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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The controversial rollout of encryption software to Kazakh mobile-phone users has been stopped, with President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev saying the move was just a test that he ordered for security reasons, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyz forces withdrew from the village where former President Almazbek Atambayev resides early on August 8 after an unsuccessful attempt to arrest him in a raid that left one serviceman dead and 45 people hospitalized with injuries, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The operation of China’s Zhong Ji Mining Company at the Solton-Sary gold mine in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn province has been suspended following clashes between local residents and workers from the Chinese company.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — China and Kyrgyzstan on August 6 launched their joint counter-terrorism exercise “Cooperation-2019” at a training base in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region which borders Kyrgyzstan, Xinhua news agency reported.
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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.
