While local authorities in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic were trying to find out how serious the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was, and whether it was necessary to evacuate surrounding towns, a massive radiation plume drifted towards neighboring countries, making the accident of April 26, 1986 a global issue that threatened all of Europe.
At AFWL & AFWN, It’s our pleasure to welcome on board, an incredibly wonderful personality: a philanthropist par excellence, a renowned and award winning architect and a super stylish personage, in the person of Architect Olajumoke Adenowo as a member of our advisory board . “We are more than honoured and super excited to have […]
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She won an historic triple gold at the South African championships in April, but Caster Semenya will focus on just one event for the Rio Olympics in August.
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“It is nothing sexual. It’s just another person eating.”
This is Naomi Jael Covert, a 21-year-old from Vilseck, Germany. She is a full-time army wife. Here she is with her 10-month-old son, TJ.
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Her husband is in the US Army and is currently deployed for nine months.
A few days ago, Covert posted a picture of herself breastfeeding TJ at a wedding on Instagram. The picture... Читать дальше...
A petition has now reached more than 500,000 signatures.
Ex–Dean Foods chairman and Las Vegas gambler charged with insider trading
JB Hi-Fi chief Richard Murray will overtake Gerry Harvey as the country's largest home appliance retailer if he can pull off an ambitious deal to acquire The Good Guys.
Kentucky's vote suggests Hillary Clinton has absorbed the big parts of the 2008 Obama coalition, including minorities and suburban and urban voters, while Bernie Sanders wins rural whites.
Gordon Bethune, former Continental Airlines CEO, discusses the growing frustration among travelers over airport gridlock and how he thinks the system can be fixed.
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a security guard shot a man during some kind of confrontation at a Miami Metromover station.
Alphabet’s Google subsidiary is appealing a fine by French regulators for not following the ‘right to be forgotten’ order, saying it smacks of censorship.
Alphabet’s Google subsidiary is appealing a fine by French regulators for not following the ‘right to be forgotten’ order, saying it smacks of censorship.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York will announce insider trading charges Thursday against the former chairman of the board of Dean Foods and professional Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters. The Justice Department alleges Davis provided material non-public information to Walters, who is also charged in a separate indictment, about Dean Foods earnings results, outlook and the spinoff of Whitewave-Alpro, a Dean subsidiary. Walters used that information to trade illegally in Dean Foods shares, the government says. Читать дальше...
A female Turkish journalist has lost custody of her children after she was convicted for uploading a video related to the 2014 controversy over Turkey’s intelligence services allegedly transferring weapons to Syrian rebels. Arzu Yildiz was sentenced to 20 months in jail and lost her parental rights after exposing a video related to a weapons-smuggling scandal denied by the Turkish government. Her lawyer said it was “an act of revenge” by the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. RT reports: The... Читать дальше...
There are few things that cause more handwringing at NATO these days about whether to hold formal talks with Russia. NATO is ramping up its efforts to deter Russia, negotiating the final details of a multinational force of some 4,000 troops stationed in the Baltic countries and Poland. But a number of allies, including Germany and Italy, are backing another meeting of the NATO Russia Council ahead of the Warsaw summit—in an effort to soften the hard edge of the military actions the alliance is poised to take.
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Today, Google convened 7,000 developers and journalists at a popular outdoor concert venue in Silicon Valley and gave a two-hour state of the union on the future of arguably the most powerful and ambitious company in the world. In front of a packed crowd and tens of thousands watching via live stream, the company brought its best and brightest minds on stage and unveiled to the world that Google is playing catch-up with a slew of products and services we’ve already seen before from other companies. Читать дальше...
Yorkshire Carnegie captain and former England flanker Chris Jones is forced to retire from rugby after suffering concussion.
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Uber said on Thursday that it planned to test a self-driving car on the streets of Pittsburgh, its first step toward becoming a company that uses robots instead of drivers to power its car-hailing service.
This means people around Pittsburgh will most likely spot a few unusual-looking Ford Fusions driving around the city's bridges and streets in the coming weeks. The defining feature of Uber's self-driving cars is that they have a visible battery of rooftop sensors.
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A trade forum between Rwanda and Tanzania is set to kick off Friday in Kigali, Rwanda, as the two East African nations look to strengthen bilateral ties in a new chapter of warming diplomatic relations. The joint summit, dubbed “Tanzania-Rwanda Trade Forum 2016,” is the first of its kind and is expected to draw hundreds of key business players and government officials from both countries, according to Rwandan newspaper the New Times.
The Browns made 14 selections in this year’s draft, but they didn’t use any of them on running backs. When head coach Hue Jackson was asked why the Browns didn’t add any players to their backfield a few days after the draft’s conclusion, he said it was because Isaiah Crowell and Duke Johnson “are as…
TOKYO - Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations...
The number of people seeking U.S. jobless aid fell sharply last week, partially reversing two weeks of big gains that had raised concerns about rising layoffs.
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Sweden has been plunged into major traffic chaos today, as airspace over Stockholm and vast swaths of Sweden closed down following an IT failure of gigantic proportions. The problem is also reported to have affected the country's railways operator, whose booking system is currently out of order.