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Asia rings in Year of the Horse with fireworks, festivities Fireworks illuminated the skies across Asia and millions of families gathered together to usher in the Year of the Horse.
31 January 2014
Jang song-thaek. ©Reuters/China Daily North Korea envoy scoffs at death-by-dog story A senior North Korean diplomat has scoffed at sensational rumours that the executed uncle of leader Kim Jong-Un was stripped naked and fed to a pack of starving dogs.
31 January 2014
US to seek death penalty for accused Boston bomber The United States is to seek a rare federal death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving young student accused of the Boston marathon bombings.
31 January 2014
Syria foes set to end talks with no concrete progress Syria's warring sides are expected to wrap up their first peace talks on Friday without concrete progress on ending the violence, a political transition or ensuring humanitarian aid for millions in need.
31 January 2014
Marat Abilov© CSTO drills to focus on prevention of threats coming from Afghanistan Kazakhstan’s Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov met his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu today.
31 January 2014
Air Defense System S-300. Tengrinews.kz file photo Kazakhstan wants Russia to leave some of its testing sites Kazakhstan has offered Russia to consider leaving the testing sites that it no longer needs.
31 January 2014
Vatican trove shows Catholic persecution in samurai-era Japan A trove of ancient documents unearthed at the Vatican could shed light on the brutal crackdown on Christianity in isolationist Japan under its samurai rulers.
31 January 2014
President Nazarbayev suggests sending grain to Pakistan According to the Kazakh Agriculture Ministry, grain exports in the 2013-2014 marketing year will stand at about 7 million tons.
31 January 2014
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev. ©Marat Abilov President Nazarbayev suggests launching a Kazakh-Dutch Business Council I hope to be able to broach this and other subjects on my trip to the Hague in March to attend the Nuclear Security Summit [to be held March 24-25]: President.
31 January 2014
Kerry to meet Ukrainian opposition leaders In a major show of support for pro-democracy protesters in Ukraine, US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet top opposition leaders for the first time this weekend.
31 January 2014
Kazakhstan intends to promote its interests in remotest corners of the world: Foreign Minister According to him, Kazakhstan’s growing authority and economic capabilities have laid foundations for expanding cooperation with Africa, Central and Latin America.
31 January 2014
Ski resort Shymbulak. ©Yaroslav Radlovsky Kazakhstan presents resorts at Travel Exhibition in Turkey Kazakhstan is presenting its resorts at the 18th East Mediterranean International Tourism and Travel Exhibition 2014 (Emitt) in Turkey.
31 January 2014
Katy Perry rides closer to 50 mn mark on Twitter Pop star Katy Perry was on the threshold Thursday of becoming the first person ever to have more than 50 million followers on Twitter.
31 January 2014
©Reuters/Stephen Lam Zynga deals for animation firm in rebound effort Zynga announced Thursday it was buying mobile game and animation firm NaturalMotion for $527 million in a fresh reboot effort for the struggling social games pioneer.
31 January 2014
US admiral nominated to be next NSA chief President Barack Obama has nominated a US Navy officer, Vice Admiral Michael Rogers, to take over as head of the embattled National Security Agency.
31 January 2014
World's oldest flamingo dies in Australian zoo, aged 83 Staff at Adelaide Zoo were in mourning Friday after the world's oldest flamingo, and their oldest resident, died aged 83.
31 January 2014
Israel strikes in Gaza after rocket attack Israeli fighter jets attacked in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday morning, sources on both sides said, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave hit the Jewish state.
31 January 2014
Photo courtesy of drugdiscovery.com Antioxidants speed lung cancer growth in mice: study People who smoke or have lung cancer should think twice about taking vitamin supplements, according to a Swedish study Wednesday that showed certain antioxidants may make tumors grow faster.
31 January 2014
Photo courtesy of 24.kz Fire destroys only library for blind in Karaganda Fire has destroyed the only library for the blind and partially sighted in Karaganda Oblast in central Kazakhstan.
31 January 2014
Azamat Tenizbayev. ©Vesti.kz Kazakhstan Taekwondo Fed accuses London lawyer of deception Taekwondo Federation of Kazakhstan has promised to compensate all the expenses the champion landed himself into by sleeping in an airplane ... and sue his 'big bad lawyer'.
31 January 2014

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