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Prayers for Mandela as family urged to 'let him go' Nelson Mandela, the revered anti-apartheid hero, spent a third night in hospital after South Africa prayed for him on Sunday amid calls for his family and nation to "let him go".

10 June 2013

Karzai: Did 'War on Terror' encourage radical Islam? Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday the Muslim world was "in turmoil" and wondered whether the "war on terror" led by the United States since 2001 was to blame for the radicalisation.

10 June 2013

Two Koreas strike cautious accord on high-level talks North and South Korea reached Monday a patchy agreement to hold a high-level meeting in Seoul, following marathon talks aimed at rebuilding trust after months of soaring tension and threats of nuclear war.

10 June 2013

New documentary warns against Obama's 'Dirty Wars' A new documentary released Friday portrays US secret raids against terror suspects as a misguided assassination campaign that generates new enemies and tarnishes America's image.

10 June 2013

Brazilian official resigns over indigenous protests The Brazilian official in charge of indigenous affairs resigned Friday amid protests by natives locked in land feuds with white farmers and opposing construction of a huge dam in the Amazon.

09 June 2013

Nazarbayev returns pension reform draft to parliament Executing the authority vested on me by the Constitutions, I am recommitting the draft to the parliament for revision of and voting on the timeframe of the raise of retirement age for women: President Nazarbayev.

08 June 2013

Kerry renews $1.3 bn annual military aid for Egypt Secretary of State John Kerry last month approved $1.3 billion in annual US military aid to Egypt, despite concerns over democratic progress by the country's new government.

08 June 2013

Obama, Xi urge new relationship in first summit Throwing formality aside at a desert retreat, Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping called Friday for a new approach to forge relations between the US superpower and a rising China.

08 June 2013

Britain's Prince Philip set for 'exploratory' surgery Prince Philip, the 91-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will on Friday undergo "exploratory" surgery at a London hospital.

07 June 2013

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Over hundred Kazakhstan citizens are in militant camps in Afghan-Pakistan zone: Abykayev Control over militants' crossing of borders requires expansion of cooperation between the special services of different countries: chairman of Kazakhstan National Security Commission.

07 June 2013

Pension fund money may be spent on ConocoPhillips stake in Kashagan: MP I am asking the government to take decisive measures to purchase the share in Kashagan project from ConocoPhillips: Tursunbek Omurzakov.

07 June 2013

Anxiety over student loans as US lawmakers play politics Recent Northeastern University graduate Greg Dube hopes to launch a bright engineering career soon, but like many young Americans, he is haunted by a looming financial burden: some $150,000 in student loan debt.

07 June 2013

Putin breaks Kremlin taboo by revealing break-up President Vladimir Putin's carefully stage-managed announcement that he and his wife of 30 years were divorcing came as a true shock in Russia.

07 June 2013

Sweden's latest royal couple fail to win over public In their plush Manhattan apartment, Sweden's Princess Madeleine and her future husband, Anglo-American Christopher O'Neill, live a life far away from the Swedish throne.

07 June 2013

Kazakhstan ranked 34th in global competitiveness rating Kazakhstan lost two lines in the 2013 rating since last year.

06 June 2013

US drops plan to allow pocket knives on flights The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bowing to a chorus of outrage led by flight attendants, abandoned Wednesday its plan to allow pocket knives in carry-on baggage.

06 June 2013

China's Xi sees new 'golden era' in Latin America President Xi Jinping on Wednesday heralded the dawn of a new "golden era" for Latin America during a visit to Mexico and urged the region to hitch its economic development to China's solid growth.

06 June 2013

Egypt warns 'all options open' on Ethiopia dam Egypt will demand that Ethiopia stop construction of a Nile river dam and warned "all options are open" if it harms its water supply.

06 June 2013

Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State calls to abstain from idealizing the past History books should unveil the dramatic events of the 20th century without nostalgic feelings towards the allegedly “orderly [Soviet] times”: Marat Tazhin.

06 June 2013