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DUSHANBE (TCA) — At least 50 inmates were killed in a prison riot in Tajikistan last week, sources have told RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, doubling the death toll in violence that the government has said almost nothing about publicly.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — After an initial denial, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security says that the authorities have arrested 12 people suspected of plotting an attack on the Russian military base in Dushanbe earlier in November, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Highlighting the vast investment opportunities in Central Asia will be one of the main goals of the Central Asia Investment Forum (CAIF) to take place in Beijing on November 14, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed loan agreements for loans equivalent to $80 million in Kazakhstani tenge with Samruk-Energy, Kazakhstan’s largest power generation company, to help increase its balance sheet flexibility by reducing foreign exchange risk, enhance its operational efficiency, and identify a renewable energy pipeline for the company, ADB’s Country Office said on November 12.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Taliban stated it was ready to talk with Afghanistan’s government only after agreeing with the United States on a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, Sputnik news agency quoted Russian Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov as saying.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov held a meeting with the new Ambassador of China to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao on November 9 to discuss the state and prospects of bilateral political relations, issues of trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation, and interaction on security issues between Kazakhstan and China, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said.
