European state banks are happy to finance projects using pesticides deemed too dangerous for people in their own countries. One of these is in Ghana
‘The Taliban also registered the serial numbers of their weapons and just asked them not to move around in the streets while armed but stay within the compound until everything calms down. Then the Taliban left.’
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American diplomatic dispatches paint a grim picture of the post-Soviet state of Uzbekistan.
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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.
The United States, Nato and the European Union have joined the United Nations in pressing for an international probe into the alleged killing of hundreds during an authoritarian crackdown in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek leader has staunchly resisted calls to end the crackdown on the opposition in the city of Andijan.
Sporadic shooting continued on Monday in an eastern Uzbek city where an uprising sparked a crackdown by security forces that left up to 500 people dead, and a human rights group reported that clashes in another town killed an additional 200. The government has denied opening fire on demonstrators.
Soldiers opened fire on protesters in eastern Uzbekistan on Friday and killed at least three after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism, witnesses said. Protest leader Kabuljon Parpiyev said as many as 50 people may have been killed over the course of the day.
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.
Many of the inmates in Uzbekistan’s most notorious prison are hardened thieves, thugs and killers, but even more were sent here as suspected Islamic extremists.