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Malians go to polls in watershed election
Mali voted on Sunday for a new president in a bid to usher in peace and stability in the first election since a military coup helped plunge the country into chaos.
29 July 2013
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev reiterates there are no grounds for tenge depreciation
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has met Gregory Marchenko, the country’s Central Bank Governor.
26 July 2013
Iran's Khamenei says US can not be trusted
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Sunday that Washington was "not trustworthy", after former US officials and lawmakers urged diplomacy with the Islamic republic's incoming president Hassan Rowhani.
22 July 2013
Mugabe blasts 'insane' US for vote criticism
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday rebuked the "insane" US for criticising his push for elections without key reforms and told it to keep its "pink nose" out of Zimbabwe's affairs.
19 July 2013
89-year-old Mugabe hits the campaign trail
After 33 years in power, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is back on the campaign trail, where his advancing years are subtly starting to show.
16 July 2013
Polish president egged at memorial event in Ukraine: police
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski on Sunday was struck by an egg hurled by a young man during a hugely sensitive visit to Ukraine to commemorate a wartime massacre.
15 July 2013
Brazil to exhume ex-president Goulart
The remains of Brazilian ex-president Joao Goulart will be exhumed to determine whether he was poisoned in the 1970s by rightwing rulers clamping on dissent.
12 July 2013
Kazakhstan’s President on succession of power
There should be a sustainable system put in place that would be stable against the backdrop of a new leader’s arrival: President Nazarbayev.
05 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
Nursultan Nazarbayev and David Cameron launch an oil treatment facility to handle Kashagan oil
The launch was postponed to coincide with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s state visit to Kazakhstan.
01 July 2013
Brazil leader pushes for reform as FIFA hails Confed Cup
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday raced to build support for reforms in response to nationwide protests as the head of world football hailed the Brazil-hosted Confederations Cup as the "best ever."
29 June 2013
Rowhani election creates surge of hope in Iran
The election of moderate Hassan Rowhani as Iran's next president has sent a surge of expectation through a nation anxious.
28 June 2013
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Kashagan oilfield
Earlier it was reported that China is ready to pay threefold more than the ask price for ConocoPhillips’ stake in the giant Kashagan oilfield in the Caspian offshore.
28 June 2013
Mandela on life support, Zuma cancels foreign trip
Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is on life support, unable to breathe on his own, an elder in the South African icon's clan said Wednesday, all but extinguishing hopes for his recovery.
27 June 2013
Mongolia incumbent poised to win second presidential term
Preliminary results from Mongolia's presidential election suggested that the front-running incumbent is poised to secure a second term.
27 June 2013
Mongolians go to polls hoping for mining wealth
Mongolians headed to the polls Wednesday for a presidential election with the three candidates promising fairer wealth distribution from a spectacular mining boom that has raised questions over the role of foreign investors.
26 June 2013
Taliban attack Afghan presidential palace, CIA office
Taliban militants targeted the presidential palace and national CIA office in central Kabul on Tuesday morning, with gunfire and explosions erupting at one of the gates of the complex in the Afghan capital.
25 June 2013