Simon Townsley

1 month ago | nuclear-news.net | Arthur Scott-Geddes |Simon Townsley |Christina MacPherson

Atomic bombs destroyed their lives – now they want Russia to pay “People living around the test site “became unwitting test subjects, and their lives were treated with casual disregard due to racism and ignorance,” “It was a crime of negligence, whereby secrecy, control, and the acquisition of more powerful nuclear weapons were prioritised over the lives of local people.” Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations...

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Arthur Scott-Geddes |Simon Townsley

The Geiger counter came to life as we trudged toward the lip of the crater, its clicks becoming frantic before giving way to an alarm. "This is the Atomic Lake," said the hazmat-suited guide, throwing out his arms against the wind to encompass the circular expanse of water below.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Farmer |Simon Townsley

The US also gave 58 per cent (£62m) of all funding to a separate emergency plan for Sudanese refugees who had fled into neighbouring countries, and then 43 per cent of funding (£254m) to another humanitarian response plan for Chad itself. All that has been thrown up in the air after Donald Trump's decision to pause United States aid funding and to take an axe to the USAid agency which has been the main conduit of the world's aid superpower.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Farmer |Simon Townsley

Abdullah Mufadl has survived not one, but two pitiless ethnic massacres as his country has been convulsed by civil war. Firstly he saw thousands of his Masalit neighbours killed when his home town of El Geneina was overrun by Arab militiamen early in Sudan's catastrophic conflict. Then five months later it happened again, when militiamen once more went on a murderous rampage in the suburb of Ardamata where he had taken refuge. As many as 17,000 died in the two killing sprees.

2 months ago | msn.com | Ben Farmer |Simon Townsley

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