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
Kyrgyz passenger plane crashes, some 70 dead
BISHKEK (Reuters) - About 70 people died on Sunday when a Kyrgyz airliner crashed outside Bishkek, capital of the tiny former Soviet Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan, among them members of a local teenage basketball team.
Nations:Kyrgyzstan Turkey Canada Source:(Reuters)
2008-08-24
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
Missing U.S. officer arrives in Germany
A U.S. Air Force major who went missing for three days arrived at a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday, and a senior Kyrgyz police official said that her departure "strongly complicates" the probe into her disappearance.
Nations:Kyrgyzstan U.S.
2006-09-10
Missing American found in Kyrgyzstan
A U.S. Air Force officer found alive three days after she went missing near the Kyrgyz capital was abducted by someone who put a purported bomb object in her pocket, a top government official said Saturday.
Nations:Kyrgyzstan U.S.
2006-09-09
Traveling China's ancient Silk Road
From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns.
Nations:Tajikistan Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan China People:Genghis Khan
2006-08-08
Shanghai summit opens with Iran crowding the agenda
The leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian nations have begun their annual summit in Shanghai with Iran's nuclear program threatening to crowd out all other agenda items.
Nations:Tajikistan Uzbekistan Mongolia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan People:Hamid Karzai Pervez Musharraf Activities:Iran Nuclear Crisis
2006-06-15
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