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Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply

Brent and U.S. crude oil each fell more than $2 a barrel on Monday to a new five-year low amid a rising number of predictions that oversupply would extend well into 2015. December 9 2014, 10:11 2 539 views

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NATO Formally Ends Afghanistan Mission: US Defense Department

The US Department of Defense has announced that NATO's International Security Assistance Force Joint Command mission in Afghanistan has officially ended. December 9 2014, 10:08 2 486 views

Society

Put on winter tires before January 1

It is the middle of December already, but very few people know that as of January 1, 2015 the traffic police will fine those who hasn’t “put on winter tires”. December 8 2014, 17:28 3 227 views

Kazakhstan News

No substitution of holidays this year due to celebration of Independence Day

There will be no substitution of holidays this year due to celebration of the Independence Day, azh.kz reported citing the press service of the RoK government. December 8 2014, 15:44 2 882 views

World News

Mexico Grieves After Remains of 1 of 43 Missing Students are Identified

Three days of mourning have been announced in Mexico as the remains of one of the 43 students who have disappeared in the Mexican state have been identified. December 8 2014, 15:16 1 904 views

World News

Former KGB agent claims that Anna Chapman was ordered to seduce Edward Snowden

A former KGB agent has said that former Russian spy and celebrity Anna Chapman was ordered by the Russian intelligence service to propose marriage to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to trap him in Russia, British tabloids have revealed. December 8 2014, 15:01 3 782 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan reduces oil production

In 2014, Kazakhstan reduced oil production, the First Vice-Minister of Energy Uzakbai Karabalin said at a briefing in Astana. December 8 2014, 11:32 3 442 views

World News

Jordan king says war against Islamic State is WWIII

Jordan's king Abdullah II described the fight against Islamic State as akin to a third world war last week. December 8 2014, 11:17 2 990 views

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Syria: Israeli warplanes strike targets in Dimas, Damascus

Planes believed to be Israeli struck inside Syria on Sunday, the Syrian government and an opposition group said, but the two entities differed over whether the targets belonged to the Syrian military. December 8 2014, 11:08 2 234 views

Kazakhstan News

Mass poisoning in western Kazakhstan: KPO denies breaching environmental standards

More children from Berezovka village in West Kazakhstan Oblast lying just five kilometers away from major Karachaganak field have been hospitalized, tengrinews reports. December 8 2014, 00:46 2 903 views

Kazakhstan News

Nazarbayev, Hollande unveiled Sorbonne Institute Kazakhstan in Almaty

Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev and President of France Francois Hollande are set to unveil Sorbonne Institute Kazakhstan in Almaty today, Kazinform has learnt from the Akorda's official Twitter account. December 8 2014, 00:35 3 290 views

World News

Protests over Garner's death turn violent in Berkeley

Peaceful protests over the chokehold death of Eric Garner took a violent turn in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, when several masked protesters smashed store windows and hurled objects atpolice officers who used smoke and teargas to disperse the crowd, reuters.com reports. December 8 2014, 00:27 1 326 views

Ex-Governor case

Prosecutors challenge“soft sentencing”

Public prosecutors filed a protest appeal on November 14 against the sentence passed by the specialized interdistrict court on criminal cases regarding the case of Bergey Ryskaliev's organized criminal group. Prosecutors consider that the sentence is “illegal” in some parts and demand to toughen the punishment. December 7 2014, 23:23 5 820 views

Ecology

When the last sturgeon will be caught…

Retired veteran of fish industry Vera Dzhamalova (on a photo) currently lives in Astana, but once or twice a year she comes to Atyrau, the city where she was born and worked all her life in the fishing industry. December 5 2014, 17:55 3 489 views

World News

Vnukovo airport engineer to remain in pre-trial detention over Total plane crash

The Moscow City Court on Friday upheld the detention of Vnukovo airport engineer Vladimir Ledenev charged in the criminal case over Total CEO Cristophe de Margerie’s death, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. December 5 2014, 15:54 2 458 views

Kazakhstan News

Maria Mudryak to perform in Astana Opera for the first time

Italian opera singer Maria Mudryak will perform for the first time on the stage of Astana Opera in Kazakhstan, tengrinews reports citing the singer’s Facebook account. December 5 2014, 15:45 2 616 views

World News

Jehovah’s Witnesses website, books declared “extremist” in Russia

The Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the website of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses is extremist. December 5 2014, 15:02 2 875 views

World News

Ukraine president announces new ceasefire

The Ukrainian president has announced a new ceasefire to begin on December 9. The so-called ‘day of silence’ in eastern Ukraine aims to secure a previous truce agreed in Minsk in September which only marginally reduced the fighting. December 5 2014, 11:56 1 630 views

Kazakhstan News

China ready to build nuclear fuel plant in Kazakhstan

"China is ready to build a nuclear fuel processing plant in Kazakhstan," Cao Shudong, deputy director general of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), said at the 8th sitting of the Sino-Kazakh subcommittee for energy cooperation held in Beijing, inform.kz reports. December 5 2014, 11:02 3 134 views

World News

Saipem Notified of Marine Activity Halt Following South Stream Termination

Saipem, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Eni has announced that it had been officially notified of contract termination from South Stream Transport BV. December 5 2014, 09:32 2 562 views

Kazakhstan News

French President Francois Hollande is paying an official visit to Kazakhstan on December 5-6

Francois Hollande is arriving to Kazakhstan on the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. December 5 2014, 09:14 3 644 views

World News

Ice and winds cause havoc in east and central Europe

Cold weather has been causing havoc in east and central Europe. In Serbia emergency workers “risked their lives”, according to the electrical grid company EMS, to mend power cables which had been brought down by high winds and ice up to 20 centimetres thick, euronews reports. December 4 2014, 17:04 1 695 views

World News

President Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

December 4 2014, 16:30 2 798 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan might export shale gas - Vice Minister

Amid Kazakhstan's expectations to produce shale gas in the near future, the country's Energy Ministry is considering the possibility to either export it or use for gasification of the regions, said Deputy Minister of Energy Uzakbai Karabalin. December 4 2014, 16:26 2 943 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan ready to adopt Eurocodes in 2015

Kazakhstan is ready to adopt the European construction standards Eurocodes in 2015, Tengrinews reports citing Deputy Head of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan Rakhim Oshakbayev as saying at the Construction Industry Congress this Tuesday in Astana. December 4 2014, 16:22 1 960 views