Kazakhstan Muay Thai team won 11 medals at World Championship
Kazakhstan Muay Thai team won 11 medals Muay Thai World Championship 2012 in St. Petersburg.
Pope brings peace message to Lebanon as Mideast burns
Pope Benedict XVI arrives on Friday for a three-day visit to Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country riven by sectarian tensions as fighting rages next door in Syria.
US, Morocco launch first strategic dialogue
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday the United States was looking to Morocco "to be a leader and a model" in the region as the two countries launched their first ever strategic dialogue.
Senator Altynbayev precludes weapons leak from Kazakhstan arsenals to terrorists
Kazakhstan arsenals and armories are well protected and equipped with alarm systems: Senator Altynbayev.
Qaeda posts video of two 9/11 hijackers
Al-Qaeda on Thursday posted an online video of two plane hijackers of the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, which they said were part of a war to drive US forces out of the Arabian Peninsula.
Kazakhstan’s Government allows to sell Almaty International Airport
Venus Airport Investments B.V. has been the sole shareholder of the airport since April 2011 following the purchase from SAT Infosystems and Meridian Capital for $86.7 million.
Europe wins Netherlands vote, extremism loses
Dutch voters overwhelmingly backed pro-European pragmatism Wednesday, electing centrist parties committed to debt-busting austerity and rejecting the anti-EU extremism of Geert Wilders.
Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts, thousands evacuate
A series of powerful eruptions of Guatemala's Volcano of Fire blanketed villages in dense clouds of ash, and prompted evacuation orders for over 33,000 people.
US to take back seat in changing world order: think-tank
A series of political transitions led by the Arab Spring uprisings are shifting the balance of world power with the United States set to play a less dominant role.
US police protect suspected anti-Islam filmmaker
The man suspected of producing a crude film lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has been placed under police protection after protests erupted around the world.
WikiLeaks says US gave 'tacit approval' to embassy attacks
Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks declared on Wednesday that the United States had effectively given groups an opening to attack its embassies by supporting the siege of its founder Julian Assange.
Royal couple 'saddened' by Kate topless pix claim
Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine were "saddened" by a French magazine's claims it would publish topless photos of her.
US must stand by Arab Spring nations: experts
The Obama administration must stay the course in Arab Spring countries and help them thwart rising militancy, even as the deaths of four diplomats grimly highlighted the dangers lurking in the young democracies.
16 bodies found in van on Mexican highway
The bullet-riddled bodies of 16 men were found Monday inside an abandoned van in a western Mexico region mired in drug violence.
Platinum firm makes offer to striking S African miners
Lonmin, the world's number three platinum producer, announced a new offer to striking miners at its South African operations following a fresh round of talks late Thursday.
US missions stormed in Yemen, stoned in Egypt film protests
Demonstrators stormed the US embassy in Yemen, leading to clashes in which four people were killed, while protesters stoned Washington's mission in Cairo as anger spread over a US-produced film mocking Islam.
US judge nixes terror detention law
A New York federal judge shot down part of a controversial anti-terror law Wednesday that journalists and scholars worry could see them locked up indefinitely for speaking their minds.
Hidden Cartier-Bresson images exhibited for first time
Long-hidden photographs from French master Henri Cartier-Bresson are to be exhibited this weekend for the first time, shedding light on a little-known and controversial project of his in India.
Canada condemns deadly attack on US mission in Libya
Canada on Wednesday strongly condemned an attack in Libya that claimed the lives of a US ambassador and three other Americans.
Obama: Egypt no ally but no enemy either
Egypt is neither an ally nor an enemy of the United States, President Barack Obama said Wednesday in the wake of a violent protest at the US embassy in Cairo.