The Pakistani Taliban called the attendance of overseas relief workers in this flood-ravaged country “intolerable” on Thursday and obliquely optional that militants could carry out attacks against members of aid groups, according to news reports. A spokesman for the United Nations dismissed the threats, saying that safety concern had not exaggerated its aid work thus far. Still, any aggression would add more strain to relief labors that have been slow to reach the millions of Pakistanis pull up by the worst flooding in the country’s history. The United Nations orator, Maurizio Giuliano, said relief workers would carry on their efforts and that the group would not be frightened by “threats of insecurity, let alone rumors of such threats.” full story
Russian establishment say wildfires are intimidating a nuclear power plant in a region previously contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine.
On least six wildfires have been place out this week in the Bryansk region - home of the Kursk nuclear power plant. Establishment have increased the number of firefighters in the area.
The urgent Situations Ministry said Wednesday specialists have not yet found any augment in radiation levels from soil already impure by radioactivity from the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Somewhere else, firefighters near Moscow have begun to flood peat bogs burning outside the city. Thick smoke and choking contamination from the bogs has blanketed the assets for days, making it dangerous to go out-of-doors.
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