Turkey has demanded that Israel accept an international inquiry into last week's deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza. The call, from the Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, came as the fallout from the botched operation overshadowed the opening of a 20-state conference on Asian security in Istanbul.
Several inmates of Dolinka prison in Kazakhstan's central Qaraghandy Oblast have deliberately injured themselves.
Chinese President Hu Jintao will sign an agreement to increase crude pipeline capacity from Central Asia during a trip to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan next week.
In a statement read on state television today, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev announced that he would not sign a controversial draft law that would give him special powers for life.
A rights organization says a Tajik citizen wanted by the Uzbek authorities for terrorism has been detained in southern Kazakhstan, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
In early April, when the people of Kyrgyzstan chased their president from power for the second time in five years, it appeared spasmodic regime change was becoming a permanent fixture of Kyrgyz politics. But while there are similarities in the root causes of the March 2005 Tulip Revolution that ushered in Kurmanbek Bakiev's presidency, and the bloody unrest that led to his ouster, there are also stark differences in the way things are playing out.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has reportedly proposed abolishing the positions of EU special representatives for the South Caucasus and Moldova. If approved by the EU's member states, the move would signal a drastic downgrading of the EU's involvement in its eastern neighborhood.
For the first time, a female player from Central Asia -- Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan -- has reached the fourth round at a Grand Slam tennis tournament.
As new cases of polio appear in Tajikistan, a war of words is heating up between the Central Asian country and Russia, where officials have barred young Tajik children from entering for fear that they will spread the virus.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that Russia and Kazakhstan have agreed to launch a customs union from July 1, cutting Belarus out of the first stage of the union.
Floodwater forced more than 260 people to evacuate the Saryagash district in South Kazakhstan Oblast today, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Kazakh authorities have launched an investigation into the mass death of the endangered saiga antelope in the west of the country.
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