Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Worker Killed in Ukraine Drone Attack, Management Says

MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) – ⁠An ⁠employee of Ukraine’s ⁠Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, ​controlled by Russian forces, was killed ‌in a Ukrainian drone ‌attack, the Russian-installed ⁠management ⁠of the station said in a Telegram ​post on Monday. “A driver was killed today when a Ukrainian Armed ​Forces drone struck the transport department ⁠at the ⁠Zaporizhzhia …

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22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust

Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport with a record 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said. A Sri Lanka Customs spokesman said the group, returning home after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had Kush — a potent, plant-based strain of cannabis — hidden …

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Big companies position themselves for payday from $50B federal rural health fund

Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California’s North Coast. “They’re the folks that work at restaurants. They’re the teacher’s aides,” said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open Door’s chief executive more than six years ago. Those patients, he said, are “really the …

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Prediction markets in hot seat over rogue bettors and insider trading

A soldier betting on an operation to oust Venezuela’s leader. Politicians gambling on their own elections. Massive bets on the president announcing a ceasefire with Iran right before he actually did. Are prediction markets safe places for news junkies to bet on events – or dens of insider trading? A lot is at stake as …

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Strikes in Ukraine and Russia Kill at Least 16 on Chernobyl Anniversary

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the anniversary with a warning that Russian attacks risk repeating history. “Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster — Russian-Iranian Shaheds regularly fly over the plant, and one of them struck the confinement last year,” he wrote on Facebook, referring to the Iran-designed …

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