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Family vacation? No, 'family jihad' in Syria

As hundreds of thousands of Syrians flee the war in their country, others are doing everything they can to reach the battle zones. Around 150 Kazakhs said to be from the same family – including very young children, teenagers, women and men – left their country “to fulfil their duty of jihad in the Levant”. Jihadist networks have been proudly circulating images of their relocation to Syria October 21 2013, 11:26 4 473 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan: Senate reshuffle sparks succession talk

News that elder statesman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is returning from a high-level diplomatic posting in Geneva to step into Kazakhstan’s second most important job, constitutionally speaking, has sparked renewed talk about who will succeed the long-serving president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. October 21 2013, 11:19 3 106 views

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Kazakhstan’s former central bank chief says he quit voluntarily

Kazakhstan’s former central bank chief Grigory Marchenko said his surprise exit this month was due to family reasons and a desire to work in the private sector. October 21 2013, 11:14 2 854 views

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KAZENERGY forum explores future for oil and gas

The world’s energy landscape is changing, but what will be next? This was one of the main topics during the KAZENERGY Eurasian Forum, an international energy conference in the Kazakh capital Astana. October 21 2013, 10:58 3 008 views

World News

The Englishman in charge of the worst team in the world

The island's league has six amateur teams, yet most of the players are expats meaning the coach has a pool of fewer than 25 players to choose from. October 21 2013, 10:52 3 583 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan's political stability: Heavy hangs the head

The president is genuinely popular, winning credit for the political stability and rising standard of living in his oil-rich nation. A generous visitor might suppose that is why his photo appears on billboards all over the place, strongman-style. October 21 2013, 10:36 2 482 views

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Nazarbayev supports introduction of wealth tax in Kazakhstan

President Nazarbayev has declared his support to the parliament's initiative to introduce wealth tax in Kazakhstan October 21 2013, 09:37 2 804 views

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Kazakhstan gains status of EITI follower

Kazakhstan has received the status of a follower of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the press service of KAZENERGY reports. October 19 2013, 17:20 2 454 views

World News

Court hands Berlusconi two-year ban from public office

 A Milan court on Saturday ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years following a conviction for tax fraud. October 19 2013, 17:15 3 020 views

Crime

We are guilty and we provide housing to family

The representative of Petroleum Facilities Е&С Limited (PetrofacKazakhstanLimited) contacted our newspaper regarding the road accident, when through the fault of their employee, company off-road vehicle collided with TCO shuttle bus and as the result of that collision the bus crushed into the residential house (see “TCO bus crashes into house”). October 18 2013, 18:22 3 536 views

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Kazakh parliament ratifies amendments to Protocol on customs duties

Kazakhstan's Majilis (lower chamber of parliament) has ratified the amendments to the 'Protocol' on the terms and procedure for applying import customs duty rates differing from rates prescribed by the Unified Customs Tariff in exceptional cases, trend.az reports. October 18 2013, 16:41 2 645 views

Economy

Tengizchevroil intends to increase price of gas for Atyrau region

Department of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation of Natural Monopolies of Atyrau region has received a petition from "Zhylyoygaz" Ltd. about intention of "Tengizchevroil" to increase the selling price of natural gas in 2014-2015, inform.kz reports. October 18 2013, 16:33 4 685 views

World News

Snowden says he didn’t take secret documents to Russia, ‘zero’ chance Russia or China got any

Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says that he did not take any secret NSA documents to Russia and that intelligence officials in China as well as Russia could not get access to the documents he had obtained before leaving the United States. October 18 2013, 16:28 2 308 views

Kazakhstan News

Nur Otan Party: New name, new logo and charter

The decision on the change of the name, the logo and the charter of the National Democratic "Nur Otan" Party was made at the XV extraordinary congress of the party in Astana on Friday, inform.kz reports. October 18 2013, 14:36 3 131 views

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Disabled former miner uses Molotov cocktail against ArcelorMittal in Karaganda

Former employees of ArcelorMittal who were injured at work and ended up disabled have been rallying near the Coal Department of ArcelorMittal Temirtau in Karaganda today, NV.kz reports. They gathered to demand that the company resumes payment of allowances for their injuries and disability that it has suspended for some reason.  October 18 2013, 12:03 2 815 views

World News

Air pollution a leading cancer cause: WHO

International health experts have found "sufficient evidence" that outdoor air pollution is a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths.The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer in humans, sbs.com.au reports. October 18 2013, 10:38 2 138 views

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11 Nobel Laureates Ask Putin to Free Greenpeace’s ‘Arctic 30’

Eleven laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize have petitioned the Russian president, asking him Thursday to aid the release of the 30 Greenpeace activists charged with piracy in Russia. October 18 2013, 10:13 2 813 views

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India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria on slavery's list of shame, says report

A new report claiming to be the most comprehensive look at global slavery says 30 million people are living as slaves around the world, cnn.com reports. October 18 2013, 09:39 3 115 views

Crime

Nine Sentenced In Atyrau On Terrorism Charges

Atyrau court has sentenced nine local men to prison terms between 6 and 14 years for their involvement in terrorist activities, azh.kz reports.  October 18 2013, 09:07 4 438 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh official denies information that a new type of HIV arrived in Kazakhstan

A new form of HIV-1 virus has been found in Russia and cases of this type of HIV have also been registered in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported referring to Russian scholars, timesca-europe.com reports. October 18 2013, 10:04 2 882 views

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TCO bus crashes into house (+update, +update)

Late October 10, a big size shuttle bus belonging to Tengizchevroil LLP crashed into a residential house at 211 Moldagulova Street in Atyrau and knocked down half the building. October 17 2013, 10:09 13 518 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan Corps A is not an elite, it’s national service: Nazarbayev

Kazakhstan Corps A is not an elite but the national service, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said during meeting with civil servants of the administrative case A, BNews.kz correspondent reports. October 17 2013, 14:57 2 521 views

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International nuclear fuel bank to be hosted in Kazakhstan poses no environmental risks

The planned international nuclear fuel bank to be hosted in Kazakhstan poses no environmental risks, Tengrinews reports, citing the country’s Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov as saying before the country’s Senate. October 17 2013, 14:27 2 509 views

World News

U.S. Congress ends default threat, Obama signs debt bill

Capping weeks of political brinkmanship that had unnerved global markets, President Barack Obama quickly signed the spending measure, which passed the Senate and House of Representatives after Republicans dropped efforts to use the legislation to force changes in his signature healthcare law, reuters.com reports. October 17 2013, 14:18 2 425 views