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Tehran ramps up nuclear efforts as US warns the Islamic Republic will never be allowed to build an atomic weapon.

Tehran is also nearing a deal on getting more money out of a hydropower plant it built some years ago.

Top representatives of the United States and China are organizing a resumption of talks for next week to try to resolve a year-long trade war between the world’s two largest economies, Trump administration officials said on Wednesday.

Kazakhstan plans to increase oil exports to China to 6-7 million tonnes a year from just 1 million tonnes at the expense of shipments to Europe, starting from the second half of 2020, Deputy Energy Minister Aset Magauov told Reuters.

The Head of State, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has decreed to impose a moratorium on creating quasi-public entities, Kazinform cites Akorda.

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed the Law "On the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons", Kazinform correspondent cites Akorda.

It is reported by the press service of MFA.

A new pledge by China to show “the highest possible ambition” in the fight against climate change could see the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter introduce new and more stringent carbon targets next year, according to experts and policy advisors.

The gesture, as modest as it was, is nevertheless a bright spot as tensions between the two sides have darkened in recent weeks.

Iran has breached the limit on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium set under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a watchdog has confirmed.

Бүгін Үкімет отырысының қорытындысы бойынша өткен баспасөз конференциясында Еңбек және халықты әлеуметтік қорғау министрі Б. Сапарбаев биылғы 1 сәуірден бастап жаңа форматта төлене бастаған атаулы әлеуметтік көмектің алғашқы нәтижелері туралы айтып берді.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed at their meeting on Sunday to push forward dialogue for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, North Korean state media said on Monday.

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which envisages transportation of Azerbaijani gas to Europe, will facilitate Albania’s objective of becoming gas hub in Western Balkans, Deloitte...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gregory Karasin at the meeting with EU Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian urged the European Union to respectfully treat the realities in Central Asia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Japan and the United States agreed on Friday to hold working-level meetings intensively from early next month to accelerate progress towards a two-way trade agreement, Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said

The United States is in behind-the-scene talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea over a possible third summit, and has proposed working-level negotiations that have been stalled since a Hanoi meeting ended without any agreement in February, Republic of Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday.

Russia will help strengthen Tajikistan’s army and security services against a backdrop of threats to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) posed by international terrorist groups in Afghanistan, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told a meeting of the CSTO Security Councils Secretaries Committee in Bishkek on Thursday,TASS reports.

A Kremlin embargo on tourism to Georgia has struck a blow to the rapidly growing industry and exacerbated tensions between the two countries.

The five-day International Simulation Training organised by the Kazakh Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies in the nation’s capital drew 120 participants from 17 countries to practice new skills, gain experience and enhance cooperation to address human trafficking along migration routes.

Turkmenistan's ambassador to the US and Canada Meret Orazov met with Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Fang Liu in Montreal, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.