Word: kazakhstan
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...cuts, abrasions and a broken nose. (He required 11 stitches.) Despite having suffered a broken collarbone in the same incident, Belgian Rik Verbrugghe remounted his bicycle and continued to the finish, although he too later retired from the race. And the next stage brought more of the same, with Kazakhstan's Alexandre Shefer hospitalized after sustaining facial injuries...
...Line of Control as unlikely to work because of the state of relations between the two countries, which regularly exchange artillery and machine-gun fire. Pakistan said six civilians died in recent attacks. Earlier Vajpayee refused to meet Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, until cross-border terrorism ceases. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir said that they killed at least six members of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a group of Islamist militants, in the frontier district of Poonch. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to India and Pakistan to step up diplomatic pressure...
...U.S.S.R. and Iran, and the summit was meant to end a decade of bitter squabbling. But the meeting failed to adopt even a planned declaration after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami walked out and Turkmenistan accused Azerbaijan of intransigence over a disputed oil field. "More problems emerged than expected," admitted Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
Last Thursday, the New York Times wrote about a new oil field in Kazakhstan on the front of its world business section. After years of delays due to financial difficulties and corruption, Kazakhstan is making a serious bid with its Karachaganak oil field to break into the international market. With Iraq halting petroleum exports to protest Israel’s war against Arab terrorism and the rest of the Arab world urging the U.S. not to invade Iraq and end Hussein’s murderous regime, the conditions are good for a serious challenge to OPEC and the authoritarian governments...
Meanwhile, the road show rolls on to Dubai, where FIDE's World Chess Grand Prix kicks off April 2. Of course, the top three active players won't be there; Kasparov, Kramnik and Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will be at an independent tournament in Kazakhstan. "You've almost got a situation like in boxing," says Seirawan with a sigh. "Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified...