Section: Time (USA)
HBO’s Chernobyl Has Led to a Surge in Tourism for This Forgotten Nuclear Town. Now, It’s Trying to Redefine Itself
Wearing a white cotton bodysuit, a helmet and a respirator to protect against radiation, tour guide Beata Jevsejeva walks briskly up the stairs to the reactor hall at the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in the Lithuanian town of Visaginas. It’s late November and sparks fly out of the ground as mechanics saw metal to...
Ukraine Opens Criminal Probe, Arguing Russian Railway Illegally Brought People to Crimea
(MOSCOW) — Ukrainian officials opened a criminal probe Wednesday after a passenger train from Russia arrived in Crimea via a new Russian-built bridge, arguing that the train illegally carried people across the Ukrainian border. Earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the railway bridge to Crimea, which Russia annexed from...
Putin Says Russia Has Surpassed the U.S. in Hypersonic Weapons
(MOSCOW) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons. Speaking at a meeting with top military brass, Putin said that for the first time in history Russia is now leading the world in developing an entire new...
Giuliani Associates Leveraged Connections to Pursue Ukraine Gas Deal to Benefit GOP Donors, Trump Friends
(KYIV, Ukraine) — Two men with close ties to Rudy Giuliani leveraged their political connections to pursue a deal to export natural gas from the U.S. to Ukraine intended to benefit Republican donors and friends of President Donald Trump’s family. The plan centered on replacing the head of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz...
Exclusive: Lawsuit Raises Questions About Rick Perry’s Role In Ukraine Energy Sector
This summer, the Ukrainian government awarded the rights to develop a huge complex of oil and gas fields in the country to an American company that is co-owned by a former campaign donor to then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The decision annoyed the heads of the state-owned Naftogaz conglomerate, which had competed and lost the bidding for the...
From Xi Jinping to Nancy Pelosi, These 6 Leaders Shaped the World in 2019
Through policies and power, leaders from New Zealand, France, India, China and the U.S. influenced the world more than any others in 2019. Here’s why these six were so important this year. Xi Jinping, President of China Illustration by Nigel Buchanan for TIMEOn Oct. 1, a parade of tanks, troops and nuclear missiles rolled through Beijing to...
Mass Opioid Abuse Is ‘Destabilizing’ World’s Poorest Nations
(KAPURTHALA, India) — Reports rolled in with escalating urgency — pills seized by the truckload, pills swallowed by schoolchildren, pills in the pockets of dead terrorists. These pills, the world has been told, are safer than the OxyContins, the Vicodins, the fentanyls that have wreaked so much devastation. But now they are the root of what the...
How an Obscure Part of the Paris Climate Agreement Could Cut Twice as Many Carbon Emissions — Or Become a ‘Massive Loophole’ for Polluters
The science of climate change is, at its heart, fairly simple. When we emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, more heat gets trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere, raising global temperatures and destabilizing the climate. The political path to stopping that from happening is infinitely more complex – a complexity embodied in one of the...
President Trump Met With Russian Foreign Minister Hours After Articles of Impeachment Were Introduced
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump met Tuesday with the Russian foreign minister at the White House just hours after articles of impeachment were unveiled against him and a day after a Justice Department watchdog report declared the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into ties between Moscow and Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sergey...
Exclusive: Top Ukraine Official Andriy Yermak Casts Doubt on Key Impeachment Testimony
Since the start of the public impeachment hearings in Congress last month, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to the President of Ukraine, has heard his name come up again and again in witness testimony. He took part in many of the events at the center of the impeachment inquiry, and the 300-page report released last week by the inquiry mentions Yermak...
