U.K.’s MI6 spy chief says Putin “lies to the world” and has no interest in peace in Ukraine

[ad_1] There is “absolutely no evidence” that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine, the outgoing head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency said Friday in a speech. Sir Richard Moore, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6 as it is more commonly known, said Putin was “stringing us along.” “He seeks…

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Man in a Ferrari on an aircraft carrier attempts to set record for fastest car driven on a boat

[ad_1] Civitavecchia, Italy — Along Italy’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday, driver Fabio Barone raced across the flight deck of a navy ship while chasing a world record: the fastest car on a boat. Last year, Barone set the Italian Timekeepers Federation’s record on another aircraft carrier in southern Italy, hitting 94.4 mph. In Civitavecchia, on the…

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Magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Russia’s coast

[ad_1] A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting tsunami advisories for parts of Alaska.  Initially, there was a tsunami advisory issued for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, but it was canceled, according to the USGS. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the…

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