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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 13:10

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 12:59

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 11:45

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 17:34

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 15:16

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 15:03

Chad seeks regional clout in sending troops to Mali: analysts In pledging 2,000 desert-trained soldiers to fight Islamic extremists in Mali, Chad's President Idriss Deby looks set to carve out a role as a force for regional stability.

24 January 2013 13:15

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 10:50

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 13:12

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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 11:06

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 10:43

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 21:03

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 19:13

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 16:13

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 14:47

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 14:21

Delhi gang-rape trial to open in fast-track court The trial of five men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving New Delhi bus was set to open on Monday in a special "fast-track" court established to deliver speedy justice.

22 January 2013 10:01

Cracked 9-storey building to be demolished in Priozersk A cracked 9-storey residential building in Priozersk of Karaganda oblast has been declared an emergency and will be demolished.

21 January 2013 19:05

Transport disrupted as France blanketed in snow Heavy snowfall hit large parts of France on Sunday, putting Paris under a picturesque blanket of white stuff but causing major disruptions to air, road and rail transport.

21 January 2013 18:11