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Niamh Kennedy and Amy Woodyatt, CNN At least 164 people have been killed and more than 5,000 detained during violent upheaval in Kazakhstan this week, as unrest swept the nation and the death toll ticked even higher. Deadly protests that erupted in in the Central Asian country in recent days have seen the government resign

By Olga Pavlova and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Saturday discussed restoring “order” in Kazakhstan following days of violence and unrest, as several high-profile officials were detained on suspicion of treason. Tokayev told Putin the situation in his country was “progressing on the way to stabilization”

By Azaz Syed and Amy Woodyatt, CNN At least 21 people are dead in northern Pakistan after thousands of vehicles became stranded in a blizzard Saturday. All the roads in Murree are now clear, a police spokesman for the Islamabad police said, and officers have evacuated thousands of people who were stuck in the area,

By Yong Xiong and Chandler Thornton, CNN At least 16 people were killed and 10 others injured Friday in a gas explosion in southwestern China, according to the country’s Ministry of Emergency Management. The ministry said a cafeteria for a local government district office in Chongqing city collapsed after a suspected gas leak and explosion,

By Katie Hunt, CNN The arid deserts and shrublands in Australia weren’t always that way, according to a newly discovered and extraordinarily well-preserved fossil site in New South Wales. The fossilized spiders, cicadas, wasps, plants and fish, which date back to between 11 million and 16 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch, are painting

By Radina Gigova, Anna Chernova and Katharina Krebs, CNN Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered security forces to “kill without warning” to crush the violent protests that have paralyzed the former Soviet republic and reportedly left dozens dead. In a defiant public address Friday, Tokayev claimed the unrest, which began earlier this week as protests

By Katharina Krebs, Tara John, Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Dozens of protesters were killed and hundreds injured during clashes in Kazakhstan, a police official from the largest city Almaty said Thursday, as troops from a Russian-led military alliance of post-Soviet states begin their operations in the Central Asian country to help quell the

By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Beijing Bureau, CNN As the locked down Chinese city of Xi’an claimed victory this week in its fight to contain the community spread of Covid-19, harrowing tales of loss and despair have emerged on social media — highlighting the immense human cost of China’s zero-Covid policy. The

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea said it successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile on Wednesday, the state-run news agency KCNA reported Thursday. According to the report, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not attend the launch. “The successive successful test launches in the hypersonic missile sector have a strategic significance of accelerating the task

By Gawon Bae and Emiko Jozuka, CNN North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday. According to the Japanese government, the projectile may have been a “ballistic missile,” it said in a tweet. The Japan Coast Guard said