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  • After unrest, French authorities impose curfews in some areas of Paris, northern cities, and Nice.
  • After looting damaged thousands of businesses over the weekend, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned on Monday that he was ready to declare a state of emergency as authorities struggled to contain ongoing violence.
  • Paul Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed preacher, and 28 accomplices were found guilty by a Mombasa, Kenya, court on Monday of killing 190 children and one adult as members of a well-known Christian starvation cult.

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December 8, 2020

‘My Hands Don’t Shake,’ Says World’s...

Kyrgyz surgeon Mambet Mamakeev is listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest-known working surgeon

August 2, 2019

Slum Kids Of Bishkek

“We have debts to several grocery stores,” says 10-year-old Turdubek. He and his neighbor Aizirek spoke to us about their hard, impoverished lives in the slums of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek

June 13, 2019

Modi Visits Kyrgyzstan for SCO Meeting

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi emplanes for Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic to attend the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

April 27, 2019

All Creatures Wild And Small: A...

resident of Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, has persuaded the city authorities to give him land for a rehabilitation center for rescued wild animals. With the help of volunteers, he saves porcupines, raccoons, foxes, and other animals, and then releases them back them into the wild

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