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Boston bomb suspect conscious and responding to questions

Alleged Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is awake and responding to questions in his hospital bed. April 22 2013, 10:57 1 658 views

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87 year-old Giorgio Napolitano re-elected as Italy's president

Italy's Parliament re-elected Giorgio Napolitano to an unprecedented second term as president, after party leaders persuaded the 87-year-old to serve again in hopes of easing the hostility that has thwarted formation of a new government. Napolitano easily surpassed the simple majority required to be elected on Saturday afternoon. He garnered 738 votes, far more than the 504 needed for victory for another seven-year mandate. April 22 2013, 10:15 1 387 views

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Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone as toll climbs

  Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with almost 1,000 serious injuries. April 22 2013, 09:25 1 458 views

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Sulfur to make good export product – Yerenchinov

In a visit to Atyrau, Chairman of Environmental Regulation and Control Committee, Daniyar Yerenchinov, made a statement on the situation in Kashagan. April 21 2013, 15:52 4 040 views

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Boston bombs: Officials wait to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

A top US interrogation group is waiting to question the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. April 21 2013, 15:35 1 527 views

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Police chase Boston bomb suspect

US police are hunting a suspect in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombing, after another suspect was killed in a car chase and shoot-out. April 19 2013, 16:28 1 667 views

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Kashagan stakeholders cold on ConocoPhillips share

Partners of the Kashagan project in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea express no wish to buy the ConocoPhillips share, writes IA Novosti-Kazakhstan citing Kazakh oil and gas minister Sauat Mynbayev. April 19 2013, 16:06 3 573 views

Society

Two schoolgirls from Atyrau made rocket science inventions

Students of the secondary technical gymnasium, Gaukhar Zaidenova and Aayzhan Zholdaskali, became the prize winners of the 9th International scientific competition on space research. One of them invented a new type of rocket fuel and the other made inventions in space medicine. April 19 2013, 16:01 3 361 views

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Police searched bomb in backpack

April 17, for about an hour, bomb technicians searched for an explosive device in a school backpack found near a beauty salon in the city of Uralsk, writes Uralskaya Nedelya. April 19 2013, 11:59 1 830 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh Rambo requests pardon, denies guilt

Sending a petition for mercy by a Kazakh border guard, Vladislav Chelakh, accused of killing his 14 fellow soldiers at the border post of Arkankergen in late May 2012, to the country's president Nursultan Nazarbayev is a mandatory condition for further application to the UN Human Rights Committee, reports IA Novosti-Kazakhstan citing the convict's lawyer Serik Sarsenov. April 19 2013, 11:40 1 970 views

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Pakistan police arrest ex-president Musharraf

  Former leader detained at his farmhouse after appearing before judicial magistrate ahead of general election. April 19 2013, 11:15 1 735 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan allows import of 12 million tons of bottom ash wastes from Russia

Kazakhstangovernment has allowed Russia’s Troitsk regional power station to deliver over 12 million tons of bottom ash wastes for dumping in Kostanay oblast, Tengrinews.kz reports citing the website of Kazakhstan information-legislative system of the regulatory legal acts. April 19 2013, 11:02 1 644 views

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FBI releases video, photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspects

The FBI has identified two suspects in Monday's the Boston Marathon bombing, releasing photos and video showing them and asking the public to help locate them. April 19 2013, 10:15 1 637 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan lifted moratorium on issuance of licenses for subsoil use

Kazakhstan lifted moratorium on issuance of licenses for subsoil use. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed the northern region to intensify the efforts on attracting investors in the mineral resources’ sphere, as well as the measures to encourage businesses and residents. President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at the enlarged meeting with the participation of the Mayors in Akorda. April 18 2013, 18:19 1 804 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan withdrew counterfeit money worth almost 40 million tenge in 2012

Over 7,000 counterfeit banknotes with a total par value nearly 40 million tenges are withdrawn in the republic in 2012, Kazakhstan Financial police press service reports. April 18 2013, 17:53 2 647 views

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Murakami book print run hits 1 million in week

AFP-The Japanese publisher of the new novel by Haruki Murakami said Thursday it had ordered one million copies of the book, less than a week after it went on sale. April 18 2013, 17:31 2 145 views

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Many casualties in Texas Waco fertiliser plant blast

Scores of people are injured and an unknown number are dead after a huge explosion at a fertiliser plant near Waco in the US state of Texas. April 18 2013, 15:11 1 543 views

Ecology

Wake up, steppe, tulips in blossom! (+Update)

Beautiful tulips blossom in our steppe in the middle of April. They are not from Holland, but endemic flowers and their Motherland is the steppe of Atyrau Oblast. With the first warmth of the Sun rays tulips blossom quickly and their blossom lasts from 3 to 5 days. April 18 2013, 12:18 5 795 views

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Embamunaygas: In strict compliance with procurement rules...

"Due to recent publications in mass media that put in question the legality of procurements in Embamunaygas JSC, we inform that...." April 18 2013, 11:45 2 673 views

Kazakhstan News

French want to personally launch Kazakhstan satellite

Kazakhstan’s high-resolution Earth remote-sensing satellite scheduled to be launched in 2014 from French cosmodrome Kuru has some secret equipment installed on it. That’s why the French makers have requested to make the launch at their territory, Tengrinews.kz reports citing head of Kazkosmos National Space Agency Talgat Mussabayev. April 18 2013, 11:42 1 548 views

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US Muslims fear backlash if Islamists behind Boston

US Muslims are watching closely as the probe into the Boston bombings unfolds, fearing a backlash like after 9/11 if an Islamist link is confirmed to the deadly attack April 17 2013, 14:54 1 677 views

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Rarity on the road

Walls in the garage of Vladimir Slotin are covered with cuttings from old newspapers discolored to yellow over the course of time. In the center of the venue stands the pride of its owner - Volga Gaz-M21. After leaving the assembly line at Gorki automobile plant, to foreign audience known as GAZ, in March of 1968, it found itself in this man's ownership in 1970. To truly serve him for 43 years. April 17 2013, 12:19 2 062 views

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Boston bombs were pressure cookers filled with metal

The explosive devices that killed three people and injured 176 at the Boston Marathon finish line were made from pressure cookers filled with metal and ball bearings and left in a backpack, according to a federal law enforcement official. April 17 2013, 11:23 1 638 views

Kazakhstan News

Chelakh to appeal for pardon

Such statement was made by Vladislav Chelakh's lawyer Serik Sarsenov in the Vremya newspaper. he will make the writ of appeal in court already in the next few days. April 17 2013, 11:14 1 892 views

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We value every percent - Kazakh content

The most important moment of the first day at Oil and Gas 2013 expo taking place in Atyrau was the statement by the deputy CEO of KazMunayGas National Company Magzoum Mirzagaliyev saying TCO believes 32% Kazakh content in the Future Growth Project is optimal. That's $7.3bn from the project's total cost of $20bn. But KMG insists on 44%. April 17 2013, 10:31 2 397 views