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Obama addresses troops on shutdown impact US President Barack Obama told US troops in a video message early Tuesday that they would still get paid on time, despite a government shutdown.

01 October 2013

Deadline missed, US slides into government shutdown The US lurched into a dreaded government shutdown for the first time in 17 years, triggering agency closures and hundreds of thousands of furloughs as Congress missed a deadline to pass a budget.

01 October 2013

Saudi king holds audience after absence sparks rumours Saudi Arabia's ageing King Abdullah, whose reduced public appearances have sparked health scares, held an audience in the Red Sea resort of Jeddah Sunday.

01 October 2013

Kazakhstan President and Prince of Monaco exchange decorations Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev had a meeting with Prince of Monaco Albert II.

01 October 2013

Lukashenko to render official visit to Astana Aleksandr Lukashenko will render an official visit to Astana on October 3-4.

30 September 2013

Assad says Syria will comply with UN arms resolution Syria will comply with a UN resolution to destroy its chemical arsenal, President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday, as weapons experts prepared to head for Damascus to begin the task.

30 September 2013

Iran nuclear deal could be reached in months: Kerry US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday a deal with Iran could be brokered within months if Tehran proves that its nuclear program was not being used to build atomic weapons.

30 September 2013

Kazakhstan and Monaco to expand cooperation in medicine and education During the official trip to Monaco Kazakhstan President said that the countries would expand cooperation in medicine, education and legal system.

30 September 2013

Spain to assist Kazakhstan in developing green economy Spanish exports to Kazakhstan have substantially grown for the last three years. The figure doubled in 2011 and grew by 68% in 2012. In the H1 2013 the figure reached 209 million Euro, exceeding the level of 2012.

30 September 2013

Ecuador becomes visa-free for Kazakhstan citizens Kazakhstan and Ecuador has mutually cancelled the need for visas.

30 September 2013

Voters reject Portugal austerity policies in local elections Portugal's opposition Socialists inflicted a stinging defeat on the Social Democrats in local elections as voters displayed their frustrations at the government's austerity measures.

30 September 2013

Kazakhstan PM calls to increase pension contributions Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov believes that Kazakhstan’s pension system requires further reformation.

30 September 2013

Do or die as US, Congress face government shutdown Lawmakers have one final day to try to prevent the first US government shutdown in 17 years, but a deal appeared remote Monday as congressional leaders showed little intent to compromise.

30 September 2013

Malaysian protesters rail against security proposal Around 30 people protested Monday against a Malaysian parliamentary proposal that critics say allows detention without trial, denouncing it as a broken promise by the government to scrap oppressive laws.

30 September 2013

Obama hails 'great friend' Singh, India ties US President Barack Obama on Friday hailed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a "great friend," saluting his role in the warming of ties between the world's two largest democracies.

29 September 2013

Spain denies accord to get Britain to leave Falklands Spain on Friday denied Argentina's claims that the two countries had clinched an agreement to get Britain to negotiate the future of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar.

28 September 2013

Obama and Iran's Rouhani hold historic phone call US President Barack Obama and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani spoke by phone Friday in the historic, first direct contact between leaders of their estranged nations since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

28 September 2013

Germany's Social Democrats agree to talks with Merkel Germany's Social Democrats said Friday they will begin talks with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, who are trying to put together a "grand coalition" with their election rivals.

28 September 2013

Deal needed 'soon' on post-2014 force in Afghanistan: US A top Pentagon official said Friday it would be a "tragedy" if Afghan and US negotiators failed to clinch a deal allowing US troops to stay in the country after 2014.

28 September 2013

UN Council orders Syria chemical arms destroyed The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.

28 September 2013

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