Incidents

Belarus has arrested several people in connection with the metro bombing in Minsk that killed 12 people, the deputy prosecutor said on Tuesday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A 54-year-old man from Kazakhstan has been run down by his own car in New Zealand, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A fresh round of tremors, including one with a magnitude of 6.3, shook northern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The Japanese government has raised its assessment of the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant from 5 to 7, the highest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Twelve people were killed and scores injured in an explosion in Minsk metro during the evening rush hour on Monday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Japan, Fukushima prefecture. A tsunami warning issued by Japan's Meteorological Agency was canceled, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Three children have died and 35 people have become ill from drinking nitrite-tainted milk in China's northwestern Gansu province, according to Xinhua news agency, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit Luhuo county in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province in South West China according to Xinhua News, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A spokesman for a Washington nuclear power plant has said that a small amount of hydrogen gas trapped in a pipe ignited in a brief, six-inch flame Thursday when workers cut into the pipe, the Associated Press reported on Friday.

The latest strong aftershock to hit Japan Thursday night damaged Onagawa NPP, which now leaks radioactive water, Kazakhstan Today reports.