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Pentagon to relax rules on personal religious wear — including beards, turbans

The Pentagon on Wednesday is expected to announce widespread changes to rules governing religious items and religion-based physical attributes that service members can maintain while in uniform — including beards, some religious tattoos, and turbans, usnews.nbcnews.com reports. January 23 2014, 13:12 1 677 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan attended NATO Military Committee meeting in Brussels

The first deputy Defence Minister of Kazakhstan, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Colonel General Saken Zhasuzakov participated in the annual NATO Military Committee meeting held in Brussels on Jan 18-19, reads the press release of nato.int. January 23 2014, 12:47 2 174 views

World News

Twitter storm in Russia over Sochi Olympics twin toilet

A BBC photo of a men's cubicle with twin toilets at a Sochi Olympics venue has caused a Twitter storm in Russia, bbc reports. January 23 2014, 12:07 2 395 views

World News

Ukraine protests: claims that police used live bullets as demonstrators die in clashes

A third person has died during overnight clashes between radical protesters and police in central Kiev, marking a serious escalation in the political crisis that has gripped Ukraine for more than two months, telegraph.co.uk reports. January 22 2014, 16:23 3 879 views

Society

Father of bomb suspect’s friend: "I will stay in Boston until the trial"

The day of the trial of Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbaev, the Kazakhstan citizens accused of obstruction of justice by conspiring to destroy objects belonging to their college classmate, suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, have been assigned for June 23. January 22 2014, 15:40 2 042 views

World News

Pope Francis to Davos elite: Use your skills to help the poor

Pope Francis on Tuesday called on the world's political and business elite gathered in Davos to use their spirit of entrepreneurship to alleviate crushing global poverty, straitstimes.com reports. January 22 2014, 13:37 1 505 views

World News

Putin dissolves state news agency, tightens grip on Russia media

President Vladimir Putin tightened his control over Russia’s media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agency and replacing it with an organisation that is to promote Moscow’s image abroad, euronews.com reports. January 22 2014, 10:44 1 516 views

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Two Las Vegas casinos to accept virtual bitcoin currency

Two Las Vegas casino hotels will become the first known U.S. commercial gambling houses to allow the use of the unregulated digital payment system, bitcoin, casino officials said on Tuesday, reuters reports. January 22 2014, 10:38 1 485 views

Kazakhstan News

Transplantology pushes forward in Kazakhstan, so as organ donorship

There has been some progress in availability of transplantation surgeries to the public, ability of Kazakhstan surgeons to make them and public attitude towards cadaveric donorship, tengrinews reports.  January 22 2014, 10:29 2 028 views

Kazakhstan News

ENRC explains its delisting from LSE

Kazakhstan's billionaire, co-founder and one of the major shareholders of the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC) Aleksandr Mashkevich has explained why the company chose to be delisted from the London Stock Exchange, tengrinews reports. January 22 2014, 10:20 2 005 views

World News

'Clear evidence' of systematic torture in Syria

A Syrian military police photographer has supplied “clear evidence” showing the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees in circumstances that evoked Nazi death camps, euronews.com reports. January 22 2014, 10:06 1 621 views

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ILO warns global joblessness set to rise

The United Nation’s International Labour Organisation has issued a dire warning that global unemployment is not just here to stay, but set to rise, euronews.com reports. January 21 2014, 18:19 4 516 views

World News

Sleeping Rosetta Spacecraft Wakes Up for Historic Comet Rendezvous and Landing

A European probe awoke from a deep sleep Monday (Jan. 20) to gear up for an unprecedented comet rendezvous and landing this year that will cap a 10-year voyage across the solar system, space.com reports. January 21 2014, 17:41 1 526 views

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South Korea, 20 Million credit card data has been leaked

Financial Supervisory Service confirmed that Stolen credit card data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, cyberwarzone.com reports. January 21 2014, 16:48 1 618 views

Kazakhstan News

Marat Tazhin, RoK Secretary of State, relieved of his duties

By the decree of the Head of the State Marat Tazhin is dismissed from the position of the Secretary of State of the Republic of Kazakhstan in connection with transfer to another work, Akorda press service reports. January 21 2014, 15:12 2 137 views

Society

Free riders travelled hidden in “Talgo” train diesel electric car

Regional train inspectors of the Transport Control Committee caught 15 free riders on Talgo passenger-train travelling on route “Almaty-Atyrau”.  January 21 2014, 14:32 4 918 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan to tender out several onshore oil and gas blocks

Kazakhstanis planning to tender out several onshore oil and gas blocks, tengrinews reports. January 21 2014, 12:51 1 894 views

World News

Islamic group claims Volgograd attacks and threatens Sochi visitors

An Islamic militant group in Russia's North Caucasus has claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgogradlast month and posted a video threatening to strike the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, theguardian reports. January 21 2014, 12:39 2 108 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan developed SALT effective deposit insurance system

The State Kazakhstan Deposit Insurance Fund has developed a cutting edge software system named SALT. Over its history, the fund has successfully returned deposits to customers of three liquidated banks such as, Komirbank, Nauryzbank, and Valyut-Tranzit Bank. According to the chairperson of the Fund Bakhyt Mazhenova, bankruptcy of the Valyut-Tranzit Bank caused major problems, because the number of its depositors exceeded more than 265,000. January 21 2014, 12:23 2 160 views

World News

EU suspends some sanctions as Iran halts high-level uranium enrichment

The European Union has agreed to suspend some economic sanctions against Iran as part of a ground-breaking nuclear agreement. Under the deal, Tehran has scaled back its nuclear work and ceased enriching uranium above five percent, euronews reports. January 21 2014, 12:15 1 548 views

Crime

In Atyrau Hyundai SUV run into the private house

In Atyrau Hyundai SUV run into the private house, azh.kz reports. January 21 2014, 11:54 3 120 views

Crime

Tracing British Child Molestor

The police of Atyrau has no claims against the citizen of Great Britain who was suspected by the Uralsk police officers in corruption of minors. January 21 2014, 10:49 3 737 views

World News

President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Agence France Presse

In an exclusive interview with AFP, President Bashar Al-Assad said that the forthcoming Geneva Conference should produce clear results with regard to the fight against terrorism in Syria, because no political process can be successful with terrorism having been spread not only in Syria but in the neighboring countries too. January 20 2014, 18:17 1 346 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan reduced quota for attraction of foreign labor

January 20 2014, 17:36 3 360 views

Kazakhstan News

A Kazakh teen girl fled British public school together with her boyfriend to fly to Caribbean

Two sixth-form lovers have jetted off to the Caribbean after sneaking out of their public school in the middle of the night dailymail.co.uk reports. January 20 2014, 16:46 3 437 views