The clashes, which broke out in Zhanaozen on December 16, left 16 people dead and at least 64 injured.

The euro will decrease over the next 16 months, Russia’s former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on January 31.

The U.S. is ready to implement sanctions on Iran’s central bank that will make it harder for Iran to sell oil.

“Steadily rising health-care spending will pull heavily on public purse strings in the coming decades,” S&P analyst said.

The talks with Australian officials will focus on bilateral cooperation in nuclear power, space and mining industries, etc.

Let’s hope that Armenia will never yield to any pressure and never question the status of NKR as an independent state.

Space Race Blastoff’ opens NASA’s history and research to a wide new audience of people accustomed to using social media.

The merger plan was designed to create Greece’s largest lender with major backing from a Qatari investment fund.

The drug is the first of its kind for patients whose basal cell carcinoma has spread either locally or to other parts of the body.

Amazon is expected to reveal the actual number of Kindle Fires it sold in the quarter when it posts its Q4 FY2011 results.

Jay Carney says the administration has made its concerns clear in discussions with Egypt’s military authorities.

For the Xbox 360, Microsoft also launched its Kinect motion camera that it hopes will rejuvenate the system.

Turkey is prioritizing development of Trans Anatolian Pipeline Project, which it is promoting in partnership with Azerbaijan.

The Culture and Tourism Association is in possession of photos showing holes in the ground as a result of illegal excavations.

“Basir”, which translates as “insightful”, is an “intelligent” ammunition capable of identifying targets and effective 20 km range.

“The stand-off between Vladimir Putin and anti-government protesters may escalate into a civil war,” Mikhail Prokhorov warned.

Activists say the new proposals could inflame tensions because they squeeze the time allotted for drafting a new constitution.

The revitalization of derelict land in east London into a magnificent Olympic complex will also be highlighted.

A man who entered a police station in a Belgrade municipality armed with a device described as “a bomb” has surrendered to police.

U.S. special agents monitoring Twitter spotted Leigh Van Bryan’s messages weeks before he left for a holiday in Los Angeles.

Formal Iraq approval for U.S. to use the aircraft may be hard to get given the political tensions between the two countries.

On Jan. 30, Edward Nalbandian met with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia.

Even by 2030, the world will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy and 30 percent more water.

The documents relate to Britain’s investigation into allegations that Russian agents were behind Litvinenko’s murder.

Syria’s opposition did not receive any invitations calling for talks with the representatives of Bashar al-Assad’s government.

87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.

The leaked water included radioactive water that had been purified, Tepco said, adding that the contamination level is low.

Adrian Nastase was sentenced to two years in prison over illegally raising funds for a failed presidential campaign.

112 people have been treated for injuries after a magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck the country’s central coast.

A third defendant was acquitted of terror charges but convicted of helping the others acquire explosives.