Former Pripyat Resident Returns Home 40 Years After Chernobyl Disaster

Forty years after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, former residents are still living with its consequences. Klavdia Omelchenko was among those evacuated from Pripyat after the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. She returned to the abandoned apartment she once called home, and shared personal memories with RFE/RL’s Ukrainian…

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Trump’s Lebanon ceasefire takes Israel by surprise

The truce Israel has agreed to in Lebanon states clearly that Israel “preserves its right to take all necessary measures in self-defence, at any time, against planned, imminent or ongoing attacks” – much as it did during the last ceasefire agreed in November 2024, when Israel continued regular strikes against targets it deemed a threat….

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