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The 100,000 residents of the Canadian city of Fort McMurray were ordered to leave town as a monster wildfire swept through the region.

• 04 мая 2016, 14:47

A hijacker seized an Egyptian airliner and diverted it to Cyprus, before releasing all the passengers except four foreigners and the crew.

• 29 марта 2016, 14:56

Warm weather and rains have given way to winds and blizzards in Astana.

• 29 декабря 2015, 21:30

Kazakhstanis were laying flowers in front of the Russian Embassy and Consulate General in Almaty and Astana expressing their deep condolences to families of the victims of Airbus 321 crash.

• 18 ноября 2015, 15:52

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed gun and bomb attacks that left more than 120 people dead in Paris in a statement posted online.

• 14 ноября 2015, 17:47

The Paris attacks show it is more vital than ever to coordinate global efforts to fight terrorism, France's foreign minister said, vowing that French "international action" will not stop.

• 14 ноября 2015, 16:17

A rescue operation to pull people from the rubble of a collapsed Pakistani factory ended after nearly a week, with the death toll at 45 and more than 100 survivors plucked from the debris.

• 10 ноября 2015, 17:27

Rescue crews resumed digging through the rubble of a collapsed factory in Pakistan as officials said they expected to find at least two dozen more bodies, with the death toll standing at 23.

• 06 ноября 2015, 15:51

Desperate survivors appealed for food and blankets after a devastating earthquake killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

• 28 октября 2015, 12:00

At least 11 people were killed and many more wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through a passenger bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.

• 20 октября 2015, 12:31

Visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged to help Indonesia fight forest fires blanketing Southeast Asia in haze as foreign aircraft joined operations to douse the blazes.

• 12 октября 2015, 11:52

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

• 25 сентября 2015, 17:39

Helicopters water-bombed raging forest fires that have cloaked parts of Indonesia in thick haze and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia.

• 14 сентября 2015, 15:27

The deadly collapse of a construction crane in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca has highlighted the controversial pace of high-end urban development in the birthplace of Islam.

• 14 сентября 2015, 11:26

At least 107 people died when a massive construction crane crashed into Mecca's Grand Mosque, with scores more injured, Saudi authorities said, days before the annual hajj pilgrimage.

• 12 сентября 2015, 16:09

A group of wildfires blazing in the western US state of Washington have become the largest in the state's history, and 2015 has become the state's worst fire year on record.

• 25 августа 2015, 12:23

A huge blaze broke out Monday at steel plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air.

• 24 августа 2015, 14:47

A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical experts began work Thursday at the site of two massive explosions in the city of Tianjin.

• 14 августа 2015, 11:30

Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in Taiwan ripping up trees and tearing down billboards as it battered the island with fierce winds and torrential rain.

• 08 августа 2015, 16:25

20 train wagons have run off the track in Aktobe Oblast, western Kazakhstan. 6 wagons caught fire.

• 05 августа 2015, 20:23