Heat plus alcohol causes spate of Moscow drownings
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Twenty-eight people, many of them drunk,  have drowned in the Russian capital this month as Muscovites  cool off from a record heatwave in ponds, fountains and canals,  rescue services said on Wednesday.
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Russian men are risking death by drinking aftershave with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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AT LEAST 20 people had died in a fire which engulfed a hostel in a remote Siberian town, news agencies reported today. Rescuers have found 20 bodies in the charred remains of the hostel in Kyzyl, ITAR-TASS reported.
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Fighting involving ethnic Armenians and others in a Volga River town left one person dead and at least three injured this week, officials and news reports said Friday, fueling fears of a rise of ethnic violence across Russia.
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Extreme weather hit Europe Saturday as the death toll from a heat wave in Romania, Austria and Bulgaria rose to 18 and hundreds faced another night of misery in flood-drenched England.
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Up to 500 people are estimated to have died across Hungary last week, partly due to a heatwave gripping central and southeast Europe, Hungarian medical officials said on Tuesday.
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A fire in a drug-treatment hospital killed 45 women who were trapped behind a blocked emergency exit, Russian officials said.
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A heat wave that has hit Romania in the past week has killed at least 18 people and caused hundreds to collapse in the street, authorities said Monday.
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Death toll rises to 12 in Russian factory fire    MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people have been found dead after a blaze at a Russian furniture factory, emergency officials said Wednesday as rescuers continued the grim task of removing bodies.
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Images from south-eastern Europe where people are experiencing a heat wave.
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NEW YORK  - Heavy drinking, including alcohol-based liquids not meant to be ingested, such as cologne or cleansers, caused nearly half of all deaths among working-age men living in Izhevsk, Russia, between 2003 and 2005, investigators report in The Lancet.
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Russian police say it happens far too often: Air travelers, drunk even before departure, cause disturbances that delay flights or worse.
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A searing heatwave has killed at least 44 people across southern Europe while in Britain torrential rain claimed three lives and forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam.
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Terrorism in Russia took on horrifying proportions in August and early September when more than 400 people were killed in four separate incidents in a span of less than two weeks.
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A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow killed 45 women.
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Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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A heat wave sweeping central and southeastern Europe killed at least 13 people this week, with soaring temperatures sparking forest fires, damaging crops and prompting calls to ban horse-drawn tourist carriages.