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Nazarbayev called on EU to give up on sanctions on Russia
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IMF told that amid ‘new mediocre’ no room for mistakes by central banks
LIMA (Reuters) Central banks have little room for error in a low-growth world in which over-leveraged and commodity-dependent emerging economies and a slowing China are major risks, top international financiers told the International Monetary Funds meeting.Despite $7 trillion in quantitative easing from banks in industrial nations since the...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko, Kazakh PM Massimov discuss cooperation
They discussed a series of infrastructure projects that may involve Ukrainian producers. In particular projects in construction, mechanical engineering, oil and gas and agriculture industries. …read more Source: AKIpress News...
Merkel, Zerai, Pope Francis all in Nobel Peace Prize buzz
In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and French President Francois Hollande applaud during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, at the City Hall in Oslo. (AP/Yves Logghe)Europe’s record-breaking refugee crisis was a hot topic ahead of the Nobel Peace...
Pope Francis, Angela Merkel among contenders for Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Friday
Pope Francis (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among the contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize Pope Francis and a line-up of anti-nuclear campaigners headed lists of favourites to win the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on the eve of Friday’s announcement. The Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was...
Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.The Swedish Academy hailed the 67-year-old for writings that were a monument to suffering and courage in our time — tableaux of World War II,...
Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize
Svetlana Alexievich Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime. The Swedish Academy hailed the 67-year-old ‘for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’. Alexievich...
NATO head sees ‘troubling escalation’ of Russian activity in Syria
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday there had been a “troubling escalation” in Russian military activity in Syria, after Moscow dramatically expanded its air campaign. Stoltenberg also said that NATO was ready to deploy forces in key alliance member Turkey if needed after Ankara complained about a series of airspace violations...
K. Massimov and P. Poroshenko discussed issues of bilateral cooperation
ASTANA. KAZINFORM – Today, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov held a meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who arrived in Astana within his working visit. …read more Source:...
UN: Polio vaccines in Ukraine safe despite local concerns
The World Health Organization says it’s worried that millions of doses of polio vaccine might be wasted in the Ukraine after concerns were raised by a patient group that the doses are unsafe. …read more Source: The Times of...
