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☆ Terrifying video shows passengers pinning down man who allegedly tried to attack a United flight attendant with a broken metal spoon
  + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Francisco Torres tried to attack a flight attendant with a spoon, the Department of Justice said. A video obtained by Inside Edition shows passengers tackling Torres to the ground and subduing him. When a flight attendant confronted him about tampering with the door, Torres got agitated and started ranting, the statement added. When he's stopped by another flight attendant, Torres is seen lunging at the man with the spoon. This prompts at least nine passengers to jump up and help the flight attendant tackle Torres to the ground, the video shows.
☆ Before-and-after photos show how Russia's invasion reduced a Ukrainian city to a post-apocalyptic wasteland
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Drone footage showed how a city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region was reduced to rubble. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyBefore-and-after photos show how Russia's invasion reduced a Ukrainian city to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Located around 80 miles from Bakhmut, Marinka has recently found itself at the center of renewed battles between Ukrainian and Russian forces. It used to be…until Russia's war criminals razed it to the ground," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs captioned the photos. At the time of writing, the territory was roughly split between Russian and Ukrainian control, the Associated Press reported.
☆ Zelenskyy vows to find Russian killers after horrific video appears to show them shoot a POW for shouting 'Glory to Ukraine'
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A horrific video shows a Ukrainian soldier being shot dead after shouting: "Glory to Ukraine." Zelenskyy drew attention to the video in his nightly address, vowing to find his killers. His comments were in response to a video that has been circulating on various Telegram channels, which appears to show the brutal execution of an unarmed Ukrainian soldier. The phrase "Glory to Ukraine" and the response "Glory to the Heroes" has been used as a rallying cry since the start of Russia's attack on Ukraine last year. "Horrific video of an unarmed Ukrainian POW executed by Russian forces merely for saying 'Glory to Ukraine'.
☆ Southwest passengers describe people vomiting and passing out during aborted landing in heavy turbulence. They were then left at an empty terminal at another airport.
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Southwest flight had to abort landing in North Carolina on Friday night due to bad weather. Passengers told local media that severe turbulence prompted people to throw up and pass out. We had the window open in our seat so we could actually see the ground," Reed told CBS 17. "We couldn't go anywhere because they wouldn't give us our luggage," Reed told CBS 17. Southwest Airlines told Insider in a statement: "We made the decision to safely divert Southwest flight 3094 (BWI - RDU) to Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR) due to adverse weather conditions at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU)."
☆ Russia's elite tank unit was meant to get its most advanced armor. Instead it's fighting with obsolete Soviet tanks from the '60s, UK intel says.
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
But instead it's relying on 60-year-old T-62 tanks, per a UK Ministry of Defence update. Russia has retrieved approximately 800 T-62 tanks from storage since the summer of 2022, it said. But, instead, it is receiving T-62 tanks, which were first adopted by the Soviet Union in 1961, and ceased production in the 1970s. The UK Ministry of Defence also noted the absence of modern explosive reactive armor as a potential vulnerability. Since the summer of 2022, approximately 800 T-62 tanks have been retrieved from Russian storage, the MOD intelligence update said.
☆ Putin has a secret brood of children being raised in luxury comparable to Russian tsars, report claims
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Putin has several young children with his rumored girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva, Proekt reported. He built a 13,000-square-foot mansion for them close to his main residence in Valdai, Proekt said. It is unclear how many children the couple share exactly, though Proekt reported they are all under the age of 18. In the summers of 2021, and 2022, a small karting track was set also up for the children, the outlet said. Putin's other childrenOver the years, Putin has fought hard to keep his children, and rumored girlfriends, from the spotlight.
☆ Tennessee lawmaker apologizes after proposing 'hanging by a tree' as a form of execution
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Tennessee lawmakers discussed a bill that would allow inmates to be executed by firing squad. During the meeting, Rep. Paul Sherrell suggested lynching as another possible execution method. "I was just wondering, could I put an amendment on that that would include hanging by a tree, also," Sherrell asked, according to Nashville Tennessean. A independent report published late last year found failures in how the state's death row prisoners were executed by lethal injection. Several of the state's representatives said this week that they believed firing squad would be the most humane way to be executed.
☆ The celebrities that are still defending Putin — and those that have turned their backs on him
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Another former showbiz pal, French actor Gérard Depardieu, has since criticized Putin for his "crazy excesses" and was critical of the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets French actor Gérard Depardieu (L) in Sochi, Russia, on January 5, 2013. Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Pool via ReutersIn 2013, Putin signed an executive order making Depardieu a Russian citizen. The actor wanted to become a Russian citizen to save taxes in France, The New York Times reported. In a letter to Russian state television at the time, he said: "I love your president, Vladimir Putin, very much and it's mutual," according to The Times.
☆ Terrifying video of Russian plane losing cabin pressure mid-flight shows how dangerous it's gotten to fly in Russia
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A video of the incident shows panicked passengers with oxygen masks on their faces. An expert told Insider that Western jets are deteriorating due to a lack of servicing and parts. Musician Andrey Saltanov, who was also on the flight and verified the video to Insider, said: "The plane turned out to be ancient. The main federal investigating authority in Russia told RIA Novosti that the flight was forced to land "due to depressurization of the aircraft cabin," adding that an investigation is ongoing. One expert told Insider that flying in Russia could become increasingly dangerous.
☆ Terrifying video shows a Russian plane losing cabin pressure mid-flight — showing how dangerous it's gotten to fly in Russia
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A video of the incident shows panicked passengers with oxygen masks on their faces. An expert told Insider that Western jets are deteriorating due to a lack of servicing and parts. The main federal investigating authority in Russia told RIA Novosti that the flight was forced to land "due to depressurization of the aircraft cabin," adding that an investigation is ongoing. One expert told Insider that flying in Russia could become increasingly dangerous. "Access to spare parts, which are sanctioned, is very limited," Denis Brailsford, the head of asset management at the UK's leading aviation consultancy group IBA, told Insider.
☆ Russian father had his daughter taken away after she drew an anti-war picture in art class, reports say
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A Russian sixth-grader drew an anti-war painting in her art class, Meduza reported Tuesday. He fears he will permanently lose custody of his daughter if he is jailed, his lawyer told OVD-Info. Moskalev's lawyer told OVD-Info that he was interrogated and told that his daughter had also made anti-war comments on the Russian social media outlet VKontakte. Moskalev was able to retrieve Masha from the children's center a few days later and both have since left Yefremov, Meduza reported. Under Russian law, using the words "war" and "invasion" can land someone in prison for up to 15 years.
☆ India failed in its mission to stop G20 countries from referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a 'war'
  + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
India asked G20 members not to label Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a "war" in meetings last week. But India appears to have failed its mission, after a joint press release called the attack "a war." To sway public opinion, the country has been calling the war in Ukraine a "special military operation." However, a press release published jointly by the G20 countries on Saturday describes the attack on Ukraine as "a war." As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, India refuses to assign blame for the violence and has solidified ties with Russia.
☆ American POW freed from Russia said his captors were 'idiots' who had prisoners call an Alabama licensing office for help, report says
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Drueke told The Daily Beast that his captors tortured and beat him, but were "idiots." He said they made him reach out to the "silliest levels of the US government," including an Alabama licensing office. "I think one they made Andy call was the head of LLC business licensing for Alabama," Drueke told The Daily Beast. The captors were attempting to spread panic in the US about the chance that Drueke and Huynh could be executed. "Sometimes they were just so smart and I was like 'Oh man they're going to kill me.'
☆ Video shows Trump telling a McDonald's employee he knows the menu 'better than anyone in here'
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former President Donald Trump visited a McDonald's in East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday. Upon ordering, Trump tells a McDonald's worker he knows the menu "better than anyone in here." he tells them, before saying: "So, I know this menu better than you do. You can watch the full video here:The former president's love of fast food — especially McDonald's — has been well-documented. Trump loves to eat fast food in part because of a "longtime fear" of being poisoned, journalist Michael Wolff wrote in his book "Fire and Fury."
☆ Russia's 'Satan 2' Sarmat missile can carry more than a dozen nuclear warheads and destroy entire cities - if it ever works
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A test launch of Russia's nuclear Sarmat missile appears to have failed, CNN reported Tuesday. The Sarmat ICBM is among the more modern weapons in Russia's nuclear arsenal. The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which NATO has nicknamed "Satan II", is among the more modern weapons in Russia's nuclear arsenal. Measuring around 112 feet long and weighing just over 211 tons, the liquid-fuel ICBM is capable of carrying more than a dozen nuclear warheads, which can destroy entire cities, VICE News reported. Several experts told CNN in April that Putin's Sarmat test launches were meant to distract from Russia's recent military failures in Ukraine.
☆ The Pentagon has warned soldiers to stop eating poppy seed bagels and pastries or risk failing drug tests
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
In a memo published Tuesday, the Pentagon told military personnel to stop eating poppy seeds. Consuming poppy seeds could result in a codeine positive drug test, the memo warned. Some poppy seed varieties have higher codeine contamination than previously thought, it said. Poppy seeds are a naturally-derived product originating from poppy plants. The organization usually also advises athletes to stop eating poppy seeds a few days before and during competition to avoid positive tests.
☆ A 4-foot-long alligator that was pulled from a lake in Brooklyn's Prospect Park may have been an unwanted pet, officials say
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
An alligator was spotted floating in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake in New York City on Sunday. The 4-foot-long alligator was pulled out by park officials and is being evaluated in the Bronx Zoo. It might have been an unwanted pet that was released into the lake, a park spokesperson said. The alligator was spotted floating in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake in New York City early on Sunday morning, Dan Kastanis, a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation told Insider. Puelo said that when park officials arrived at the lake, the reptile "wasn't moving really at all."
☆ Chechen leader says he wants to 'compete' with Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and create his own private military
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the Wagner Group was showing "impressive results" in Ukraine. In a Telegram post, Kadyrov said he wants to compete with the group's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Kadyrov added he plans on starting his own private military company, similar to Wagner. "It seems that the private military company managed to achieve very impressive results." "When my service to the state is completed, I seriously plan to compete with our dear brother Yevgeny Prigozhin and create a private military company.
☆ Meet Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, who is Putin's closest ally and helping him in the war in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
After leaving the military in the 1980s, he became the manager of a collective farm, which in Soviet Belarus was seen as a respectable job. Alexander Lukashenko in Hannover, Germany, on April 22, 1998. Holger Hollemann/picture alliance via Getty ImagesCollective farms in Soviet Russia were state-controlled and geared towards improving productivity and efficiency. In 1993, Lukashenko officially entered politics after he was promoted to lead the Belarusian parliament's anti-corruption commission. Source: The Week
☆ Denver councilman said he was left 'humiliated' after he was forced to crawl onto a debate stage with no wheelchair access
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Denver councilman had to climb onto a debate stage on Monday because it had no wheelchair access. Chris Hinds told The Denver Post he was left "humiliated" as audience members watched on. Event organizers had originally told Hinds that they had planned to lift his wheelchair onto the stage, he told Denverite in a separate interview. Hinds told Denver television station KDVR on Tuesday. "I don't know how that's a legitimate response," Hinds told The Denver Post in response to the statement.
☆ Gavin Newsom says Kimberly Guilfoyle 'fell prey' to the culture at Fox News and was a 'different person' when they were married
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Gavin Newsom told CNN his ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle "fell prey" to Fox News. Guilfoyle was a "different person" when they were together, Newsom said. Gavin Newsom said that his ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle was a "different person" when they were married and that she "fell prey" to the culture at Fox News. "She was a different person," Newsom, who is a Democrat, told CNN. Newsom and Guilfoyle married in 2001 and were together when he was sworn in as mayor of San Francisco in 2004.
☆ Russia has placed 6,000 Ukrainian children in 're-education' camps where they are taught how to shoot guns and drive trucks, report says
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia is operating at least 43 camps to re-educate thousands of Ukrainian children, a study found. The report found children as young as four-months-old had been taken to the camps. Children at some of the camps are also being trained to handle military equipment, drive trucks, and shoot firearms, the report said. The report found that many children are forcibly being taken to camps after they've been orphaned, or evacuated from the front. The operations "in some cases may constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity," he said, according to The Guardian.
☆ Passenger describes 'screaming' and 'praying' aboard United flight as it plunged within 800 feet of the Pacific Ocean
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A United Airlines flight plummeted to 800 feet above the Pacific Ocean in December. A passenger on the flight, Rod Williams, told CNN it felt like a "roller coaster." Williams told CNN in an interview on Monday that shortly after take-off, the Boeing 777-200 started climbing at "a concerning rate" for a few seconds. "It felt like you were climbing to the top of a roller coaster," Williams told CNN. "When the plane started to nosedive, multiple screams are being let out at that point," Williams told CNN.
☆ A folder marked 'classified' Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago was empty and just used to cover up a light that bothered him, his lawyer claimed
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump's lawyer said they turned over a folder marked "classified" to the DOJThe empty folder had been used by Trump in his Mar-A-Lago home, Timothy Parlatore told CNN. Trump used it to block a blue light on a landline telephone next to his bed, Parlatore said. Timothy Parlatore was responding to reports last week that claimed Trump's lawyers turned over an empty manilla folder marked "Classified Evening Briefing" to the Department of Justice last month. He added, however, that it was empty and had been used by Trump as a way to block light in his bedroom. So he took the manilla folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night," Parlatore told CNN.
☆ A Russian general was poisoned by a letter laced with an unknown toxin, close Putin ally says
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his top general in Ukraine has been poisoned. Apti Alaudinov was poisoned after handling a letter sent to him earlier this month, Kadyrov said. Kadyrov, who is also a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said his top general in Ukraine has been poisoned after handling a letter that was sent to him on February 8. Apti Alaudinov, who commands the Akhmat special forces, picked up a letter that was "saturated with a poisonous substance," Kadyrov said. In March last year, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich briefly went blind after an apparent poisoning during peace meetings with Ukrainian negotiators.
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