Anger gives way to bitterness in Xinjiang
URUMQI, China (Reuters) - The passionate anger of weekend riots gave way to cold bitterness on both sides of the ethnic divide in China's strife-torn Muslim region of Xinjiang on Thursday, and was likely to last long after the troops go.
Nations:Pakistan Tajikistan Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan India Russia People:Hu Jintao Activities:2009 Xinjiang Riot Source:(Reuters)
2009-07-08
NATO chief: more European troops in Afghanistan
MUNICH - NATO's secretary-general on Saturday blasted Europe's reluctance to respond to American calls for more troops in Afghanistan, saying countries like Germany and France need to "share the heavy lifting."
Nations:Afghanistan Russia Kyrgyzstan Poland People:Angela Merkel Joseph Biden Barack Obama Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2009-02-07
Russia says it wants to help US in Afghanistan
MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on stabilizing Afghanistan but he appeared to link any help to changes in Western policy.
Nations:Afghanistan Russia Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan People:Dmitry Medvedev Barack Obama Activities:Russia Medvedev Admin. Afghan Terror War Russia-U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-02-04
Central Asia quake kills 70, razes village
BISHKEK (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake killed at least 70 people in Kyrgyzstan and leveled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.
Nations:Kyrgyzstan China Russia Tajikistan Afghanistan Uzbekistan Source:(Reuters)
2008-10-06
Plane crash in central Russia kills 88
MOSCOW - A passenger jet traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm crashed near residential buildings as it was preparing to land early Sunday, killing all 88 people aboard, officials said.
Nations:Russia Kyrgyzstan Latvia Turkey Italy Switzerland People:Vladimir Putin Source:(AP)
2008-09-14
68 die, 22 survive airliner crash in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 65, government officials said.
Nations:Kyrgyzstan Russia Afghanistan Turkey Source:(AP)
2008-08-25
Attackers kill 16 police at Chinese border post
BEIJING - Two men rammed a truck into a clutch of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday, state media said, in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Nations:China Pakistan Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan Activities:China Xinjiang Unrest Source:(AP)
2008-08-04
US drops China from list of top human rights abusers
The United States dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violators, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to its top 10 offenders in an annual report released Tuesday.
Nations:Uzbekistan China Mauritania Belarus Kyrgyzstan Nigeria People:Condoleezza Rice Activities:Darfur Genocide Crisis China-U.S.
2008-03-11
Sept. 11 anniversary marked overseas
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan marked the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Tuesday by watching in silence as an American flag was lowered to half-staff at a U.S. base.
Nations:Japan Australia Canada Russia Kyrgyzstan People:Stephen Harper Shinzo Abe
2007-09-11
Russia, China and allies play war game
BEIJING — Russia , China and four former Soviet Central Asian republics have sent some 6,500 troops to participate in a multinational war game, in which they've deployed paratroops, 80 aircraft and hundreds of armored combat vehicles to suppress an Islamic uprising, similar to one that occurred in Uzbekistan in 2005.
Nations:Uzbekistan China Pakistan Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan People:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Activities:2007 SCO Drills
2007-08-11
China, Russia, lead anti-terrorism drills
China, Russia and four central Asian nations began a joint anti-terror military drill in a remote Muslim-dominated Chinese region on Thursday, state press reported.
Nations:China Russia Tajikistan Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Activities:2007 SCO Drills
2007-08-09
10 million people at risk from pollution
More than 10 million people are at risk for lung infection, cancer and shortened life expectancy because they live in the 10 worst-polluted cities in the world, according to a report issued Wednesday.
Nations:Zambia Dominican Republic Kyrgyzstan Ukraine India China Activities:1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
2006-10-18
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