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A BOMB BLAST tore through a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd on this morning, killing at least 10 people a day after a suicide bombing that killed at 17 at the city’s main railway station.
The explosions put the city on edge and highlighted the terrorist threat that Russia is facing as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics in February. Volgograd is about 650 kilometers northeast of Sochi, where the Olympics are to be held.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the bus explosion came from a bomb that most likely had been placed in the vehicle’s passenger area, but there were no further details. The Emergencies Ministry said at least 10 people were killed and news reports said anywhere from 15 to two dozen people were hospitalized.
The explosion ripped away much of the bus’s exterior and broke windows in nearby buildings.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either explosion, which came several months after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov called for new attacks against civilian targets in Russia, including the Sochi Games.
Suicide bombings have rocked Russia for years, but most have been in the North Caucasus region, the center of an insurgency seeking an Islamist state in the region. But Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, has been struck three times in two months — suggesting militants may be using the transportation hub as a renewed way of showing their reach outside their restive region.
A suicide bus bombing in Volgograd in October killed six people. On Friday, three people were killed when an explosives-rigged car blew up in the city of Pyatigorsk, the center of a federal administrative district created to oversee Kremlin efforts to stabilize the North Caucasus region.
In the railroad station blast, the bomber detonated explosives in front of a metal detector just beyond the station’s main entrance when a police sergeant became suspicious and rushed forward to check ID, officials said. The officer was killed by the blast, and several other policemen were wounded.
Following Sunday’s explosion, the Interior Ministry ordered police to beef up patrols at railway stations and other transport facilities across Russia.
Russia in past years has seen a series of terror attacks on buses, trains and airplanes, some carried out by suicide bombers.
Twin bombings on the Moscow subway in March 2010 by female suicide bombers killed 40 people and wounded more than 120. In January 2011, a male suicide bomber struck Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people and injuring more than 180.
Umarov, who had claimed responsibility for the 2010 and 2011 bombings, ordered a halt to attacks on civilian targets during the mass street protests against President Vladimir Putin in the winter of 2011-12. He reversed that order in July, urging his men to “do their utmost to derail” the Sochi Olympics which he described as “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors.”
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They are renegotiating entry back into the EU bit by bit. Perhaps now they realise Brexit was the biggest disaster ever
@Dave Phelan: hardly, they are reaping the benefits now without the Brussels control. Full control of their waters and territories. Brexit a great success
@Basildon Joe: the most hilarious comment ever. Brexit was the single biggest disaster ever. Try talking to the sheep farmers of UK . Agricultural payments gone and the U.K. government’s promised to continue the subsidies never materialised. Erasmus students opportunities gone, travel restrictions in EU, holiday and retirement plans in France and Spain in tatters. Give me a break!
@Dave Phelan: it’s all coming back to them now, uk far too powerful to be left in the cold
@Basildon Joe: what a deluded reply
@Dave Phelan: From Mr BasedOnA Joke lol
@Dave Phelan: why are you responding to troll!
@Basildon Joe: they just conceded on fisheries – where are these fish?
@You Cant Be Serious: prime cod and haddock, the envy of the world!!! BREXIT MEANS BREXIT AND WE HAVE WON!!!!
@Basildon Joe: WON WHAT ?
@Dave Phelan: ye but it looks like they’re regaining everything you just mentioned in this new deal. Access to everything in Europe while able to do business with other countries without the constraints of Brussels. Sounds like a great deal for the Brits
@Basildon Joe:they just signed a deal that means the EU fleet can fish UK waters for the next 12 years , Brexit was a complete disaster
@Basildon Joe: you know you have lost the argument when you go FULL CAPS :)
@Basildon Joe: full control of their waters? Really?
@Basildon Joe: Delusional.
@Basildon Joe: Utter nonsense, as usual. Going against comments just for the sake of if, a laughing stock at this stage.
@Dave Phelan: I spend a lot of time in the UK with work . I don’t see it as being a huge issue now . Their economy is fastest growing in the G7, inflation is low , unemployment is low , inward investment is encouraging and they’re not subject to foreign diktat like us .
@Basildon Joe: Babbling Joe. Ho ho ho.
Sir Kid Starver. That’s his legacy.
Following the example of the Irish government that ignored the results of the Nice and Lisbon treaties and carried on regardless. Shows up how much much hatred the political establishment has towards its fellow citizens until the political class gets the results they want to see.
@Ailbhe MacThomais: you must have missed the bit where both treaties were renegotiated and we voted on the revised ones.
@Ailbhe MacThomais: The government did not carry on regardless. They held new Referendums and campaigned harder. Moreover, and this is key, the State obtained protocols to remove any doubts regarding concerns raised by the NO side. There was ample of evidence that people hadn’t a clue as to what was in the Treaties. Discussion forums, polls etc etc .
If the people were so certain , why didn’t they vote no again? I did for all 4 referendums related to these two Treaties
Idiots used important referendums as a protest vote for the government of the day . Not what Referendums are for.
With ignorance that you uttered, would not blame the “establishment” for having such “hatred”
No news on Kier Starmers houses being targeted by a Ukrainian rent boy arsonist?
@Dave Grant: There was. More than one article. How many do you need?
Pity. It was fun watching UK passport holders queueing up at European passport control. They were never happy
@TEc1XNcQ: eh no.. my EU passport meant I hardly queue at all.. the non EU queue always backed up, UK folk included..
@ian: but made the news because it was rare . I flew in and out of Greece last year . I sailed through , wife ( uk passport ) …… took the same amount of time as I did .
Booo!!!!! Make them queue
That Mike Gaine case is appalling. RIP. Should be extra sentence for human remains desecration. Grim stuff using a slurry tank.
@Kylie More-Rode – Ballyer Drag Queen: very grim. Awful stuff, May he RIP
Over the three years that Nigel Farage was a member of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee, he attended just one out of 42 meetings. That’s how much he cares.
And Irish fishing vessels loose out again with no increase in access or quotas.
Which is totally different from other EU countries given our geographical location.
Our fishing is always neglected by the EU and Irish governments.
@Tom:
Let you in on a brutal secret Tom.
Fishing employs 0.5% (15,000 of almost 3 million) of Irish workers at the moment, which is much the same percentage as was in 1973 when we entered the EU, 6,000 of 1 million.
In the UK the figure is way lower, doesn’t even make 0.1%.
When all the nationalist claptrap gets out of the way reality dawns.
Fishing is utterly irrelevant to both the Irish and the UK economy.
Not nice for the people involved nonetheless.
I voted against brexit , but to say it as been a disaster for Britain is not quite right . The mass jobs exit from london never happened, at most 7 thousand jobs were lost, out of half a million. British unemployment has remained lower than many e.u countries . Companies like Siemens that threatened to cut jobs in u.k.( they employ 14 thousand in u.k.) have in fact substantially increased u.k. investment, £ 500 million on a wind turbine factory in hull, £ 250 million on a train factory in Google, and resently announced £ 300 million on a new m.r.i factory . Look at London Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester where property development is booming( property in Germany has collapsed by 30 percent in value , and construction has slumped , ) london is still Europes biggest construction market . yes any economist can find figures that prove the negative effects of brexit , but the reality is Britain didn’t collapse, economically or socially , much to the disappointment of the journal’s journalists and many of the republics citizens.
@Neil Brooks: And the bins ?
@Neil Brooks: London is just a bank, England had everything till Maggie Thacker got rid of everything, and turned London in to a bank for the rich, British great company’s she rid and end up buying coal from bloody Poland, she was a dastar
@Terence Maxwell: They did not have everything. They had an industrial base that had very little innovation or modernisation since the 50s and paid the price. The UKs steel, ship building, Aviation and car industries (production as opposed to assembly) were on life support or gone before Thatcher got there just to name a few.
Take your example of the coal industry. By 1975 the UK coal industry employed 250.000 people down from 1.2m.in the 20s. It wasn’t Thatcher that did this. It was North Sea gas, the demise of Steam Trains and de-industrialisation.
She made poor choices but the writing was already on the wall for a lot of industries.
@Neil Brooks: Ah Neil, don’t tell the truth whatever you do.
Half the experts on here will be devastated.
The same expert’s who don’t realise how much we in Ireland depend on the UK.
Keyboard Warriors with no real life experience.
What happened to brits out?
Starmer is a clown.
@Fergus O’Donnell: well done sonny boy…. deep, insightful thought provoking comment there
@Mary Linton: thanks Mary. Miss insightful herself…
@Fergus O’Donnell: Miss contradictory more like.
@James Leahy: oh don’t I know. Full of it.
Why they didn’t want to be part of it. Feck them
The British will be back in the EU trying to lord it again in no time.
Why can’t they suffer for longer
The main photo is like they are in Coppers….slip the tongue in Keir and see what other benefits you might get.
Fish landed at Killybegs are presumably part of the EU and UK horse trading. The French and other continentals enjoy horse meat too I gather.
@Garreth Byrne: horse mackerel !!!!
@Phillip Smyth: lol
Whether you like Stamer or no. He sure does put his country first & drives a hard bargain to get deals over the line in the UK’s best interests. The US , India & now the EU …… a very capable poliician
@Mary Linton: And a very good friend to Ireland as well. However he is not very popular at home, so how long he will last is anyone’s guess?
@Mary Linton: the American deal for chlorine washed meat and levels of rodent droppings in grains . EU do not accept these standards. Great deals indeed
@Mary Linton: locking people up for Facebook posts ??
Ya I can see your point alright !!!!!!
@Mary Linton: He will not serve a full term, he is not even liked in the Liebore party. Reform will reverse all his meddling. They are the future Government.
@John doe: Boris was the clown.
Nigel won’t like this and he’ll bite until Brexit vote is respected and he’ll still continue to draw his EU pension for being a failed misleading MEP
@Tommy: There’s no rule about Brexit that precludes the UK government from doing trade deals with the EU.
This is a disaster for Irish fishermen letting them back in it’s a joke, and all the trouble with the border, this is a cop out, and Brexit now means they can come through certain e gates at airports,the Irish government have welched on the deal to the Irish people and succumbed to EU pressure, swallowers numpties.
@Phillip Smyth: 12 years in our waters get them out, not back in.
Keep Starmer out, refuses to call Israel’s holocaust genocide .
No matter what Starmer does, he’ll never please the Daily Heil brigade and their nonsense.
He could bring back public floggings for miscreants and they’d find something wrong with it
That poisonous woman Van der Leyen is totally devoid of human emotion. Rushed to Israel on 7th Oct which was totally understandable but hasn’t uttered a word since on Israels barbaric response. Russia bad, Israel good. Hypocrisy at its best. Free Palestine, whatever it takes to do it.
There’s always a third option, a hybrid option.
No idea why they make you go through the non-EU ones as it should make no odds, they all connect to and check the same database.
That’s some photo… Starmer and Ursula should get a room
Now they want back in after the passport and airport problems along with the taxes for traveling to eu
Nooooooooo !!
@Ray Buckley: Yeeessss!!
Nothing about importation taxes from UK.. ill hold off on the new car for now..
Any chance we could go back to the good old days when Ireland , England , Scotland and wales was the world global super power and we owned a quarter of the world . If the British empire existed today the four nations of the UK would be richer than the US . We own oil rich countries like Iraq , Qatar , Brunei . Today most people can’t afford to put fuel in their cars . How far we have falling over the last 100 plus yrs .
Totally undemocratic action by two-tier Keir hardly surprising though given how much disrespect the Labour have for its citizens!
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