Incidents

The family of forester Kanysh Nurtazinov, who was killed while pursuing poachers, will be granted assistance, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Twitter.

Eleven people are dead after a landslide hit Southwest China's Guizhou province late Tuesday, local authorities said Wednesday.

A van carrying 16 people overturned on a road in northeastern South Korea on Monday, leaving four people dead and nine others injured, police said.

Wildfires are blazing on the territory of over 140,600 hectares in Russian regions, the press service of the Aerial Forest Protection Service said on Monday.

A 41-year-old man being held in connection with a deadly arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio has admitted to using gasoline to set fire to the three-story building and indicated that personal grudge was a likely motive, local police said Friday.

A man started a fire at a Kyoto animation studio after spraying a flammable liquid Thursday morning, leaving at least 13 dead and nearly 40 injured, several of them unconscious, local police and rescuers said.

At least seven people were killed, another seven were rescued and dozens are believed to be trapped under the rubble after a four-story residential building collapsed Tuesday in a densely populated neighborhood of Mumbai.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan has confirmed the death of a Kazakh student in Changzhou, China.

At least 18 people have been killed, six are missing and 900,000 have been affected by torrential rain that has been battering Nepal and northeastern India in the past 24 hours.

At least 35 people were injured as an Air Canada plane encountered severe turbulence during its Sydney-bound flight above the Pacific Ocean on Thursday morning.