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Nine people were missing in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, a day after freak floods killed 14 people and swept away zoo animals, some of which were shot after being found prowling the streets.

Lions, tigers and even a hippopotamus escaped from a zoo in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, adding to chaos caused by severe flooding that killed at least 12 people.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev expresses his condolences to the Chinese people in connection to the deadly ship accident.

Hundreds of Ukrainian firefighters battled to keep a blaze sparked by a deadly string of fuel depot blasts from engulfing a strategic military unit outside Kiev.

The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in the French Alps were repatriated to Germany.

Singapore has declared Monday a day of national remembrance after at least six local students on an excursion and two adults accompanying them were killed in an earthquake.

Rescuers extended their search for victims of a Chinese cruise ship sinking to include a vast stretch of the Yangtze rive, as the confirmed death toll rose to 396.

Authorities admit there is no hope for more survivors from a capsized Chinese cruise ship.

Rescuers pulled at least three people from the wreckage of a capsized Chinese cruise ship as fears mounted for the more than 400 people still missing.

Is there a connection between the mass die-out of saigas in Kazakhstan and rocket launches from Baikonur cosmodrome?

The FBI is being called in to determine if a projectile struck a commuter train before it crashed in the US city of Philadelphia this week, killing eight people.

Airbus on Tuesday carried out the first test flight of a new A400M since one of the military transport planes crashed in Spain over the weekend.

Airbus said it would carry on with test flights of its A400M military transport plane despite the crash of one of the aircraft in Spain that killed four employees.

Spanish authorities found the two cockpit recorders of the Airbus A400M military plane that crashed near Seville airport, killing four people.

Kazakhstan will allocate €1 million for the construction of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) intended to contain the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine.

A woman from Kazakhstan was in the capital of Nepal, when the earthquake hit the country. She survived.

Recommendations that may bring good results in Nepal: Rethinking monetary policy in order to take into consideration the growing economic relation with China, pushing for a Roosevelt infrastructure plan, developing the hydro energy sector.

Kazakhstan will render assistance to Nepal.

Desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital.

Villagers from flood-hit areas in Kazakhstan ask for help and to assess damages to their homes. Emergency services are still working to counter the consequences of flooding and prevent additional ruin.
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