Incidents

Today, at four o'clock in Balkhash during the celebration of marriage unidentified criminals drove upon unknown car and opened fire on a crop of the guests on the porch of a cafe.

А commission is created at the location of the emergency situation. The cause of poisoning is being registered.

The deaths come as funerals took place for the victims of Tuesday's devastating bomb attacks.

Authorities seized 26 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder from an ice cream maker in southern China, state media said Wednesday.

Despite its long-known harmful effects, asbestos has found its way into private houses and buildings across Japan, causing irreparable and sometimes fatal damage to people unknowingly exposed to the substance.

A pipeline that sends natural gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan exploded early Wednesday morning, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Ukraine marked the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at its Chernobyl power plant today.

A man suspected in a burglary in the 400 block of Green St. in Olde Towne was shot and killed Saturday night by police, a department spokeswoman said. Friends of a man who was shot say he was from Kazakhstan.

A citizen of Kazakhstan tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome Sunday night, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Japan Thursday said it would ban people entering the 20 km evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, Kazakhstan Today reports.