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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.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A group of ethnic Kyrgyz originally from the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have urged Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov to seek the release of their relatives from “reeducation camps” in China, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The fourth round of Afghanistan-India security dialogue, held in Kabul on November 25 at the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), brought together former high-ranking security officials from Afghanistan and India and Indian diplomats, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Ahead of the major climate conference, COP24, a new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) report looks at Kazakhstan, reliant on oil exports for about half of its revenues, and the implications for the country’s finances of a global shift away from fossil fuels.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $36.52 million financing package to help improve wastewater management systems and strengthen the sustainability of water supply and sanitation facilities in the two lakeshore cities of Balykchy and Karakol on Issyk-Kul lake, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Kyrgyzstan, ADB’s Country Office said.
