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Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op):
All trains in and out of the city were cancelled and motorists were told to stay away from the centre.

The use of a lorry to mow down a crowd is more reminiscent of terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year.

Armed police were seen patrolling the streets of Sweden, metro stations after the horrific attacks on pedestrians that killed 5 and injured dozens in the city.

Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op): 4:45pm On Apr 07, 2017
Paramedics were photographed dashing to the scene where five people died and several more were injured

Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op): 3:55pm On Apr 07, 2017
A man in scrubs was seen walking along the street with several emergency services people, bodies behind him.

Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op):
Blood was seen on the streets outside of the shopping centre where five people are said to have been killed.

Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op):
An injured person was seen being carried from the scene by a group of bystanders.

This image shows an injured person being carried from the chaotic scenes at Ahlens, a department store in Stockholm where the lorry crashed.

This medic, wearing green overalls, was seen running outside Ahlens, a department store in Klarabergsgatan, covering bodies with orange blankets.

Mynd44

Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op):
Above are the scenes in the city currently, where dozens of emergency services vehicles are tending to injured people.

Foreign AffairsRe: Terror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op):
The incident took place at Åhlens Mall in Klarabergsgatan.

Hundreds of shoppers were seen fleeing for their lives after the articulated truck rammed into the corner of the building.

Armed police were scrambled to the scene and were seen marching into the store.

Police spokeswoman Towe Hagg said: 'A vehicle has injured people on Drottningatan.'

Police have also said this is a suspected terrorist incident.

Anna who witnessed the incident, said: 'I saw hundreds of people ran, they ran for their lives.

'I turned and ran as well.'

Eyewitness Jan Granroth was inside a shoe shop when he heard screams.




Pictured: People were seen running after a truck crashed into the mall earlier this afternoon.

Foreign AffairsTerror In Sweden: Truck Crashes Into Shoppers, 5 Dead, Dozens Injured(Photos) by Explorers(op):
At least five people are believed to have been killed when a truck crashed into shoppers in Stockholm today.

Three men were reported to have jumped out of the truck and opened fire.

Police said the vehicle crashed into a group of people on the street outside a shopping centre after racing down six streets.

Shots were heard being fired and the driver is said to have escaped, according to witnesses.

The truck is understood to have been stolen or hijacked from a Spendrups brewery.

The incident took place at Ahlens Mall in Klarabergsgatan.

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven immediately confirmed that the incident was a terror attack and one person has been arrested.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4390436/Truck-rammed-group-pedestrians-Stockholm.html
cc:Lalasticlala, mynd44

TravelRe: Circular Runway Allows Planes To Take Off And Land In All Directions by Explorers(m): 2:34pm On Apr 07, 2017
gabrielniy:
The plan is more about wind management than multiple planes operating simultaneously.
Exactly, multiple planes taking off/landing at a time can be dangerous.

Then the runway wont be for learners, because as you are taking off/landing as a pilot, you are turning at the same time.
CelebritiesRe: Terry G's Son Is Playing With Chelsea FC Foundation School (Photos) by Explorers(m): 1:01pm On Apr 07, 2017
Nice one, abeg play am well o.

Wish u all the best boy.
Foreign AffairsRe: Putin Has Called The U.S. Airstrikes On Syria An 'illegal Act Of Aggression'. by Explorers(op): 12:55pm On Apr 07, 2017
oseiwe:
In summary, USA bombs Syria to warn Syria not to bomb Syria. How interesting!
Lol.
Foreign AffairsRe: Putin Has Called The U.S. Airstrikes On Syria An 'illegal Act Of Aggression'. by Explorers(op):
TIMELINE OF THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR AND US RESPONSE





Chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people since the start of the conflict, with the U.N. blaming three attacks on the Syrian government and a fourth on the Islamic State group.

One of the worst yet came Tuesday in rebel-held northern Idlib and killed dozens, including women and children.

That attack prompted President Donald Trump, on day 77 of his presidency, to dramatically shift U.S. policy, with the first direct U.S. attack on the Syrian government.

Trump blamed Syrian President Bashar Assad for the attack and called on the international community to join him in trying to end the bloodshed.






A timeline of events in Syria leading up to Tuesday's attack:




March 2011: Protests erupt in the city of Daraa over security forces' detention of a group of boys accused of painting anti-government graffiti on the walls of their school.

On March 15, a protest is held in Damascus' Old City. On March 18, security forces open fire on a protest in Daraa, killing four people in what activists regard as the first deaths of the uprising.

Demonstrations spread, as does the crackdown by President Bashar Assad's forces.



April 2011: Security forces raid a sit-in in Syria's third-largest city, Homs, where thousands of people tried to create the mood of Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protests against Egypt's autocrat Hosni Mubarak.



Aug. 18, 2011: President Barack Obama calls on Assad to resign and orders Syrian government assets frozen.



Summer 2012: Fighting spreads to Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its former commercial capital.



August 20, 2012: Obama says the use of chemical weapons would be a 'red line' that would change his calculus on intervening in the civil war and have 'enormous consequences.'



March 19, 2013: The Syrian government and opposition trade accusations over a gas attack that killed some 26 people, including more than a dozen government soldiers, in the town of Khan al-Assal in northern Syria. A U.N. investigation later finds that sarin nerve gas was used, but does not identify a culprit.



August 21, 2013: Hundreds of people suffocate in rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capital, with many suffering from convulsions, pinpoint pupils, and foaming at the mouth. U.N. investigators visit the sites and determine that ground-to-ground missiles loaded with sarin were fired on civilian areas while residents slept. The U.S. and others blame the Syrian government, the only party to the conflict known to have sarin gas.



Aug. 31, 2013: Obama says he will go to Congress for authorization to carry out punitive strikes against the Syrian government, but appears to lack the necessary support in the legislature.



Sept. 27, 2013: The U.N. Security Council orders Syria to account for and destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, following a surprise agreement between Washington and Moscow, averting U.S. strikes. The Security Council threatens to authorize the use of force in the event of non-compliance.



Oct. 14, 2013: Syria becomes a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, prohibiting it from producing, stockpiling or using chemical weapons.



June 23, 2014: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has removed the last of the Syrian government's chemical weapons. Syrian opposition officials maintain that the government's stocks were not fully accounted for, and that it retained supplies.



Sept. 23, 2014: The U.S. launches airstrikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria.



Aug. 7, 2015: The U.N. Security Council authorizes the OPCW and U.N. investigators to probe reports of chemical weapons use in Syria, as reports circulate of repeated chlorine gas attacks by government forces against civilians in opposition-held areas. Chlorine gas, though not as toxic as nerve agents, can be classified as a chemical weapon depending on its use.



Aug. 24, 2016: The joint OPCW-U.N. panel determines the Syrian government twice used helicopters to deploy chlorine gas against its opponents, in civilian areas in the northern Idlib province.

A later report holds the government responsible for a third attack.

The attacks occurred in 2014 and 2015.

The panel also finds that the Islamic State group used mustard gas.



Feb. 28, 2017: Russia, a stalwart ally of the Syrian government, and China veto a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing sanctions against the Syrian government for chemical weapons use.



April 4, 2017: At least 58 people are killed in what doctors say could be a nerve gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the rebel-held Idlib province. Victims show signs of suffocation, convulsions, foaming at the mouth and pupil constriction.

Witnesses say the attack was carried out by either Russian or Syrian Sukhoi jets. Moscow and Damascus deny responsibility.


April 4, 2017: President Donald Trump issues a statement saying that the 'heinous' actions of Assad's government are the direct result of Obama administration's 'weakness and irresolution.'


April 5, 2017: Trump says Assad's government has 'crossed a lot of lines' with the suspected chemical attack in Syria.


April 6, 2017: The U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians, U.S. officials said.

It was the first direct American assault on the Syrian government and Trump's most dramatic military order since becoming president. Trump said strike on Syria in the 'vital national security interest' of the United States.

Foreign AffairsRe: Putin Has Called The U.S. Airstrikes On Syria An 'illegal Act Of Aggression'. by Explorers(op):
About 60 of theses US Tomahawk missiles launched early Friday hit the Shayrat air base, southeast of the city of Homs, a small installation with two runways.

Aerial pictures show the airbase targeted in the strikes. Pentagon officials said that the airfield was being used to store chemical weapons and was a base for Syrian air forces.

Foreign AffairsRe: Putin Has Called The U.S. Airstrikes On Syria An 'illegal Act Of Aggression'. by Explorers(op):
Two U.S. warships, USS Ross and USS Porter fired 59 cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean Sea at the Syrian airbase controlled by forces of President Bashar al-Assad in response to a poison gas attack in a rebel-held area on Tuesday, US officials said.

Facing his biggest foreign policy crisis since his January 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump took the toughest direct US action yet in Syria's six-year-old civil war, raising the risk of confrontation with Russia and Iran, Assad's two main military backers.

The destroyers' locations are always kept secret but are believed to have been off the coast of Turkey or Cyprus, around 150 to 200 miles away from al-Shayrat - and fired 30 minutes after they warned the Russians to keep away from the area.

The Tomahawk is the US military's most advanced missile carrying an 1,000lb bomb and can carry an nuclear warhead - and their laser-guided accuracy was the best way to avoid hitting any Russians.

Foreign AffairsPutin Has Called The U.S. Airstrikes On Syria An 'illegal Act Of Aggression'. by Explorers(op):
Furious Vladimir Putin has called the US airstrikes on Syria an 'illegal act of aggression' and suspended a deal to avoid mid-air clashes with American fighter jets over the war-torn country.

The Russian President warned of grave damage to relations between Washington and Moscow which are already 'in tatters'.

The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week.

Syrian Army officials described the attack as an act of 'blatant aggression', saying it had made the US 'a partner' of ISIS, the ex-Nusra Front and other 'terrorist organisations'.

The US military fired 59 tomahawk missiles at the Assad-controlled al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs at 1.40am today (8.40pm EDT), killing at least six and injuring many more.

Moscow received signals the US was launching an airstrike about 30 minutes in advance, according to a Russian ambassador to the UN but the Trump administration did not seek the Kremlin's approval.

It is not known it the Russians then alerted the Syrians about the incoming strikes.











http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4388834/America-launches-airstrikes-Syria.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4389332/Russia-calls-airstrikes-Syria-act-aggression.html

TravelRe: Circular Runway Allows Planes To Take Off And Land In All Directions by Explorers(m):
Nice concept, but requires professional and experienced pilots to take off/land here.

Imagine a plane with faulty flaps, having difficulties taking off, taxing round to face another taking off or landing plane.

PropertiesRe: World's Longest,Most Spectacular N-shaped Skyscraper Unvailed In Newyork(photos) by Explorers(op): 9:03am On Apr 06, 2017
ikp120:
This will take at least 3 years to complete. cool cool cool
But they will complete it.
TravelRe: Jaw-dropping Present: Boy, 14, Swims With Crocodiles For His Birthday(photos) by Explorers(op): 8:52am On Apr 06, 2017
xreal:
what was the boy holding in his hands?
maybe that thing get electricity wey dey shock those beasts for body....if not, how come croc go free correct meal like that?
Looks like a selfie stick or something to push back the crocs advances.

Dont forget he's in the water with the croc, the electroshock will affect them both.

lalasticlala abi?
EducationRe: Some Fascinating Images Gathered From Around The World. by Explorers(op): 5:01am On Apr 06, 2017
The Biggest Non-Government Employer in Each State.

Walmart all the way.

EducationRe: Some Fascinating Images Gathered From Around The World. by Explorers(op): 4:56am On Apr 06, 2017
How to give a turtle an emergency C-Section.

EducationRe: Some Fascinating Images Gathered From Around The World. by Explorers(op): 4:54am On Apr 06, 2017
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AutosRe: ###########cleanest 2008 Toyota Camry, Buy And Drive..price 2.480m by Explorers(m): 4:40am On Apr 06, 2017
Cool ride.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russian Nationalists Calls For Alaska To Be Returned To The Country After 150yrs by Explorers(op): 7:44pm On Apr 05, 2017
scarr:
Did you see where u said it boss cheesy
An error, ive corrected it.
RomanceRe: Twins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op): 8:17pm On Apr 04, 2017
wurabecca:
grin grin grin grin

[font=Georgia]Them go don mistake Gbensh eachother many a time grin grin(hope say ma English correct sha) grin grin grin
Explorers my crush kiss kiss
Lols....
Foreign Affairs15-foot Burmese Python Weighing 144LBS In Florida On Saturday(photos). by Explorers(op):
For a pair of avid snake wranglers from Florida, the catch of the day on Saturday was a hulking 15-foot python.

On Saturday, the duo were driving through the park when Sanchez caught a glimpse of the 15-foot critter in the bushes.

RomanceRe: Twins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:45pm On Apr 04, 2017

RomanceRe: Twins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:37pm On Apr 04, 2017
Doug and Jill have a daughter Rylie, 19, while Phil and Jena have a son Tim, 18.

RomanceRe: Twins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:28pm On Apr 04, 2017
Jena says: 'We go in shifts, if they are in the bathroom I will find something else to do…’

RomanceRe: Twins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:26pm On Apr 04, 2017
Phil (blue shirt) and Doug (black shirt) sometimes can't tell Jill (white shirt) and Jena (black shirt) apart.

'Unfortunately, there are times when I cannot tell them apart so I do things like say Jena and see which one perks up. We never approach too quickly,’ Phil said

RomanceRe: Twins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op):
Couples met in 1991 at the Twin Days festival the largest gathering of twins in the world at Twinsburg, Ohio.

Doug won a cruise to the Caribbean the next year; he invited Jill and Jena.

They proposed at Twin Days in 1992 and got married at Twin Days in 1993.

They still get confused about who is who, even going as far as to call out names when approaching each other.

RomanceTwins Who Married Twins And Lived Under Same Roof For 24yrs(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:19pm On Apr 04, 2017
Doug Malm’s wife, Jill, was having a bad day when he walked into his kitchen and attempted tocomfort her, quietly approaching, wrapping his arms around her and nibbling on her neck.

The sweet gesture backfired once Doug realized that it wasn’t his wife he was kissing at all.

Despite the fact they’d been married several years, he was accidentally affectionately cuddling his sister-in-lawJill’s twin sister Jena.

Not only does Jena live in the same house as the couple but she is also married to Doug’s twin brother Phil..

For the past 24 years, twins Doug and Phil Malm have lived in a four-bedroom home with their wives Jill and Jena and their children in Idaho.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russian Nationalists Calls For Alaska To Be Returned To The Country After 150yrs by Explorers(op): 5:36pm On Apr 04, 2017
sapientia:
No amount of money will make USA allow Russia to share boundaries with them.
They can't share borders, Alaska only share border with Canada.

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