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Wounded come home as Mexico demands Egypt compensation On stretchers and in wheelchairs, six Mexican tourists hurt in a mistaken Egyptian air strike that killed eight others returned home, as Mexico pressed for compensation for the victims.

19 September 2015

Japan warns tourists on Mount Aso after eruption Japan warned tourists to keep away from popular Mount Aso after it began belching smoke and ash into the air, the latest eruption in one of the world's most volcanically active countries.

14 September 2015

What's in a name? Thais avoid linking Uighurs to Bangkok blast The police investigation into the Bangkok shrine blast increasingly points towards a game-changing attack on Chinese tourists by Uighur militants or sympathisers.

14 September 2015

Wildfires threaten Russia's unique Lake Baikal Raging wildfires have turned the shores of the world's largest freshwater lake in Siberia into an inferno, threatening the health and livelihood of locals.

04 September 2015

Gorillas not guerrillas: tourism hope in troubled Congo Tourists perch perilously on a volcano's edge as swirling smoke belches from the fiery cauldron of lava below, the latest unlikely visitors holidaying in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.

26 August 2015

Bangkok bomb shrine reopens as police hunt suspect Thai monks led prayers for the reopening of a Bangkok shrine where a blast killed 20 people, as police hunted a man shown on security footage calmly planting what is believed to be the bomb.

19 August 2015

Hong Kong says avoid Bangkok, others urge caution after bombing Hong Kong warned its residents to avoid travel to Bangkok while other governments in Asia advised citizens to be extra vigilant, after a bomb attack in the Thai capital killed at least 20 people.

18 August 2015

18-y.o. girl from Kazakhstan killed in bus crash in Turkey 18-year-old girl from Kazakhstan Aida Sarabayeva was killed in a resent traffic accident on the road from Pamukkale to Antalya.

10 August 2015

Traveler from Kazakhstan tells about his trip around the world He has been to 25 countries over these last six months. Arman Aubakirov told Tengrinews about his adventures and impression from the trip as well as gave advices on how to plan the journey..

07 August 2015

London Tube strike causes major disruption Millions of Londoners were forced to walk, cycle or take packed buses to and from work as Underground staff staged their second strike in a month over plans to run trains all night.

07 August 2015

Kazakhstani popular tourist destinations open for foreigners again Kazakhstan government has revised the decree that made many popular resorts a special border zone requiring special passes. Foreigners will no longer have to obtain permits to visit them.

06 August 2015

Vietnam mulls introducing visa free travel for Kazakhstan citizens Vietnam mulls introducing a visa free regime for citizens of Kazakhstan.

05 August 2015

France evacuates 10,000 campers as Provence burns French officials evacuated 10,000 people from three different campsites as hot winds fanned fires in drought-hit Provence in the middle of the summer holiday season

28 July 2015

Nazarbayev heaps criticism on EXPO-2017 preparations President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev urged to promote the upcoming EXPO-2017with consideration of logistic, security and volunteering aspects

27 July 2015

Popular tourist destinations, including Shymbulak and Charyn Canyon, off limits for foreigners in Kazakhstan Kazakh Government has decreed to create wide belts near the county's border and make them off-limits for foreigners unless they acquire a special pass. Several very popular tourist destinations of Kazakhstan are within the limits of the new belts.

21 July 2015

Japan's Meiji industrial sites win UN world heritage status The UN's cultural body conferred world heritage status on a number of new sites including some seen as representative of Japan's industrial revolution.

06 July 2015

Landslides kill at least 21 in India's Darjeeling Landslides triggered by heavy rain killed at least 21 people across India's famed tea-growing region of Darjeeling, with more feared trapped under mounds of mud and debris.

01 July 2015

'Black Monday' in Greece as panic simmers It has already been dubbed "Black Monday" -- jittery housewives, shoppers and business owners queued in vain at cash machines in Athens, where the country awoke to capital controls and shuttered banks.

29 June 2015

UK warns of possible further attacks in Tunisia The British government cautioned Sunday that other attacks "are possible" in Tunisia as Queen Elizabeth II sent condolences to that relatives of victims.

29 June 2015

Most of the dead in Tunisia attack were British: Tunisian PM Most of those killed in a massacre at a Tunisian beach resort claimed by the Islamic State group were British, the Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said.

27 June 2015