Posted by
Nexus – 30/03/2010
[via cnn.com]
Relatives of victims of the subway blasts cry outside a morgue in Moscow where they arrived to identify a body
Moscow paused to mourn its dead Tuesday, a day after suicide bombers struck a pair of subway stations in a deadly rush-hour attack.
Flags across the city were lowered to half staff as hundreds of thousands of commuters returned to the transit system where the bombings had claimed dozens of casualties. Authorities said the attacks have killed at least 39 people — an increase of one since Monday — and wounded more than 60 others.
Posted by
Nexus – 19/03/2010
[via dailygalaxy.com]
Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living “time capsules” survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and without food and energy from the sun.
Lake Vostok is located beneath four kilometers of ice in East Antarctica. The lake is approximately 250 km long and 50 km wide. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleo-climatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for as long as 15 million years.
Posted by
Nexus – 14/03/2010
[via bbc.co.uk]
The Start treaty led to huge reductions in the Russian and US nuclear arsenals.
Russia and the US have both said it should soon be possible to conclude a new nuclear disarmament treaty.
Officials in Moscow and Washington said US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had a “good conversation” reviewing negotiations.
The two countries are trying to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired last December.
The US says it has more than 2,000 nuclear weapons, while Russia is believed to have nearly 3,000.
Posted by
Nexus – 13/03/2010
[via guardian.co.uk]
A 76-year-old retired Dutch maths teacher described yesterday how for more than 25 years he was feted by communist leaders around the world as the inspired head of a radical Marxist-Leninist party that never, in fact, existed.
As Chris Petersen, head of the supposedly 600-member Marxist-Leninist party of the Netherlands, Pieter Boevé travelled to Beijing more than two dozen times and met Mao Zedong. He was also welcomed with open arms in Albania by Enver Hoxha, and in the eastern bloc capitals of Europe.
Posted by
Nexus – 10/03/2010
[via bbc.co.uk]]
The incident happened on a major Moscow motorway
Russia has launched a criminal inquiry following claims that traffic police used civilian motorists as a “human shield” to stop suspected criminals.
Several drivers were reportedly ordered to use their cars to form a barrier on a major Moscow motorway last Friday.
A vehicle driven by the suspected robbers smashed through the blockade minutes later and kept going. No-one was hurt but several cars were damaged.
The traffic police commander in charge has already been sacked.
Posted by
Nexus – 27/02/2010
[via telegraph.co.uk]
At least 147 have been killed and nearly a quarter of the globe put on urgent tsunami alert after one of the most powerful earthquakes of modern times hit South America.
A tremor with a magnitude of 8.8 devastated large parts of southern Chile and sent huge waves racing at up to 400 miles an hour across the Pacific. Isolated ocean islands were reported to have suffered severe wave damage, and tsunami warnings were issued across a vast area stretching from Russia and Japan through to the Philippines and New Zealand.