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Ban Ki-moon to mark jihadist attack on UN in Nigeria UN chief Ban Ki-moon begins a visit to Nigeria at the weekend to commemorate a deadly attack on the global body by Boko Haram militants and meet the country's new leader.

22 August 2015 12:48

Ashley Madison sued over membership data leak A Can$760 million (US$578 million) class action lawsuit has been launched against the owner of affair-seeking website Ashley Madison.

22 August 2015 12:30

Macedonia allows 'vulnerable' migrants to cross border Macedonia said it would allow a limited number of "vulnerable" migrants to enter the country after sealing its border with Greece to them, leaving thousands of refugees stuck in no-man's land.

22 August 2015 11:58

Turkey to hold snap polls on Nov 1: Erdogan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he would call snap elections likely to be held on November 1, after coalition talks failed in an unprecedented political impasse.

22 August 2015 11:09

SCAT eyes 20 Russian Sukhoi Super Jet-100s Kazakhstani SCAT is to contract 20 Russian Sukhoi Super Jet-100 (SSJ-100) aircraft.

21 August 2015 18:16

Making sense of Kazakhstan's decision to float tenge Kazakhstan tenge plunged to its record low after the country floated it, renouncing the set corridor and adopting inflation targeting.

21 August 2015 17:27

Threat of default in Kazakhstan assessed by analysts Kazakhstani experts comment on Bank of American Merrill Lynch placing the Central Asian country among ten countries most vulnerable to a sovereign default.

21 August 2015 15:46

Brazil speaker, former president charged in Petrobras corruption Brazilian prosecutors lodged corruption charges against the speaker of the lower house -- a key figure in the country's current political crisis -- and also against a former president.

21 August 2015 15:46

Golovkin-Lemieux press conference WBA Super, IBO and WBC Interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and IBF champion David Lemieux have conducted a press conference in Montreal, Canada

21 August 2015 15:37

EU ministers to hold migrant crisis talks in October: France Europe's interior and foreign ministers will meet in mid-October to discuss how to respond to the huge influx of migrants and refugees arriving at EU borders.

21 August 2015 15:36

Thai police chief hails bomber hunt 'progress', but still no arrests Thailand's police chief insisted his officers were making "a lot of progress" in the hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber despite the lack of arrests and mystery over the attackers' motives.

21 August 2015 15:26

Nazarbayev instructs National Bank to compensate tenge deposits President of Kazakhstan instructed the National Bank to initiate a mechanism of compensation for private fixed-term deposits in tenge.

21 August 2015 15:24

Kung fu tourism: foreigners learn at China school In the countryside outside the birthplace of the Chinese sage Confucius, 35 students battle the elements as well as exhaustion at a remote kung fu training academy.

21 August 2015 15:14

Turkey's risky offensive can weaken but won't destroy PKK: analysts Turkey's almost month-long campaign of air strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Turkish southeast and northern Iraq will weaken but cannot destroy the Kurdish militant group.

21 August 2015 15:10

Kim Jong-Un orders frontline N. Korea troops onto war footing: KCNA North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing from, as military tensions with South Korea soared.

21 August 2015 14:33

Jenner could face manslaughter charge over US car crash Transgender Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner could face misdemeanor manslaughter charges over a deadly car crash in February when Los Angeles police reveal the results of an investigation into the accident next week.

21 August 2015 14:16

Russia’s LUKOIL sells 50% in Caspian Investments Resources Ltd. to China’s Sinoptec Caspian Investments Resources Ltd. is developing five oil field in Kazakhstan, notably Alibekmola, Kozhassai in Aktyubinsk oblast, Karakuduk, Severny Buzachi and Arman in Mangistau oblast.

21 August 2015 13:32

Jennifer Lawrence tops list of highest-paid actresses The odds really were in Jennifer Lawrence's favor last year as she raked in $52 million, topping a ranking of the highest-paid actresses by a wide margin.

21 August 2015 12:35

Merkel urges Brazil to protect Amazon rainforest Brazil and Germany threw their weight behind the push for a global climate agreement later this year and stressed the vital importance of defending the Amazon jungle from deforestation.

21 August 2015 12:15

France's Le Pen booted out of his far-right party Jean-Marie Le Pen, France's elderly, far-right master provocateur, was booted out of the National Front (FN) he founded after a high-profile feud with his daughter and party leader Marine.

21 August 2015 12:12