Section: New Zealand
Mellow band totally juiced
Fresh from their European tour, Mild Orange (from left), Jack Ferguson, Tom Kelk, Josh Reid and Josh Mehrtens, plays U-Bar on Friday. Photo: Cam Hay Mild Orange shuffled on to the Dunedin scene in early 2017 with a sultry mix of soft indie-rock and a splash of Mockasin creaminess. And then a Ukrainian YouTube music influencer shared their...
Govt to contact Ukraine over accused gunman’s ‘manifesto’
jacinda_serious1_3.jpg Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo: Getty Images Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand will be contacting Ukraine’s government after revelations the accused Christchurch gunman’s “manifesto” was being sold in hardcover copies. …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Ukraine wants Chernobyl to be a tourist site. But scientists warn: Don’t kick up dust.
The tourists first started flocking to Chernobyl nearly 10 years ago, when fans of the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wanted to see firsthand the nuclear wasteland they’d visited in virtual reality.Next came those whose curiosity piqued… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine wants Chernobyl to be a tourist site. But there’s a warning
The site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history is still radioactive. …read more Source:...
Chernobyl nuclear site to become ‘official tourist attraction’
The site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is to be developed, Ukraine’s president says. …read more Source: Radio New...
Giant new dome built to contain Chernobyl’s radioactive debris revealed
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday inaugurated a giant structure built to confine radioactive debris at the nuclear reactor that exploded in Chernobyl in 1986.The confinement structure for the Chernobyl nuclear… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Five myths about the Chernobyl disaster
More than three decades ago, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet Union exploded. A fierce fire burned for the following two weeks, sending columns of radioactive gases and particles… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Four charged with shooting down MH17 plane over Ukraine
For the first time since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in July 2014, prosecutors have announced charges against suspects in the case. …read more Source: Radio New...
Russians and Ukrainian suspects named over MH17
Three Russians and one Ukrainian identified as suspects in the 2014 downing of passenger flight MH17, investigators say. …read more Source:...
Netherlands to prosecute suspects in MH17 crash
2019-06-14t105025z_1736437671_rc179676cf00_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-mh17.jpg The Malaysian Airlines plane crashed near the near the village of Hrabove in the Donetsk region in 2014. Photo: Reuters International investigators are set to launch criminal proceedings against suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern...
