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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — At a press conference following the Government meeting on July 30, media representatives were told about the construction of the light rail transit (LRT) project in the capital city, Nur-Sultan, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has again upheld the life sentence of imprisoned ethnic Uzbek human rights activist Azimjan Askarov, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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GULISTON, Tajikistan (TCA) — Within the Project on supporting civil society in applying community based rehabilitation for people with disabilities in Tajikistan’s Ayni district, which is funded by the European Union and Caritas Germany and is implemented with support of the Local Government Authority of Ayni district and in close cooperation with partner Public Organizations ASTI and DARO, 70 children with disabilities, their parents and community rehabilitation workers from Ayni district were brought together in Shohin sanatorium to have a one-week recreation, Caritas Germany said on August 29.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — At a press conference on July 29, First Vice Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Yerzhan Zhilkibayev spoke about the process of resettlement of citizens from labor-surplus regions of Kazakhstan to labor-deficient regions, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Independent foreign-based news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan on July 29 reported on active measures being taken in Turkmenistan to suppress rumors about President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov’s death or his poor health. Law enforcement agencies in Ashgabat and in the provinces have been switched to a “combat alert mode”.
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KABUL (TCA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says President Donald Trump wants combat forces of the United States and its allies reduced in Afghanistan before the next U.S. presidential election in November 2020, RFE/RL reported.
