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Athletics: Kazakhstan tripple jumper Olga Rypakova keeps winning
Olympic champion Olga Rypakova won the 11th stage of Diamond League competition in Lausanne, Switzerland.
04 September 2012
Russia fires top space official over launch failures
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the chief of a key state-run aerospace bureau following several launch failures, the Kremlin said Monday.
04 September 2012
Boxing: VIDEO: Golovkin knocked out Proksa
Kazakhstan boxer Gennady Golovkin have won over Polish boxer Grzegorz Proksa in the United States.
04 September 2012
FARC rebel chief confirms Colombia peace talks
The leader of Colombia's leftist FARC rebels confirmed on Monday that they were ready to take part in peace talks aimed at ending Latin America's longest-running armed conflict, now nearly 50 years old.
04 September 2012
US nears deal to cut Egypt debt by $1 bn: report
The United States is weighing a deal with Egypt's new rulers to relieve $1 billion worth of debt, The New York Times reported Monday.
04 September 2012
'Green Mile' actor Duncan dead at 54: reps
Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "The Green Mile," an adaptation of a Stephen King work, died Monday at age 54.
04 September 2012
White House reveals 'Ale to the Chief' beer recipes
Barack Obama promised and Saturday the White House delivered, revealing recipes for the president's official microbrewed honey beers, following an Internet campaign.
04 September 2012
Kazakhstan residents overpay for new cars
Total.kz made an analysis of the cars costs in Kazakhstan and other countries to reveal how much Kazakhstan residents overpay for new cars.
04 September 2012
Bolivia leader: US 'commands' Colombia's military
Bolivia President Evo Morales accused the US military of commanding Colombia's armed forces and of having a military base in the South American country.
04 September 2012
Bangladesh suspends officials over tiger smuggling
Bangladesh said that nine forest officials had been suspended for "gross negligence" after three tiger cubs were found in a house in Dhaka.
04 September 2012
German left-wing MP visits Assange at Ecuador embassy
German far-left MP Sevim Dagdelen on Sunday visited Julian Asange, who has been holed up at Ecuador's embassy in London since June, and afterwards expressed her solidarity with the Wikileaks founder.
04 September 2012
South Africa miners to be freed
South African courts are due Monday to start releasing 270 miners arrested over the deaths of fellow workers shot by police, after the murder charges against them were provisionally dropped.
04 September 2012
Carrying capacities of Kazakhstan’s export oil pipelines to be expanded to 100 million tons a year by 2020
The current carrying capacities of all the Kazakhstan’s export oil pipelines stand at 66 million tons a year.
04 September 2012
South Korea President Lee Myung-bak to visit Kazakhstan
According to the Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry, the trade turnover between Kazakhstan and South Korea as of the end of 2011 totaled almost $1 billion.
04 September 2012
Paralympics: Kazakhstan athletes win no medals
Kazakhstan Paralympics athletes haven’t won any medals in the Games so far.
03 September 2012
Nazarbayev instructed to set barrier to shadow economy
An important task is to create legislative barriers for the shadow economy and attempts to take budget funds into the shade: Nazarbayev.
03 September 2012
Fire from Issyk-Kul oblast spread to Kazakhstan mountains
Forest and dry grass was on fire in Issyk-Kul oblast of Kyrgyzstan and the fire spread to the territory of Kazakhstan.
03 September 2012
100 hectares of dry wood burnt in Almaty oblast mountains
The wood caught fire in the morning of September 1. The fire covered the area of 100 hectares.
03 September 2012
Nursultan Nazarbayev launched thermal power plant in Astana
Kazakhstan President officially launched the power plant saying that the promised warmth for the houses of Astana residents had been arranged.
03 September 2012
Ecuador interior minister's brother murdered
Ecuador Interior Minister Jose Serrano said Sunday his brother had been killed by unknown attackers, but he denied that the murder was in retaliation to his own efforts to fight organized crime.
03 September 2012