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ASTANA (TCA) — Construction works at a new railway station of Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, will be completed on May 15 and it will be launched on June 1, before the opening of the international exhibition EXPO-2017 in Astana this summer, the press service of Kazakhstan’s national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an $80 million loan for the electrification of 145 kilometers (km) of railway in Uzbekistan, linking the cities of Pap, Namangan, and Andijan. The electrified track is part of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Corridor 2, a critical transport link in the region, ADB’s country office in Uzbekistan said on April 24.
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KABUL (TCA) — A top U.S. Army general has suggested during a visit to Afghanistan by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that Russia is arming Taliban militants, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — As Tajikistan is being hit hard by decreased remittances from Tajik labor migrants in Russia and the weakening national currency, the somoni, against the US dollar, we are republishing this article, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Cigarettes have again disappeared from state-owned stores in Turkmenistan in April, as the “Month of Health” is being held in the country, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan independent website reports.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister for political affairs Hekmat Khalil Karzai said the Japanese aid package will be invested in education, procurement and infrastructure projects, Afghanistan’s TOLOnews agency reported.
