Incidents

Death toll has risen to 26 after torrential rains triggered massive landslides in central Indonesia, local media reported Thursday.

Rescuers searching for a two-year-old boy who fell into a deep and narrow borehole in southern Spain were on Friday working to finish the construction of a platform from which they would dig a parallel tunnel that would lead to where the child was thought to be, as documented by an EFE photojournalist.

A private helicopter has crashed today in the territory of Alatau health center in Almaty.

Information about any Kazakhstanis on board the Boeing 707 plane which crashed today near Tehran is not yet available.

The reason for the crash, as well as the number of casualties, has yet to be revealed by local authorities.

The storm heads the southern parts of the country with heavy rains, wind and seven-meter waves. Evacuation is underway since January 2.

The rescue operation on the site of the residential building collapse in Magnitogorsk has finished, there are no bodies left in the rubble.

The death toll from a tsunami that struck coastal areas around Indonesia's Sunda Strait has reached 281 with 57 others still unaccounted for, the country's disaster agency said Monday, as rescuers continue their search for the missing.

An FA-18 jet and a KC-130 tanker plane of the U.S. Marines collided and crashed off the western Japan cost early Thursday, with six of the seven crew members still missing as rescue and search operations continued.

At least 10 people died and 29 were wounded in a car bomb followed by gunfire in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.