U.S. urges Kyrgyzstan to solve reporter's murder
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The United States on Thursday called on Kyrgyzstan to defend media freedom and solve the murder of an independent Uzbek reporter who was killed on Wednesday in a Kyrgyz city.
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Thursday U.S. servicemen and women stationed in his Central Asian state should no longer enjoy immunity from prosecution after the fatal shooting of a truck driver.
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A heartfelt plea for help in finding the body of murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley has been broadcast throughout the Gulf states. The British Ambassador to Iraq, Edward Chaplin, has appealed on the Arabic TV
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Kyrgyz security services seize a contacts database belonging to murdered Uzbek journalist Alisher Saipov.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The Foreign Affairs Department is still awaiting confirmation of the identity of a Canadian reported killed last week in war-torn Chechnya.
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The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry alleged Tuesday that an independent journalist killed last week in this turbulent ex-Soviet nation was linked to Islamic militants, an accusation his former employer dismissed as "ravings."
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BISHKEK, Jan 29 (IPS) - The central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has  adopted a new constitution specifically banning all taking of  life and lawyers are now drafting revisions to its legal code  replacing the maximum criminal sentence of death by firing squad  with long prison terms.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- A US Air Force officer who disappeared earlier this week in Kyrgyzstan was found alive late yesterday, reportedly telling people who helped her that she had been kidnapped, officials said.
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Police arrested two Chechens Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, who was shot dead in Moscow in July as he left the offices of the Russian edition of Forbes.
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A leading female Afghan journalist was shot dead overnight, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the second such killing in a week -- crimes that have raised alarm among media rights groups.
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The State Department is looking into an incident in which one of its security contractors killed a dog at The New York Times's offices in Baghdad during a precautionary sweep of the compound for explosives.
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A key figure in the investigation into the fatal poisoning of a former KGB security agent said Friday that he plans to appeal to British authorities for information about the case's progress.
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US diplomatic security and FBI agents prepared Wednesday to visit the Sudanese capital Khartoum to help probe the New Year's day murders of a US diplomat and his driver.
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U.S. investigators have asked Iraqi authorities to help them navigate cultural sensitivities to exhume the body of a teenager allegedly raped and murdered with her family by American soldiers, a military official said Saturday.
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A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death Saturday in her apartment building. Prosecutors suspect her killing could be connected to her investigative reporting.
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MOSCOW -- A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death yesterday in her apartment building. Prosecutors suspect her killing could be connected to her investigative reporting.
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Thousands of protesters called on Saturday for all those behind the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to be brought to justice, a year after he was gunned down in a murder which shocked Turkey.