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At least 32 people are killed and 14 others are missing in a fire at a coal mine in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.
2023-10-28

Kazakhstan reports its first two confirmed cases of COVID-19; both are Kazakh nationals who recently returned from Germany.
2020-03-13

Three people are killed and 10 more are injured following an attack on a military base in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, by suspected Islamists.
2016-06-5

Within hours of a government announcement that Kazakhstan will abandon its currency-band exchange-rate system to implement a free-floating exchange rate, the tenge loses 26% of its value against the US dollar.
2015-08-20

A Soyuz-U rocket carrying a new Egyptian communication satellite, EgyptSat-2, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2014-04-16

Kazakh opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov will face seven-and-a-half years in jail on charges relating to causing the 2011 Mangystau riots in Zhanaozen, Mangystau Province.
2012-11-20

At least 10 die as the protesters in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, clash with police on the country's Independence Day.
2011-12-16

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructs scientists to find methods of age reversal.
2010-12-7

Three Russian satellites fail to achieve orbit after launch from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome; experts suggest they probably crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
2010-12-5

As a result of popular protests in the north and capital of the country President Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially resigns after he leaves Kyrgyzstan for Kazakhstan.
2010-04-16