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/ 22 December 2007
The secretive oil company Gunvor has broken its silence over its alleged links with Vladimir Putin, denying that the Russian President was the company’s ”beneficiary” owner. Gunvor’s CEO said it was ”plain wrong” to suggest the company had benefited from its alleged close connections with the Kremlin.
A series of attacks on Friday struck the United States and Israeli embassies in Uzbekistan along with the country’s prosecutor general’s office, causing casualties, with at least two of the strikes staged by a suicide bomber. A US embassy official said a suicide bomber wearing a belt full of explosives set off the blast outside the embassy.
Uzbekistan security forces killed 20 suspected militants on Tuesday in clashes near the residence of President Islam Karimov as a fresh wave of violence rocked the Central Asian country. The firefight between police and the militants occurred after two morning blasts in the northeastern outskirts of the capital, Tashkent.
At least one explosion has ripped through a crowded market in Uzbekistan’s capital on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring many others in what officials are treating as a terror attack. Similar blasts were reported in other parts of the remote Central Asian country bordering Afghanistan.