TSKHINVAL, February 11 (Itar-Tass) - The Transcaucasian highway was closed over heavy snow and the threat of avalanches, the head of the North Ossetian Emergencies Ministry’s press service, Vladimir Ivanov, told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Two Russian military personnel were killed and one wounded after a dispute turned violent in the early hours of Wednesday in the southern Achkhoi-Martan district Chechnya, a police source said.
MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - Human error was behind last September`s crash of a Boeing passenger plane near the Russian Urals city of Perm, which killed all 88 people on board, the International Aviation Committee (IAC) said Tuesday.
MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - Some 55 police officers are investigating the causes and consequences of unprecedented bushfires that have already killed 173 people in southern Australia, the local media said on Tuesday.
YEKATERINBURG, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - Federal Security Service (FSB) and police officers have seized a batch of heroin and hashish weighting some 25 kg (55 lbs) in the Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals, an FSB spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
A wildfire rages up a gully near Kinglake, northeast of Melbourne. Australian firefighters fought Tuesday to save communities from wildfires that have claimed 173 lives and left a trail of charred bodies in blackened homes and twisted car wrecks.
Police believe some of the fires were started deliberately - actions which Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said amounted to "mass murder".
A Russian-registered cargo ship has lost 1,500 metric tons of timber during a storm off the south coast of England, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said on Monday.
Two former police officers were killed early on Monday in an armed attack in Russia`s North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a local police spokesman said.
Thieves have stolen 30 mink coats worth 2.5 million rubles ($77,000) from a shop in southeast Moscow, a police source said on Monday.
A decapitated human head was discovered in the southern Russian city of Saratov as workers were preparing an ice hole for traditional Epiphany bathing, a source in the local rescue service said on Monday.
A police officer in Russia`s Urals city of Yekaterinburg has committed suicide after a quarrel with his wife, a police spokesman said on Monday.
New Orleans evacuees scattered across the country were anxious to return home after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer.
A 75-year-old pensioner gunned down a police officer before turning the gun on himself during a family row in the northern Russian region of Vologda, a police source said.
Twelve people have now died out of 26 confirmed cases of food poisoning linked to deli meats produced at a plant owned by Maple Leaf Foods Inc, Canadian health officials said Monday.
A pack of enormous bears searching for food killed and ate two men at mines in Russia`s Pacific Kamchatka region and have kept hundreds of geologists and miners from reaching the mine, news agencies reported Wednesday.
Tropical storm Bertha has strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
Four people died and six were wounded late Sunday when an explosion rocked a cafe in Georgia`s pro-Russian separatist province of Abkhazia, Interfax news agency reported Monday.
Slovenia`s nuclear agency wrongly informed its neighbours that an incident at an atomic power plant was an exercise, but soon corrected its mistake, Environment Minister Janez Podobnik said Thursday.
A cargo plane crashed as it prepared to land in the city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals region of Russia on Monday, killing all nine people aboard, a spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry said.
Eighteen people including 15 Russians were injured when a tourist bus crashed in Ukraine`s Crimean peninsula, a spokesman for the local emergencies service said on Monday.
The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China`s worst earthquake in three decades.
A cholera outbreak in Kenya has killed 67 people so far this year, while a fungus has wiped out up to 20 percent of the country`s annual rice production, United Nations agencies said on Friday.
Drug officers have made another large drug haul in less than a month seizing 445 kg (981 lbs) marijuana in the Urals, the regional office of the Federal Drug Control Service announced Monday.
Eighty six children have been hospitalized, with five in a serious condition, following an outbreak of food poisoning at a kindergarten in East Siberia, a local official said on Friday.