Turkey ruling party set to name Davutoglu as PM
Turkey's ruling party meets to choose a new leader and premier to succeed incoming president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
21 August 2014
Indonesian court to rule on presidential election challenge
An Indonesian court was expected to uphold Joko Widodo's victory in last month's presidential election.
21 August 2014
Brazil Socialists name presidential candidate after Campos death
Brazil's Socialist party named popular environmentalist Marina Silva as presidential candidate.
21 August 2014
José Manuel Barroso of European Commission, Kazakhstan’s President Nurusltan Nazarbaeyv have a phone talk
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, has supported Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev’s suggestion to hold a meeting of representatives of the Customs Union, Ukraine and the European Union in Minsk, Belarus.
20 August 2014
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko agrees to meet heads of Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and representatives of European Union
The talks will be focused on issues related to the Agreement on association between Ukraine and the European Union, energy security, stabilization of the situation in Donbass.
20 August 2014
Tourism Industry Committee abolished in Kazakhstan
The Tourism Industry Committee was abolished in Kazakhstan and its functions will be taken over by Department of Tourism of Investment and Development Ministry.
20 August 2014
Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs to visit ASEAN countries
Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Yerlan Idrissov is going to visited ASEAN countries.
20 August 2014
Brazilians can vote for their own Obama
In Brazil, where nicknames are everything, voters can now opt for a congressional candidate who goes by the name Barack Obama.
20 August 2014
China paper denounces 'rampant rascality' of Australia tycoon
A Chinese state-run newspaper called on Beijing to "teach Canberra a lesson" after Clive Palmer labelled the Communist government "mongrels"
20 August 2014