Chornobyl first responder says few survive 40 years on

By Daria Smetanko

Petro Hurin visits the monuments dedicated to his grandson Andrii, a Ukrainian serviceman in Cherkasy region

KHUTORY, Ukraine, April 21 (Reuters) - Petro Hurin says his health has never been the same since he was sent 40 years ago to clear the Chornobyl site in the wake of the world's worst nuclear accident.

He was among hundreds of thousands of 'liquidators' brought in to ‌clean up after the explosion at reactor four of the Chornobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The disaster sent clouds of ‌radioactive material across much of Europe.

Thirty-one plant workers and firemen died in the immediate aftermath, mostly from acute radiation sickness. Thousands more have since succumbed to radiation-related illnesses such as cancer, although the total death ​toll and long-term health effects remain a subject of intense debate.

At the time, Hurin worked for a business that supplied diggers and construction vehicles, which sent him to the Chornobyl exclusion zone in June 1986. Of the 40 people sent by his company, only five are alive today, he said.

"Not a single Chornobyl person is in good health," the 76-year-old said. "It's death by a thousand cuts."

Soviet authorities strove to conceal the extent of the Chornobyl disaster, refusing to cancel the May 1 parade in Kyiv, around 100 km (60 miles) ‌to the south. Ukraine's current government has highlighted the ⁠Soviet authorities' bungled handling of the accident and attempts to cover up the disaster.

Hurin said some colleagues produced medical certificates to excuse themselves from serving in Chornobyl, but he was willing to help.

"I realised that, however small my contribution might be, I was doing ⁠my bit to help tame this atomic beast," he said.

HEADACHES, CHEST PAIN, BLEEDING

Working 12-hour shifts, Hurin used an excavator to load dry concrete mixed with lead – shipped to the site by river barge – onto trucks for transport to the reactor, where it was mixed to build a massive sarcophagus to contain the radiation.

"The dust was terrible," Hurin recalled. "You'd work for half an ​hour ​in a respirator, and it would end up looking (brown) like an onion."

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After four days, Hurin said ​he began experiencing severe symptoms such as headaches, chest pain, bleeding ‌and a metallic taste in his throat. Doctors treated him but after another shift, he could barely walk. He feared he had "a day or two" to live.

"I was brought to the hospital, and the doctors did a blood test first," Hurin said. "They pricked all my fingers and a pale liquid came out, but no blood."

Soviet doctors refused to diagnose radiation sickness, a finding he said was not permitted at the time. Instead, he was told he had vegetative-vascular dystonia, a nervous disorder often linked to stress.

Before the disaster, Hurin had never taken sick leave, but afterwards he spent around seven months going from one hospital to another to receive treatment, including a blood ‌transfusion.

He says he has been diagnosed with anaemia - often linked to radiation sickness - angina, pancreatitis ​and a series of other conditions.

By the standards of his countrymen, Hurin has lived a long life. ​According to the World Health Organization, average life expectancy for men in ​Ukraine stood at 66 in 2021, having declined during COVID.

Now retired, Hurin lives with his wife Olha in central Ukraine's Cherkasy region. ‌Although he suffers from health problems, he still plays the bayan – ​a type of accordion - and writes songs and ​poems.

He says he is fighting to access a special disability pension for 'liquidators' of the nuclear disaster.

Another catastrophe - Russia's 2022 invasion of his homeland - has come to dominate his life. He and his wife Olha regularly visit a memorial in nearby Kholodnyi Yar dedicated to their grandson, Andrii Vorobkalo, a Ukrainian soldier, ​who was killed three years ago in the war, aged ‌26.

After his daughter had left to work in Europe, Hurin and his wife raised Andrii from the age of four. When Russia invaded Ukraine ​in 2022, Andrii quit his job in Greece.

"He left everything behind and came to defend Ukraine," Hurin told Reuters, standing near the memorial ​stone dedicated to his grandson. "We think of Andrii all the time."

(Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Modi’s push to redraw India’s electoral map ‘could decide who controls power for decades’

The flames leapt quickly in the dry April heat of southern India, where Tamil Nadu’s chief minister MK Stalin stood before a crowd dressed in black, holding a copy of a government bill and a lighter. The so-called “black law”, which would expand the size of India’s lower house of parliament from 543 seats to as many as 850, curled into ash as party workers chanted slogans against the federal government.

The protest wasn’t just political theatre. It marked the opening salvo in what could become one of the most consequential political battles inIndiain decades – a fight over representation, power and the very architecture of the world’s largest democracy.

At the centre lies prime ministerNarendra Modi’spush to redraw parliamentary constituencies and expand the lower house, a move that his BJP party says is necessary to implement a 2023 law mandating that 33 per cent of all seats in federal and state legislatures must be filled by women.

Critics say the two issues don’t need to be linked – that minimum quotas for women MPs could simply be applied to the existing structure of parliament. They argue the proposal’s true aim is something much more strategic: a recalibration of power ahead of the next general election in 2029.

India hasn’t significantly reallocated parliamentary seats since the 1970s. The exercise, carried out by the Delimitation Commission, a statutory body, was last undertaken after the 1971 census.

In 1976, when India’s population stood at about 550 million, the number of Lok Sabha seats was frozen at 543. The move was meant to ensure that states which reduced birth rates were not punished with diminished representation as the size of constituencies was pegged to population. That freeze was due to end after the 2001 census, but was extended until at least 2026 by the previous BJP government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The Modi government was moving to end the long-standing status quo.

Its delimitation bill seeks to expand the Lok Sabha (lower house) to as many as 850 seats and redraw constituencies based on the last census done in 2011. It also ties the rollout of the women’s reservation law, passed in 2023 but not yet implemented, to this exercise. A three-day special session of the parliament from 16 to 18 April was called to debate the amendments needed to put the changes in place ahead of the 2029 election.

However, the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for the constitutional change. A total of 298 MPs voted in favour and 230 against the bill.

"The amendment bill has fallen. ​They ⁠used an unconstitutional trick in the name of women to break the Constitution," opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said in a ⁠post on X, minutes after the bill failed to get through.

The government ​dismissed ⁠that accusation and said ‌it would continue to campaign for women's quotas. "The women of this country will not forgive you," Interior minister Amit Shah said in parliament, before ‌the bill was put to a vote.

Modi launched a scathing attack on the opposition on Saturday in an address to the nation. “Every citizen of India is watching how dreams of our women have been crushed,” the prime minister said during his address. “Fight for empowering India’s women has been stalled due to selfish politics of opposition parties,” he added.

Modi likened the opposition’s stance to“bhrun hatya”(female foeticide), accusing parties such as the Congress, DMK, Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress of having “killed” the proposal for women’s reservation when it was first introduced, according to reports. “A woman may forget many things, but she never forgets her insult,” he said.

Opposition parties maintained that they backed women’s reservation, but opposed tying its rollout to a nationwide delimitation process using older population data while the 2026–27 census is in progress. They also said dependence on 2011 figures could weaken the relative representation of southern and north-eastern states, where population growth has slowed more quickly than in several northern states.

“India has functioned on 1971 data, effectively silencing the voices of millions,” BJP spokesperson Radhika Khera tellsThe Independent. “The 2026 delimitation is not just about numbers, it’s about democratic equilibrium.”

She describes the expansion of the Lok Sabha as a “buffer”, ensuring that while more populous states gain representation, others don’t lose their existing strength. “By increasing the total pool, we ensure that high-population states get their due representation.”

“Fairness,” she says, “means ensuring that no citizen’s vote is worth less than another’s, regardless of geography.”

As for its decision to use the 2011 census, the government claims that waiting for the next population count – supposed to be completed in 2021, but now expected only by 2027 – would delay implementing women’s reservation to at least 2034.

“We are choosing immediate empowerment over indefinite delays,” Khera says.

But the proposal triggered deep unease in southern states, where the ruling BJP generally has a less strong presence. At the heart of their concern is a simple equation: if parliamentary seats are allocated purely on the basis of population, states with higher population growth – mainly in northern India – will get more MPs while southern states will see their relative influence shrink.

P Wilson, a parliamentarian from Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, sees it as a direct breach of a decades-old political compact.

“States were told: control population and delimitation will follow later. Now that has been thrown to the winds,” he says.

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“You are rewarding states which violated population control and punishing those which followed it scrupulously,” Wilson says. “Where is equality now?”

States like Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka boast lower fertility rates and stronger socioeconomic indices. They also contribute more significantly to the Indian economy than the northern states with higher populations. Their leaders argue a headcount-based redistribution ignores these achievements.

Saral Patel, a spokesperson for the opposition Congress party, echoes their concern, calling it “a structural shift in India’s federal balance of power”.

“If only population is used as the sole metric then you are punishing states for good governance.”

For the opposition, the timing of this move raises further questions. “The urgency is the election. They are always election-oriented,” Wilson alleges, referring to the BJP.

“In terms of elections, they will do anything.”

He argues that theBJP’srelatively weaker presence in southern states is shaping the government’s policy. “Southern states have rejected them,” he says. “So, they don’t want the voice of the southern states to be heard.”

Congress leaderRahul Gandhihas gone further, describing the proposal as an “attempted power grab” through the manipulation of electoral boundaries.

Opposition leaders also point to the sequencing: delays in conducting the decadal census, the passage of the women’s reservation bill and the linking of that reform to delimitation. “When you see this entire exercise chronologically,” Patel says, “it looks like the process is being fast-tracked for political timelines rather than genuine policy requirements.”

The government rejects this criticism. “To suggest that representation should be suppressed because it might favour a party is fundamentally anti-democratic,” Khera argues. “We aren’t engineering polls, we are re-engineering a stagnant system.”

Few disagree on the need for greater female representation. Women make up just 14 per cent of the lower house, less than half of the proposed quota. But tying this reform to delimitation is one of the most contentious aspects of the bill.

“Any reasonable person knows that they are hiding behind women’s reservation,” Wilson says. “Who prevents you from implementing it within 543 seats?”

Patel says that there are workable alternatives. “There is no structural barrier,” he says. “It could have been done through rotation or internal allocation. Linking it to delimitation creates a situation where opposing one appears like opposing the other.”

The BJP, however, insists that delimitation is necessary to implement the quota fairly. “Representation must be based on clearly defined territorial constituencies. You cannot simply appoint women to seats. We are embedding the quota into the very fabric of new constituencies,” Khera says.

Beyond the political clash, unresolved technical questions remain. Critics of the proposed legislation are concerned about the cap of 850 seats, the absence of a clear methodology for distributing seats among states, and how constituencies will be chosen for the women’s quota – particularly given quotas already exist for people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, traditionally downtrodden groups.

“There is no methodology,” Wilson says of the proposed cap, as he questions the “arbitrary” ratio of MPs to constituents. “You fix a number, and then accommodate more seats where it suits you.”

Khera defends the proposed expansion as a measured compromise between representation and practicality.

“While a strict one-to-one ratio based on current population might suggest around 1,200 seats,” she says, “we must balance representation with functionality.”

“A parliament of that size would be administratively unwieldy and could dilute the quality of debate.”

She describes the proposal as “a calibrated expansion, not an uncontrolled explosion”. While it is too early to comment on final numbers, she says, the government is committed to ensuring that no state loses representation.

The delimitation commission – expected to be led by a retired Supreme Court judge – is set to wield sweeping powers to redraw boundaries, raising further concerns about transparency and oversight.

The whole exercise, Patel argues, “is about who holds power in India for the next few decades”.

Back in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, the ashes of the burned bill lay scattered on the ground as protesters vowed to stand up against the changes. While parliament sits to debate the bill, similar demonstrations are expected to take place across the country in the coming days.

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Mystery of family missing since 1958 finally solved

Police have identified the remains of a family thatcrashed into an Oregon river in 1958, putting an end to a decades-long hunt for answers about their disappearance.

The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Officeidentified Kenneth Martin based on DNArecovered from remains found in the Columbia River, while other evidence found at the site helped identify his wife Barbara and their daughter Barbie.

“The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office has concluded its investigation, having found no evidence of a crime,” policewrotein a statement on Thursday.

The Martin familydisappeared in December of 1958 during a visit to the Columbia River Gorge to collect greenery for Christmas decorations, police said.

The bodiesof two of their children, Virginia, 13, and Susan, 11, were found downstream months later, but the other three family members on the trip remained missing.

The case set off “one of the greatest manhunts in Oregon’s history,” theAssociated Pressreported the following year. A $1,000 reward was offered to aid in the search, which became a national news story.

Still, decades passed, and relatives were no closer to finding out what happened to the Martins.

“A gas receipt in Cascade Locks, and then there was a witness that said that they had seen them at a cafe in Hood River,” sheriff’s deputy Pete Hughestold Oregon Public Broadcastingof the status of the formerly cold case. “But there’s never been any real closure or anything.”

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In 2024, diver Archer Mayo, who had taken an interest in the disappearance, found the family’s Ford station wagon submerged in 50 feet of water in a part of the river known as “the pit.”

"There was a big collapse in front of me, and it was completely dark, and I couldn't see anything," MayotoldKATU. "And when the water cleared slightly, I saw a tire, and I knew, you know, within a few minutes, I was able to figure out there was a balloon whitewall tire and that this matched it."

That summer, he found human remains nearby.

"I really just ended up solving it with clues and theories, hypotheses, and eventually found them 10 feet under the bottom of the river, 50 feet from the surface," he added in his interview with KATU. "So really, I came up with a theory of where they would be and started digging until I found them."

The following March, police used a crane to remove parts of the buried car.

“Due to the extent to which the vehicle had been encased in sediment, only the frame and some of the attached components were able to be pulled from the water,” the sheriff’s office said in its statement. “Analysis of those items along with other items retrieved by the diver allowed investigators to conclude that this was in fact the Martin car.”

A DNA sample retrieved at the site was compared with living relatives of the Martins, allowing investigators to identify Kenneth Martin’s body. The other DNA recovered from the remains was too degraded to make a match, though investigators said the “totality of the circumstances in which the remains were recovered, and the anthropological assessment of the remains” made them confident that officials had positively ID-ed Martin’s wife and daughter.

In the river, investigators also found remnants of a shoe, plus a camera case with Kenneth Martin’s name and address on it, as well as camera film, according to Colby Lasyone of Othram, the DNA lab that assisted police in the investigation.

"Maybe there'll be pictures published one day of what that is, because that's a pretty cool piece to a mystery," hetoldKOIN.

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Raptors point guard Immanuel Quickley out for Game 1 vs. Cavaliers due to right hamstring strain

CLEVELAND (AP) — Toronto point guard Immanuel Quickley will miss Game 1 of the Raptors' Eastern Conference first-round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday because of a mild right hamstring strain.

Quickley suffered the injury during the Raptors' regular-season finale against Brooklyn. The five-year veteran averaged 16.4 points, a career-high 5.9 assists and 4.0 rebounds in 70 games. He has scored at least 20 points in 20 games and recorded eight double-doubles.

Coach Darko Rajakovic said Quickley was making progress and didn't rule him out for Game 2 on Monday. Quickley also missed eight games from March 23 to April 5 because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot.

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Jamal Shead is expected to start in Quickley's place. Shead, who is in his second season, started 12 games and is averaging 6.6 points and 5.4 assists per game.

Cleveland has ruled out Thomas Bryant because of a left calf strain.

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Louisiana gunman killed seven of his own children and one other child in deadliest US mass shooting in years, police say

A gunman inLouisianakilled seven of his ownchildren, critically wounded their mother, and killed an eighth child on Sunday,policesaid.

The children were aged between 1 and 12 years old, according to Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Christopher Bordelon. The gunman has been identified as Shamar Elkins.

The mother is in critical condition. The gunman wounded a second woman at the scene as well. Bordelon said that the suspect had previously been arrested in a 2019 firearms case.

In total, 10 people were shot in the attack that took place across at least three locations in Shreveport. Police said Elkins shot a woman at one home before traveling to a second where he killed the children.

Seven were found shot inside the home and an eighth child was found dead on the roof after they apparently tried to escape the attack.

Bordelon said Elkins fled in a stolen vehicle and was fatally shot by officers during a chase in neighboring Bossier City.

“The individual responsible once leaving this scene performed a carjacking right here in close proximity to the corner of West 79th and Linwood, at which point in time, Shreveport police patrol officers got behind that vehicle in a chase incident,” Bordelon said.

Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said he was “taken aback” by the horrifyingshooting.

“My heart goes out to this entire community for the tragic event that has taken place this morning,” Smith said. “I just don’t know what to say. My heart is just taken aback. I just cannot begin to imagine how such an event can occur.”

He said the crime scene was an “extensive scene unlike anything most of us have ever seen.”

“This is a tragic situation, maybe the worst tragic situation we've ever had,” Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux added. “It’s a terrible morning in Shreveport.”

State Representative Tammy Phelps said at a news conference that some of the children tried to escape through the back door.

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“I can’t even imagine what the police officers, first responders actually dealt with when they got here today,” she said.

Police said they were still gathering details about the crime scene, and the Louisiana State Police is also investigating.

The two surviving victims were both women who had been shot in the head. One of the women is believed to have been in a relationship with the suspect, according to Smith. Police said one of the women fled to a neighbor’s house after she was shot, according to theWall Street Journal.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is from Shreveport, issued a statement on Sunday saying his team was in communication with local investigators.

“We’re holding the victims, their families and loved ones, and our Shreveport community close in our thoughts and prayers during this incredibly difficult time,” Johnsonwrote on X.

He said he had spoken with Arceneaux and described the shooting as a domestic issue that spiraled into violence.

“I just spoke with @ShreveportMayor Tom Arceneaux about the situation and the multiple law enforcement agencies currently engaged in the investigation to pledge any assistance we can possibly provide,” hewrote. “What apparently began as a domestic dispute this morning ended in amass shootingwith ten people shot—including eight children, ages 1 to 14, who all lost their lives.”

Members of Shreveport’s City Council visited the scene on Sunday afternoon where they held a public prayer for the victims and their families,NBC News reports.

Shreveport City Council chair Tabatha Taylor said the children killed “had their whole life ahead of them.”

“This is the result when someone snaps,” Taylor said. “So, I’m going to ask the community, along with prayer, with every mental health consultant that is out there — this family and this community needs you.”

The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years,according to the Associated Press.

The city of Shreveport is in northwestern Louisiana, with a population of around 180,000.

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UK to ‘flirt’ with recession and 250,000 to lose jobs amid Iran war fallout, warn forecasters

Britain’s economy is poised to "flirt" withrecession, withunemploymentset to soar amid the fallout fromthe ongoing conflict in Iran, economic forecasters have warned.

A new report has predicted that the UK’s economy will flatline across the second and third quarters of this year, hovering on the brink of a technical recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of fallingGDP.

The latest Item Club report predicted a a modest 0.7 per cent rise in gross domestic product (GDP) over the entire year, a significant downgrade from the 1.4 per cent expansion initially forecast for 2025.

It comes just days after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warnedDonald Trump’s war onIranrisks triggering a global recession in a damning assessment ofthe conflict’s impacton the world economy.

The Item Club saidhigher oil and energy priceswill stifle activity, and the jobs market will endure its "biggest hit since the pandemic".

It anticipates the UK’s jobless rate will peak at 5.8 per cent by mid-2027, resulting in nearly 250,000 more people out of work.

Matt Swannell, chief economic adviser to the Item Club, said: "Spiralling energy costs and disruption to supply chains will push the UK to the brink of a technical recession in the middle of this year.

"Consumers’ spending power will be squeezed, while more expensive financing arrangements and a less certain global economic backdrop will pour cold water on companies’ investment plans."

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President Donald Trump has issued further threats toIranif a deal was not reached around the Strait of Hormuz, after it was reported that Iranian forces were refusing passage through the key trading route over the weekend.

The IMF has said the international outlook had “abruptly darkened” as a result of the war, which threatens to throw the global economy “off course” and could cause an energy crisis on an unprecedented scale.

It last week highlighted the UK as facing the largest growth downgrade among G7 nations, with a forecast of 0.8 per cent for 2026, sharply down from 1.3 per cent predicted in January.

However, recent data indicated stronger-than-expected economic momentum before the full impact of the Iran conflict, with GDP growing by 0.5 per cent month-on-month in February – the fastest expansion since January 2024.

Despiteinflation being projected to surgeto almost 4 per cent in the latter half of 2026 – nearly double the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target – the report suggests interest rates will remain unchanged throughout 2026.

TheMonetary Policy Committee(MPC) is expected to resist knee-jerk rate hikes.

Mr Swannell added: "We don’t expect the Bank of England to repeat the 2022 playbook and hike interest rates as energy prices rise. This time policy is already restrictive, and a more fragile economy means that businesses will find it harder to pass on higher costs to the consumer.

"Instead, the MPC can stand pat as it waits for inflation to fall back before it cuts interest rates a couple more times in the middle of next year."

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Man City beats Arsenal despite Gianluigi Donnarumma howler

In a crucial matchup between the top two sides in the Premier League, Manchester City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma made a massive error to help Arsenal equalize.

Luckily for the home side, Donnarumma's mistake didn't prevent them fromearning a huge 2-1 win over the Gunnerson Sunday, April 19.

Manchester City took the lead in the 16th minute, courtesy of a scorching hot Rayan Cherki.

After receiving the ball from right back Matheus Nunes, the Frenchman eluded three defenders to ultimately find the bottom left corner with precision.

However, just two minutes later, Arsenal would find the equalizer through a massive mistake from Donnarumma.

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Arsenal's Kai Havertz applied pressure on the Italian goalkeeper, who had the ball at his feet. Donnarumma failed to properly clear the ball, and the German striker deflected the clearance into the back of the net.

Donnarumma was consoled by his teammates after his mistake.

The Italian goalkeeper would go on to partially atone for his error, making a huge save on Havertz 15 minutes into the second half.

Just minutes later, Erling Haaland scored the final goal of the game as City picked up a huge three points.

Arsenal now leads the Premier League by three points over City, which has a game in hand and could go top with a win over Burnley on Wednesday, April 22.

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Chelsea won the match, 3-2.

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