Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan religion law stiffened, to Christians' dismay

Joel Griffith with Slavic Gospel Association says there have been some new amendments this week that are being debated in the Kazakh Senate. "It would, for the first time, explicitly ban unregistered religious activity. It...

NASA Sets Media Briefing for Crews on International Space Station

The astronauts, cosmonauts and spaceflight participant aboard the International Space Station will participate in a news conference at 12:20 p.m. CDT, Monday, Oct. 20. Reporters at participating NASA centers may ask questions....

Rice cancels Abu Dhabi trip over economic crisis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week to stay home and help the Bush administration tackle the financial crisis, her spokesman said on Tuesday.

United Nations: Part 2; Space Technologies Indispensable To Challenges Of Climate Change, Food...

She said that a "harmonious outer space" was an outer space for peace, cooperation and development, under the rule of law. He congratulated the United Nations Office for Outer Space and the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of...

Detained BU Professor Update

The Binghamton University electrical engineering professor being held in Kazakhstan on currency smuggling charges today spoke by phone to one of his Phd students. 62-year-old Victor Skormin says that so far, lawyers for either...

Russian foreign minister to visit Kazakhstan

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MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister is due to arrive in Kazakhstan on Wednesday to meet with the country's president and foreign minister, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said. During the three-day...

GE plans to build trains in Kazakhstan

Compiled from Herald News Services Published:Â Wednesday, October 15, 2008 The Kazakh venture of General Electric Co. plans to produce as many as 200 locomotives a year starting in 2011. GE, the world's largest maker of...

Sons of Russian, U.S. astronauts unite in orbit

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut met in space on Tuesday when spaceman Sergei Volkov welcomed American Richard Garriott on board the International Space Station.

WHO slams global health care, calls for universal coverage

In a Nairobi slum, more than one in four children under 5 will die, but in a wealthier part of the Kenyan capital, the mortality rate is one in almost 67, according to a World Health Organization report released Tuesday.

Expedition 18 Crew Launches From Baikonur

Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 14, 2008 - Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-13 from the Baikonur...