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Ukraine peace summit scratched after diplomacy fails to break impasse

The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine failed to make progress at a meeting in Berlin on Monday night with their counterparts from France and Germany, prompting cancellation of a four-party peace summit that had been planned for Thursday in Kazakhstan. January 13 2015, 09:20 2 191 просмотрs

Ecology

Atyrau Refinery won the case in court against the department of ecology

Atyrau Refinery refused to pay the ecological fine instructed by the regional department of ecology in 2014 amounting to 24 billion tenge and won the environmental case in court. January 12 2015, 17:03 3 617 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Father Of Nazarbaev's Former Son-In-Law Aliyev Dead At 82

  The father of President Nursultan Nazarbaev's former son-in-law Rakhat Aliev, who is under arrest in Austria, has died, azh.kz refers to ratel.kz. January 12 2015, 15:45 4 494 просмотрs

World News

Grabar-Kitarovic: from country girl to Croatia's first female president

Croatia's first female president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, is a moderate conservative who styles herself as "a woman of the people" and likes to joke that she is one of the few career diplomats who can milk a cow, AFP reports. January 12 2015, 12:39 3 078 просмотрs

World News

AirAsia Jet Black Box Recovered From Bottom of Java Sea

Divers have retrieved one of the black boxes from AirAsia Flight 8501 that crashed into the Java Sea two weeks ago, officials said today. January 12 2015, 11:26 2 272 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan delivers humanitarian aid to Ukraine

Kazakhstan has sent $400,000 worth of aid to Ukraine's southeastern regions to help ease the humanitarian crisis following months of military conflict, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said this weekend, inform.kz reports. January 12 2015, 11:19 2 755 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Developing Kazakhstan’s new offshore field in Caspian Sea

Kazakhstan’s energy ministry is working with the national oil and gas company KazMunaiGasto to secure a licence to develop Tsentralnoye (Central) offshore oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea. January 12 2015, 10:29 3 938 просмотрs

World News

French, foreign leaders walk arm-in-arm as millions protest Paris attacks

World leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen linked arms to lead more than a million French citizens through Paris in an unprecedented march to pay tribute to victims of Islamist militant attacks. January 12 2015, 10:15 2 725 просмотрs

World News

Pentagon's Money-Saver: U.S. Troops To Leave 15 European Sites

The Pentagon announced a plan to save a half-billion dollars annually in a major scaling back of the U.S. military presence in Europe — including a withdrawal from an airbase in the U.K. and handing back 14 other sites to NATO allies. January 9 2015, 16:37 2 298 просмотрs

World News

Charlie Hebdo Attackers Take Hostage In Industrial Complex In North East Of Paris

Shots have been fired and at least one hostage has been taken Friday morning in an area northeast of Paris, during a manhunt for two of the suspects involved in Wednesday's attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, Agence France-Presse reported. Police had been reportedly chasing a car heading in the direction of Paris, close to the Charles de Gaulle Airport. January 9 2015, 16:11 2 406 просмотрs

Politics

Madi Takiev appointed the head of state revenue department

By the order of the RoK Ministry of Finance Madi Takiev was appointed the head of state revenue department of Atyrau Oblast. M. Takiev previously worked in the administrative office of the RoK Prime Minister. January 9 2015, 15:39 10 530 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Section of Beineu-Aktau highway to be reconstructed this year

Reconstruction of a 100km-long section of the Beineu-Aktau highway is set to be finished in 2015. Another 170km-long section will be reconstructed in 2016. January 9 2015, 12:39 1 429 просмотрs

World News

Armed French gendarmes swoop on villages in manhunt for newspaper attackers

Armed and masked anti-terrorism police swooped on woodland villages northeast of Paris on Thursday in a manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people at a French satirical weekly. January 9 2015, 11:22 2 392 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Merkel: Normandy Format Meeting in Kazakhstan's Capital in Preparation

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that Foreign Ministers of Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine are preparing a so-called Normandy format meeting in Kazakhstan. January 9 2015, 10:33 2 219 просмотрs

World News

Charlie Hebdo massacre: Suspects 'rob service station'

The two main suspects in the Islamist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris are said to have robbed a service station in the north of France. January 8 2015, 18:27 2 450 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan imposes temporary ban on export of petroleum products outside Customs Union

Kazakhstan has imposed a temporary ban on the export of petroleum products outside the Customs Union, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan reported. January 8 2015, 18:18 3 209 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

India provides scholarships to Kazakhstan students

The Government of India provides scholarships for 2015-2016 academic year for study at the universities of India to citizens of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Culture and Sports reported. January 8 2015, 17:50 2 651 просмотрs

Society

Storm warning in Atyrau Oblast: January 7-9

The Emergency Situations Department of Atyrau Oblast announced about sharp deterioration of weather conditions. According to information provided by ESD press service with reference to Kazhydromet, in Atyrau and Atyrau districts on January 7-9 snow, blizzard and 15-20 m/s northwest wind are expected. January 8 2015, 17:17 3 524 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Nazarbayev to discuss Ukrainian crisis and Astana meeting with Merkel in Berlin on January 9

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev arrives to Berlin on Janurary 9 to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, tengrinews reports. January 8 2015, 16:51 3 252 просмотрs

World News

Indonesia says crashed AirAsia plane tail found

Find could be crucial in establishing cause of AirAsia QZ8501 crash as black box is usually situated in the tail section. January 8 2015, 15:22 2 185 просмотрs

World News

India’s next gift to the world could be Vedic mathematics

India’s next gift to the world, if its Hindu nationalist government has its way, could be the secret to lightning quick mental arithmetic. January 8 2015, 15:16 2 387 просмотрs

World News

Blast reported outside mosque in eastern France

A “criminal” explosion occurred early Thursday at a kebab shop near a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone, officials said, but left no casualties. January 8 2015, 14:57 1 365 просмотрs

World News

Canada opens doors to 13,000 Syrian, Iraqi refugees

Canada has agreed to resettle another 10,000 Syrian and 3,000 Iraqi refugees over the next three years in response to a UN plea for help, the immigration minister announced Wednesday. January 8 2015, 14:55 1 618 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan to buy Toshiba N-reactor for its new nuclear plant

Toshiba Corp. is in negotiations with Kazakhstan's state-run nuclear energy company over the export of nuclear reactors, according to sources. January 8 2015, 14:41 2 741 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia to hold joint naval drills

Naval Forces of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan and Russian Caspian Flotilla will hold trilateral naval drills in 2015, RIA Novosti reported with the reference to head of the press service of Russian Southern Military District, Colonel Igor Gorbul. January 6 2015, 20:32 2 186 просмотрs