Incidents

The fire happened after several explosions in the territory of oil and gas extraction administration of Azerbaijan state oil and gas company (SOCAR). The object is located in the settlement Garachuhur of Surahan region in Baku, the agency reports citing the information resource Lenta.ru.

6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Japanese Bonin islands on Thursday morning, the agency reports citing Vesti.ru.

Seven people died, hundreds more remain under blockages as a result of the strong earthquake occurred on Monday evening in the southeast of Iran. Three settlements have been completely destroyed, the agency reports citing Vesti.Ru.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck offshore in Mexico's Gulf of California on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey informed, the agency reports citing RIA RosBusinessConsulting (RBC).

Charges of sexual harassment against the Kazakhstan student in the USA, Zhandos Bahytbekov, in relation to two 11-year-old girls, have been dropped. The official representative of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Askar Abdrahmanov, informed, the agency reports.

The broken BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is finally 'dead'. Thad Allen, the US pointman for the government's response to the disaster, informed, the agency reports citing ITAR-TASS.

The pipeline Kirkuk - Ceyhan has exploded in the southeastern Turkey, through which the country imports oil from Iraq. As a result of the accident, two people died and one person was injured, the agency reports citing RIA RosBusinessConsulting (RBC).

The Indian coastguards are battling with oil spill, which has appeared in the Arabian Sea near the Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Mumbai after a collision of two large ships, reports referring to an information resource Vesti.Ru.

Kazakhstan will assist Russia in putting out natural fires, the agency reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Emergency of Kazakhstan.