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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee says a group of radical Islamists that was arrested in recent weeks in the southern region of Almaty planned to hijack a plane and conduct “a 9/11-like” attack, RFE/RL reports.
René CAGNAT*
BISHKEK (TCA) — The death of President Karimov is watched by International media and all Central Asia republics, as well as such powers as Russia, China and the United States, due to the fact that what will happen next in Uzbekistan may outline a future scenario and alliance of the entire Central Asia. The following article is an excerpt from what has been written by Rene Cagnat, an expert in Central Asia, who for many years served as the military attache at the French Embassy in Tashkent. Now Mr. Cagnat is living between Paris and Bishkek, and the following excerpt was translated from French into English by The Times of Central Asia. The full article in French can be read here
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ASTANA (TCA) — Speaking at the G20 summit in China’s Hangzhou on September 4, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested establishing a Global economic regulator by transforming the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) into a Global Development Council, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reports with reference to Nazarbayev’s press service.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) says it has opened a credit line of US $5 million to Halyk Bank Kyrgyzstan OJSC. The agreement was signed on 2 September by Dmitry Ladikov-Roev, Managing Director, Asset and Liability Management, EDB, and Kastoru Mamytova, Board Chairman, Halyk Bank Kyrgyzstan.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Former Tajikistan Special Forces colonel Gulmurod Khalimov has become the top Daesh (ISIS) battlefield commander in Iraq after defecting last year and swearing jihad against the West, Sputnik news agency reports.
Stratfor
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
