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Syrian woman's siege of Homs film gets standing ovation at Cannes A Syrian woman whose horrifying footage of the siege of Homs was turned into a film by an exiled director was on Friday given a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, a few hours after the pair met for the first time.
17 May 2014
Four dead as 'catastrophic' floods hit Bosnia and Serbia Four people in Bosnia have died in flooding from the heaviest rainfall to hit the Balkans in over a century, officials said Friday, in what Serbia's premier has called a "horrible natural catastrophe".
17 May 2014
Photo courtesy of allvoices.com Five MSF aid workers freed in Syria Five aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who were kidnapped in Syria in January have been freed, the medical charity said.
16 May 2014
©Reuters eBay courts Latin America with Spanish, Portuguese websites US online giant eBay announced Thursday the launch of Spanish and Portuguese versions of its popular auction and shopping website, hoping to boost its presence in growing Latin American markets.
16 May 2014
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag. ©bbc.com Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasy A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a heavily pregnant Christian woman to hang for apostasy, a ruling which Britain denounced as "barbaric" and left the United States "deeply disturbed".
16 May 2014
©Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk Gazprom chief escaped sanctions after European lobbying The head of Russian state gas giant Gazprom escaped being named on a list of EU sanctions over the Ukraine crisis after lobbying from European energy firms, Moscow newspaper Vedomosti reported.
16 May 2014
Anthony Loyd. Photo courtesy of fpalondon.org British journalists shot and beaten in Syria kidnapping Two British journalists were recovering in Turkey on Thursday after being shot and beaten by rebel kidnappers while covering the Syrian conflict, the Times reported.
15 May 2014
Cannes film fest opens with 'Grace of Monaco' mauling The world's biggest film festival opened in Cannes Wednesday with a blast of controversy as critics mercilessly savaged the opening movie about Hollywood-darling-turned-princess Grace of Monaco.
15 May 2014
Actress Nicole Kidman (L) and actor Tim Roth. ©Reuters/Yves Herman Biopic hits and flops: film-makers grapple with great lives A great or glittering life is no guarantee of a gripping biopic, say film-makers, as the Cannes Film Festival prepares to open Wednesday with the first big screen adaptation of the life of Monaco's Princess Grace.
15 May 2014
UN condemns killing of French journalist in CAR The UN Security Council has condemned the killing of a French journalist in the Central African Republic, and stated those responsible "shall be held accountable".
14 May 2014
Graff Vivid Diamond. Photo courtesy of forbes.com 100-carat yellow diamond fetches $16 million at auction A 100-carat yellow diamond sold for 14.5 million Swiss francs ($16.3 million,11.9 million euros) at auction in Geneva.
14 May 2014
European Council's President Herman Van Rompuy. ©Reuters/Francois Lenoir Moldova to sign association agreement on June 27: EU European Union President Herman Van Rompuy Tuesday invited Moldova to sign a key economic and political deal with the EU on June 27, warning against external pressure on the country in remarks aimed at Moscow.
14 May 2014
Toll in migrant shipwreck rises to 17: Italy The Italian navy on Tuesday said 17 bodies had been recovered and 206 people rescued by patrol boats and merchant ships from a migrant shipwreck in international waters between Libya and Italy.
14 May 2014
Photo ©mgorod.kz Uralsk corruption of minors case against British oil worker still not in court Peter Baruch’s corruption of minors case has been transferred on to the prosecutor’s office.
13 May 2014
Photo © 31.kz 300 workers strike out at Western Europe - Western China highway 300 construction workers of the Western Europe-Western China highway project have gone on strike.
13 May 2014
©tengrinews.kz American dog trainers bring detector dogs to Almaty, help Kazakhstan stop saiga horn trafficking to China Almaty customs officers have got four detection dogs from Europe and America. The joint effort is called to help save the dwindling saiga antelope population in Kazakhstan.
13 May 2014
Mother, daughter held after Spain politician shot dead Spanish police arrested a mother and daughter suspected of shooting dead a ruling party politician in broad daylight Monday in apparent revenge after the younger woman lost her job.
13 May 2014
Forward of Kazakhstan's women national football team   Yulia Nikolaenko. Photo courtesy of vk.com. Football: Kazakhstan women's team wins Bulgaria in FIFA qualifications The women’s national football team of Kazakhstan has won 4:1 over Bulgarian team in a qualifying match of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
12 May 2014
©Yaroslav Radlovskiy Air Astana to launch more flights to Europe Kazakhstan’s Air Astana national airline will be performing charter flights from Almaty and Astana to several South European tourist cities.
12 May 2014
Explosions, gunfire near Ukraine's Slavyansk Several explosions and gunfire could be heard near the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk Monday, according to an AFP reporter there, as Kiev seeks to flush out pro-Moscow rebels holed up there.
12 May 2014

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