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BISHKEK (TCA) — China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) plans to build roads, railways, seaports and other trade infrastructure in dozens of countries in the Eurasian continent. The BRI aims to connect Asia to Europe, and the initiative has steadily expanded economic corridors and projects as far as Africa, the World Bank reported on its website.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan and India on March 11 opened another air freight corridor connecting Herat to New Delhi, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The late Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar lived near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan for years, a new book claims. Searching For An Enemy, by Dutch journalist and writer Bette Dam, says the fugitive leader never hid in Pakistan as was believed by U.S. and Afghan officials, RFE/RL reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan and France plan to organize an exhibition “Civilization and Culture on the Great Silk Road,” in the Louvre Museum in 2021, the Jahon information agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Arata Isozaki, the renowned Japanese architect, and designer of the master plan of the University of Central Asia (UCA), has won the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2019. He is the 46th Pritzker laureate, and the prize of $100,000 will be awarded at an official ceremony in May at the Chateau de Versailles in France.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Security services in Kazakhstan have detained the leader of a group that has raised concerns over problems faced by ethnic Kazakhs in China’s Xinjiang, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
