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BBC journalists arrested in Donegal

Four BBC journalists were arrested – with a number of others – by gardai investigating paramilitary activity in Donegal over the weekend. Footage was also seized, and it is still unclear why the arrests were made.

Ignoring 500,000 Chernobyl deaths?

United Nations nuclear and health watchdogs have ignored evidence of deaths, cancers, mutations and other conditions after the Chernobyl accident, leading scientists and doctors have claimed in the run-up to the nuclear disaster's 20th anniversary next month.

In a series of reports about to be published, they will suggest that at least 30,000 people are expected to die of cancers linked directly to severe radiation exposure in 1986 and up to 500,000 people may have already died as a result of the world's worst environmental catastrophe. >>>>>