News in Brief: Fire Kills 3, Baby Uranium Returned Uzbeks to Vote Sunday
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An outlawed Uzbek opposition party made a new attempt to get formal recognition Thursday, as Uzbekistan prepared for parliamentary elections that can only be contested by the country's five legal parties, which ...
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KABUL -- Just over 24 hours before Afghans were due to vote in their first ever presidential election, three rockets were launched from points around the Afghan capital Kabul.
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26 December 2004 -- Uzbek President Islam Karimov has lashed out at Europe&#39;s top election watchdog for criticizing today&#39;s parliamentary vote.
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Uzbekistan's authoritarian leader was sworn in for a third presidential term Wednesday, news reports said, despite a constitutional two-term limit.
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AT LEAST 20 people had died in a fire which engulfed a hostel in a remote Siberian town, news agencies reported today. Rescuers have found 20 bodies in the charred remains of the hostel in Kyzyl, ITAR-TASS reported.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - Artillery fire killed at least  three Georgian soldiers in the breakaway South Ossetia region  on Wednesday and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned  Georgia not to repeat "stupid" mistakes that triggered war a  decade ago.
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Death toll rises to 12 in Russian factory fire    MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people have been found dead after a blaze at a Russian furniture factory, emergency officials said Wednesday as rescuers continued the grim task of removing bodies.
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WANA, Pakistan -- Seventeen people, including 12 Al-Qaeda-linked Uzbeks, were killed yesterday in the first reported clash between militants and tribesmen in a Pakistani region seen as a hotbed of militant support.
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An explosion at a coal mine in central Kazakhstan killed 23 people and injured three, officials said. Eighty-seven miners were working at the mine early in the Karaganda region town
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Grenade and mortar attacks killed three children on Saturday in fresh post-war violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said.
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it featured only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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KABUL - Three rockets were fired in the Afghan capital Kabul late Saturday injuring at least one person in the latest of a string of attacks following landmark elections.
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Uzbeks were casting ballots Sunday in a tightly controlled presidential vote that is widely expected to extend the rule of one of the most autocratic and anti-Western leaders in strategic Central Asia.
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Twenty-three people died and three others were injured Sunday in an explosion at a mine in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, officials said.
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Meanwhile, the US military apologized for the latest civilian casualty of its operations to protect landmark October elections. Also, Afghanistan&#39;s top law-enforcer said three men arrested for firing a rocket
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it involved only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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Â· President makes surprise move ahead of elections Â· Choice of Zubkov a bid to keep power, say critics