High-Rise Tower in Dubai Catches Fire
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The high-rise Torch tower in Dubai’s Marina district caught fire early Saturday, but there were no immediate details on casualties.
Hundreds evacuated after fire in Dubai skyscraperby Rebecca Ratcliffeand agencies
Residents of nearby buildings also told to leave as precautionary measure after blaze breaks out inthe Torch in the city’s Marina district
Hundreds of people in Dubai were evacuated from one of the world’s tallest residential buildings on Saturday when a blaze swept through the
Torch, a 79-storey skyscraper. A witness
said flames shot out from two sides of the building as glass and metal rained down from close to the top of the 330m (1,082 ft) structure.
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Alexander Bortnikov (Александр Васильевич Бортников) was born on Nov. 15, 1951, in Perm.
Education: Leningrad Railway Engineering Institute, 1973.
1975: Joined the KGB. Served as a counterintelligence agent and administrator in the Leningrad region.
June 2003: Head of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
2004: Replaced Yury Zaostrovtsev to become head of the FSB's economic security division.
2004-2008: Member of the board of directors of Sovcomflot (a government-owned shipping company).
2005: Member of Federal Exports Commission.
2006: Attained the rank of army general.
May 2008: Named director of the FSB and later on also permanent member of Security Council of Russia. Named president of Council of heads of CIS security agencies and secret services.
October 2008: Joined a newly created presidential commission on financial markets.
November 2008: Member of the board of Information Society Development Council.
Bortnikov is married and has one son.
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