…l will rise further. The Krasnodar-Novorossiysk motorway was cut, and the transport system in the region is said to have collapsed. A statement by the Krasnodar regional administration said altogether 13,000 people had been affected by the floods. Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov is on his way to the region. Up to 1,000 rescuers are involved in searching for victims and evacuating survivors….
Russia has decided to have a day of mourning for the victims of the flash floods in southern Krasnodar region. At least 171 people were killed in the disaster, officials said on Sunday. President Vladimir Putin has ordered an enquiry into whether people were given enough warning of the disaster. A separate criminal investigation is under way into possible negligence. Officials deny allegations bl…
…217;t matter that the Kuzbass might not have Yetis. The main thing is that when people come to the Shoria Mountains, they truly enjoy its unique nature.” The first accounts of Yetis emerged before the 19th century from Buddhists who believed that the creature inhabited the Himalayas. They depicted the mysterious beast as having similarities to an ape and carrying a large stone as a weapon while ma…
More than 100 Pakistani soldiers have been buried by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region, officials say. Local TV stations say that the incident happened near the Siachen glacier in the eastern Karakoram mountain range. 130 troops were buried when a battalion headquarters in the Gayari district was engulfed, says the AP news agency, quoting a security official. The area is in the northern…
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…saw something holding it down – it looked like ropes but I got closer and it was actually the top (electric) power line that was holding the basket down. “It probably still would have been 15m in the air. I slowed down and then the whole basket started to go up in flames.” Police commander Mike Rusbatch said two people appeared to have jumped from the basket of the balloon as it…
A dramatic footage shows the terrifying ordeal pilots and air passengers endured while landing at Loiu Airport in Bilbao as high winds batter northern Spain this week. Footage of planes landing at Loiu Airport in Bilbao shows aircraft being blown sideways and shaking almost uncontrollably as pilots battle to bring them down safely on to runways. While one intrepid pilot manages to successfully gu…
…lt in Milan and Bologna, where office workers were evacuated. The quake struck 40 km north of Bologna and 60 km east of Parma, at a depth of 9.6 km (six miles), Reuters reports. The tremor happened at 09:03 local time. There are no reports of major damage or injuries. A new earthquake has shaken northern Italy, centred on the Emilia region, where a quake on May 20 killed seven people and damaged…
President Vladimir Putin has ordered surprise military exercises in the Russian Black Sea region, to test the armed forces’ battle readiness. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the exercises would involve 36 ships and up to 7,000 troops. Vladimir Putin has ordered surprise military exercises in the Russian Black Sea region, to test the armed forces’ battle readiness He added that…
…Ethiopian government accusations that it sponsored the gunmen involved. Afar is regarded as a haunt of both Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels. Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter adversaries since their 1998-2000 border war. Two other tourists were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed, said Ethiopian Television (ETV). It said the two injured tourists had been taken…
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Dozens of people are missing and up to 15 killed in Guatemala after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the Pacific coast, President Otto Perez Molina has said. Otto Perez Molina has declared a national alert and advised people to evacuate tall buildings as a precaution. Officials said landslides had buried roads and it would take 24 hours to restore links to the quake-hit area. Frightened people…
At least 39 people have been killed in Kenya in fresh clashes between rival communities in the Tana River district, police say. The attack by ethnic Pokomo farmers on an Orma village, Kipao, came in the early hours of the morning, they say. Thirteen children and six women were among those killed. Police say the latest attack was revenge for the killing of more than 100 villagers earlier this year…
Harmful levels of lead, far higher than regulations suggest are safe, have been revealed following an analysis of the commercially available rice imported into the US. Some samples exceeded the “provisional total tolerable intake” (PTTI) set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a factor of 120. The report at the American Chemical Society Meeting adds to the already well-known…
…oomed in recent years, but sections of the population remain excluded from its commercial success. The city of Colon – one of the largest free trade ports in the world and in operation since the 1950s – sits at the end of the Panama Canal just outside the former Panama Canal Zone. The canal, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, is Panama’s main source of revenue. Relat…
…irport attended by flag-waving crowds. The visit came amid anti-US protests in the region over a film deemed insulting to Islam. It was the first papal trip to Lebanon since John Paul II went there in 1997. An estimated 350,000 worshippers gathered for the waterfront Mass earlier on Sunday. They waved flags and cheered as the Pope made his way through the crowd in his bullet-proof popemobile. Duri…
…re copy of Las Vegas. More aspirational members of the Georgian government would prefer to draw comparisons with Monte Carlo – but all the flashing lights and slot machines make me think more of 1980s Blackpool, near where I grew up in rainy north-west England. Minus, of course, the sticks of rock and the donkeys. Turkish flags wave proudly outside the new casinos, whose owners say up to 70%…
…agani of the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute added: “The genetic evidence is in support of the legend of the Queen of Sheba.” More than 200 individuals from 10 Ethiopian and two neighboring African populations were analyzed in the largest genetic investigation of its kind on Ethiopian populations. About a million genetic letters in each genome were studi…
…ic beach paradise to Jordan. Dead Sea Lagoon is located at 31 km of Amman and has an investment of $160 million. It includes a 3-hectare lagoon surrounded by white-sand private beaches, palm trees and 1,000 home units, and is the first of a real estate revolution that Crystal Lagoons is developing in Jordan, including more than 40 projects in the entire Middle East region. Dead Sea Lagoon will giv…
Fears that other Spanish regions may follow Valencia in seeking a bailout from Madrid have rattled markets. A local newspaper in Murcia, one of Spain’s smallest regions, quoted the regional government’s head as saying it would ask for funding help of up to 300 million Euros. On Friday Valencia asked the central government for a financial lifeline. The yield on Spain’s 10-year bo…
The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has had talks in Turkey amid rising tensions between Ankara and Damascus. Lakhdar Brahimi met Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to hear Turkey’s perspective on the crisis. Several days of cross-border firing followed the killing of five Turkish civilians by Syrian shelling last week. Earlier this week, Turkey intercepted a Syria-bound plan…
…be trying to rebalance its economy. “In 2011, China’s consumption contributed more to gross domestic product [GDP] growth than investments, for the first time since records of GDP began in 1952,” it said. “Some observers see this as the start of a trend in domestic rebalancing, and associate this with a more permanent growth slowdown in China.” However, it said that t…
A plane heading for the Everest region has crashed in Nepal’s capital, killing all 19 people on board, local officials say. The plane, operated by Sita Air, came down minutes after take-off from Kathmandu. Officials said it crashed into a river bank and caught fire. Sixteen passengers and three crew were on board the twin-engine prop plane. Police and aviation officials, however, said that…
The Hague war crimes court has overturned the convictions of two Croatian generals charged with atrocities against Serbs in the 1990s. Appeals judges ordered the release of Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac. In 2011 they were sentenced to 24 years and 18 years respectively over the killing of ethnic Serbs in an offensive to retake Croatia’s Krajina region. The men arrived in Zagreb later on F…
About 1.5 million people have taken part in Catalonia’s annual independence rally in Barcelona, police say. Tens of thousands of people poured into the city waving the region’s independence flag and brandishing the colors red and yellow. This year’s march, which aimed to be the biggest ever, was also a protest against the Spanish government’s tax laws. Catalonia wants Madr…
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