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Italy government talks end with no solution in sight
Italy remained in political limbo on Friday after talks to break a deadlock created by inconclusive polls ended with no solution in sight.
30 March 2013
Italy struggles to break government deadlock
Italy was left struggling to form a government after leftist leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Thursday lost his bid to end an impasse created by elections with no clear winner in the eurozone's third-largest economy.
29 March 2013
Brother of British Labour leader to step down as MP: report
British lawmaker David Miliband, who lost the 2010 battle for the leadership of the opposition Labour party to his younger brother Ed, is to stand down as an MP.
27 March 2013
Britain tries to reassure bloggers on new press rules
The British government has insisted that bloggers and posts on social media would not be caught by a new system of press regulation, but campaigners warned the new rules could be open to interpretation.
20 March 2013
Aid flowing to Myanmar may hinder, not help: experts
Governments and agencies must be wary of drowning Myanmar with well-intentioned but ill-targeted aid, experts warned Thursday, admonishing the global community to "first do no harm."
15 March 2013
India to hand plots of land to rural poor: reports
India's government is drawing up a major new welfare reform which would hand small plots of land to millions of homeless poor in the countryside.
14 March 2013
Australia gets first Aboriginal provincial government leader
The first Aboriginal to head a government in Australia took office on Thursday as chief minister of the Northern Territory, after staging a backroom coup.
14 March 2013
Obama says US won't balance budget in next 10 years
President Barack Obama warned Tuesday America will not balance its budget within a decade because Republican plans to do so would entail slashing social programs many citizens rely on for support.
13 March 2013
Kazakhstan to adopt Polish local government experience
A memorandum of experience exchange in local self-government has been signed between Poland and Kazakhstan.
13 March 2013
Mexico moves to end telecom monopolies: government
Mexico's government introduced a draft constitutional reform Monday to end monopolies in telecoms industries that have built some of the country's biggest fortunes.
12 March 2013
Thailand, rebel group agree to seek peace talks
Thailand signed its first-ever public agreement with a rebel group in its Muslim-majority south on Thursday, pledging to work toward peace talks aimed at ending a festering insurgency.
01 March 2013
US House speaker urges senators to get 'off their ass'
House Speaker John Boehner laid bare the Republican leadership's exasperation Tuesday over looming US budget cuts, as he demanded senators get "off their ass" to forge a compromise and avert a crisis.
27 February 2013
BP accused of greed, lax safety at US oil spill trial
The US government accused BP of letting greed triumph over safety Monday in the opening arguments of a multi-billion dollar trial over the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
26 February 2013
US executive blasts 'extremist' French government
An outspoken American CEO criticized France's government anew Thursday, but praised French women and wine and said that he himself was named after the iconic crooner Maurice Chevalier.
23 February 2013
Pension savings in Kazakhstan grew 20 percent in 2012
Savings in Kazakhstan's pension funds grew 20.1 percent and made 3.2 trillion tenge ($20.7 billion) in 2012.
08 February 2013
Obama to hand secret drone war guidelines to lawmakers
In a reversal, President Barack Obama will allow lawmakers access to secret documents outlining the legal justification for drone strikes that kill US citizens abroad who conspire with Al-Qaeda.
07 February 2013
Pension savings of Kazakhstan citizens to be consolidated in single pension fund by July 1
Creation of the single pension fund does not mean nationalizing of pension savings: the savings will still be owned by the citizens: Vice-PM of Kazakhstan.
06 February 2013
Zimbabwe has $217 in the bank: Finance Minister
After paying public workers' salaries last week, the balance in cash-strapped Zimbabwe's government public account stood at just $217.
30 January 2013
Kazakhstan ministers instructed not to complicate citizens' lives and stop working Soviet style
President has raised the issue of delimitation of authority between the center and the regions at the government meeting.
25 January 2013
Nazarbayev distributed functions of Vice-PMs
Nursultan Nazarbayev has distributed authorities among Kazakhstan's four Vice-PMs.
23 January 2013