Section: Africa&ME
Kiev’s truce under pressure as one more cop killed
KIEV: A fragile ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists came under renewed pressure on Sunday with the Ukrainian military reporting a serviceman had been killed and seven others wounded in rebel attacks. The casualties, which follow the death on Saturday of another serviceman in shelling in the south east,...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
KIEV: Ukrainians on Sunday marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, laying wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed. The explosion of reactor number four on April 26, 1986, spewed poisonous radiation over large parts of Europe, particularly Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. At...
News24.com | Putin says ‘no regrets’ on Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has no regrets over Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and that it was righting a historical injustice. …read more Source:...
Chernobyl nuclear disaster – 29 years later
According to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), only two accidents in history can be classified as level 7 events: the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 and the Chernobyl power plant explosion, which took place 29 years ago, on April 26, 1986. Whereas the partial nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima’s six reactors...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
The human toll of the disaster is still disputed …read more Source:...
Death of Ukraine Soldier Puts Cease-fire in Question
A fragile cease-fire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists came under renewed pressure Sunday with the Ukrainian military reporting … …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainians have marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, laying wreaths and candles near the plant. …read more Source:...
Ukraine soldier killed, 7 injured in east: Army
A Ukrainian soldier was killed and seven others injured as bombardments intensified in the east of the country where government forces are fighting pr …read more Source: The New...
Ukraine marks 29 years since Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainians on Sunday marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, laying wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed. …read more Source: The Daily...
Kazakh leader sails to re-election with ‘stability’ mantra
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was set to renew his 26-year grip on power on Sunday, offering the multi-ethnic Central Asian state economic and social stability in return for what rights groups call systematic suppression of opposition. Nazarbayev, 74, officially titled “Leader of the Nation”, called presidential elections more...
