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Fireworks injure 160 as Philippines readies for New Year More than 160 people have been injured by fireworks in the Philippines as they prepared to welcome the New Year, the government said Saturday.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi UN rights body urges Uganda leader to shun anti-gay bill The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday called on Uganda's president not to sign a harsh anti-gay draft law that sailed through parliament last week.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Phil McCarten Blast from the past: 1970s games revived on Internet For those old enough to remember console games like "Asteroids" or "Red Baron," from the 1970s and 1980s: the games are back.
28 December 2013
US stocks rise amid wave of positive sentiment US stocks edged towards the finale of a banner 2013 in buoyant fashion this week, repeatedly reaching new records on a string of solid economic data.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Omar Sobhani Libya briefly holds four US military personnel Four US military personnel have been freed after a brief detention by the Libyan government, the US State Department said Saturday.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Munish Sharma 23 killed in fire on train in southern India: TV A fire on an overnight train killed at least 23 people Saturday in southern India as it ripped through a carriage packed with sleeping passengers, local television networks reported.
28 December 2013
Gennady Golovkin. ©Getty Images Boxing: Golovkin and Shumenov lead Kazakhstan into Top 10 by champion count World Boxing Champions Gennady Golovkin and Beibut Shumenov have led Kazakhstan to the 8th place in the global 2013 ranking by champion count.
28 December 2013
Photo a courtesy of wikimedia.org Turkey considers compensating Kazakhstan for spoilt vacation The Turkish government is ready to consider Kazakhstan’s claims against Turkish Qualitum Tour company.
28 December 2013
India anti-graft hero takes subway to swearing-in Anti-corruption champion Arvind Kejriwal Saturday rode the subway to his swearing-in ceremony as the chief minister of Delhi, in what supporters hope will be a watershed moment in the country's graft-ridden politics.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Ints Kalnins  Sherlock Holmes is free, US judge rules The beloved British detective Sherlock Holmes is now free to be reimagined in the United States after a federal judge ruled that licensing fees are no longer required.
28 December 2013
China formally abolishes labour camps: state media China's top legislative committee on Saturday formally abolished the country's "re-education through labour" camps and approved a loosening of its one-child policy, state media reported.
28 December 2013
Lego Kazakhstan introduces Lego into school curriculum Kazakhstan is making Lego part of its school curriculum.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Julia Sestier UN reinforcements start arriving in S.Sudan The first UN peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said to have agreed an immediate ceasefire after nearly two weeks of heavy fighting with rebels.
28 December 2013
Adonis Stevenson. Photo a courtesy of theboxingobserver.com Golovkin loses to Stevens in Breakthrough HBO Fighter To the disappointment of Gennady Golovkin’s fans, the Kazakh boxer has lost to Canadian Adonis Stevenson in the Breakthrough HBO Fighter.
28 December 2013
©Marat Abilov 350 buses to be equipped with wheelchair lifts 350 public buses are going to be equipped with wheelchair lifts in Astana.
28 December 2013
Photo courtesy of ArcelorMittal Temirtau ArcelorMittal Temirtau to cut 2500 jobs in 2014 ArcelorMittal Temirtau is going to reduce the number of jobs by 2500 in 2014, Viktor Schetinin, vice-chairman of Zhaktau steel workers union.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Danish Siddiqui More Americans shopped on their phones on Christmas Most stores were closed but Americans still managed to shop on Christmas Day -- increasingly on their smartphones.
28 December 2013
©Reuters/Michaela Rehle Amazon to compensate customers for late gifts Amazon Thursday said it would give $20 gift cards and pay shipping costs for customers affected by problems at UPS and FedEx that delayed some Christmas package deliveries.
28 December 2013
Photo courtesy of 
pjmedia.com Iran exiles say camp struck by rockets near Baghdad airport Rockets struck near Baghdad airport on Thursday in what an exiled Iran opposition group said was an attack on their camp that left three dead and around 50 wounded.
28 December 2013
Lakshmi Mittal. Photo courtesy of zpravda.kz Lakshmi Mittal asks Kazakhstan's employees to hunker down Lakshmi Mittal met with ArcelorMittal Temirtau plant top-managers and called them to reduce expenses and make goods more competitive.
27 December 2013

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