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.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Ambassadors from 50 countries to the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) have co-signed a letter to the President of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to voice their support for China’s position on issues related to its Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China’s Xinhua news agency reported on July 27.

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