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Bolivia launches world's highest cable railway
Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated Friday the first segment of the world's highest cable railway line, carrying passengers from city to city at up to 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level.
31 May 2014
Ecuador sentences ex-president to 12 years in absentia
An Ecuadoran court on Thursday sentenced exiled ex-president Jamil Mahuad to 12 years in jail for corruption.
30 May 2014
New governor of Akmola Oblast appointed
Sergey Kulagin has been appointed the new Akim (Governor) of Akmola Oblast in northern Kazakhstan. He replaced Kosman Aitmukhametov.
30 May 2014
Eurasian Economic Union Agreement takes into account interests of all member states: President Nazarbayev
According to him, the launch of the Union will be a great incentive to develop and modernize our economies and to bring the member states up to leading positions in the world.
29 May 2014
Kazakhstan to greatly benefit from the Eurasian Economic Union: President Nazarbayev
According to him, our nation is a land-locked one; the member states will provide us with boss an access to seas and their respective transport infrastructure.
29 May 2014
Nazarbayev ratifies Joint Air Defense treaty with Russia
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has ratified the treaty establishing a joint air defense system in Kazakhstan and Russia.
28 May 2014
New governor of North Kazakhstan Oblast appointed
Yerik Sultanov has been appointed the new Akim (Mayor) of North Kazakhstan Oblast.
28 May 2014
Kazakhstan is interested in broadening its ties with Albania: Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has met the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama.
27 May 2014
Nursultan Nazarbayev meets Malaysian PM
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has met the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Tun Razak.
27 May 2014
New homes for Mexican village after landslide
Mexico's government presented on Monday 125 new homes to residents of a southwestern mountain village that was buried by a massive landslide that killed 71 people last year.
27 May 2014
Airport in east Ukraine's Donetsk shut after rebel raid
The main airport in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk shut down on Monday after being raided by dozens of armed separatists who vowed to keep up their resistance a day after presidential polls.
26 May 2014
Chocolate king claims victory in Ukraine presidential vote
Chocolate baron Petro Poroshenko claimed a resounding victory on Sunday in Ukraine's presidential election and immediately vowed to end a bloody pro-Russian uprising that thwarted voting across swathes of the separatist east.
26 May 2014
Kazakhstan and Mexico to exchange Embassies
Kazakhstan and Mexico are going to exchange embassies in the coming two years.
24 May 2014
Kazakhstan should be ready for global economic slowdown: President Nazarbayev
We should be ready to face a substantial weakening of the global economy growth (…) the situation seems to be worsening, rather than getting better: President Nazarbayev.
23 May 2014
Obama to nominate San Antonio mayor as US housing secretary
President Barack Obama will announce Friday his plan to nominate Julian Castro, the charismatic Hispanic mayor of San Antonio, Texas, as US secretary of housing and urban development.
23 May 2014
Guatemala ex-leader gets six years in New York
Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo was sentenced in New York to five years and 10 months in prison Thursday for a $2.5 million bribery scandal.
23 May 2014
Former Supreme court judge named new S. Korean premier
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Thursday named a former Supreme Court judge as her new prime minister, as the fallout from last month's ferry disaster casts a long shadow over upcoming local elections.
22 May 2014
Bolivian ex-president can face rights trial in US
A judge in the state of Florida has given a green light for a human rights abuses trial to move forward in the United States against Bolivian ex-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
22 May 2014
Bulat Utemuratov finalizes Temirbank and Alliance Bank purchase and talks about their future
Samruk-Kazyna National Wealth Fund finalized sale of its shares in two Kazakhstan banks, Temirbank and Alliance Bank, to Bulat Utemuratov.
20 May 2014
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev meets executives of major Chinese companies
President Nazarbayev is on a state visit to China and has already met Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two have launched construction of a Kazakhstan’s terminal at the Lianyungang seaport.
20 May 2014