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US calls for 'unconditional' Sudan talks with rebels The United States on Thursday called on Sudan to hold "unconditional" talks with rebels battling government forces in two strife-torn states where the UN says thousands are close to starvation.

27 January 2013

French planes destroy Islamist bases in Mali French warplanes have destroyed two Islamist bases in northern Mali as an Al-Qaeda-linked group there split, with the splinter group calling for talks to end the offensive against the militants.

26 January 2013

S. Korea president's brother gets two-year jail term A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the elder brother of President Lee Myung-Bak to two years in jail after convicting him on corruption charges.

25 January 2013

China may turn Kazakhstan into desert Kazakhstan ecologist spoke about the consequences of China's diverting of transborder rivers to its semi-desert lands.

25 January 2013

American basketball player jailed for assault on Kazakhstan student Providence County Superior Court has sentenced 22-y.o. American James Still to 15 years in prison, four to serve, for the “devastating assault on a fellow student”.

25 January 2013

Mexico top court frees French woman jailed for kidnap A French woman was freed from Mexican prison Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television seven years ago.

25 January 2013

Five foreigners still missing at Algeria hostage site Algerian authorities searched on Tuesday for five foreigners still missing and tried to identify seven charred bodies, days after a bloody hostage crisis.

24 January 2013

Kazakhstan sent international investigation request to Ukraine over AN-72 crash Kazakhstan has sent an international investigation request to Ukraine asking it to investigate into the zero-time reconditioning of the AN-72 plane performed shortly before the crash.

24 January 2013

Shooting on Texas campus injures three Three people were shot after a fight at a Texas college erupted in gunfire Tuesday, sparking too-familiar images of frightened students escorted by swarms of police.

24 January 2013

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Women join ranks of Assad forces in Syria's Homs At 40 years of age, Abir Ramadan joined the all-female unit of Syria's new paramilitary force, pledging loyalty to Bashar al-Assad in the armed struggle against those seeking to topple the president.

24 January 2013

Head of Winter Asian Games-2011 Directorate accused of embezzlement of $153 thousand Almaty Financial Police Department has initiated a criminal case against Sultanbek Syzdykov for embezzlement of 23 million tenge.

23 January 2013

Illegal oil pipeline discovered at Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border Diesel fuel oil was pumped through the pipeline that began in Kazakhstan and then run to the territory of Kyrgyzstan.

23 January 2013

A crack caused evacuation of citizens from 9-storey building in Priozersk Around 100 residents were evacuated from the emergency-state 9-storey residential building in Priozersk town of Kazakhstan’s Karaganda oblast.

23 January 2013

DR Congo rebels impose new leaders and taxes: officials Officials in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo accuse a rebel force of replacing traditional leaders and extorting heavy taxes from the people, while peace talks take place in Uganda under a ceasefire.

23 January 2013

Autopilot failed in AN-72 that crashed near Shymkent The General Prosecutor’s Office gave details of the investigation into the crash of AN-72 near Shymkent in south Kazakhstan.

22 January 2013

Malians escaping 'second hell' find refuge in Burkina For the many Malians who have fled to Burkina Faso in recent days, facing life in a refugee camp won out over the horrors of war, after already suffering through occupation by hardline Islamist rebels.

22 January 2013

Algeria says 37 foreigners killed in gas plant siege Thirty-seven foreigners of eight nationalities were killed by Islamist militants in a well-planned attack on a remote gas plant, some of them executed with a bullet to the head.

22 January 2013

France says military goal is 'total reconquest of Mali' French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday the end goal of France's military action in Mali was to retake control of the whole country from Islamist militants who have seized the north.

22 January 2013

Strauss-Kahn paid hotel maid $1.5 million: report Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn paid a settlement of $1.5 million (1.1 million euros) to the New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault.

22 January 2013