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Fiery oil train collision forces evacuation of North Dakota town

Fiery oil train collision forces evacuation of North Dakota town

Residents of a small town in North Dakota were urged to evacuate after a BNSF train carrying crude oil collided with another train on Monday, setting off a series of explosions and fires, the latest in a string of incidents that have raised alarms over growing oil-by-rail traffic, reuters reports. December 31 2013, 10:58 1 662 просмотрs

Former Kazakh Top Security Official Sentenced For Corruption

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Former Kazakh Top Security Official Sentenced For Corruption

A former top official of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee has been sentenced to 13 years in jail, rferl.org reports. December 31 2013, 10:50 1 278 просмотрs

Severe air pollution chokes Atyrau - Kuanov, head of ecology department

Severe air pollution chokes Atyrau - Kuanov, head of ecology department

At the end of the year the head of ecology department of Atyrau Oblast Yerbol Kuanov (on a photo) made a sensational public statement. The chief ecologist named all companies that “poison” the air in our city and choke people with a smell of rotten eggs. Kuanov outlined preliminary results of a complex research (called “Impact of Atyrau Refinery and other companies located within the city limits on environment and health of urban population”) in his letter addressed to the Governor of Atyrau Oblast Baktykozha Izmukhambetov. December 30 2013, 15:19 6 331 просмотрs

French High Court OKs 75 Percent Tax For Top Earners

French High Court OKs 75 Percent Tax For Top Earners

Employers paying French citizens more than 1 million euros a year ($1.37 million) will have to pay a 75 percent tax for the next two years, France's top constitutional court ruled on Sunday. December 30 2013, 14:33 1 205 просмотрs

FEMEN crashes Christmas service, nude woman plays Christ in Church

FEMEN crashes Christmas service, nude woman plays Christ in Church

One of Christendom’s most sacred days… in the main cathedral of Cologne, Germany: the High Cathedral of St. Peter. The setting is Gothic, dating from the 13th century. What can possibly go wrong? December 30 2013, 13:04 4 367 просмотрs

Russia and Kazakhstan create joint air defense system

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Russia and Kazakhstan create joint air defense system

The agreement authorizes, among other crossing by military pilots of border between the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan without special decisions, reports bnews.kz with reference to ITAR-TASS. The law on ratification of the relevant agreement was published today. December 30 2013, 12:34 2 540 просмотрs

Fatal Bomb Blast Shatters Volgograd Trolleybus

Fatal Bomb Blast Shatters Volgograd Trolleybus

A fatal bomb explosion ripped apart a trolleybus in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd on Monday morning, in what the authorities say is the second terrorist attack in the city in the last two days, ria.ru reports. December 30 2013, 12:24 1 630 просмотрs

Second blast in Volgograd: trolleybus exploded, at least 10 killed

Second blast in Volgograd: trolleybus exploded, at least 10 killed

Monday morning, Dec 30, an explosion went off on a trolleybus in Volgograd (Russia), killing at least 10 people in the second fatal blast in the city over the past day, azh.kz reports. The explosion took place in Dzerzhinsky distroct of the city. December 30 2013, 10:21 1 463 просмотрs

Schumacher critical after skiing accident

Schumacher critical after skiing accident

Michael Schumacher’s condition has worsened and the seven-time Formula One world champion is now critical after a skiing accident in France, according to reports, breakingnews.ie reports. December 30 2013, 10:17 1 665 просмотрs

KazMunaiGas is getting foreign Vice-Chairman

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KazMunaiGas is getting foreign Vice-Chairman

A foreigner is going to be appointed as First Deputy Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan national oil and gas company, tengrinews.kz reports citing the company's press-service. December 30 2013, 09:58 1 477 просмотрs

More Than A Dozen Killed in Blast at Volgograd Train Station

More Than A Dozen Killed in Blast at Volgograd Train Station

More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide bomber, ria.ru report December 30 2013, 09:45 2 062 просмотрs

Wedding guest wounded in Kulsary

Wedding guest wounded in Kulsary

On the night of Dec 26, a 21-year-old man was wounded in Kulsary near “Bes Agaiyn” restaurant. December 28 2013, 18:38 3 068 просмотрs

Kazakh dissident Ablyazov's family allowed back in Italy

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Kazakh dissident Ablyazov's family allowed back in Italy

The wife and daughter of a Kazakh dissident have been allowed to return to Rome after being deported in a case that caused a political storm in Italy, bbc reports. December 28 2013, 17:56 1 862 просмотрs

Traffic Policemen Dressed as Santa and Snow Maiden Give Away New Year Gifts to Drivers and Pedestrians

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Traffic Policemen Dressed as Santa and Snow Maiden Give Away New Year Gifts to Drivers and Pedestrians

In the city of Kyzyl-Orda traffic policemen, dressed as Santa and Snow Maiden, greeted drivers and pedestrians and wished them Happy New Year, reports auto.gazeta.kz, citing the press service of Internal Affairs Department of Kyzyl-Orda Oblast on Saturday. December 28 2013, 17:31 1 486 просмотрs

Azerbaijan expresses official protest against Armenia's entrance into Customs Union

Azerbaijan expresses official protest against Armenia's entrance into Customs Union

Azerbaijan expresses an official protest against Armenia's entrance into the Customs Union as long as this country does not withdraw its armed forces from Azerbaijan's occupied territories and as long as Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is not restored, said head of Department of Public and Political Issues of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, Ali Hasanov, trend.az reports on Dec. 27. December 28 2013, 17:07 1 806 просмотрs

Retired foreign business experts provide training in Atyrau

Retired foreign business experts provide training in Atyrau

George Vonas, the Canadian of Greek descent, became “the first robin” among the foreign businessmen who decided to share his experience with Atyrau colleagues. December 28 2013, 12:27 2 974 просмотрs

U.S. judge says NSA phone surveillance is lawful

U.S. judge says NSA phone surveillance is lawful

A federal judge ruled that a National Security Agency program that collects records of millions of Americans' phone calls is lawful, calling it a "counter-punch" to terrorism that does not violate Americans' privacy rights, reuters reports. December 28 2013, 11:41 2 646 просмотрs

China formally eases one-child policy

China formally eases one-child policy

China's top legislature has formally adopted a resolution easing the country's one-child policy, the state news agency Xinhua reports, bbc reports. December 28 2013, 11:09 1 124 просмотрs

ArselorMittal Temirtau to cut 2500 jobs in 2014

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ArselorMittal Temirtau to cut 2500 jobs in 2014

ArcelorMittal Temirtau is going to reduce the number of jobs by 2,500 in 2014. Viktor Schetinin, vice-chairman of Zhaktau steel workers union, tengrinews reports. December 28 2013, 10:48 1 721 просмотрs

«KazMunayGas» to appoint foreign top managers

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«KazMunayGas» to appoint foreign top managers

"KazMunayGas'' NationalCompany" JSC (KMG) has finalized the central office reorganization, the press service of the company reports, inform.kz reports. December 27 2013, 18:30 3 026 просмотрs

Akmola land inspection head sued for beating female assistant

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Akmola land inspection head sued for beating female assistant

The Kokshetau Police, an administrative center of Akmola region, are looking into beating allegations against the regional land inspection head, interfax.kz reported. December 27 2013, 17:52 1 405 просмотрs

EU citizenship for sale -- for $880,000

EU citizenship for sale -- for $880,000

The government of the small Mediterranean island of Malta recently announced proposals to start selling citizenship of its nation to foreigners for €650,000 (about $888,000), cnn reports. December 27 2013, 17:50 2 910 просмотрs

Businessman’s house assaulted in Kulsary

Businessman’s house assaulted in Kulsary

On Dec 27, at 11am Zhyloy District Department of Internal Affairs received a message that local businessman’s private house has been assaulted in the central micro-region of Kulsary city. December 27 2013, 17:02 2 170 просмотрs

Las Vegas cabbie finds $300,000 in backseat, returns it to poker player

Las Vegas cabbie finds $300,000 in backseat, returns it to poker player

A Las Vegas cabbie had no second thoughts when he found $300,000 in cash in a brown paper bag in his cab this week, cnn reports. December 27 2013, 11:40 1 126 просмотрs

Environmental damange caused by fuel train explosion and spill near Aktau estimated at $779 thousand

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Environmental damange caused by fuel train explosion and spill near Aktau estimated at $779 thousand

Ecologists have estimated the damage caused by the fire and spill at the railway crossing near Aktau city in western Kazakhstan, tengrinews reports citing the Ecology Department of Mangistau Oblast. December 27 2013, 11:07 1 891 просмотрs