Why did a Christmas card sent by Sinn Féin in 2004 cause concern? The government files also reveal that a Christmas card sent by Sinn Féin to staff at Coleraine social security office prompted an ...

The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the aftermath of the incident, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was left in near-ruins, the population ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by ...

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...

Pope Leo XIV called for responsible use of atomic energy on Sunday, the 40 th anniversary of the Soviet-era disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. More than two dozen people died in ...

Humans abandoned the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone after the 1986 nuclear disaster, but wolves moved into the radioactive ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...