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Kazakhstan ambassador to North Korea appointed
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Nurlan Yermekbayev ambassador to North Korea.
18 October 2012
Nazarbayev called ArcelorMittal to improve working conditions
Nursultan Nazarbayev has raised to issue of improvement of working conditions with the head of ArcelorMittal Lakshmi Mittal.
18 October 2012
Soldiers of Khalifat leader who trained Kazakh terrorists eliminated
Leader of the terrorist group Soldiers of Khalifat Moezeddine Garsallaoui was killed during a raid in North Waziristan province of Pakistan.
18 October 2012
Kazakhstan General Prosecutor’s office and Interior Ministry comment deadly anti-terrorist operations
Kazakhstan General Prosecutor’s office and Interior Ministry explained why terrorists had to be eliminated during special operations and no attempts were made to apprehend any of them.
18 October 2012
Kazakhstan Ministry of Agriculture eyes early evaluation of cattle breed
it has become possible to define bull-calf's breeding value with the help of genome technologies when it is only two or three months old.
18 October 2012
South Korea angered by Japan war shrine visit
South Korea reacted angrily Thursday to a visit by Japanese opposition leader Shinzo Abe to a Tokyo war shrine, saying Japan should "have the courage" to face up to its brutal wartime aggression.
18 October 2012
US to hand over emails in WikiLeaks soldier case
A US judge ordered prosecutors Wednesday to hand over hundreds of emails by officers overseeing the detention of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, who has alleged he suffered mistreatment at a Marine Corps brig.
18 October 2012
Aussie sailor tells of monster wave that rolled yacht
An Australian yachtsman was reunited with his family Thursday following a dramatic rescue after a massive wave picked up his boat and rolled it over, hundreds of kilometres off the coast.
18 October 2012
Fidel Castro statement issued amid health rumors
The first public statement in almost four months from Fidel Castro appeared in Cuba's state media on Wednesday, as rumors persist about the 86-year-old revolutionary icon's health.
18 October 2012
Second Kazakhstan investment forum held in Hong Kong
The event was organized by Kazakhstan’s General Consulate in Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions jointly with SB Capital and Cedrus Investments.
18 October 2012
Fear of famine stalks Sudan's South Kordofan
Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan's conflict-torn state of South Kordofan are on the brink of famine as Khartoum keeps up a blockade on aid agencies.
18 October 2012
Alcohol pipeline unearthed on Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border
Smugglers have been pumping ethyl alcohol from Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan via a self-made pipeline since 2008.
18 October 2012
Crowned heads of Europe due at Luxembourg royal wedding
It won't be as big as "Will and Kate" yet the cream of Europe's royals head to tiny Luxembourg this week for a two-day wedding between Prince Guillaume, heir to the throne, and a Belgian countess.
18 October 2012
Former Chinese official sheds light on dark side of power
"Politics is an ugly business," says an official in Chinese author Wang Xiaofang's novel, The Civil Servant's Notebook. "You always need to keep a knife in reserve, even for your own boss."
18 October 2012
Six offroaders and one truck will represent Kazakhstan in Dakar-2013
Kazakhstan's Astana rally raid team is going to participate in two continental races at the same time.
18 October 2012
S. Korea to crack down on sexy performance by minors
South Korea authorities said Wednesday they were taking steps to curb over-sexualised performances by teenaged stars of the country's thriving K-pop scene.
18 October 2012
Kazakhstan's export to Customs Union lowered in 2012
The commodities turnover between Kazakhstan and CU-countries made $4.5 billion in January-August, which is 12 percent less than in the same period last year: Statistics Agency.
18 October 2012
Pop Art painting, missing for 42 years, returns to owner
A $4 million painting by Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein was returned Tuesday to its rightful owner, 42 years after it went missing.
18 October 2012
Cruise ship crew member dies of meningitis in Italy
An Indonesian cruise ship crew member died of meningitis on Tuesday, nine days after being hospitalised with three colleagues in the western Italian port city of Livorno.
18 October 2012
Kazakhstan's Alisher Karimov won 3rd prize at music contest in Armenia
Kazakhstan singer Alisher Karimov won the 3rd place in the international contest of young pop singers Yerevan Calls on October 6-14.
18 October 2012