Blasts at Kazakh munitions depot kill 12, wound 98
A series of explosions caused by fire at a Kazakh munitions storage depot killed 12 servicemen and firefighters and wounded 98, authorities in the central...
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Cyprus travel to Kazakhstan for Euro 2020 qualifier
Kazakhstan will host Cyprus at the Astana Arena on Thursday for a Euro 2020 qualifying game. The two teams are equal on seven points in...
Kazakhstan: the highway of the new age
Landlocked Kazakhstan is a crucial part of the Belt and Road Initiative and is making great strides towards becoming a major investment centre By...
Kazakh Olympic medalist skater stabbed to death
Denis Ten, an Olympic bronze medallist figure skater, was stabbed to death on Thursday in his native Kazakhstan. Police in Almaty said Ten, 25, was...
Bus catches fire in Kazakhstan, killing 52 Uzbeks (Update)
A bus fire in north-western Kazakhstan killed 52 Uzbek citizens on a route used by migrant workers heading to Russia, the Kazakh Interior Ministry said...
New capital with high hopes
A benign, progressive and open country, Kazakhstan is emerging as a sought-after mediator in conflict resolution finds Aydin Calik although not much scrutiny is applied...
Supreme Court dismisses Aliyev widow’s application to unfreeze assets
The Supreme Court dismissed in a first-instance ruling an “certiorari” application to put aside an order issued in November by the Nicosia District Court freezing...
Parliament watchdog postpones debate on Aliyev deposits
Following an intervention of attorney General Costas Clerides and Central Bank of Cyprus governor Chrystalla Georghadji, the parliament’s watchdog committee postponed a debate scheduled for...
Court freezes assets in possession of Aliyev’s widow
A Cypriot court ordered the freeze of assets located in Cyprus in possession of Elnara Shorazova, the widow of former Kazakh diplomat Rakhat Aliyev, a...
Kazakh beer tycoon jailed for 21 years on coup-plotting charges
By Raushan Nurshayeva A Kazakh businessman was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday on charges including plotting a coup against veteran President Nursultan...
Victims of Kazakh kleptocrats ask Cyprus to freeze stolen assets
A group of Kazakh exile dissidents said they have asked Cypriot authorities to freeze assets worth tens of millions of euro held by the widow...
US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a two-day journey to the International Space Station. The Soyuz space...
Suspected Islamist militants kill five in Kazakhstan’s biggest city (Update 2)
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least four policemen and one civilian in Kazakhstan’s financial capital Almaty on Monday, security and hospital sources said, the second...
Singing dune draws visitors to Kazakh steppe
Rising incongruously above the steppes of southeastern Kazakhstan is a structure as famed for the myths that surround as for the sound it produces —...
Kazakh forces kill five linked to suspected Islamist attack
Kazakh security forces killed five suspected militants on Friday linked to deadly attacks this week on a national guard base and several firearms shops in...
French court rules Kazakh dissident should be extradited
Dissident Kazakh Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling up to $6 billion from his former bank BTA, should be extradited from France to Ukraine or Russia, a French court ruled on Thursday. Ablyazov, 50, who had...
Ten years for drug smuggler
By Constantinos Psillides A MAN was sentenced to ten years in jail on Thursday after almost 12 kilos of cannabis were found in his possession....