Anger boils over for some amid record floods in Russia’s Urals
Moscow, Russia Reuters At least 100 Russians asked for help from President Vladimir Putin on Monday in a city struck by the worst flooding ever recorded, chanting “shame on you” at local officials who they said had done too little to help their plight. Russia declared an emergency in the Orenburg region near Kazakhstan after […]
“Let us be a lesson”: Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing
MARIYA GORDEYEVA, of Reuters, reports from Kazakhstan as it continues to grapple with the legacy of nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1949 and 1989…
Death toll rises to 45 in ArcelorMittal Kazakh coal mine fire
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters The death toll from a fire at a coal mine in Kazakhstan owned by ArcelorMittal rose to 45 on Sunday, with emergency teams engaged in an operation to find one remaining miner believed to have been underground, emergency service officials were quoted as saying. On Saturday, operator ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the local unit of […]
At least 32 dead, 14 missing after ArcelorMittal mine fire in Kazakhstan
Alamty, Kazakhstan Reuters At least 32 people have died and 14 remain missing after a mine fire in Kazakhstan, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said on Saturday. Operator ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the local unit of Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal, said 206 of 252 people at the Kostenko mine had been evacuated after what appeared to be a […]
More than 40 nations interested in joining BRICS – South Africa
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters More than 40 countries have expressed interested in joining the BRICS group of nations, South Africa’s top diplomat in charge of relations with the bloc said on Thursday. Anil Sooklal and officials from the department of foreign affairs were addressing journalists in the main commercial city of Johannesburg, a day after South […]
Kazakhstan mourns 14 forestry workers killed in wildfire
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Flags were lowered across Kazakhstan on Monday as the country mourned 14 forestry workers killed in a wildfire in the eastern Abai region. Firefighters were still struggling to contain the blaze raging across 43,000 hectares (106,000 acres) of land in the Central Asian nation, the government said. An aerial view shows smoke from wildfires rising […]
Russian Soyuz spacecraft docks at ISS to bring back stranded crew
Reuters A Russian spacecraft on a mission to bring back to Earth a crew stranded on the International Space Station has docked at the station, Russian space agency Roscosmos said early on Sunday. The Soyuz MS-23, which lifted off from Baikonour space centre in Kazakhstan on Friday, is to bring back Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev […]
Iranian woman competes at chess tournament without hijab – media reports
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters An Iranian chess player has taken part in an international tournament without a hijab, according to media reports, the latest of several Iranian sportswomen to appear at competitions without one since anti-government protests began. Iran has been swept by demonstrations against the country’s clerical leadership since mid-September, when 22-year-old Iranian […]
Ukraine conflict: Russians fleeing war call-up face new stresses on arrival in Kazakhstan
OLZHAS AUYEZOV and MARIYA GORDEYEVA, of Reuters, report from Almaty as an influx of hundreds of thousands Russians arrive in the country, spurred on in recent times by Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation…
Kazakhstan struggles to accommodate Russians fleeing war
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Kazakhstan is struggling to accommodate tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their homeland since Moscow announced a military mobilisation last week, officials say, but the Almaty government has no plans to close its border. Russian men, some with families, started crossing the world’s second-longest land border en masse after Russian President […]