Around 150 large forest fires spread across Russia
Almost 9,000 hectares (22,260 acres) of Russia`s forests are ablaze, with 150 large-scale fires continuing to rage across the country, an emergencies situation ministry spokesman said.
New powerful quake shakes Indonesia
The second powerful earthquake in as many days shook western Indonesia Thursday, collapsing buildings in a coastal city and triggering tsunami alerts around the region. The latest quake was also felt in Malaysia and in Singapore where tall buildings swayed. It triggered at least one strong aftershock.
Moscow car explosion was "act of hooliganism", not a terrorist attack
A car that exploded in downtown Moscow on Tverskaya Street Monday night, injuring two people, was an act of hooliganism, not a terrorist attack, police said.
Rocket blast injures 50 Israeli soldiers
A Palestinian rocket exploded in an Israeli army base early Tuesday, wounding 50 soldiers and drawing calls for a major military operation against rocket squads in the Gaza Strip.
Russian rescuers to help China in search of Russian rafters
A plane with Russian rescuers has arrived in China to help find six Russian rafters. They went missing more than two weeks ago in the north-west of the country.
No Russians killed in An-12 crash in Congo
Moscow denied media reports that Russian citizens died when an Antonov cargo plane crashed in Congo Friday, and reported that two Georgians and two Ukrainians were killed.
Car bomb kills 10 in Algeria
A car bomb killed 10 people in eastern Algeria on Saturday, a security source said, two days after a suicide blast condemned by the government as a rebel bid to wreck efforts to end political violence. ADVERTISEMENT
Illegal explosives workshop found in Daghestan
Police in Daghestan have discovered an underground explosives workshop in a residential home in the Khasavyurt district, in northern Daghestan, a source in the republic`s Interior Ministry said.
14 dead in U.S. Iraq attack
American and Iraqi Special Forces clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen Thursday in western Baghdad before calling in airstrikes, the U.S. military said. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
Felix toll rises, Henriette hits Mexico
Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic Wednesday after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua`s Caribbean coast. The death toll rose to at least 18 with dozens more missing.
Category 5 Hurricane Felix slams ashore
Hurricane Felix roared ashore early Tuesday as a fearsome Category 5 storm - the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have made landfall in the same season.
Heavy fire in Siberian apartment: six killed, eight rescued
Six people were killed and eight rescued when a building caught fire in a town in northwestern Siberia, a local emergencies service spokesman said Tuesday.
Russian policemen attacked in Chechnya
In Chechnya, one policeman has been killed after a group of gunmen fired at a school and the house of a village elder. The incident took place in a small settlement of the Itum-Kali region of the republic.
Felix becomes Category 5 hurricane
Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane and churned through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall as "potentially catastrophic" storm.
Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane in an apparent protest against the U.S. surrendered to authorities Saturday after holding some crew members and passengers hostage for more than four hours. No one was hurt.
Turkish passenger plane hijacked
A Turkish passenger plane heading for Istanbul from northern Cyprus was hijacked on Saturday and forced to land for refueling in southern Turkey, local media reported.
Powerful earthquake in Peru kills 48
A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru`s coast near the capital on Wednesday, toppling buildings, setting off landslides and killing at least 48 people. Authorities said the quake generated a tsunami but it wasn`t destructive.
Over 120 kids diagnosed with stomach bug at Russian summer camp
Over 120 children have been diagnosed with food poisoning at a summer camp in the Novgorod Region in northwestern Russia, a local police spokesman said Wednesday.
Up to 300,000 to become homeless because of floods in North Korea
North Korean authorities have indicated flooding may have left up to 300,000 people homeless, a U.N. aid agency spokesman said on Wednesday, and crop losses may be severe in the impoverished state that has battled famine.
Blast at chemical factory in Siberia is undangerous - emergencies ministry official
Blast at chemical factory in Siberia kills at least four
Aircraft crashes in south Russia
A Czech-made L-39 aircraft crashed Thursday during a training flight in the Krasnodar Region in southern Russia, the Russian air force chief of staff said.
Military chopper crash in Britain: two dead, 10 injured
Two people have been killed and 10 injured, some seriously, after a military helicopter crashed in northern England, police said on Thursday.
German nationals killed in car crash in Ukraine
Five German nationals died in a collision between a car and a truck in eastern Ukraine, a Ukrainian emergencies ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Counterfeit caviar worth 1.5 million euros seized in Moscow
About 300 kg of counterfeit black caviar worth more than 1.5 million euros has been confiscated in Moscow, a Russian Interior Ministry`s official said Tuesday.
Afghan national killed in Moscow
An Afghan national was stabbed to death in eastern Moscow, a police source said Tuesday.