Toxic fumes threaten thousands in Ukraine after rail crash
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Toxic fumes threatened thousands of residents in western Ukraine on Tuesday after a freight train derailed and caught fire, causing mass evacuations and leaving at least 21 people injured.
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The number of people sickened by smoke from a derailed train's chemical fire reached 152 on Thursday, and Ukraine's transport minister suggested that safety violations caused the accident.
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A tense standoff gripped Ukraine on Monday after its pro-Russia Prime Minister won the presidential runoff, with the opposition mounting massive protests to contest the results of a vote that Washington and Europe said was rigged by the state.
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Russian officials say 13 people have been killed and 23 others injured in an explosion at a coal mine in central Siberia. Russia&#39;s Emergencies Ministry says the apparent methane gas explosion occurred early
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An explosion caused by a build-up of gas  struck a colliery in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at  least nine miners, a spokeswoman for the emergencies services  said.
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Ukrainians on Sunday cast ballots in a presidential run-off pitting a Western-leaning reformer against the Kremlin-praised prime minister, a vote many fear will erupt into unrest and violence.
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Outcome could tilt the nation toward Moscow or the West. KIEV, UKRAINE Tens of thousands of supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, who is facing Ukraine's prime minister in a tense presidential poll, thronged Kiev's ...
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The opposition says the country is ripe for a Ukraine-style revolution, but its leader warns of possible dangers.
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At least 19 people were killed in aconflagration in Kyzyl, the capital of the Siberian Republic of Tyva, in the overnight to Wednesday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Wednesday.
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A huge explosion rocked an area in North  Korea near the border with China three days ago and the  accident appears to be much worse than a train blast that  killed at least 170 people in April, Yonhap news agency  reported on Sunday.
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Twenty-one people have been injured after a gas pipeline caught fire in Russia&#39;s southern republic of Dagestan. Security officials said the fire near the regional capital, Makhachkala, was caused by explosions which may have been the result of sabotage.
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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A huge explosion rocked an area in North Korea near the border with China three days ago and the accident appears to be much worse than a train blast that killed at least 170 people in April, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
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At least 13 people were killed and up to 23 injured in an explosion in a Siberian mine. The blast, which was caused by methane, happened as a repair team was fixing a section of the mine near Russia&#39;s border with Mongolia.
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Chenjiashan Mine, China - Poisonous fumes were Monday preventing rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped underground at a coal mine in northern China after an explosion which killed 25 of their colleagues.
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KYIV, Ukraine (CP) - Hopes and fears both rose Wednesday, as wet snow fell through the night on thousands of demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital, the heart of a high-stakes political crisis that stretched into its third day.
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The death toll from a methane blast that ripped though a coal mine in southern Poland has risen to 21 after rescue workers found more bodies, a spokesman for the company operating the mine said.