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SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Maria Sharapova’s ongoing right shoulder problems led her to pull out of the Saint Petersburg tournament, the organizers said on Wednesday. “I tried to do everything possible to be able to be ready to compete this week, but my right shoulder continues to be an issue for me,” Sharapova said to explain her decision. “I will meet with my team of doctors over the next few days to evaluate the […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Friday for the bomb attack days earlier that tore through a Saint Petersburg supermarket and wounded 14 people. “The attack that targeted a shopping centre in Saint Petersburg the day before yesterday (Wednesday) was carried out by an Islamic State-linked group,” IS said in a statement via its propaganda agency Amaq. On Wednesday evening, a homemade bomb placed in a locker at the supermarket in northwestern […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called an explosion that tore through a Saint Petersburg supermarket, wounding 13 people, “an act of terror.” “As you know, an act of terror took place in Saint Petersburg yesterday,” he said at a meeting of military officers in the Kremlin. The homemade bomb went off in a locker at the supermarket on Wednesday evening, officials said. Anna Mityanina, vice governor of Saint Petersburg, […]
by Marina Koreneva Agence France-Presse SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia — A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 people Wednesday, officials said, sparking a probe into attempted murder. “According to preliminary information, an explosion of an unidentified object occurred in a store,” a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said in a statement. The blast was caused by a “homemade explosive device with the power equivalent to 200 grammes of TNT […]
by Marina Koreneva Agence France Presse SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Maria Ryabtseva was just a baby when the 1917 October Revolution broke out. Since then the former nurse has lived through extraordinary events from the USSR’s birth and death to the dominance of President Vladimir Putin. Born on June 14, 1917, in northern Moscow, Ryabtseva witnessed the Civil War between the Bolsheviks and the “Whites” who opposed the revolution, and World War II, […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris’s Eiffel Tower went black an hour earlier than usual in memory of the 14 victims of the St Petersburg attack on Tuesday (April 4). The lights went out at the monument just before midnight (2200GMT), echoing a similar tribute to the victims of the London stabbings last month. Previously the Eiffel Tower had been lit up in the colors of the French, German, Belgian and rainbow flags as a […]
by Marina KORENEVA SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Eleven people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro Monday, with the Kremlin saying it bore “all the hallmarks of an attack.” Authorities shut down the metro system in Russia’s second city for several hours as security services said they had also defused a bomb at a second metro station. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it was probing an “act of […]
19 Filipino seamen joined in the massive search in the southern Indian Ocean for two large debris suspected coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines Filght MH370. The 19 Filipinos form part of the crew of the Norwegian merchant ship “St. Petersburg”
