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Ukrainians marked 29 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, placing wreaths and candles near the plant where work to lay a new seal over the reactor site has been delayed.

• 27 апреля 2015, 13:15

A large column of smoke streamed from Chile's Calbuco volcano, prompting new warnings that it could erupt again.

• 25 апреля 2015, 16:04

A powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, causing massive damage in the capital Kathmandu with strong tremors felt across neighbouring countries.

• 25 апреля 2015, 15:14

Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted for the first time in nearly half a century, spewing a giant funnel of ash 10 kilometers (six miles) into the sky.

• 23 апреля 2015, 15:12

A powerful storm swept through India's eastern Bihar state overnight leaving at least 33 people dead and destroying crops and properties.

• 22 апреля 2015, 16:00

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed to world governments to share the burden of taking in refugees after more than 700 migrants were feared dead.

• 20 апреля 2015, 14:06

Up to 400 illegal migrants died after their vessel capsized off the Libyan coast, said survivors who were brought to Italy.

• 15 апреля 2015, 13:48

The foreign ministers of France, Spain and Germany paid tribute to the victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps at Barcelona airport.

• 13 апреля 2015, 16:43

The mass beaching of more than 150 melon-headed whales on Japan's shores has fuelled fears of a repeat of a seemingly unrelated event in the country.

• 11 апреля 2015, 14:29

Poles marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly plane crash in Russia that killed then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 officials.

• 11 апреля 2015, 10:57

More than 30 people, mostly schoolchildren returning from a sports meet, were killed Friday in Morocco when their bus caught fire.

• 11 апреля 2015, 10:30

More than 130 melon-headed whales, a member of the dolphin family usually found in the deep ocean, beached in Japan.

• 10 апреля 2015, 13:36

Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country's northwest and killing at least 35 people.

• 06 апреля 2015, 15:08

Around 24,000 people from the Philippines were being evacuated with Typhoon Maysak a day away from potentially striking the country's northeast coast.

• 04 апреля 2015, 13:41

Rescuers were searching freezing waters off Russia's Far East after a fishing boat sank in the Sea of Okhotsk with the loss of at least 54 lives.

• 02 апреля 2015, 15:44

The small German town of Haltern am See held an emotional memorial service for the 16 pupils and two teachers from a local school.

• 02 апреля 2015, 12:45

An emergency was declared in the Micronesian state of Chuuk as Super Typhoon Maysak cut a destructive path across the central Pacific.

• 01 апреля 2015, 15:59

The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings plane had informed his employer that he had undergone a "previous episode of severe depression".

• 01 апреля 2015, 12:14

At least 18 people were killed in flash floods that hit a normally arid region of northern Chile last week, and about the same number remain missing.

• 31 марта 2015, 14:33

The captain of a passenger jet that investigators believe was deliberately crashed into the French Alps shouted at the co-pilot to "open the damn door".

• 30 марта 2015, 10:51