Incidents

A fire at a day care center in the US state of Pennsylvania killed at least five children on Sunday, according to local authorities.

Firefighters are combatting intense blazes in the Zabaykalsky National Park as well as in the Barguzinsky and Dzherginsky Nature Reserves in Russia’s Buryatia Region, the local forestry department reported on its website on Friday.

About 390 houses were damaged as a result of an earthquake in Turkey’s Denizli province.

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shattered Turkey's Aegean coast on August 8 at 11:39 a.m. local time.

The area covered by wildfires in the Irkutsk region has increased by 25,000 hectares in the last 24 hours, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.

At least 16 people have been killed and 21 injured after a large explosion in the surroundings of Cairo’s Cancer Institute.

A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a six-year-old boy was thrown from the 10th-floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern, the Metropolitan police have said.

A bike rider was rushed to a hospital after a collision with a huge truck in Almaty.

At least 52 inmates are dead Monday after a Brazil prison riot that came about as a result of a confrontation between rival criminal factions, according to a local media.

Two fatal road accidents occurred in the early hours of Tuesday on Almaty-Oskemen and Kargaly-Mynbayevo highways in Almaty region.