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Mixed motives seen in proposed move to end three-year frontier closure. There are fears in Georgia that the government’s readiness to re-open the country’s border with Russia may undermine national security, ...

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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has relocated next door to Tajikistan, but analysts doubt it will move back into Central Asia. Central Asia’s most feared Islamic group is back in the news, with reports that it has regrouped in northern Afghanistan close to the border with Tajikistan. ...

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Campaigners want ICC to indict Ugandan rebels for crimes they are alleged to have committed in DRC. Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord’s Resistance ...

Thomson Reuters Building, London, 12-Nov-09 Watch the videos of the event here. Welcome note - Sean Maguire ...

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Iraq’s city of singers silenced by edicts and threats against secular music. In a town renowned for its musicians, Jasim al-Asmer * is one of the best. He is the composer of countless lyrics and melodies, many of them popularised by singers more famous than he. ...

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Young Armenian, born in Azerbaijan, faces bureaucratic struggle to gain citizenship rights. Akif Abishov just wants to be an ordinary Azeri young man, but he has an awkward secret in a country that still lacks diplomatic relations with Armenia. ...

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Upsurge in militant activity in Central Asia will be contained, although security should be stepped up in border areas. In the eight years the United States-led Coalition has been in action in Afghanistan, the northern provinces have remained largely calm – until recently, that is. ...

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Senior Kurdish official offers help to impoverished former fighter featured in IWPR story. An elderly former guerilla in Iraqi Kurdistan has received financial assistance from a top official in the region’s government as a result of an IWPR story that described his struggle to earn a living. ...

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Demand for IWPR stories amid growing media repression and censorship. As Uganda’s national elections draw ever closer, IWPR is playing an increasingly important role in highlighting some crucially important issues in the country, local politicians and journalists say. ...

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Open Minds training programme enabling girls with little experience of thinking for themselves to air their views in the classroom. Pakistani female students and their parents have expressed enthusiasm ...

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Kyrgyz contributor selected as finalist in Asian journalism award for an article on controversial privatisations in her country. Asyl Osmonalieva, IWPR’s long-term contributor in Kyrgyzstan, was selected as a finalist in the Developing Asia Journalism Awards. ...

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Some officials say Herat frontier checkpoint giving Taleban a backdoor into Afghanistan. Islam Qala, a dusty border town that forms the gateway between Iran and Afghanistan, is a focus of concern for Afghan ...

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Counsel will step in if Karadzic continues to boycott trial after it resumes in March. Judges in the Hague trial of Radovan Karadzic have appointed a standby counsel who will step in to represent the former Bosnian Serb leader if he continues to boycott his war crimes proceedings. ...
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