Yekaterina Aksenova, Mr Pichugin’s ex-wife, told Russian media that he had been a portly 100kg (220 pounds) when he set off on his fishing trip but by the time he was rescued, he had lost half his body weight. She said that Mr Pichugin’s belly may have saved him. “It’s a kind of miracle,” she…
Hark, an email arrives from Renault’s UK spin doctor. I’d asked a simple question of Vittorio D’Arienzo, product head of Renault’s AmpR division responsible for the new R5, R4 and Twingo, plus other as yet unnamed small EVs. “Will you make the same mistake again and not make the Twingo in right-hand drive?” You’ll recall…
When Vem Miller was stopped, police said they discovered his black SUV was unregistered and his loaded firearms unknown to the state. There were also a fake passports, identity documents and press credentials. Chad Bianco, the Riverside County Sheriff, said the finds were typical of a “sovereign citizen” — someone who does not believe in…
US policymakers were concerned by Iran’s ability on Oct 1 to break through the Iron Dome, Israel’s primary defence against missile attacks, by launching 180 ballistic missiles at the same time. A THAAD battery is operated from the ground, and uses radar detectors to identify an incoming ballistic missile, before launching a projectile to neutralise…
Rybar, a Russian military Telegram channel, said that Russian forces were producing tangible results in several sectors. A video posted on Russian Telegram channels under the title “Announcement from the 155th Guards Brigade of the Pacific Fleet” showed badly injured Ukrainian soldiers with blood running down their faces tied to chairs in what appears to…
Viktor Bout, the arms dealer who was sent back to Russia in a prisoner swap agreed by Joe Biden, is now reportedly supplying weapons to the Houthis. Bout, dubbed “the merchant of death”, is trying to broker the sale of arms to the Iran-backed group, which is attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea and…
The Golden Age of exploration is long gone – or so we tend to think. All that’s left to investigate on our long-suffering planet are the murky depths of our oceans – and perhaps a few scraps of jungle. In this, the era of the sat nav and Google – when everything is accessible at…
“When everybody was saying that the Democrats, Hilary Clinton, was going to win, the index suggested otherwise,” Zoe Liu Zongyuan, of the US-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said. “It’s not the Chinese who are buying this stuff, it’s the Americans, the delegations, the rallies, those people, who buy it. Could that be an…
Chancay is typical of the “first civilian, later military” logic of hundreds of Belt and Road projects around the world, according to the Asia Pacific Policy Institute, a US think tank. “It’s an effort to be subtle and discreet while expanding the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to project power overseas,” Danny Russel, the institute’s vice…
A Russian missile touted as the “world’s deadliest weapon” failed to launch for the fourth time on Saturday, exploding as it was being refuelled at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome 500 miles north of Moscow. Satellite images showed that the nuclear-capable Sarmat RS-28 missile, nicknamed “Satan-2”, left a crater on the launchpad, with damage visible to surrounding…