Tag: Kazakhstan
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BREAKING: 42 feared dead, 14 hospitalised in Christmas Day horror plane crash
A Christmas Day horror Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan has left 42 feared dead and 14 hospitalised.
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Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty
Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly two-decade freeze on capital punishment in the authoritarian Central Asian country, a notice on the presidential website said Saturday. The notice said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had signed off on parliamentary ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights —…