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Kazakhstan leader abruptly steps down MOSCOW — President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over the future course of the Central Asian country. In a televised address to the oil-rich nation, the 78-year-old ...

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia seems to have lost his voice since the cedi started taking a downward trend, according to the Member of Parliament for Odododiodio constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuye. The NDC MP posits that instead of the Vice President finding ways of saving the cedi from further depreciation, he is ...

PARIS – A French publisher has produced a rare guide to North Korea, highlighting its history, cultural wealth and beautiful landscapes but advising tourists not to take the politically sensitive book with them. Tourism is one of the few remaining reliable sources of foreign income for North Korea, after the ...

Most people know the World Economic Forum, held each January in Davos, Switzerland, as the place the political, business and other leaders of society meet to shape global, regional and industry agendas. For the travel industry, which is responsible for more than one in 10 jobs and 10.4% of the ...

Wins Losses Edit agency wins international Shell CRM account. Direct Auto Life Insurance names Pereira O’Dell new agency of record. The account will run out of the agency’s New York office. Chicago-based Independent marketing agency O’Keefe Reinhard Paul is expanding its Whiskey Banana’s production company. It launched three years ago ...

Today is Wednesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2019. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo (ohm shin-ree-kyoh) cult members. ...

Beijing and Paris will sign a number of agreements in the fields of energy, transport, finance and culture during the upcoming visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping to France, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Chao said on Wednesday BEIJING (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 20th March, 2019) Beijing and ...

Nazarbayev decided to become a “national guide”, Chornovil told Glavred. Nazarbayev was the only official able to hold back significant centrifugal forces existing in Kazakhstan – clan forces, which could try to tear the country apart in the case of his death. ” there is also a colossal Russian factor: ...

A populist message built on a pledge to put his country “first.” Hardline immigration policies. A get-tough-on China stance. And a controversial relationship with conservative strategist Steve Bannon. Though that description certainly applies to President Donald Trump, it could also describe the man with whom Trump will appear Tuesday in the White ...

JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – On Mar 24, Thai voters will go to the polls to elect their MPs, who will then elect a prime minister. On April 17, Indonesians will also exercise their constitutional right to directly elect their president and vice president, as well as members ...