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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.

• 16 июня 2015, 12:24

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.

• 15 июня 2015, 10:45

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

• 10 июня 2015, 16:35

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.

• 10 июня 2015, 12:32

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

• 10 июня 2015, 11:48

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.

• 08 июня 2015, 10:43

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.

• 07 июня 2015, 10:34

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

• 05 июня 2015, 12:13

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.

• 03 июня 2015, 13:55

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

• 31 мая 2015, 03:36

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.

• 17 мая 2015, 12:00

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.

• 13 мая 2015, 14:32

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.

• 12 мая 2015, 11:53

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

• 11 мая 2015, 12:12

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

• 08 мая 2015, 22:30

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

• 08 мая 2015, 19:08

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.

• 05 мая 2015, 20:21

Kazakhstan will render assistance to Nepal.

• 04 мая 2015, 18:42

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

• 30 апреля 2015, 11:22

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.

• 27 апреля 2015, 20:18