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Venezuela assembly meets amid Chavez health crisis Venezuela's National Assembly meets Saturday to elect its leadership in a session that also is expected to thrash out the country's political future as President Hugo Chavez battles cancer in Cuba.

06 January 2013

Syria's Alawite area Assad's last resort: analysts The last option for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, who is determined not to back down after 21 months of deadly conflict, is to battle to the end from a fortified Alawite statelet, analysts believe.

06 January 2013

Japan scrambles jets to head off China plane Japan scrambled fighter jets Saturday to head off a Chinese state-owned plane that flew near islands at the centre of a dispute between Tokyo and Beijing.

06 January 2013

Sudan, South Sudan meet to push security, oil deals The rival presidents of Sudan and South Sudan met for face-to-face talks Saturday to push forward stalled security, oil and border deals, and discuss the fate of the contested Abyei region.

06 January 2013

US criticizes Google chairman's N. Korea visit The United States on Thursday criticized a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, calling it ill-timed in the wake of Pyongyang's widely condemned rocket launch last month.

05 January 2013

Kairat Umarov appointed new Kazakhstan’s Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the USA According to the statement, he was relieved of his duties as Vice Foreign Minister.

04 January 2013

As Chavez fights cancer, aides build his myth As Hugo Chavez battles cancer in Cuba, his lieutenants here are actively glorifying Venezuela's firebrand leader in what observers see as a campaign to erect a heroic myth that can survive his death.

04 January 2013

Fresh start for Congress, but fiscal battles loom again With nearly 100 new members, the US Congress convened Thursday fresh from the year-end "fiscal cliff" fiasco, as lawmakers cast a wary eye towards the tough budget battles ahead.

04 January 2013

All Kazakhstan businesses must accept bank cards from January 1 Amendments to Kazakhstan law on payments and transfers came into effect on January 1.

04 January 2013

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Obama signs sweeping US defense spending bill President Barack Obama has signed into law a $633 billion US defense spending bill that funds the war in Afghanistan and boosts security at US missions worldwide.

03 January 2013

An heir for North Korea's Kim Jong-Un? North Korea's next dynastic succession may have been secured, with new TV images of leader Kim Jong-Un's wife suggesting that Pyongyang's first lady recently gave birth.

03 January 2013

China will erect town on Kazakhstan border A district-level town has been established at Alashankou border crossing at Chinese-Kazakhstan border.

03 January 2013

Nazarbayev dreams of a domed city for 10-15 thousand people Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev shared the plans of EXPO-2017 exhibition facilities construction.

03 January 2013

Obama signs 'fiscal cliff' bill into law President Barack Obama has signed into law a contentious compromise bill hammered out in Congress that narrowly averted the US 'fiscal cliff of tax hikes and drastic, immediate cuts in spending.

03 January 2013

US House to vote imminently on 'fiscal cliff' deal The House of Representatives will vote late Tuesday on a bill already approved by the Senate to avert huge New Year tax hikes and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff".

02 January 2013

Venezuela frets over ill Chavez as 2013 begins Somber Venezuelans began 2013 fretting over their ubiquitous and garrulous leader Hugo Chavez, wondering what the future holds as the president wages a tough battle with cancer in a Havana hospital.

02 January 2013

Nazarbayev signed amendments to state service law Kazakhstan President has signed amendments to Kazakhstan state service legislation called to improve efficiency of the state machine.

01 January 2013

Turkey is yet to decide on use of land lots in Almaty and Aktau Kazakhstan Parliament has approved the draft law On ratification of the protocol between the governments of Kazakhstan and Turkey on transfer of property in Kemer district of Antalya province, Turkey, into Kazakhstan ownership.

01 January 2013

East Timor bids farewell to peacekeepers after 13 years The UN ends its peacekeeping mission in East Timor Monday after 13 years of boots on the ground in Asia's youngest nation following a bloody transition to independence.

01 January 2013