Eurasia

Protests rage for a fourth day on Wednesday (Jan. 5) in Kazakhstan. Protesters in Almaty, the Central Asian country’s largest city, stormed the city hall, and several other government buildings setting some ablaze. Mass protests were triggered by a rise in fuel prices. Price caps on liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, were lifted on Saturday, and the cost of fuel doubled within days. 

Major Russian news agency TASS will be the first media outlet in the world to open a permanent bureau on the International Space Station (ISS). “The first correspondent in space will be Hero of Russia, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin,” TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov said after signing the document with Russian space corporation Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Wednesday (Nov. 16). “Previously,

Kyrgyzstan said Thursday it had agreed a ceasefire with Tajikistan after cross-border shelling and clashes left at least four people dead and dozens injured in a conflict over a water supply facility. “As a result of several negotiations between the ministers of foreign affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan, agreements were reached on a complete ceasefire from 8:00

Turkish forces attacked Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq, media reported on Sunday (April 25). “Heroic commandos of the heroic Turkish Armed Forces are in northern Iraq,” the defence ministry said in a tweet. Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday the operations Pence-Simsek and Pence-Yildirim began on Friday in the Metina and Avasin-Basyan regions in northern Iraq and involved