| May 18, 2007 | -
Kazakhstan's parliament voted to allow President Nursultan Nazarbayev to stand for unlimited terms.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 17, 2006 | - A Gypsy pressure group filed suit to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film from being shown in Germany. The group accuses him of antiziganism, or hostility to gypsies; Cohen's fictional alter-ego Borat claimed that Gypsies had molested his horse.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo
Source 2:
Wikipedia
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| July 13, 2006 | - A chicken in Kazakhstan laid an egg with the word “Allah” in Arabic on its shell. “We'll keep this egg,” said a farmer, “and we don't think it'll go bad.”
| Source:
The Scotsman
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| June 18, 2006 | -
Kazakhstan launched a satellite into orbit.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 5, 2004 | - Nine people died when a bomb blew up in a market in southern Russia, near Kazakhstan.
| Source: New York Times
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| September 25, 2001 | - Pope John Paul II went to Kazakhstan, where he celebrated mass in a giant yurt.
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| August 14, 2001 | - Mutant spiders were attacking humans in Kazakhstan.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A Kazakhstani contortionist in the Netherlands National Circus got stuck with his right foot over his left shoulder.
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| August 1, 2000 | - A Russian spacecraft docked with the International Space Station above Kazakhstan.
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