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A video published by Zelensky showed black smoke billowing out of one of the station’s cooling towers as red flames licked around the bottom.
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Fire at cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Aug 11 after a fire broke out at a cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, under the control of Russian forces.
Ukraine, Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there had been no detected spike in radiation levels or any impact on nuclear safety.
“As a result of shelling of the town of Energodar by the Ukrainian armed forces, there was a fire at a cooling system of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station,” Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-installed governor of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, said on Telegram.
End the UK riots, parents of murdered girl urge at her funeral
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The parents of one of three girls murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed event in northern England in July called for an end to the nationwide rioting that followed their deaths at an emotional funeral for their young daughter.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, and two other girls died and eight were injured after being stabbed in an attack at the event at the seaside town of Southport two weeks ago.
Days of riots followed in Southport and in towns and cities across the United Kingdom, triggered by false online posts wrongly identifying the suspected killer as an Islamist migrant. A teenager, born in Britain, has since been charged and police say the incident is not being treated as terrorism.
Residents flee as wildfire rages uncontrolled near Athens
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Residents fled their homes in the village of Varnava near Greece’s capital Athens on Aug 11 as fire crews struggled to contain a fast-moving wildfire fuelled by hot, windy weather.
More than 250 firefighters backed by 12 water-bombing planes and seven helicopters battled the blaze that broke out at 3 p.m and quickly reached the village some 35 km north of Athens.
By late afternoon, a thick cloud of brown smoke hovered over parts of the capital.
Death toll from landslide at Uganda garbage dump rises to 21
REUTERS
The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Aug 11, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors.
After torrential rain in recent weeks, a huge mound of garbage at the city’s only landfill site collapsed late on Aug 9, crushing and burying homes on the edge of the site as residents slept.
President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement he had directed the prime minister to coordinate the removal of all those living near the garbage dump.
US survive French fright to win Paris Olympics women’s basketball gold-medal thriller
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The United States won a 67-66 thriller over France in the women’s basketball final on Aug 11, claiming an historic eighth consecutive Olympic crown while denying the hosts the golden finish to the Paris Games that had seemed within their grasp.
With LeBron James sitting courtside wearing the gold medal the US men won by beating France on Aug 10, the American women completed the golden hoops double and extended their winning streak on Olympic hardwood to a remarkable 61 games - a stretch of domination that goes all the way back to 1992.
But the US had to dig deep to repel the scrappy French, who led by 10 in the third quarter and had looked poised to pull off one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history when Gabby Williams drained a clutch three to leave Les Bleues down one with five seconds left.
