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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s security service said it will finish testing an encryption-busting root certificate on August 7 that critics say allow it to spy on user activity on the Internet, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Taliban has denounced the Afghan presidential election set for September as a “sham” and said that its fighters would do all they can to disturb the election process, RFE/RL reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Dozens of people have been injured in clashes between local residents and workers from a Chinese company at a gold mine in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn province.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan attracted 5.6 billion U.S. dollars in foreign investments and loans in the first half of 2019, a fourfold increase compared to the same period of 2018, Xinhua news agency reports with reference to Uzbek authorities.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) procured and handed over soybean harvesting machinery to the Engels Farm company in Kyrgyzstan’s northern Chui Oblast. Approximately 400 soybean farmers will use the machinery to reap larger, higher quality harvests. The farmers will then be able to sell more of their crops at higher prices thanks to the identification of a confirmed buyer, the US Embassy in Bishkek said on August 5.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has ordered the closure of the Jaslyk prison in the Central Asian country’s northwest, an institution that has long been associated with torture and human rights abuses, RFE/RL reported.
