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Massive Forest Fire Threatens Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Radiation Closely Monitored It was only last month that Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, but on Friday there is another major threat to the site, which Russia says it is closely monitoring, according to RIA. A massive forest fire is sweeping through the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday after a drone crashed near the defunct nuclear plant a day earlier, Ukrainian officials have said. Illustrative/AP: During a similar 2020 fire a radiation spike was detected at the Chernobyl exclusion zone. As firefighters...

Knife-Wielding Maniac Woman Shot Dead In Times Square Unhinged middle-aged women are hitting the news feeds hard this month.  NYC police were forced to shoot a woman dead this week after she pulled two knives from a shopping bag in the middle of Times Square and went on a random stabbing spree.  At least one 68-year-old man was severely injured and another 32-year-old female victim was killed after being stabbed in the abdomen.  The shooting happened just before 4:30 p.m. next to a New York Police Department substation, just outside One Times...

Gunmen Attack Christian Town In Syria, Wounding Woman & Smashing Shops Via The Cradle Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the Christian town of Suqaylabiyah in the Hama countryside in Syria on Saturday, smashing shops and opening fire on residents, the Syrian Justice Archive (SJA) reported. Armed men coming from the nearby Sunni town of Qalaat al-Madiq attacked Christian-owned shops and opened fire on residents with Kalashnikov rifles, wounding a woman on Al-Mashwar Road. Source: Orthodox Patriarchate of AntiochThe Syrian government's General Security forces reportedly allowed the armed men to pass through their checkpoints to...