Kazakhstan's leaderis stepping downKazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled Central Asia’s largest country since it became an independent state with the collapse of the Soviet Union, said Tuesday that he was stepping down. Nazarbayev, 78, said he would remain head of the country’s security council. slaps Googlewith $1.7 billion fineEuropean regulators fined Google about $1.7 billion Wednesday on charges that its advertising practices violated antitrust laws, marking the third time in as many years that E.U. watchdogs have penalized the U.S. tech giant for harming competition and consumers. Prosecutors allege Temer, 78, led a sophisticated organized-crime ring that received $470 million in bribes.

Source: Washington Post March 22, 2019 21:45 UTC