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KABUL (TCA) — The European Union has announced 474 million euros ($535 million) in financial aid for Afghanistan as international donors gathered for a UN-backed conference focusing on development, peace, and security in the country, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that would eliminate immunity for ex-presidents, potentially opening the path for the prosecution of the country’s ex-President Almazbek Atambayev, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A vocal critic of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his government, fugitive former banker Mukhtar Ablyazov, has been convicted in absentia on a murder charge and sentenced to life in prison, RFE/RL reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, the nation-wide campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” started in Astana with the support of the United Nations in Kazakhstan, National Commission for Women, Family and Demographic Policy under the President of Kazakhstan and the National Volunteer Network.
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KABUL (TCA) — The militants of the Islamic State terrorist group have gone underground in Afghanistan, with the size of the organization’s sleeper cells in the country currently amounting to less than 10,000, Mohammad Mohaqiq, the second deputy chief executive of Afghanistan, told Russia’s Sputnik news agency.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Talks were held between Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Askar Mamin and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan on November 25 in Abu Dhabi, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
