Kuwait's emir makes landmark visit to Iran
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Sunday started a landmark visit to Tehran focused on mending fences between Shiite Iran and the Sunni-ruled monarchies in the Gulf.
02 June 2014
Leader of Georgia rebel region Abkhazia resigns
The leader of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Alexander Ankvab, said on Sunday he was resigning following days of political upheaval on Russia's southern flank.
02 June 2014
Snowden seeks asylum in sunny Brazil
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by US authorities and currently living in Russia, said in a TV interview Sunday that he has applied for asylum in Brazil.
Tony Blair to help Kyzylorda oblast in Kazakhstan
Britain’s ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has met the governor of Kyzylorda Oblast Krymbek Kusherbayev during the Astana Economic Forum to discuss mutual cooperation in development of the region.
31 May 2014
N. Korea sentences S. Korean 'spy' to hard labour for life
North Korea sentenced a South Korean missionary to hard labour for life after accusing him of espionage and setting up an underground church, state media said Saturday, the latest Christian preacher to run into trouble in the secretive state.
31 May 2014
WWII plane crash remains discovered in western Canada
The wreckage of a World War II military aircraft was found in Canada's far west, solving a 72-year old mystery surrounding its disappearance during a training flight, officials confirmed.
New governor of Akmola Oblast appointed
Sergey Kulagin has been appointed the new Akim (Governor) of Akmola Oblast in northern Kazakhstan. He replaced Kosman Aitmukhametov.
Chinese embassy's US street urged renamed for dissident
US lawmakers called Thursday for the street outside China's embassy to be renamed in honor of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Eurasian Economic Union Treaty signed in Astana
The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin has signed the Treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union.
29 May 2014
Putin to seal new post-Soviet union with Belarus, Kazakhstan
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday arrived in the Kazakh capital where he was set to sign a deal with his Kazakh and Belarussian counterparts creating a new economic union championed by Moscow.
Ukraine forces suffer fresh losses in separatist east
Ukrainian forces have suffered fresh losses in a rebel raid in the separatist east as the newly-elected president promised to hold his first talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin on easing the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.
29 May 2014
Snowden says he wants to return to US
Fugitive self-proclaimed spy Edward Snowden said Wednesday he wants to return home, as he defended his massive leak of US intelligence secrets, saying abuses of constitutional rights left him no choice.