Olesia Suspitsina, 31, was searching for the perfect spot to celebrate the end of a weekend coronavirus lockdown when she fell, her friend said.

Pompeo told Kazakh officials that the attractiveness of Chinese investment comes with a cost to sovereignty and may hurt the country's long-term development.

The plane was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a small building, Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement.

Human rights groups say China has detained up to a million people in camps set up throughout Xinjiang, a region where Muslim Uighurs are the biggest ethnic group.

The protesters complained the snap election was illegitimate, staged as a show to hand over power to a loyalist of the longtime president who resigned in March.

On Oct. 11, a rocket failure forced a Soyuz capsule carrying two astronauts to abort and make an emergency landing.

Russia's meteorological service confirmed "extremely high" concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in several parts of the country in September.

 A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in recent weeks indicates that an accident has happened in a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan in the last week of September, French nuclear safety institute IRSN said on Thursday.

The Sheepdogs will perform this weekend in Kazakhstan as part of an initiative to promote hockey overseas.

The opposition is protesting Iran's participation at the conference and role as a guarantor of the agreement, accusing it of being a party in the war that has killed some 400,000 people and displaced half the country's population.