Kyrgyz Mine Demo Acts to Secure Protesters' Release
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Excerpt from report by Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website  A committee has been set up in [northwestern] Kyrgyzstan's Talas Region to protect the rights of detained participants in the protest campaign against the development of the Dzheruy gold mine.
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A woman breaks down as she waits for a news about her loved one trapped in the Chenjiashan Coalmine in Tongchuan, northwest China&#39;s Shaanxi Province, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004.
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A conference has opened in Kenya to try to eradicate the use of landmines around the world. Dozens of people are killed or injured by landmines every day and many of them are civilians.
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Rescuers trying to reach 141 miners trapped by an underground explosion were pumping noxious fumes out of a Chinese coal mine Monday but an official said their chances of survival were &quot;extremely slight.
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Kyrgyzstan says it has arrested two men who were trying to sell  plutonium on the black market.
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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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YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar&#39;s military junta is going ahead with its promised mass release of prisoners and a top dissident who was Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will be among those freed, a senior official said Thursday.
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Two Chinese engineers who were abducted in a tense Pakistani border region have been released and are now in the safe custody of tribal elders, officials said Sunday.
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Officials on Wednesday released four journalists arrested last week while they were reporting on a protest of a dam project in northern Sudan, one of the detainees said.
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Chinese police have detained a manager  of a mine, wanted in connection with a flood that trapped 57  miners, who had fled to Inner Mongolia with his mistress, state  media reported on Friday.
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The release of three United Nations workers who had been held hostage for more than three weeks took place early Tuesday in what appeared to be an orchestrated handover.
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YANGON: The release of thousands of prisoners including top dissidents in military-run Myanmar âlends dignity to the nationâ, the main opposition party said on Saturday as it praised those freed for their struggle for democracy.
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Myanmar's military government announced it had begun releasing thousands of prisoners who may have been wrongly imprisoned by a recently disbanded military intelligence unit.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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Thousands of protesters demonstrated Saturday in the capital Bishkek to demand that the government undertake promised constitutional reforms.
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BEIJING Nov 28, 2004 - A gas explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine on Sunday, trapping at least 188 miners and sending smoke billowing out the mine&#39;s air vents, the government said.
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Kyrgyz voters went to the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory though it has been criticized as undemocratic by the opposition.