Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Tag: Chernobyl power plant
Belarus Children Suffering From Chronic Radiation...
Since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactor burst in 1986, many children in Belarus, just across the Ukrainian border, have been suffering from chronic radiation sickness. They’ve returned to school after yet another summer of being unable to escape contamination due to pandemic border restrictions
Deep Inside Chernobyl’s Radioactive Ruins
RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside the concrete sarcophagus of Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 in 2018 for a rare and risky glimpse at the stricken power plant’s radioactive ruins
Belarus Radiation
The Gomel region of southern Belarus – once a part of the former Soviet Union – suffered the biggest radioactive blow from the 1986 Chernobyl accident
Memories Of Pripyat: A Chernobyl Engineer...
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer