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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s GDP grew by 4.2 percent in the first half of 2017, Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov said at the meeting of the Kazakh Government on July 18 which reviewed the results of the country’s social and economic development for the first half of the year, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — One of the daughters of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has been appointed a deputy head of the country’s largest commercial bank, Orienbank, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced ex-President Askar Akayev’s former son-in-law to 20 years in prison in absentia, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — On July 18, an official ceremony was held to inaugurate a cultural center that will benefit over 3,500 residents of Ottuk and Kara-Shaar villages of Ulahol Aiyl Aymak in Kyrgyzstan. Leisure and recreation services provided by the cultural center have been improved with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The ceremony was attended by residents, representatives of the Ulahol municipality and local council, the Embassy of Switzerland to the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as the implementing organizations Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation and the Development Policy Institute.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — On July 17, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov, in Brussels, attended a meeting of Uzbekistan-European Union Cooperation Council and met with Stefano Manservisi, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO), and Helga Schmid, the Secretary General of European External Action Service (EEAS), Uzbekistan’s official Jahon information agency reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Civilians lives – including those of women and children – continue to be lost at record high levels amid a worsening toll of suicide attacks, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on July 17, calling on anti-government forces to stop indiscriminate attacks against civilians as well as on the Government to stop using mortars and rockets in populated areas, the UN News Centre reported.
