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Piece of 9/11 plane found in New York
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A piece of landing gear that is believed to come from one of the planes that struck the twin towers during the 9/11 attacks in 2001 has been found wedged between two buildings in lower Manhattan.
It was found wedged, one story high, by a construction crew in a narrow alleyway behind 51 Park Place and 50 Murray Street in Manhattan’s financial district.
This site is now home to an Islamic prayer space and community centre that opened amid controversy in the autumn of 2011, two blocks from Ground Zero.
New York City Police spokesman Paul Browne said there is a “clearly visible” Boeing identification number on the gear.
Almost 12 years after the World Trade Centre was brought down by Islamic extremists killing nearly 3,000 people, debris from the attack and human remains are still turning up.
More about: 9/11, Plane crash, USA
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Work on new sarcophagus continues as Chernobyl marks 27 years
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With the 27th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, it is a time to reflect, but also a time to look to the future.
Construction on a new shelter for the town’s infamous power station is on track and is due to be finished by October 2015.
The new sarcophagus will safely contain the radioactive emissions of Chernobyl for the next 100 years.
Chernobyl’s Ivankiv hospital is receiving 1.4 million euros from the EU for equipment to measure radioactivity. For the first time residents in the Ukrainian town will have a place to go where they can check levels in their food.
The equipment will also be used to check contamination levels in the local population.
“It’s an open secret that this area is still contaminated, and though the level of some radioactive elements like Cesium-137 in some products is lower than 10 years ago, they are still very dangerous,” said Yuriy Bandazhevskiy from the Science and Technology centre in Ukraine.
The 1986 accident released a lethal radioactive cloud, which contaminated swathes of Ukraine, Belarus and further afield.
There is controversy over the death toll, however some claim up to five million people have been affected.
The area around the plant is still very contaminated and is designated as a depopulated “exclusion zone”.
More about: Anniversary, Ceremony, Chernobyl, Ukraine
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Activist deaths and postponed peacetalks highlight struggle over land in Colombia
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