Russians freeze as Putin’s war and burst pipes reveal cracks at home

[ad_1] Numerous videos shared online in late December and January showed boiling hot water and rolls of steam escaping burst pipes inside people’s homes and apartment buildings. People also shared photos of low thermometer readings inside their homes and even frost build-up on their windows amid heating outages caused by the accidents. Several videos also…

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Russia bars anti-war Putin critic Boris Nadezhdin from election

[ad_1] Nadezhdin has also managed to achieve the seemingly unachievable in Russian politics — drawing support from multiple prominent opposition figures, whose internal squabbles have long prevented them from uniting against the Kremlin. That includes supporters of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.  It appears that the Kremlin has been taken by surprise by that…

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The ruined Fukushima nuclear plant leaked radioactive water, but none escaped the facility

[ad_1] Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no impact to the outside environment, the utility operator said Thursday. A plant worker found the leak Wednesday morning during valve checks at a SARRY treatment machine designed to remove…

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