(AP) - According to rights groups, victims and health officials, Rakhimbayeva is one of hundreds of Uzbek women who have been surgically sterilized without their knowledge or consent in a program designed to prevent overpopulation from fueling unrest.
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(AP) - Uzbek farmers, returning to Kyrgyzstan after fleeing a blood-drenched wave of ethnic violence, are finding their crops plundered, choked by weeds and withering in the fierce sun.
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(AFP) - The leaders of Uzbekistan and China on Wednesday said they had signed deals aimed at increasing cooperation on energy and regional security.
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(AFP) - A row over Uzbekistan’s stand on HIV-AIDS erupted Thursday hours ahead of a celebrity fund-raising gala held at the Cannes film festival each year.
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(Reuters) - Uzbekistan powered through the global economic crisis, kept inflation in check and is enticing foreign companies with a $50 billion investment bonanza.
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(AFP) - Uzbekistan will start mass immunisation against polio this month after an outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Tajikistan, officials in the Central Asian state said Monday.
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(AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday criticized as “unacceptable” Uzbekistan’s placing of land mines along parts of its border that have not been delineated.
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(AP) - A dispute between two former Soviet republics in Central Asia has caused a bottleneck in the shipment of some nonmilitary supplies destined for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, Tajik officials said Friday.
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(AP) - Authorities in Uzbekistan have restricted the country’s doctors from freely traveling abroad to international medical conferences, a think tank in the Central Asian nation said Friday.
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(AP) - An AIDS outbreak at two children’s hospitals in Uzbekistan has killed at least 14 children and left 133 infected with HIV, according to a documentary posted on a respected Central Asian news Web site on Monday.
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