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Top Kazakh Think Tank Anticipates 10 Most Important Events in Central Asia in 2016
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KazISS) presented Jan. 14 an overview of the ten most important events in 2016 which are crucial for political and economic development, stability and security in Central...
Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Jan. 18, 2016
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasWhen the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy detained...
Czech leader says Muslim integration ‘practically impossible’ in Europe
PRAGUE: Czech President Milos Zeman, known for his fiery anti-migrant rhetoric, said on Sunday it was “practically impossible” to integrate the Muslim community into European society. “The experience of Western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is practically...
Ukraine truimph to go level at the top of World Cup standings
Winter Olympic champions Olena Pidhrushna and Valj Semerenko helped Ukraine to biathlon 4.6km relay World Cup victory in Ruhpolding, Germany on Sunday. With compatriots Iryna Varvynets and Yiliia Dzhima completing the quartet, Ukraine clocked 1 hour 16 minutes 14.2 seconds to clinch victory. Hosts Germany had to settle for second place as Karolin...
Iranian president hails lift of U.S., EU sanctions
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday hailed the lift of nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Republic by the United States and European Union after the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Tehran’s commitments to the July deal. …read more Source: <a href=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/17/c_135017400.htm target=_blank...
Hassan Rouhani: New chapter for Tehran as sanctions end
Iran “has opened a new chapter” in its ties with the world, President Hassan Rouhani said, hours after international nuclear sanctions were lifted, the BBC reports. The move came after the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said Iran had complied with a deal designed to prevent it developing nuclear weapons. UN, US and EU sanctions have...
Iranian president hails lift of US, EU sanctions
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday hailed the lift of nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and the European Union (EU) after the U.N. nuclear watchdog confirmed Tehran’s commitments to denuclearization. …read more Source: Global...
Martin stops Glagov for IBF heavyweight crown
NEW YORK – Unbeaten US southpaw Charles Martin won the vacant International Boxing Federation heavyweight title Saturday when Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Glazkov stopped after suffering a right knee injury. …read more Source: Bangkok...
French teacher in avalanche tragedy is charged with involuntary homicide
A French teacher who took students onto a closed skiing piste in the French Alps where an avalanche killed two of them and a Ukrainian tourist has been charged with involuntary homicide, his lawyer said Saturday. The 47-year-old who was seriously injured in the accident was charged at his bedside in hospital in the south-central […] The post...
Obama’s futurism and the state of our nation
Sadeq Khan In his 7th (and final) State of the Union address before at a joint session of the US Congress, President Barack H. Obama told the Congressmen, the Justices and the military chiefs present that “because it’s an election season, expectations for what we’ll achieve this year are low. Still, Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the...
