Japanese health officials said on Tuesday the potential health consequences of the nuclear crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant are not equal to those caused by the disaster at Chernobyl.

KYIV, Ukraine, September 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The main result of the state visit of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, to the People's Republic of China is China's commitment to invest more than 4 billion USD in the infrastructure projects in Ukraine.

By OLIVIA KELLEHER AN Irish charity has launched an appeal after stumbling across a "hospital from hell". On its latest humanitarian mission to Kazakhstan, Cork charity Greater Chernobyl Cause found Red Cross personnel desperately trying to care for patients in horrifying conditions.

A teenage victim of the Chernobyl nuclear accident is fighting to remain in the United States with the California family she spends summers with.

Excerpt from report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Kiev, 11 October: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has instructed the cabinet to set up an ad-hoc commission to investigate the dismissal of the director general of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ihor Hramotkin.