News Wire | August 31, 2022 Archive
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91
By Marilyn Berger | The New York Times
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, has died in Moscow. He was 91.
U.N. Nuclear Chief Sets Off for Russian-Occupied Zaporizhzhia Plant
By John Hudson | The Washington Post
A team of United Nations nuclear experts packed into a convoy of armored vehicles in Ukraine’s capital Wednesday and drove off to the embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the culmination of six months of painstaking international negotiations aimed at preventing a catastrophe at the facility.
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