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France said it was calling off the hunt for wreckage from missing flight MH370 after 10 days of air and sea searches off its Indian Ocean territory of Reunion yielded no results.

• 18 августа 2015, 13:46

Chinese state-run media lambasted officials in the port city of Tianjin for a lack of transparency over the massive explosions at an industrial site.

• 17 августа 2015, 16:04

A plane searching for an Indonesian passenger aircraft that went missing in the remote eastern province of Papua with 54 people on board at the weekend on Monday spotted debris.

• 17 августа 2015, 15:12

The number of people killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin has risen to 85.

• 15 августа 2015, 14:11

Enormous explosions in a major Chinese port city killed at least 44 people and injured more than 500, leaving a devastated industrial landscape of incinerated cars, toppled shipping containers and burnt-out buildings.

• 13 августа 2015, 13:46

France will conduct air and sea searches off its Indian Ocean territory of Reunion until the start of next week for debris from missing flight MH370.

• 13 августа 2015, 12:04

Typhoon Soudelor killed 14 people in eastern China and four are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century.

• 10 августа 2015, 11:20

France launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on Friday in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

• 08 августа 2015, 11:08

Chinese relatives of passengers aboard missing flight MH370 marched to Malaysia's embassy in Beijing, some demanding to be taken to Reunion island where suspected wreckage from the plane was found.

• 07 августа 2015, 15:02

There is a "very high probability" that wreckage found on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion comes from the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH37.

• 06 августа 2015, 12:40

At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured when two buses crashed head-on in Russia's far eastern Khabarovsk region.

• 05 августа 2015, 23:52

Mudflow consequences are still being remedied in Almaty that was hit by a powerful mud flow on July 23.

• 30 июля 2015, 20:26

Torrential rains and flooding have killed 81 people in Pakistan over the past two weeks and affected almost 300,000, the disaster management agency said Tuesday, warning of more bad weather to come.

• 29 июля 2015, 11:50

Thousands of people were pouring into Srebrenica to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Muslims in the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II.

• 11 июля 2015, 15:17

A powerful hurricane in Ekibazstuz has torn off a roof of a five-storey building and knocked down dozens of trees.

• 07 июля 2015, 18:43

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 июля 2015, 14:27

A big fire claims a cafe in Petropavlovsk, spreads to the neighboring apartment house and leaves dozens of people homeless.

• 28 июня 2015, 21:02

Tunisia cannot stand up to the jihadist threat alone, President Beji Caid Essebsi said after a gunman killed 28 people at a tourist resort, calling for a unified global strategy.

• 27 июня 2015, 10:56

Georgian police were hunting down a tiger who escaped from the capital's flood-ravaged zoo after after another tiger mauled a man to death before being killed.

• 20 июня 2015, 10:21

Sickened by footage of doctors trying to help child victims of a gas attack, US lawmakers renewed calls for a US-led no fly zone over Syria.

• 18 июня 2015, 11:50