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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A Russian boy suffers head injuries after falling from a window while trying to elude police. A North African man slips from a window ledge and fractures his leg while fleeing officers. A Chinese woman lies in a coma after plunging from a window during a police check.
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A fire broke out in a Moscow drug treatment hospital early Saturday, killing 42 people, fire officials said.
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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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"The Soviet-era practice of issuing appeasing bureaucratic reports instead of taking professional measures, and concealing the actual situation instead of honestly informing the public, can no longer be accepted in Ukraine"  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. via HendersonvilleNews.com
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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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MOSCOW I celebrated this July 4 at the rooftop bar of the opulent new Ritz-Carlton hotel here, taking in the breathtaking views of the gilded domes of the Kremlin, where Soviet leaders plotted their war against American economic and military power. Across a skyline drenched by the late-setting sun,...
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At least seven people have died and thousands of others have fallen sick after drinking contaminated water in an industrial city in eastern Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
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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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MOSCOW - A fire destroyed an apartment building in the southern Russian region of Tuva Wednesday, killing 18 people and injuring at least 18 others, an emergency official said.
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A night-time fire at Moscow drug rehabilitation hospital kills at least 42 people, reports say.
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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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A fire at a Moscow drug rehabilitation hospital on Saturday killed 43 people, most of them young female drug addicts, officials said.
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Two people were killed and another was injured today when a vehicle carrying dolphins collided with a heavy truck in north western Russia today, officials said.
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About 500 people died in the past week from a heatwave in Hungary, a top health official says.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 9 -- Fire broke out in a women's section of a Moscow drug treatment hospital early Saturday, killing 45 people who were trapped by a locked gate and barred windows, officials said.
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Immediate health threats include wounds from stepping on nails and broken glass and dehydration and heatstroke from exposure in hot muggy weather.