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Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, April 18

Updated: 2011-04-19 15:34

(Agencies)

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Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, April 18

Participants of the International partner conference "25 years after Chernobyl" light candles in Minsk April 18, 2011. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, the place where the world's worst civil nuclear accident took place, on April 26. [Photo/Agencies]

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