Vladimir Putin faces compounding crises as a Siberian plague researcher's death adds to the Ukraine war toll and Russia's ...

Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

Russia plague outbreak fears are escalating in Siberia following the death of a young scientist, prompting a former CIA ...

The incident with the possible outbreak follows a very similar playbook.

Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the still radioactive site of the world's worst ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaks during a press conference at the German Chancellery on the occasion of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia struck near the former Chernobyl nuclear energy plant, which started a ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine — People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight ...

A US-made television series on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was well-received by Russian audiences, even if some critics accused the makers of distorting the facts to show the Soviet-era authorities ...