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35 villages in Akmola Oblast are under tread of flooding.

• 20 апреля 2015, 14:48

A young man got lost in the Kyzylorgda Oblast steppes for five days until he was found by a rescue team.

• 28 сентября 2014, 22:24

An international plan is under way to rescue civilians trapped by Islamic State fighters on a mountain in northern Iraq.

• 14 августа 2014, 12:43

Rescue workers dug through deep mud and debris on Thursday in search of victims of a major landslide in western India that buried homes, with the death toll expected to reach 150.

• 01 августа 2014, 14:36

Rescuers freed three of 11 laborers trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Honduras, two days after the men became trapped.

• 05 июля 2014, 11:54

An unfinished overpass being built for the World Cup collapsed in Brazil's southeastern city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 19.

• 04 июля 2014, 11:40

At least four people died when a cargo plane crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Wednesday from the Kenyan capital's main airport, the busiest in east Africa.

• 02 июля 2014, 14:10

The confirmed death toll from India's latest building collapse rose to 17 as authorities blamed shoddy construction for the tragedy near the southern city of Chennai.

• 30 июня 2014, 12:23

About 30 bodies have been found in a migrant boat which was stopped between Sicily and the North African coast, Italian news agencies reported Monday, citing the navy and coastguard.

• 30 июня 2014, 10:30

Malaysian authorities said Friday a 15th body was found and 27 people remain missing from two boat accidents, at a time when Indonesian illegal migrant workers head home for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

• 20 июня 2014, 10:43

A construction crane toppled late Wednesday in a Swiss town, injuring several people, two of them critically, police and media reports said.

• 12 июня 2014, 13:11

Rescuers said Tuesday they aim to extract a researcher trapped with a serious injury in Germany's deepest and longest cave by the end of the week.

• 10 июня 2014, 20:12

The Italian navy on Friday said it had rescued around 2,500 asylum-seekers from 17 boats in the past 24 hours as good weather conditions in the Mediterranean further boost the influx of asylum-seekers trying to reach Europe.

• 06 июня 2014, 14:58

A fire swept through a South Korean hospice for elderly, infirm patients early Wednesday, killing 21 people in what police said appeared to be an act of arson by an 81-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer.

• 28 мая 2014, 11:17

The operation to recover bodies from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month has been suspended due to heavy seas, a spokesman said Saturday, amid concern that many of the missing may never be found.

• 03 мая 2014, 13:09

A 68-year-old woman had to be rescued by helicopter on Tuesday after she fell and became trapped on one of the towers of Britain's historic Wells Cathedral.

• 01 мая 2014, 14:27

South Korea despatched coastguard vessels and helicopters Wednesday to rescue around 450 passengers -- mostly high school students -- on a ferry sinking off the southern coast, officials said.

• 16 апреля 2014, 11:48

Italy has rescued 896 migrants crossing the Mediterranean by boat overnight, the navy said on Friday, after the government warned of an "emergency" caused by a surge in new arrivals.

• 13 апреля 2014, 10:27

A Canadian solo sailor was rescued from his sinking yacht after five days adrift in the Pacific battling rough weather, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) said Tuesday.

• 09 апреля 2014, 10:04

A woman nine months pregnant has saved a boy from drowning in the icy waters of the Irtysh River.

• 01 апреля 2014, 18:38