Kazakhstan

Turkey has the potential to increase its annual revenue from health tourism to $5 billion over the next two years, with officials looking for ways to boost and diversify the country's tourism appeal amid a downturn in the sector.

Kazakhstan's lower house of parliament voted on March 25 to keep in place the government of Prime Minister Karim Masimov after a parliamentary election in which the ruling Nur Otan party retained its overwhelming majority. 

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party won a landslide in the March 20 snap parliamentary election by capturing 82 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results announced on March 21. 

Turkish jewelry producers aim to increase their exports by 30 percent to $3.5 billion this year by focusing on new markets, after seeing decreases of around 15 percent in year-on-year exports in 2015 amid the loss of one of their key markets, Russia.  

Thousands of supporters of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization gathered in Ankara to discuss the re-establishment of the caliphate, just three days after holding an international conference in Istanbul to mark the 92nd year of the institution's abolition, daily Cumhuriyet has reported. 

Novak Djokovic and Aleksandr Nedovyesov were on Thursday drawn to open the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Serbia and Kazakhstan.

Novak Djokovic and Aleksandr Nedovyesov were on Thursday drawn to open the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Serbia and Kazakhstan.

U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth March 2 after spending almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.

Kazakhstan will reconsider Serbia's request for export of 5,000 domestically-made cars to the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said this after a meeting with the country's Prime Minister Karim Massimov.

It is time to affirm the friendship between Serbia and Kazakhstan with developed economic relations, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Friday.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's upcoming visit to Serbia, scheduled for mid-year, will be an ideal opportunity to forge more specific cooperation in joint industry projects, Nikolic said.

Bulgaria ranks 67th out of a total of 126 countries worldwide in terms of military strength in the 2016 Global Firepower (GFP) list.

Using data from publicly-available sources such as CIA.gov, CIA World Factbook, Wikipedia.com, public domain print and media sources, the GFP ranking asseses each nation's potential conventional war-making capabilities.