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KABUL (TCA) — Nearly 800,000 Afghan migrants returned or were deported back to Afghanistan from Iran in 2018 — an increase of two-thirds compared to the previous year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on January 8, RFE/RL reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $4.5 million cluster regional technical assistance grant to support an increase in regional power trade in Central Asia Power System (CAPS) and explore potential reconnection of Turkmenistan to CAPS and its further expansion to Afghanistan, ADB’s Country Office in Uzbekistan said on January 7.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Sources close to the Uzbek government have told RFE/RL that a corruption trial has begun in Tashkent against the country’s former prosecutor-general, Rashidjon Qodirov, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghan Taliban representatives say they have called off two days of peace talks with U.S. officials in Qatar, just hours after they had announced the talks would take place without any delegates from Afghanistan’s government, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The signing of an agreement on the involvement of a Belgian consultant by the Uzbek company Asia Tour Elite for the implementation of the project of Zangiata thermal health complex took place on January 5 at the Embassy of Uzbekistan to the Benelux countries, the Jahon information agency reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The president of Uzbekistan has issued a decree that allows unmarried couples to share rooms in hotels across the former Soviet republic in Central Asia, RFE/RL reported.
