This article is based on interviews and research by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.
On the afternoon of February 24, 2022, two Russian army commanders, wearing black uniforms with no insignia, entered the office of Valentyn Heyko, the shift supervisor at the Chornobyl State Enterprise. In a room with a window overlooking the decommissioned reactor, General Sergey Burakov and Colonel Andrey Frolenkov told Heyko that they had
The victims and survivors of Maui’s wildfires have been left with ‘napalm-like’ injuries, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the Vietnam war, according to rescue teams now tasked with combing through the incinerated rubble of Lahaina.
The fire in Maui is the worst natural disaster to have hit Hawaii since a tsunami killed 61 people in 1960. If the death toll continues to rise, as it is expected, it will surpass that grim record to become the deadliest.
In the days since the United States team narrowly avoided an embarrassing early elimination from the Women’s World Cup, Lindsey Horan, its co-captain, has been working the room.
Horan wants a word, with many of the team’s veterans but especially the 14 World Cup rookies. So she has been tapping teammates on their shoulders and knocking on their hotel room doors and pulling them aside in training. Hey, she might say, can we chat for a few minutes?
The message
Wrexham fans on social media called for Hugh Jackman to be banned from the Racecourse in the future after the X-Men star was in attendance for their return to the Football League, only for Phil Parkinson’s side to lose 5-3 against MK Dons. Expectations were high as the Hollywood-backed club competed at EFL level for the first time in 15 years, but were handed a major reality check on the opening day of the season.
A brace from Jonathan Leko
One summer evening as the sun sank behind the Dnipro River, the mammoth waterway that bisects Ukraine, Anatolii Volkov walked along a river beach, head down.
A Ukrainian archaeologist, Mr. Volkov looked as if he was just taking a stroll. But he was actually examining the mostly dried-up ground of a former reservoir that has revealed a treasure trove of artifacts after a catastrophic explosion at the Kakhovka dam sent 4.8 trillion gallons of water gushing downstream, emptying the reservoir
A businessman whose family’s company operated a ferry that sank off South Korea in 2014, killing more than 300 people, will be flown to that country from the United States to face embezzlement charges, officials said on Thursday, after years of requests from Korean prosecutors.
The businessman, Yoo Hyuk-kee, 50, also known as Keith Yoo, is expected to arrive in South Korea, where he faces trial on seven counts of embezzlement, on Friday. Since 2020 he had been held without
As Europe faces another summer of unprecedented floods, fires and high temperatures, it needs to strengthen and adapt societies against extreme weather, writes Janne Parviainen.
Janne Parviainen is a research associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute. He focuses on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and is currently working on the EU’s DIRECTED project, which seeks to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events and create disaster-resilient societies.
The European summer is once again the season of disaster. Things
You may have heard about a traditional rip current, but these enchanting square waves may have eluded you.
But, as gentle and intriguing as these waves seem, if come across them when you are enjoying in the sea – it
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Regisseur James Cameron ging am Samstag auf Twitter, um die „beleidigenden Gerüchte“ zu zerstreuen, dass er möglicherweise einen Katastrophenfilm drehen wolle, der auf der unglückseligen Mission des OceanGate-Tauchboots Titan basiert.
Cameron merkte an, dass er es normalerweise nicht für nötig halte, solche Gerüchte öffentlich anzusprechen, dass er jedoch das Gefühl habe, dass dieses Gerücht ungeheuerlich genug sei, um sofortige Aufmerksamkeit zu erfordern.
„Normalerweise reagiere ich nicht auf beleidigende Gerüchte in den Medien, aber jetzt muss ich es tun. Ich bin
