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Kashagan consortium partners not willing to purchase ConocoPhillips’s stake: Oil Minister
According to him, a potential stakeholder should be fully aware that the bulk of investments is still ahead.
19 April 2013
Venezuela's Maduro to Peru summit before swearing-in
Election officials moved to defuse a political crisis on the eve of President-elect Nicolas Maduro's inauguration Friday, yielding to demands for an audit of the results in Sunday's bitterly contested elections.
19 April 2013
Boxing: Astana Arlans and Mexico Guerreros weigh-in
Bagdad Alimbekov, Samat Bashenov, Ruslan Myrsatayev, Sergey Derevyanchenko, Ehsan Rouzbahani and Eric Donovan will fight for Kazakhstan.
19 April 2013
Luxury car makers seek success in China
Construction tycoon Niu Yeqing owns four cars in which he cruises the streets of the Chinese city of Hefei, including a black Mercedes-Benz S600.
19 April 2013
Pleas for US to name first ambassador to Arctic
Top US diplomat John Kerry said he would mull ways to deepen US engagement in the Arctic amid pleas from lawmakers to name America's first ambassador to the resource-rich region.
19 April 2013
Kazakhstan-born employees of Twitter and imo.im tell about their jobs
Kazakhstan citizens working in Google, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon told Voxpopulli.kz about their work in the Silicon Valley.
19 April 2013
Canada's rising oil production at risk if no new pipelines
North America's pipeline network must be radically redrawn with new links such as Keystone XL to meet growing Canadian oil output, or risk a blow to the country's economy.
19 April 2013
Weak global economy key worry as IMF, World Bank meet
Advanced and developing countries alike voiced worries over fragile global growth, eurozone stagnation and the swamp of excess monetary liquidity as the IMF and World Bank spring meetings kicked off.
19 April 2013
A woman dragged under car in Almaty
A scary video appeared on Facebook: a woman was dragged down the road under a car’s trunk in Kazakhstan.
19 April 2013
UN says 6.8 million need aid in Syria, raps Damascus
Nearly seven million people need humanitarian assistance in Syria, a senior United Nations official said Thursday, criticizing Damascus for hampering aid distribution.
19 April 2013
Race to find survivors after 'nightmare' Texas blast
Rescuers in Texas on Thursday combed through rubble in a painstaking search for survivors after a massive blast at a fertilizer factory killed as many as 15 people and destroyed dozens of homes.
19 April 2013
NGO slams IMF's 'double standard' on austerity
Jubilee USA Network, a debt-relief organization, on Thursday criticized the International Monetary Fund for using a "double standard" in prescribing austerity measures to troubled economies.
19 April 2013
Chrysler will take losses on electric cars: CEO
Chrysler Group stands to lose $10,000 on every battery-powered Fiat 500 it sells in California..
19 April 2013
FBI releases video of Boston bomb suspects
The FBI released pictures and video on Thursday of two men suspected of planting the Boston marathon bombs, appealing for help to identify the pair who were carrying large backpacks.
19 April 2013
Police capture Boston bomber suspect in manhunt: media
Police captured one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects and were chasing a second in a wild, deadly manhunt near the US city early Friday.
19 April 2013
Gunman shoots police officer at MIT: media
A gunman shot and seriously wounded a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in an eruption of gunfire at the prestigious university late Thursday.
19 April 2013
KazAgroFinance sues sick cattle supplier
KazAgroFinance has prepared the documents and is already filing the lawsuit: Kazakhstan Vice-Minister.
19 April 2013
France's Hollande blasts 'homophobic' violence
French President Francois Hollande on Thursday hit out at "homophobic" acts by opponents of a same-sex marriage bill following violent protests that included an attack on a gay bar.
19 April 2013
Finland to use Kazakhstan-made copper rods
A memorandum on supplies of Kazakhstan-made copper rods to Finland was signed during Kazakhstan-Finnish forum on green economy and modernization in Astana.
19 April 2013
Kazakhstan and Finland to set up production of high-tech cables
Major Finnish company Reka Cables is going to establish production of cables in line with European standards that Kazakhstan now lacks.
19 April 2013