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Kazakhstan

Dec 2006Score by which Russia defeated Kazakhstan in the 2006 Homeless World Cup final in September: 1‒0
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Homeless World Cup (Edinburgh)

May 18, 2007 Kazakhstan's parliament voted to allow President Nursultan Nazarbayev to stand for unlimited terms.
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BBC News

October 17, 2006A 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.
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Reuters via Yahoo

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Wikipedia

July 13, 2006A 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.”
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The Scotsman

June 18, 2006 Kazakhstan launched a satellite into orbit.
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BBC News

June 5, 2004Nine people died when a bomb blew up in a market in southern Russia, near Kazakhstan.
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New York Times

September 25, 2001Pope John Paul II went to Kazakhstan, where he celebrated mass in a giant yurt.
August 14, 2001Mutant spiders were attacking humans in Kazakhstan.
July 17, 2001A Kazakhstani contortionist in the Netherlands National Circus got stuck with his right foot over his left shoulder.
August 1, 2000A Russian spacecraft docked with the International Space Station above Kazakhstan.

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