Kazakh President's Special Representative for Cooperation with Kyrgyzstan Bulat Utemuratov met with Head of the Interim Government of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva and Deputy Head of the Interim Government Omurbek Tekebayev on Saturday.

The sides discussed extension of the bilateral cooperation and joint solution of topical problems.

In particular, the parties discussed the opportunities of creation of mechanisms regulating the situa...

Russia beat Germany 3-2 in the qualification round at the 2010 world ice hockey championship late on Saturday; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

The first game of group E was played in Germany's Gologne.

Russian team's captain Ilya Kovalchuk opened the score in the first period (14:20 min). The second goal was scored by Nikolai Kulemin in the second period (26:10 min). But Germany's Christian Ehrhoff scored in exchange on the last second ...

Former Ukrainian prime minister and current opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko warned on Saturday that Ukraine may lose the Tuzla island in the Kerch Strait at the border with Russia as a result of forthcoming talks between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych will discuss the issue of border demarcation between Russia and Ukraine among other issue...

It's been a month now, and Iceland's volcano shows no sign it will stop belching ash across Europe anytime soon. The rolling eruptions threaten more havoc for summer vacation plans and higher costs for struggling airlines.

Although the global disruption of last month's massive eruption has faded, smaller ash plumes snarled air services intermittently over the last week all the way to Turkey - more than 4,100 kilometers from the Eyjafjallajokul (pronounced ay-yah...

Wall Street ended lower after a choppy session on Thursday, with all three major indexes falling more than 1 percent, as investigation against more banks and slow improvement in labor market weighed on equities; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Markets have been struggling to find their footing by focusing on interior signs of recovery following news of the European Union financial rescue package, as investors question whether the plan will be enough to keep sovereign debt issues at bay.

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said he was not concerned about the South Stream pipeline project, designed to pump Russian gas to Europe bypassing Ukraine, Russian media has said; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

The South Stream pipeline will pump 63 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas annually to Bulgaria, Italy and Austria and is part of Russia's efforts to cut dependence on transit nations, particularly Ukraine and Turkey.

"If it is a means of putting p...

The UN General Assembly will gather on Friday for an informal meeting to discuss piracy, the UN said in a concept note.

"The President of the General Assembly is convening on 14 May 2010 an informal meeting of the General Assembly to provide an opportunity for all Member states to discuss the problem of international maritime piracy in a comprehensive manner to effectively address the issue," the note said.

The UN said, citing recent statistics...

The 63rd International Film Festival of Cannes officially opened on Wednesday evening, with the Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" stars Russel Crowe and Cate Blanchett on the red carpet attracting thousands of Hollywood fans in the French Riviera; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

This year a total of 19 films have been selected to compete for the "Palme d'Or" (Golden Palm), prize of the highest honor.

They are composed of six French productions, five Asian ones, and t...

A roundtable on

Interethnic and interfaith accord in Kazakhstan

was held in Brussels on May 12. Representatives of European structures, diplomatic missions, various diasporas of the post-soviet countries living in Belgium as well as international experts gathered for the discussion.

According to Ainur Kassenova, Chairman of Arman Belgian Association of the People of Kazakhstan and organizer of the roundtable, interethnic and ...

On May 17^th 1814, Norway's Constitution was adopted. This laid the foundation for the Norwegian modern state and democracy. Until 1905 Norway was in a personal union with Sweden. However, that did not impede the Norwegians to celebrate the 17^th of May. In 1820 the famous Norwegian author, Henrik Wergeland, made the first known children's promenade which remains a noteworthy aspect of the National Day. Since that

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Kyrgyz communist leader Iskhak Masaliyev was detained in Bishkek's airport early on Wednesday and taken to the prosecutor general's office for interrogation, the parliament's press service said, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

Meanwhile, Kyrgyzstan's State National Security Service has not confirmed information on Masaliyev's detention. "He was merely summoned to the prosecutor general's office for interrogation, since law enforcement agencies have a number of questions to him, a s

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Former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is accused of the misuse of state funds, was handed official notification of a criminal case against her on Wednesday at the Prosecutor General's office, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

Current opposition leader Tymoshenko will now have to appear in the Prosecutor General's office on May 17 to be questioned. The juridical body is also expected to decide on the pre-trial restrictions to be imposed on Tymoshenko.



Tymoshenko's

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New British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday night that he aimed to form a proper and full coalition with the Lib Dems; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Britain's Queen on Tuesday night confirmed David Cameron is new prime minister. Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, left Bucking Palace and arrived at the Downing Street.

In a statement outside the Downing Street No. 10, Cameron said Britain's best days lie ahead. He wants to rebuild trust in politics. Cameron also

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The Raspadskaya mine, where at least 43 people died in an accident at the weekend, was one of the world's most technically advanced coalmines after a major investment program, a Russian business daily reported on Tuesday.



Vedomosti reported that over the past five years $1 billion had been invested in equipment and safety at the west Siberian mine, where 47 people are still missing underground following the two explosions, which also injured 70 people.



Russia's bigg...

Within the framework of celebration of the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev held meetings with Hu Jintao (China), Dmitry Medvedev (Russia), Nguyen Minh Triet (Vietnam), Ivan Gasparovic (Slovakia), Toomas Hendrik Ilves (Estonia), Georgi Parvanov (Bulgaria), Serzh Sargsyan (Armenia), Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan), Shimon Peres (Israel) and Angela Merkel (Germany).



The President's press service informs of it.


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In honor of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory representatives of the diplomatic missions accredited in Brussels laid wreaths to the monuments to the Soviet soldiers fallen for liberation of Belgium and to the Belgian citizens-participants of the Resistance movement.



Kazakh Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Luxembourg, Head of the Mission to the EU and NATO Yerik Utembayev and military representatives of the Kazakh Ministry of Defense under the NAT...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in elections last week, announcing he will resign by September at the latest even if the Liberal Democrats being wooed by the Conservatives decide to join his party in government.



The political theater, played out in front of the iconic black door of No 10 Downing Street, comes as David Cameron's Conservatives - which won the most seats in Parliament but fell...

Turkey will launch a small satellite next year as a test for an ambitious communication satellite in 2015, a communication company said here on Friday.



The semi-official Anatolia news agency quoted Ozkan Dalbay, director general of Turkey's satellite communications company TURKSAT, as saying: "TURKSAT plans to test a small satellite as early as 2011 and send it to space."



"This experience will be used in future broad-scale satellites, " the offic...

Pyongyang is willing to return to the Six-Party Talks on nuclear disarmament, the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) declared on Friday as he wrapped up his fifth visit to China.



Kim Jong-il's five-day unofficial visit, which started on Monday, came almost exactly a year after the DPRK's second nuclear test last May, one month after Pyongyang said it would withdraw from the Six-Party Talks permanently.



During a meeting with President Hu Jinta...

China has recently recruited five male and two female astronauts, according to the General Armament Department of Chinese People's Liberation Army on Friday.



The new recruits are all duty pilots, married, with bachelor degrees. The eldest is 35 and youngest 30, according to a meeting of the General Armament Department at Beijing Aerospace City.



The male candidates were previously fighter pilots and the women were transport plane pilots. Their average flight time is ...

In one of the most extraordinary polls in decades, the UK general election 2010 has officially resulted in a hung parliament, with the opposition Conservative Party emerging as the party with the largest number of seats at 306, short of the overall required majority of 326; Kazinform refers to The Arab News.



The Tories gained 96 seats, mostly in the counties surrounding London and in the south and southwest of England. They also made modest gains in the Midlands, the northwest and...

The death toll from a violent storm in  southwest China's Chongqing Municipality since Wednesday has climbed to 31, said local authorities Friday; Kazinform refers to China Daily.



Twenty-one people in Dianjiang County, six people in Liangping County and four others in Peiling District were killed after severe gales destroyed their homes. One person in Pengshui County was still missing, according to the Chongqing Municipal Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.

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Britain's opposition Conservatives came top in knife-edge elections Thursday but fell short of a clear-cut majority to return to power after 13 years in opposition, exit polls suggested, Kazinform refers to Arab News.



The UK could be on course for a hung Parliament as millions of people in 649 constituencies across the country cast their votes in the general election in one of the most keenly contested polls in a generation.



The big difference for the 44 million or ...

Kazakhstan copes successfully with the complicated and honorable mission of OSCE Chair. This is an assessment of Kazakhstan's chairmanship in the Organization given by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, who took part in the sitting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on May 6. 



The OIC Secretary General paid special attention to the issues of strengthening and development of cooperation between the two international st...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday that it has developed an 8-gigabit (Gb) OneNAND memory chip for smartphones that will go into production this month, addressing the growing demand for more data storage in smartphone devices, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

The new high-density OneNAND, which uses the advanced 30 nanometer (NM) class process technology, is capable of holding data twice as large as the previous 4-Gb memory chips, and has a

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The UN General Assembly will hold on Thursday a special meeting dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

The proposal to hold a meeting to commemorate the VE-Day was put forward by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last September and supported by the majority of UN member countries.



The event will open with statements by President of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly

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Iran's navy started war games in the country's southern waters on Wednesday, the official IRNA news agency reported; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

The Navy's military exercise dubbed "Velayat 89" is currently being conducted in the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman.

The combat, support, logistic, radar and electronic units of the navy force as well as the force's surface-to-surface, under water and air missiles will be used in the drill while it enjoys the support of

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OSCE and Turkmenistan will continue their efforts to ensure peace and security in the region, border security, combat drug trafficking, and fight organized crime and terrorism.

The sides reached the agreement during a meeting between Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov and OSCE in Europe Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, the Turkmen government reported.

Turkmenistan borders Afghanistan, which is, according to the U.N., the main supplier of drugs, including t

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Iceland's clouds of volcanic ash are menacing European air traffic again, but transport chiefs insisted Tuesday they are learning from last month's crisis and won't let the hard-to-measure emissions ground their continent again; Kazinform refers to China Daily.



Rising volcanic activity spurred aviation authorities in Ireland, northwest Scotland and the Faeroe Islands to shut down services Tuesday after a two-week hiatus. Their airports reopened several hours later, once the denses...

"World's Whitest Beaches." So reads the sign, topped with a leaping Marlin, that greets motorists along US Highway 98 as they drive into Pensacola Beach in northwest Florida; Kazinform refers to China Daily.



But local business owners in this tourist mecca fear the promise may soon turn as black as the spreading tide of oil already staining the blue Gulf of Mexico.



BP Plc officials and emergency responders from five states are grappling with a huge oil spil...