Floods in Russia and Kazakhstan: How bad are they?
By Guy Faulconbridge, Olzhas Auyezov
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By Guy Faulconbridge, Olzhas Auyezov
Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing over 110,000 people to evacuate
The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow. Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals and in the Tyumen region in western Siberia, which is the largest hydrocarbon basin in the world. The Ural river, which rises in the Ural mountains and flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian Sea, burst through embankment dams in the Urals city of Orsk on April 5 and flooded parts of the city of Oren
Western governments should pay close attention to Canada's investigation into Chinese electoral interference.
A new US intelligence assessment found it is likely that some employees of a United Nations agency took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel but says the US can’t verify Israeli allegations that a larger number of UN workers have links to the attack, people familiar with the report said.