Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan orders forced sterilizations - activists
(AP) - A human rights group and a think-tank alleged Tuesday that Uzbekistan’s government has instructed health workers to surgically sterilize women as part of a campaign to reduce the birth rate of the authoritarian ex-Soviet nation.
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Uzbekistan charges 200 with plotting alleged coup
(AP) - The government of Uzbekistan has falsely accused about 200 people of killing officials and plotting a coup in the authoritarian Central Asian nation, a human rights group said Monday.
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Uzbekistan jails AIDS advocate over work - activists
(AFP) - An AIDS activist in Uzbekistan has been sentenced to seven years in prison for writing a brochure that authorities said would promote antisocial behaviour, activists said Thursday.
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U.S. envoy in Uzbekistan to boost Afghan role
(Reuters) - Uzbekistan’s reclusive leader told a U.S. envoy the Central Asian nation was determined to work more closely with the United States to help oust the Taliban from neighboring Afghanistan.
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Uzbek filmmaker convicted of slander
(AP) - An Uzbek film director was convicted of slander on Wednesday for making a documentary on wedding rituals in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state, but released on amnesty, the artist and her lawyer said.
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Uzbek power grid withdrawal set to cause shortages
(AP) - The authoritarian nation says it will withdraw Tuesday from the Soviet-era power grid that unites four Central Asian countries, prompting fears of electricity shortages that could make for a winter of hardship in impoverished Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Untapped energy riches of Uzbekistan
(Stockhouse) - While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan’s natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country’s actual reserves, there is another country further east whose energy and mineralogical reserves have been overlooked – Uzbekistan.
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Uzbekistan closes border with Kazakhstan
(Reuters) - Uzbekistan has closed its border with central Asian neighbor Kazakhstan to all but citizens of each nation returning home, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, as swine flu spreads in both countries.
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EU scraps last Uzbek sanctions
(AP) - The European Union on Tuesday dropped the last remaining sanctions against Uzbekistan imposed after a 2005 crackdown on an uprising.
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Top US general visits Uzbekistan for security talks
(AFP) - Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov met Tuesday with US General David Petraeus, the US embassy said, underlining that the strategic Central Asian state seeks closer ties with Washington.
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