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#BREAKING Kazakhstan president sacks cabinet after protests: presidential website

#UPDATE Kazakhstan's president sacks the Central Asian country's cabinet in a bid to head off unprecedented unrest across the nation that followed an energy price hike u.afp.com/wc8h

#BREAKING More than 200 detained in Kazakhstan unrest: interior ministry

#UPDATE Kazakhstan president sacks country's cabinet in bid to head off unprecedented unrest across the nation that followed energy price hike

More than 200 detained during protests that swept across Kazakhstan u.afp.com/wc8h

#BREAKING Kazakh police fire stun grenades at protesters in Almaty: @AFP

#UPDATE Police in Kazakhstan's largest city #Almaty fired stun grenades towards more than 1,000 protesters marching towards the main administration building, an AFP correspondent said, after unrest across the Central Asian nation over an energy price hike u.afp.com/wcBV

#BREAKING Protesters storm mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty: AFP

VIDEO: 🇰🇿 Thousands take to the streets of Kazakhstan's largest city #Almaty, marching towards the main city administration building after a night of unprecedented unrest across the Central Asian nation that followed an energy price hike

#UPDATE Protesters stormed the mayor's office in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan's largest city #Almaty on Wednesday as unprecedented protests over a hike in energy prices spun out of control, police firing stun grenades and tear gas at a crowd of several thousand u.afp.com/wc6g

#BREAKING Kazakhstan sees 'nation-scale internet blackout' amid protests: monitor

#UPDATE Kazakhstan was on Wednesday seeing a "nation-scale internet blackout" likely in response to unprecedented unrest in the Central Asian nation, a web monitoring group said, with AFP correspondents in the country unreachable on their mobile phones u.afp.com/wcuJ

#BREAKING Kazakhstan president vows 'tough' response to unrest

#UPDATE Kazakhstan's president Kassym-Jomart #Tokayev addressed the unrest-gripped Central Asian nation on Wednesday, vowing a "tough" response to mass protests over a New Year energy price hike u.afp.com/wcuy