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionwith the force of 15 kilotons of TNT , wiping out much of the Japanese city . The bomb worked by firing a " slug " of highly - refined uranium into a larger lump of the same element , causing a nuclear blast . When it exploded in the sky over Hiroshima , it destroyed more or less everything within a radius of a mile of the point of detonation .
Hakan Fidan , head of Turkey ’s National Intelligence Organisation ( MIT ) But according to Ahmet Yayla , Fidan was a prime suspect in a series of terrorism attacks in the 1990s — when Yayla worked as a police officer in Ankara . The attacks involved targeted assassinations of leftwing Turkish intellectuals affiliated with the newspaper Cumhuriyet , in the form of car bombings and explodingdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionparcels . The victims included journalist Ugur Mumtu , women ’s rights activist Bahriye Ucok , and intellectual Ahmet Taner Kislali . Police operations traced the perpetrators of the attacks to a terrorist cell run by the Turkish Hizbollah ( TH ) .
WASHINGTON , April 20 ( Yonhap ) -- North Korea 's failed launch of its Musudan intermediate - range ballistic missile last week sparked a huge fireball that damaged the launcher and could have also injured or killed missile technicians on the ground , a news report said Wednesday . The missile blew up about 300 feet above the ground , shortly after Friday 's launch , and U.S. strategic defense surveillance systems , both airborne and space - based , videotaped the explosion , the Washington Free Beacon reported , citing U.S. defense officials . Two road - mobile Musudan launchers were set up for the test , but the second was not fired after the explosiondisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion, the report said . It also cited a diplomatic source as saying that the likely cause of the explosion was a faulty fuel system or turbo pump failure . The Musudan intermediate - range ballistic missile is an indigenous variant of the Russian SS - N-6 submarine - launched ballistic missile , known by Moscow as the R-27 , which the North obtained covertly from Russia sometime in the 1990s , the report said .
" As a result of the shelling there are a lot of dead and wounded among rebels and locals . " Russia also said Damascus was shelled six times Saturday , adding that the attack came from territory controlled by moderate rebels including Eastern Ghouta , east of the capital . " All in all , 20 mine and missile explosionsdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionhave been recorded , " Moscow said , adding two civilians were killed and eight wounded . " At the request of the Russian centre for reconciliation , Syrian government troops did not open return fire , " the ministry said . Moscow said its coordination centre had also received a US list of 69 armed groups who had confirmed their willingness to observe the ceasefire .
PHOTOS : Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath The event itself is notable because it is the largest atmospheric impact recorded since the famous Chelyabinsk bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013 , causing widespread structural damage and injuries to the city with a population of 1 million . This recent Feb. 6 event unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT explodingdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosioninstantaneously ( a.k.a . a " 13 kiloton " explosion ) ; the Chelyabinsk impact ripped through the Ural Mountain skies with a whopping energy of 440 kilotons . Initially noticed by NASA 's Ron Baalke and then investigated by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait , it quickly became clear that the high - altitude impact was likely caused by a chunk of space rock approximately 5 - 7 meters ( 16 - 23 ft ) wide .
Email The video , shot by civilians in Daraya between 2014 and late February 2016 , includes footage that has never before been made public . It shows scenes of Syrian government forces’ barrel bombs falling and explodingdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosioninside the city , interspersed with civilians – including children and the elderly – describing the sheer terror of living under such relentless attacks in a city under siege . “ They want to kill me , ” a bespectacled young girl with curly hair says when asked about the bombs . In another harrowing scene , an injured young boy lies alongside the corpse of his brother who was killed in a barrel bomb attack , weeping and begging : “ My brother , please do n’t leave me . ”