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Investigators probe deadly Russian plane crash in Egypt International investigators have begun probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on board in one of the deadliest Airbus incidents of the past decade.

01 November 2015

China's smoking death toll to double to 2 million in 2030: study Cigarette smoking will kill about two million Chinese in 2030, double the 2010 toll, said researchers who warned of a "growing epidemic of premature death" in the world's most populous nation.

09 October 2015

Four soldiers drown during military exercise in Kazakhstan Four soldiers have drowned during the second stage of Center 2015 military drills in Aktau, Kazakhstan.

25 September 2015

Legendary horror director Wes Craven dead at 76 Wes Craven, a master of cinema horror whose directorial credits include "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream," died Sunday aged 76.

31 August 2015

Pakistan air strikes kill 50 militants in tribal area: military At least 50 militants were killed and their ammunition dump destroyed Monday in air strikes on hideouts in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.

18 August 2015

Horrible road accident in Almaty, water carrier crushes pedestrians In a fatal road traffic accident in Kazakhstan's Almaty, a water carrier truck killed 2 and injured 7.

17 August 2015

Pakistan provincial minister among 16 killed in suicide attack: officials Two suicide attackers killed a Pakistani provincial minister, who had campaigned against militants, and at least 15 other people, after detonating a bomb at a meeting the minister was attending.

17 August 2015

India summons Pakistan envoy over civilian deaths in Kashmir India summoned Pakistan's envoy in New Delhi Sunday to protest against civilian deaths in recent troop firings along their disputed border.

17 August 2015

Why we need to dispel myths about suicide in Kazakhstan? Teenage suicide remains a pressing problem in Kazakhstan that is not addressed with due seriousness.

14 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

Foreign experts present findings on mass saiga pestilence in Kazakhstan Foreign experts have finally presented their preliminary findings into the tragic pestilence of hundreds of thousands of rare saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan.

10 August 2015

Teen stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride march dies: hospital A teenage girl stabbed along with five other people at a Jerusalem Gay Pride march by a suspect identified as an ultra-Orthodox Jew died of her wounds.

03 August 2015

Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina dies at 22 Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only daughter of pop legend Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, has died at age 22.

27 July 2015

6 Kosovo construction workers fall 20m in Astana, 4 dead Six workers have fallen 20 meters at a stadium construction site in Astana; four died, two in severe condition.

15 July 2015

Omar Sharif, the eternal 'Doctor Zhivago', dies at 83 Egyptian-born film legend Omar Sharif, who died aged 83, captivated audiences worldwide for more than half a century, but will forever be remembered as the eponymous "Doctor Zhivago".

11 July 2015

South African experts study causes of saiga pestilence in Kazakhstan Causes of the recent massive die-out of rare saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan is studied by South African specialists.

07 July 2015

World's oldest man dies at 112 in Japan The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112.

07 July 2015

Ex-French interior minister Charles Pasqua dies aged 88 Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua, a hardline politician who was a close ally of former president Jacques Chirac, died Monday aged 88.

30 June 2015

Primakov, ex-PM 'who turned around Russia,' dies aged 85 Russia's former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, famed for turning around his US-bound plane over the Atlantic upon learning of NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999, has died aged 85.

27 June 2015

High emotions as Charleston mourns massacre victims Emotions ran high as defiant mourners held the first funeral services for nine African Americans shot dead by a white alleged supremacist in a Charleston church.

26 June 2015

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