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Japan PM to attend Sochi Olympics: reports Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to attend the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics, reports said Friday, despite calls for a boycott over Russia's anti-gay laws.

17 January 2014

Economic Freedom Index: Kazakhstan advances 22 points in 17 years Kazakhstan's economic freedom ranking has been steadily advancing over the past 17 years.

17 January 2014

New sanctions against Iran would sabotage deal: Gates Proposals by US lawmakers to impose new sanctions against Iran would be a mistake that would sabotage a possible diplomatic deal with Tehran: Gates

17 January 2014

Obama to unveil NSA reforms, response to Snowden President Barack Obama presents Americans on Friday with long-awaited reforms of spy agency phone and Internet data collection sweeps, prompted by the damaging torrent of leaks unleashed by Edward Snowden.

17 January 2014

Aslan Mussin no longer chairman of Accounts Commission of Kazakhstan The chairman of the Accounts Commission for Control over Implementation of the State Budget has been replaced.

16 January 2014

EU is slow in implementing its Central Asia assistance plan The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has concluded that the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) had developed a good plan of assistance to Central Asia, but was implementing it slowly.

16 January 2014

Egypt constitution sails through vote but turnout key Egyptian voters overwhelmingly backed a new constitution that paves the way for the army chief to run for president, early results showed Thursday, but turnout figures will provide a key measure of his popularity.

16 January 2014

Kazakhstan to cooperate with Vietnam in oil industry Kazakhstan will cooperate with Vietnam in oil and gas.

16 January 2014

Putin plots Syria strategy with Iran's Zarif Russia launches a fresh round of Syrian diplomacy on Thursday when it receives the foreign minister of Iran before hosting his counterpart from Syria ahead of historic peace talks on the bloody crisis.

16 January 2014

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Hollande vows to deal with affair fallout in private French President Francois Hollande vowed to deal with the fallout from his affair with an actress in private, defiantly batting away questions over the future of Valerie Trierweiler.

15 January 2014

Moscow expels US journalist US journalist David Satter, a longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been banned from the country in one of the first such expulsions since the Cold War.

15 January 2014

Russia defines rights of Roskosmos representative operating in Kazakhstan as part of Russia’s Embassy Among other things, he will be vested with rights to study Kazakhstan’s programs of space cooperation with other nations.

15 January 2014

Egypt votes on new charter as army chief eyes presidency Egyptians vote for a new constitution Tuesday in a referendum seen as a test of support for a presidential bid by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, almost seven months after he toppled Mohamed Morsi.

14 January 2014

Kerry seeks to bridge US-Russia gap with potatoes After months of tension between the US and Russia, US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to bridge the diplomatic gap by giving his Russian counterpart an unusual gift of potatoes.

14 January 2014

MPs waive off legalization of polygamy in Kazakhstan Members of Kazakhstan's Majilis (Lower Chamber of the Parliament) have commented on the idea of making polygamy legal in Kazakhstan.

14 January 2014

Spain satisfied with US explanation on NSA spying: PM Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Monday after meeting with US President Barack Obama that Spain had received a "satisfactory" explanation of reports that American spies bugged European leaders' phones.

14 January 2014

Rumoured affair turns messy for France's Hollande French President Francois Hollande's political and personal woes deepened on Sunday after it emerged that his girlfriend had been rushed to hospital following a report he has been having an affair with an actress.

13 January 2014

Iran's Zarif to visit Syria ahead of peace talks Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Tehran ally Damascus in the next few days, media reported Sunday, amid preparations for a Syria peace conference.

13 January 2014

Ex-Vice-Minister of Agriculture promotes polygamy in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan’s former Vice-Minister of Agriculture of Marat Tolibayev has proposed to legalize polygamy in Kazakhstan.

13 January 2014