Smoke in the Washington metro was caused by an insulator fire. This was reported by NBC Washington with reference to fire department data. According to them, smoke appeared at the Friendship Heights station on the Red Line at 19:15 local time after an insulator located on the platform caught fire. The driver then reported the problem and the train was evacuated to Tenleytown station. According to preliminary data, no one was injured as a result.

According to intelligence data, Pyongyang has increased the number of multiple launch rocket systems deployed along the border with South Korea to 300. Their range allows them to strike Seoul with 9,000 missiles in one salvo.

During the riots in Chisinau, four police officers were injured and were hospitalized. This is stated in a message on the website of the General Inspectorate of Police of Moldova. The department also reports that a criminal case has been opened in connection with the riots on Bolgarskaya Street. Organizing and participating in mass riots with the use of violence against government officials is punishable by imprisonment from four to eight years, the inspectorate reminds.

At Tenleytown station in the Washington DC metro there was heavy smoke due to a fire in insulation materials. This was reported on Twitter by the Washington Fire Department. It is noted that there were no casualties . Traffic on the part of the line where the station is located is temporarily suspended. Firefighters ventilate the tunnel. According to eyewitnesses, several fire crews are located near the station where the smoke occurred.

Colleagues of the murdered ex-Syzran police chief Andrei Gosht believe that the murder of him and his family was revenge on the part of criminals. A REN TV source spoke about this and added that the main version is considered to be robbery Photo: Lori The murder of former Syzran police chief Andrei Gosht and his family could have been committed out of revenge by criminals, a source told REN TV , citing the opinion of the deceased’s colleagues.

Experts did not find explosive devices during an inspection of the territory of Kulikovo Field in Odessa, according to a message on the website of the regional department of the National Police of Ukraine. The department emphasizes that police officers are now establishing the whereabouts of the person who reported the mining of the facility in order to bring him to justice.

The launch of the Russian Soyuz-ST-A launch vehicle with the Sentinel-1B Earth remote sensing spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome (French Guinea) was postponed for another day due to bad weather. this on its Facebook page. reports The state corporation Roscosmos Initially, the rocket launch was supposed to take place on April 12, but later it was postponed to April 23, recalls TASS .

The Sunday Times has published its traditional list of the richest people in the UK, which still includes Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich. The Ruben brothers took first place in the ranking Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov (Photo: Alexey Filippov/RIA Novosti) Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich are included in the list of the richest residents of Great Britain, which is published annually by the Sunday Times newspaper .

A Turkish cargo ship, traveling along the Russia-Turkey route, ran aground in the waters of Taganrog Bay. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Rostov region. The department said that the cause of the emergency was an electrical equipment failure. Now the tugboats “Delta” and “Merey” have been sent to the scene of the incident. It is noted that the ship has a full supply of food and fuel, its power supply has now been restored.

On Sunday, April 24, demolition of the Taganskaya ATS, a building built in the constructivist style on Pokrovsky Boulevard, began in Moscow. Both local residents and representatives of the Arkhnadzor organization opposed this development of events. However, the Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow refused to recognize the Taganskaya ATS as an object of cultural and historical heritage. Details of what happened on Sunday on Pokrovsky Boulevard.

Over the past 24 hours, three Ukrainian servicemen were killed in Donbass, and six more were injured. This was announced by the speaker of the presidential administration on ATO issues, Aleksandr Motuzyanyk, reports 112.ua. According to him, recently the number of attacks in the conflict zone has increased, including with the use of mortars and armored vehicles.

A series of rocket attacks on the town of Kilis, which is located near the Turkish-Syrian border, killed one person and wounded 26 others, Reuters reported, citing a security source. A security source told the agency that on Sunday morning a block near the city center was shelled from Syria. As a result, 16 people were injured. In response, the Turkish military fired at Syrian territory.

The head of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, after reports of a new launch of a ballistic missile by Pyongyang, spoke about the conditions under which the country is ready to stop its nuclear tests. At the same time, new sanctions will not stop the country, he emphasized.

The solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 has landed in the United States after a three-day flight over the Pacific Ocean. this . reports The BBC The plane flew over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to land in California. The plane took off last Thursday from Hawaii, where it had been undergoing repairs for the past nine months after its solar panels were damaged. “I crossed the bridge. “I’m officially in America,” said pilot Bertrand Piccard as he flew over San Francisco Bay.

In a traffic accident in Omsk on the morning of April 24, four people died, including one child. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to preliminary data, a Toyota Mark II car ran into a concrete staircase leading to the viaduct. As a result, three women and a girl born in 2014 who were inside the car died on the spot, the driver himself and another female passenger were hospitalized.