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Turkey's embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday he would favour retrials for hundreds of military officers jailed for coup-plotting.

• 06 января 2014, 15:39

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced Friday that he will step down after elections this year and said reluctant political scion Rahul Gandhi should take his place if the ruling Congress party wins an unlikely third term.

• 03 января 2014, 23:07

Margaret Thatcher's immaculate hairdo took intensive efforts to perfect, with the late British prime minister having her bouffant reworked every three days on average, records showed Friday.

• 03 января 2014, 11:36

The political crisis engulfing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cost the economy $100 billion, a top official said Monday, as financial markets rebounded after days in freefall.

• 31 декабря 2013, 14:06

Kazakhstan has provided humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka to help the country’s detonating economy.

• 27 декабря 2013, 17:43

Bangladesh deployed tens of thousands of troops on Thursday in a bid to contain deadly political violence ahead of elections next month which are being boycotted by the opposition.

• 26 декабря 2013, 15:37

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan replaced nearly half his cabinet in a dramatic reshuffle after a spreading graft scandal forced the resignation of three top ministers.

• 26 декабря 2013, 12:13

Turkey's economy and interior ministers, ensnared in a vast corruption scandal that has roiled the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, resigned.

• 25 декабря 2013, 15:07

The ceiling of a packed London theatre collapsed on the audience during a hit show on Thursday, wounding 76 people including children and leaving terrified theatregoers covered in blood and rubble.

• 20 декабря 2013, 14:35

US Secretary of State John Kerry was marking his 70th birthday Wednesday leaving again for Israel, in his dogged quest for an elusive Middle East peace deal.

• 12 декабря 2013, 13:03

Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Wednesday won a parliamentary confidence vote triggered by the fall of Silvio Berlusconi, promising to push through a pro-European reform agenda and fight populism.

• 12 декабря 2013, 11:04

Kazakhstan residents can relax and enjoy their New Year holiday from January 1 to 5 in 2014.

• 08 декабря 2013, 15:09

Japan's parliament on Friday adopted a law on protecting state secrets despite a public outcry, with strong opposition from the media and academics who fear it will infringe on the right to information and free expression.

• 07 декабря 2013, 13:25

Kazakhstan's Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov believes it especially important that all the member countries equally benefit from the Eurasian integration.

• 20 ноября 2013, 18:26

Russia on Saturday finally handed over a refurbished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier to India after a refit that overran by five years and went vastly over budget, damaging ties between the countries.

• 17 ноября 2013, 21:46

Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek won an important confidence vote in parliament early Friday, securing political support for her plan to fix the eurozone country's troubled banking system without outside help.

• 15 ноября 2013, 15:15

The fine for driving drunk will be increased to 1 million tenge ($6,530) in Kazakhstan.

• 14 ноября 2013, 16:19

An ally of billionaire Georgian PM Bidzina Ivanishvili on Monday basked in an overwhelming win at presidential polls in the ex-Soviet state to replace larger-than-life moderniser Mikheil Saakashvili.

• 28 октября 2013, 11:52

Kazakhstan no longer wants the status of aid recipient with the Asian Development Bank and plans to become a partner of the bank instead.

• 24 октября 2013, 14:55

Kazakhstan plans to be a partner of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support developing countries: PM.

• 24 октября 2013, 12:02