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Thursday 16 Jul 2026
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The chief engineer at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station. (Photo/Reuters)
The chief engineer at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
Alexei Likhachev said on Wednesday in a statement that a Ukrainian drone had struck a service car between the plant's site and the town of Enerhodar, killing the engineer, Alexander Yakovlev, and the driver.
Russian forces took control of the plant in southeastern Ukraine, Europe's largest, with six reactors, in the first weeks of Russia's 2022 assault on Ukraine.
Each side has since regularly accused the other of military actions that endanger nuclear safety.
The city of Enerhodar, where most of the nuclear station's staff live, has been a frequent target of attacks.
The district court also convicted and sentenced 14 others, while seven defendants were acquitted, Khatiwada told AFP.
Bhutan introduced a "One Nation, One People" policy in 1985, which stripped citizenship rights from the Nepali-speaking minority known as Lhotshampa and labelled them immigrants.
The Buddhist kingdom also made national dress compulsory and restricted the use of the Nepali language.
Many of the Lhotshampa fleeing Bhutan in the early 1990s ended up in refugee camps in Nepal.
A third-country resettlement programme ran from 2007 to 2018, after the failure of years-long negotiations to secure their return to Bhutan.
The majority were resettled in the United States. Thousands more found new homes in Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
The case involved hundreds of victims, who said the racket took their cash but then did nothing to help them, according to Nepali media.
Nepali police made the first arrests in March 2023 after receiving several complaints.
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Source: TRT
