DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Fire at Russian Private Shelter Kills 22
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russian firefighters at the scene in Kemerovo, Siberia, on Saturday. MOSCOW—A fire Saturday at a private shelter in the Siberian city of Kemerovo that was operating illegally killed 22 people, Russian officials said. Initial reports described the wooden building in the city 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow as a nursing home, but the country’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, later said it was a “temporary residence for persons in a difficult life situation.”

☆ Fire guts second Moscow region shopping centre in four days
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BALASHIKHA, Russia, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A shopping centre in the Moscow region was damaged in a major fire on Monday, emergency services said, the second such blaze in less than a week. Pictures published on Telegram by Russia's emergencies ministry showed that the fire at a construction supplies hypermarket in Balashikha, a satellite town of 500,000 people on the outskirts of the Russian capital, had caused part of the roof to collapse, with smoke billowing into the air. The ministry said the fire had grown to 9,000 sq m (100,000 sq feet) before being brought under control. The Investigative Committee, which is responsible for serious crimes, said it had opened an investigation. On Friday, a fire at a large shopping centre in the Moscow suburb of Khimki killed one person and consumed an area of 7,000 sq m.Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin LiffeyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Fire rages through shopping mall in Moscow suburbs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Fire engulfed one of the largest shopping malls near Moscow early on Friday, emergency services said, leading to the collapse of part of the structure, which complicated firefighters' efforts to douse the flames. The conflagration spread over an area of about 7,000 sq m (75,000 sq ft) in the Mega shopping centre in Khimki near the Russian capital, authorities said. Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it was looking into the cause of the fire. The head of the Moscow region's emergency services agency said it appeared the blaze was the result of safety regulations being violated during repair work on the building. Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Maxim Rodionov; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Raissa KasolowskyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Democratic lawmakers accuse big oil companies of 'greenwashing'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A pair of Democratic lawmakers on Friday accused the largest oil companies in the United States of "greenwashing" their public image and not doing enough to decarbonize fast enough to meet climate change targets. These efforts are particularly offensive, Maloney and Khanna said, because of the amount of money the biggest oil companies are making right now. Burning natural gas produces about 117 pounds of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units (a measure of heat). That's compared with 200 pounds for coal and 160 pounds for fuel oil. Equally critically, the production of natural gas results in leaks of methane all throughout the production process and methane is a greenhouse gas, too.

[1/2] The headquarters of Wirecard AG in Aschheim near Munich, Germany, September 22, 2020. REUTERS/Michael DalderMUNICH/BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Former Wirecard executives go on trial on Thursday, two years after the collapse of the payments company that produced Germany's biggest post-war fraud scandal and sent shockwaves through the country's political and financial establishment. Wirecard, which started out processing payments for pornography and online gambling, rose to be worth $28 billion and displaced Commerzbank (CBKG.DE) in Germany's DAX blue-chip index. But in June 2020, Wirecard was forced to admit that 1.9 billion euros were missing from its balance sheet. In the ructions that followed Wirecard's demise, the head of German financial regulator BaFin resigned and the head of Germany's accounting watchdog also stepped down.

☆ Texas mom sues police, gunmaker in Uvalde school shooting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Eliahna Torres, 10, was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The settlement came after the victims successfully argued that suing over marketing under state law was an exception to the federal immunity measure. Everytown is also part of a similar lawsuit after a shooting attack on parade-goers in Highland Park, Illinois, based on a state law. Another parent whose child was wounded in the shooting and two parents whose children were on campus at the time filed the first suit related to the Uvalde shooting in late September.

☆ Russia accuses Ukraine of executing more than 10 POWs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that Ukraine had executed more than 10 Russian prisoners of war, accusing Kyiv of carrying out war crimes that Moscow said the West ignores. The ministry cited video circulating on Russian social media which it said showed the execution of Russian prisoners of war. "This brutal murder of Russian servicemen is neither the first, nor the only war crime," the defence ministry said. Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of war crimes, claims that Russia has denied. The Russian defence ministry said the video showed "the deliberate and methodical murder of more than 10 immobilised Russian serviceman by degenerate Ukrainian soldiers."

☆ Russian TV presenter says sorry but faces probe for call to drown Ukrainian children
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 24 (Reuters) - A Russian TV presenter apologised on Monday for calling for Ukrainian children to be drowned, as Russia's state Investigative Committee said it was probing his remarks. In a show last week on state-controlled broadcaster RT, presenter Anton Krasovsky said Ukrainian children who saw Russians as occupiers under the Soviet Union should have been "thrown straight into a river with a strong current" and drowned. Ukraine said on Sunday that RT was an inciter of genocide and should be banned worldwide. Krasovsky is a pro-war commentator on Russian television who has been sanctioned by the European Union. In last week's show, he also talked about shoving children into huts and burning them, and joked about the rape of Ukrainian women.

☆ Russian state TV host under investigation after he said Ukrainian children should be drowned and burned in their 'monstrous little houses'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia Today host Anton Krasovsky was suspended after calling for Ukrainian children to be killed. Krasovsky aimed his comments at Ukrainian children who saw the Soviet Union as occupiers in the 1980s. Krasovsky replied: "Just drown those children, drown them," before going on to describe Ukrainians as having "piece of shit little houses." "There are masses of awful, monstrous little houses, they shit all over the Carpathian Mountains," he went on. "God, those grannies would spend their burial savings to get raped by Russian soldiers," he added.

☆ Russian fighter jet crashes into Siberian home, two pilots killed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 23 (Reuters) - A Russian military jet crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and the two pilots were killed, officials said, the second such fatal incident in six days involving a Sukhoi fighter plane. In a post on Telegram, Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzev said the plane crashed into a two-storey house in the city. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterOfficials said the plane was a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter on a test flight. Last Monday, a Sukhoi Su-34 crashed into an apartment block in the southern city of Yeysk, near Ukraine, and at least 15 people were killed. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Jake Cordell and Mark Trevelyan, Editing by William MacleanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Russia's Navalny says he faces new criminal case for 'promoting terrorism'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that authorities had opened a new criminal case against him for promoting terrorism and extremism, potentially more than doubling his sentence. After months of medical treatment in Germany, he was arrested for parole violations when he returned to Russia at the start of 2021. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has accelerated its campaign to quash and silence domestic opposition. Navalny has spoken out against the war, attacking Putin during a court appearance and calling the invasion "stupid" and "built on lies". Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Reuters Editing by Gareth JonesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Firefighters help a local woman evacuate from a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 17, 2022. 'SUICIDE DRONES'Ukraine said the attacks were carried out by Iran-made "suicide drones", which fly to their target and detonate. The White House accused Iran of lying when it says Iranian drones were not being used by Russia in Ukraine. Ukraine's military said it had destroyed 37 Russian drones since Sunday evening, or around 85% of those used in attacks. Yeysk is separated from occupied Russian territory in southern Ukraine by a narrow stretch of the Sea of Azov.

☆ The Russian pilots who ejected from a military plane moments before it crashed into an apartment building and killed 13 people could face charges, Russia says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Russian Su-34 aircraft crashed into an apartment building in western Russia, killing 13 people. Now, a Russian committee is investigating to see if the pilots could faces charges for the incident. Debris of a warplane crashed into a residential area are seen on the damaged building in Yeysk, Russia, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. AP PhotoA burnt bus and debris of a warplane crashed into a residential area are seen in Yeysk, Russia, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Yeysk, which is home to around 80,000 people and a Russian military air base, is located along the Sea of Azov and is a short distance from the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

A Russian military bomber crashed Monday into the courtyard of an apartment complex in the Russian resort town of Yeysk, which is a few dozen miles across the Sea of Azov from Ukraine, Russia's Defense Ministry said. Calling it an accident, the Defense Ministry said the pilot had been performing a training flight of the SU-34 aircraft when the engine ignited during takeoff. “They were poisoned by combustion products," the deputy governor of the Krasnodar territory, Anna Minkova, said on her Telegram channel. The Armed Forces of Ukraine and its Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. There was a large fire at a Russian military enlistment office in June, according to a report from Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian tabloid.

☆ Russian fighter plane crashes into apartments in southern city near Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

YEYSK, Russia, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A Russian fighter plane crashed into a residential building in the southern Russian city of Yeysk on Monday, engulfing apartments in flames, the regional governor said. Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said the plane was a Sukhoi Su-34, a supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterRIA news agency said it crashed during a training flight from a military airfield. Yeysk is separated from occupied Russian territory in southern Ukraine by a narrow stretch of the Sea of Azov. The incident comes nearly eight months after Russia sent troops into Ukraine.

☆ Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe obtained records showing multiple calls between Secret Service and Oath Keepers, NBC News reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the Oath Keepers militia group among supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, January 6, 2021. The Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigative committee has obtained records showing that a member of the Secret Service's protective intelligence division had multiple phone calls in 2020 with members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, NBC News reported Friday. The House select committee recently contacted the Secret Service asking for records of all contacts between the agency, which is responsible for protecting the president, and Oath Keepers, NBC reported. Rhodes and his co-defendants are accused of plotting to stop the lawful transfer of power from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. The committee's request to the Secret Service was spurred by recent testimony at Rhodes' trial by the former leader of the North Carolina Oath Keepers, John Zimmerman.

☆ Ukraine says Russia's investigation into Crimea bridge blast is 'nonsense'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A senior Ukrainian official dismissed as "nonsense" on Wednesday Russia's investigation into an explosion last weekend that badly damaged a bridge linking the Russian mainland to the Crimea peninsula that Moscow has annexed. Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine's security forces for the explosion and earlier on Wednesday Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia over the blast. "The whole activity of the FSB and Investigative Committee is nonsense," Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne cited interior minister spokesman Andriy Yusov as saying when asked about Moscow's allegations on the Crimea Bridge blast. Yusov described the FSB and Investigative Committee as "fake structures that serve the Putin regime, so we will definitely not comment on their next statements". Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly and by Kyiv bureau; Editing by Gareth JonesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Putin says the Crimea bridge blast was a 'terrorist act' carried out by Ukraine's 'special services'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Vladimir Putin said the Kerch Strait Bridge blast was a "terrorist act" carried out by Ukraine. "This is a terrorist act aimed at destroying the critical civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation. "That was a terrorist act and sabotage committed by the criminal Kyiv regime," Medvedev added. The Kerch Strait Bridge blast damaged a key supply route between Russia and its troops deployed in southern Ukraine. While Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility for the Kerch Strait Bridge blast, tweets from officials have hinted at the country's involvement.

☆ Russia appoints new overall commander for its military in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Hyder Abbasi | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Russia has appointed a single commander to lead all its forces in Ukraine, the country's Defense Ministry said Saturday. The army general, who is also head of Russia's air force, was placed in charge of Russian troops in southern Ukraine over the summer. Surovikin's appointment follows the reported sacking earlier this week of the commanders of two of Russia’s five military regions. Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch Strait Bridge that links Crimea to Russia on Saturday. It cited official information from Ukraine as well as reports from IAEA experts at the site, which is held by Russian forces.

☆ Russian School Shooting Leaves 15 Dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People gathered outside the school in the Russian city of Izhevsk, where a gunman opened fire killing at least 15 people, most of them children, on Monday. MOSCOW—A gunman stormed a school in a provincial central Russian city on Monday, leaving 15 people dead, including 11 children, before killing himself, authorities said. At least 24 people were wounded in the school shooting in Izhevsk, some 600 miles southeast of Moscow in the Udmurtia region, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, which said it had opened a probe into the incident.

☆ Swastika-wearing gunman kills 13, wounds 21 in school shooting in Russia, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Russia — A gunman with a swastika on his T-hirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded at least 21 at a school in Russia on Monday before dying by suicide, investigators said. The identity of the attacker and the motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, about 600 miles east of Moscow, were not clear. Tass news agency quoted investigators as saying the attacker was armed with two pistols and a large supply of ammunition. In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before dying by suicide.

☆ Swastika-wearing gunman kills 13 at Russian school
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Police officers secure the area near a school after a gunman opened fire there, in Izhevsk, Russia September 26, 2022. It named him as Artem Kazantsev, a man in his early thirties, and said he was a graduate of the school. In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Reuters; writing by Mark Trevelyan, editing by Frank Jack Daniel, Angus MacSwan and Nick MacfieOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Gunman kills nine in school shooting in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A gunman killed nine people, including five children, at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, Russian officials said. The motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, was unclear. Russia's Investigative Committee said the attacker had killed nine people before committing suicide. In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide.

☆ 13 dead, 21 wounded in school shooting in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

A gunman killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded 21 other people in a school in central Russia on Monday, authorities said. Russia's Investigative Committee said the shooting took place in a school in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the still unidentified gunman shot himself. According to the Investigative Committee, the gunman wore a black t-shirt with "Nazi symbols." Izhevsk, a city of 640,000, is located west of the Ural mountains in central Russia.

☆ A gunman wearing a swastika t-shirt killed at least 13 people and wounded 21 in a Russian school, officials said
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A gunman killed at least seven children and six adults in a Russian school, officials said. Russia's Investigative Committee said the gunman wore all black with a red swastika. Six adults, included teachers and security guards, were killed, the committee said. It is not clear what age the children injured or killed were. The gunman wore all black and a balaclava, and had a red swastika symbol on his t-shirt, officials said.

Search resuls for: "Investigative Committee"

25 mentions found