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When news emerged that Qatar may have unwittingly helped bail out a New York skyscraper owned by the family of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, eyebrows were raised in Doha.

Defence ministers meet amid calls from Moscow for Ankara to do more to remove hard-line fighters from the province.

Offer made after Taliban leaders met with Afghan representatives in Moscow during 'very successful' negotiations.

As many as 55,000 Turkish citizens live in Azerbaijan, Trend reports with reference to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

Russia would be prepared to consider new proposals from the United States to replace a suspended Cold War-era nuclear pact with a broader treaty that includes more countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Tbilisi has set up a commission to implement a long-stalled deal with Russia to establish trade corridors through Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But political minefields lie ahead.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke highly of U.S. President Donald Trump, state media said on Thursday, and expressed satisfaction over the results of talks between officials from both countries about a second summit between Kim and Trump.

Malaysia has elected Sultan Abdullah of Pahang as its new king after the shock abdication of the previous monarch.

For anyone likely to be hurt by rising trade tariffs between the world's top two economies, time is running out fast. There's just over a month to go before a truce in their dispute between the United States and China ends on March 1, and Washington more than doubles tariffs on $200bn worth of imported Chinese goods to 25 percent.

Oil output in 2018 in Kazakhstan made 77,491mn tonnes i.e. 6.3% higher against 2017, Kazinform correspondent reports.

Gross output of agriculture, forestry and fishery of Kazakhstan for January-December 2018 grew by 3.4% than in the same period of 2017 to hit KZT 4,410 bln, the Statistics Committee of the National Economy Ministry reports.

The Italian government approved a set of welfare reforms on Thursday deemed unsustainable for Italy’s economy by critics.

The morning foreign currency trading session ended on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE). For USDKZT_TOM this session is the main one. 19 banks traded in the session. Все права защищены. Используйте активную ссылку на inform.kz https://www.inform.kz/en/kase-morning-session-usdkzt_tom-375-66-1-03_a3487057

The crude oil prices went up significantly during Wednesday's trading sessions on the exchanges of London and New York, Kazinform correspondent reports. RELATED NEWS

Successful Kazakhstani entrepreneurs will share their business experience and tell how to build own business during the Bolashaq Business Forum in Astana, Kazinform correspondent cites the Bolashaq Association.

Turkish presidential spokesperson says US president wants to make the trip next year but a date has not been set.

A look at how the neighbours' relations changed in recent years with trade and Belarus' sovereignty under the spotlight.

Turkey supports an anticipated U.N. plan to form a commission on Syria to rewrite the war-torn country's constitution, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Tuesday.

China's soybean imports from the United States plunged to zero in November, marking the first time since the trade war between the world's two largest economies started that China, the world's largest soybean buyer, has imported no U.S. supplies.

Oil prices plunged more than 6 percent to the lowest level in more than a year on Monday, pulling back sharply late in the session as fears of an economic slowdown rattled the market.