Headlines
  • At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
  • Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
  • The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
  • Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
  • To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
  • In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
  • Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.

Tag: Chernobyl power plant

October 21, 2021

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

April 23, 2021

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

November 2, 2020

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

February 5, 2020

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

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