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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Starting from March, women employed by state agencies and organizations in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat have been “recommended” not to use nail polish, not to have nail and lash extensions, not to dye hair and wear gold jewelry items, independent foreign-based news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reports.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Both Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are facing the growing threat posed by former Islamic State militants returning back home from Syria to bring in terrorism and extremism to the Central Asian region. So it is a good time to join efforts in addressing the problem. We are republishing this article on the issue by Farkhad Sharip, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States has added an Uzbek militant group fighting in the Syrian civil war to its list of “global terrorists,” RFE/RL reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) says Iran was Afghanistan’s largest trade partner in the last solar year — from March 2017 to 21 March 2018, exporting goods worth over US $1.98 billion, TOLOnews reports.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Iran has asked for “immediate” explanation from Turkmenistan after the Central Asian country’s border guards opened fire on four Iranian fishermen in the Caspian Sea and killed two of them, Iran’s PressTV reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The latest developments in Central Asia and the fence-mending efforts undertaken by the Uzbek president have shown that the regional countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — are capable of working together and without outside interference, particularly from Russia. We are republishing this article on the issue by Paul Goble, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
