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Blasts triggered by a fire at a Kazakh munitions storage facility killed nine servicemen and firefighters and wounded 90 others, authorities in the central Asian nation said on Friday. Four people remained missing, the government said. It is unclear what caused Thursday’s fire at the military base in the southern …

Police in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty detained dozens of anti-government protesters who took to the streets on Saturday even as a new, more liberal law on demonstrations was expected to come into force. The Central Asian nation has frequently been criticized by human rights groups for requiring public rallies to …