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Dutch court rules in Nigerian farmers' suit against Shell
A Dutch court will decide on Wednesday whether Shell should clean up oil damage that destroyed a group of Nigerian farmers' land, a case that could set a precedent for global environmental responsibility.
31 January 2013
Kazakhstan consdering 'golden hour' rule to save victims of accidents
The 'golden hour' rule applies to the time when victims of an accident are balancing between life and death and medical aid is most effective.
31 January 2013
China's military at 'high risk' on corruption: watchdog
China's armed forces are battling a major corruption problem, with little political oversight and no whistleblower mechanism to counter graft.
31 January 2013
Gates urges polio eradication by 2018
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said the battle to eradicate polio was one of the toughest the world has faced, but said it could be conquered by 2018.
31 January 2013
Philips returns to profit, sells entertainment business
Electronics giant Philips on Tuesday reported 2012 net profits of 231 million euros (311 million dollars), after losses of 1.29 billion euros in 2011, and announced the sale of its entertainment business to focus further on health products.
31 January 2013
Home from Afghanistan, Prince Harry steps back into glare
Britain's Prince Harry may be home safely from Afghanistan after five months as an army helicopter gunner -- but he has swapped the crackle of gunfire for the clicking of countless paparazzi cameras.
31 January 2013
US Senate confirms Kerry as next secretary of state
The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed Senator John Kerry will be the next secretary of state, approving President Barack Obama's pick to replace Hillary Clinton as America's top diplomat.
31 January 2013
Kazakhstan planning to issue $1 billion of Eurobonds in 2013
We believe it possible to issue sovereign Eurobonds in the H1 2013 to finance the budget deficit and set a benchmark for Kazakhstan’s issuers: Finance Minister.
30 January 2013
Clean-up launched after deadly Australia floods
A mammoth clean-up operation began in Australia's flood-hit northeast Wednesday after waters began to recede, as the death toll from storms reached five and thousands of homes were left swamped.
30 January 2013
Families of plane crash victims to receive 4 million tenge each
Kazakhstan government and Scat airline will render financial support to the families of the victims of the plane crash near Almaty.
30 January 2013
Tech entrepreneur Musk offers to help Boeing
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the electric carmaker Tesla and aeronautics firm SpaceX, has offered to help Boeing fix apparent problems with the batteries in its grounded 787 Dreamliner.
30 January 2013
4.2-magnitude quake strikes 100km from Almaty
The shocks were 15km deep. They were registered at 12:23 p.m. Astana time.
30 January 2013
Massacre plunges Syria deeper into 'horror' spiral
The Syrian war has reached "unprecedented levels of horror", UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Tuesday after dozens of men were killed in a grim new massacre.
30 January 2013
2nd pilot who should have been on crashed plane comments on possible causes
A 25-y.o. citizen of Karaganda told that her father was supposed to be on that fatal Kokshetau-Almaty flight as the second pilot, but was switched to another flight in the last moment.
30 January 2013
Kazakhstan and Russia agree on rocket drop zone for Soyuz launches
The Russian side will pay $460 000 a year for the use of the rocket drop zone regardless of the number of Soyuz launches.
30 January 2013
Putin sends condolences to families of victims of plane crash near Almaty
Russia’s President has expressed condolences to Kazakhstan President over the plane crash near Almaty that claimed lives of 21 people.
30 January 2013
EU expresses condolences to Kazakhstan over plane crash near Almaty
Heads of the European Parliament, European Council and European Commission expressed condolences to Kazakhstan and the families of the victims of the plane crash.
30 January 2013
Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund Board Chairwoman comments on Russia’s Sberbank President German Gref’s concerns
Mr. Gref earlier expressed concerns that Kazakhstan is taking steps to restrict operations of foreign banks in Kazakhstan, including those of Sberbank.
30 January 2013
Three Almaty residents were among passengers of crashed Scat's plane
There were 3 Almaty residents, 11 residents of Akmola oblast and 2 residents of Petropavlovsk and Bishkek onboard the CRJ-200 airplane that crashed near Almaty.
30 January 2013
Board recorder of CRJ-200 to be decoded in 15 days
The blackbox was discovered at the site of the plane crash near Almaty. It will be sent to the Interstate Aviation Commission in Moscow for decoding.
30 January 2013
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