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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Dozens of activists of Kazakhstan’s Oyan, Qazaqstan (Wake Up, Kazakhstan) movement marched in the Central Asian country’s largest city, Almaty, on August 30 demanding democratic reforms, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank said in a statement on August 29 that there is no indication that World Bank resources made available to schools supported by the Bank’s Technical and Vocational Education Project in China’s Xinjiang were used for any other purposes than those agreed to under the project.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on August 29 issued an arrest warrant for a son of former Deputy Interior Minister Kursan Asanov, who personally negotiated former President Almazbek Atambayev’s surrender after a deadly two-day standoff earlier in August, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The capital of Kazakhstan on August 29 hosted the Nazarbayev Prize for a World Without Nuclear Weapons and Global Security award ceremony. The Prize laureates were Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission, and former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — President Donald Trump says the United States will continue to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan even after a peace deal with the Taliban is reached, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek has transferred two jailed opposition politicians, Omurbek Tekebaev and Duishonkul Chotonov, to house arrest.
