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Boxing: Golovkin advances to 2d place in middleweight ranking
WBA world champion Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan has advanced to the second place in the world middleweight ranking after he KOed Matthew Macklin.
02 July 2013
Volleyball: Kazakhstan wins China at President's Cup
The national women's volleyball team of Kazakhstan has won over the China's team at the 20th International Women's Volleyball Tournament of President of Kazakhstan Cup.
02 July 2013
US wildfire grows after killing 19 firefighters
Reinforcements poured in Monday to battle a runaway wildfire in Arizona that quadrupled in size overnight after killing 19 firefighters in one of the worst such incidents in US history.
02 July 2013
Nearly 21,000 species at risk of extinction: conservationists
A freshwater shrimp, an island-dwelling lizard and a pupfish from Arizona have been declared extinct, while nearly 21,000 species are at risk of dying out.
02 July 2013
Snowden asylum requests sent to 21 countries: WikiLeaks
Fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has submitted asylum requests to 19 more nations including Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, India, China, Russia, Germany and France.
02 July 2013
Apple seeks iWatch trademark in Japan
Apple has filed a trademark application for an "iWatch" in Japan, fuelling speculation the US tech giant is preparing to introduce a wearable computing device.
02 July 2013
World bets on British royal baby name, sex and everything else
Will it be a girl called Alexandra, or a boy called Wayne? No one outside Buckingham Palace knows but it has not stopped punters from around the world betting on Britain's royal baby.
02 July 2013
Zynga chief replaced by Microsoft videogame executive
Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus on Monday said he is handing over the helm of the struggling social games company to Microsoft entertainment division chief Don Mattrick.
02 July 2013
Russia’s Proton-M explodes at Baikonur
About 600 tons of heptyl, a highly toxic fuel, might have been spilled around.
02 July 2013
US top court rejects same-sex marriage appeal: report
The US Supreme Court has rejected an emergency bid to reinstate California's ban on same-sex marriage.
02 July 2013
Obama warns Africa's 'tyrant' leaders
US President Barack Obama warned Sunday that Africa could only fulfill its rising potential with leaders who serve their people, not tyrants who enrich themselves.
02 July 2013
Kazakhstan journalists attacked in Lebanon
A camera crew of Channel 1 Eurasia has been attacked in Beirut, Lebanon during shooting of a movie about the Arab Spring.
02 July 2013
Nazarbayev visits pipe fittings plant in Atyrau oblast
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has checked on the only pipe fittings plant in CIS during the visit to Atyrau oblast.
02 July 2013
Yessimov adocates posmortem award for burnt truck driver
Almaty Akim has promised to apply for a postmortem award for Aleksandr Goryunov, if the tests confirm that the driver is not guilty of the tank truck accident in Almaty.
02 July 2013
Funeral of flaring petrol truck driver held in Almaty
A funeral of the flaring fuel tank truck driver Aleksandr Goryunov was held in Baisserke village of Almaty oblast on June 28.
02 July 2013
Chinese CNPC to purchase a stake in the giant Kashagan oilfield for around $5 billion
KazMunaiGas is to sell its stake, purchasing the stake of the exiting ConocoPhillips: Head of KazMunaiGas National Oil Company.
01 July 2013
President Nazarbayev on political repression in Kazakhstan
The West tends to believe that the post-soviet space got stuck in the medieval ages and that we still ride camels, not cars: President Nazarbayev.
01 July 2013
Kazakhstan’s President calling UK’s companies to invest outside the extraction sector
Even if companies enter the country’s O&G sector, the condition is to bring technology to some non-extraction sector: President Nazarbayev.
01 July 2013
Oil trafficking funds Kazakhstan's religious extremists
Illicit trafficking in oil and oil products fuels Kazakhstan's shadow economy and provides funding to organized criminal groups, including radical religious movements: official.
01 July 2013
Boxing: Quillin might be Golovkin's next rival
American boxer Peter Quillin nicknamed Kid Chocolate may be the next rival of WBA world champion Gannady Golovkin of Kazakhstan.
01 July 2013