Italy`s emergency services continued to find survivors following the devastating quake in central Italy, as the country`s economic development minister said the death toll had exceeded 250 on Wednesday.
The mountainous region of Abruzzo in central Italy, where 179 people died in a powerful quake, was hit by aftershocks overnight, a civil protection department spokesman said on Tuesday.
At least 20 people, including five children, have been confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake hit central Italy`s Abruzzo region on Monday, Italian police said.
Seven people were killed when a truck and a car crashed in southern Kazakhstan, the country`s emergencies ministry said on Wednesday.
Russia`s vice-consul in Odessa, southern Ukraine, was discovered dead early on Monday, local media said.
At least 67 militants have been killed and 233 detained in special operations in the North Caucasus since the beginning of 2009, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday.
A man has been stabbed to death on a bus in southern Ukraine after refusing to give up his seat, the forUm news website said on Tuesday, citing local police.
Seven civilians were killed and about 10 injured when a bus hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday, the country`s Interior Ministry said.
Seven civilians were killed and about 10 injured when a bus hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday, the country`s Interior Ministry said.
A woman has been detained in central Ukraine on suspicion of cutting off her husband`s arms, legs and head, the Kriminal.tv crime website reported on Friday.
A helicopter gunner has died and three police officers and one servicemen have been injured during an anti-militant operation in the Russian republic of Daghestan, a police spokesman said on Friday.
Police in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed several militants hiding in the basement of a house, law enforcement agencies said Thursday.
A man in the U.S. state of Alabama went on a bloody rampage on Tuesday killing at least nine people, including members of his family, before turning the gun on himself, local media said.
Two Russians and two Ukrainians died in an Il-76 air crash near Uganda`s capital Kampala, an advisor to Russia`s ambassador to Uganda said on the phone Monday.
A Russian serviceman in southeast Siberia shot dead two of his colleagues before turning his automatic weapon on himself, a police official said on Tuesday.
Preliminary investigations have shown that a faulty altimeter combined with pilot error were responsible for the crash of a Turkish airliner in Amsterdam last week, the Dutch investigators said on Wednesday.
At least six people were killed and one person is still missing after a gas blast occurred in Russia`s Far Eastern Primorye Territory, a spokesman for the local emergencies service said on Thursday.
Rescuers are continuing their search for a Swiss tourist who went missing on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia`s Far East, the regional emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.
The death toll in a train blast near Rostov-on-Don reaches two, another six people were injured, investigators, who are working on the site of the accident, told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
A Turkish Boeing 737-800 with 127 passengers and seven crewmembers onboard crashed upon landing at Amsterdam`s Schiphol Airport on Wednesday.
A Ukrainian An-12 cargo plane burst into flames on Friday as it tried to take off in south Egypt killing five crew members, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority head was quoted as saying by the MENA news agency.
GENEVA, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - The health crisis in Zimbabwe, which has suffered from food shortages, an AIDS epidemic and its worst cholera outbreak in decades, has deteriorated with over 500,000 requiring urgent medical treatment, local media said.
MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll in southern Australia`s recent bushfires has reached 200, Australia`s ABC television company reported on Tuesday, citing local police.
MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia`s Pyotr Veliky missile cruiser has detained three pirate vessels off the coast of Somalia, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Friday.
VELIKY NOVGOROD, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - Residents of a city between Moscow and St. Petersburg were awakened on Thursday night by air raid signals and emergency announcements, a regional police spokesman told RIA Novosti on Friday.