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Kazakhstan suspends Russian missile tests

Russian rocket and missile tests on Kazakh lands halted after rocket explodes near village.
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Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where Russia's Soyuz rocket took off from recently, is also leased by Russia

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Kazakhstan has suspended Russian rocket and missile tests at military testing sites on Kazakh territory after
a Russian rocket crashed near a village in the western part of the country.
Early on Thursday, a meteorological rocket was launched from the Kapustin Yar testing site in Russia, but it
exploded near the Kazakh village of Shungai, said Kazakhstan's defence ministry.

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