Russia has begun a ban on the export of grain until the end of this year in a bid to keep the domestic market supplied and put a lid on prices after a record drought caused a massive loss of wheat crops.
When Russia burns in the worst forest fires in more than a century, it’s Vladimir Putin to the rescue. So how do Russians feel about it all? What does this disaster say about the country and the relationship between the government and the people? And how is it playing it out among the powerbrokers at the top?
When Russia burns in the worst forest fires in more than a century, it’s Vladimir Putin to the rescue. So how do Russians feel about it all? What does this disaster say about the country and the relationship between the government and the people? And how is it playing it out among the powerbrokers at the top?
A hotel (pictured) fire late Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah killed at least 29 people, including four Americans and a number of other foreigners. Three of those who died leapt out of the hotel’s windows to their death.
Thirty-eight people have been killed in a fire at a health clinic for drug addicts in the southeastern Kazakh city of Taldykorgan. Forty people were rescued from the blaze which broke out early Sunday morning.
The ex-manager of a Buenos Aires night club, Omar Chaban, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court ruled he was responsible for a fire that killed 194 people in his overcrowded venue. The 2004 blaze is the deadliest in Argentina's history.
At least 41 people died and scores more were injured after a fire broke out in a tent reserved for women at a marriage ceremony west of Kuwait City in the worst civilian disaster in the modern history of the Gulf state.
Five people, including a baby, died in a fire in a nine-storey apartment building in the Paris suburb of Sevran on Monday, fire fighters have told AFP.
Nine elderly people died and three more were seriously injured in a fire at a convalescent home in Melle, northern Belgium, local mayor Dirk De Maeseneer and police said.
Some 72,000 people were forced to evacuate the town of Bryan in Texas after a fire at a chemical plant released a cloud of toxic smoke. The large amount of ammonium nitrate in the smoke could hurt residents' eyes, noses, and throats.
