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  • After a migrant boat sank overnight off the coast of Djibouti in northeastern Africa, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Sunday that 109 people had died, 80 had survived, and 116 were still missing for.
  • According to Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka, police received information about a potential attack against Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, prompting the emergency meeting at the Internal Security Agency's (ABW) Counter-Terrorism Center.
  • The latest attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport claimed 12 lives and injured 309, according to Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority.
  • In a statement posted on social media, Saudi military spokesperson Turki Al-Maliki blamed the Iran-backed Houthis for Saturday's fatal attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
  • US president Donald Trump stated that he would "take a look" at joining Saudi Arabia in attacking the Houthis and resuming attacks on Iran.
  • Four people died as Storm Isaias moves across the southern United States.
  • A man was hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle driven by an Immigration Customs and Enforcement agent who was allegedly pursuing him and another man on Saturday in Houston, Texas.
  • More than a week after her botched execution in Tennessee, Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital and returned to prison.

Tag: Kyrgyzstan

October 14, 2019

Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev trial begins with more...

Speaking outside the court after the first no-show, Atambayev’s lawyer Sergey Slesarev said that his client “did not want to participate in a show.” Slesarev said Atambayev has refused to cooperate with investigators in other ongoing investigations against him

August 27, 2019

Rolling The Bones In Kyrgyzstan

What do sheep bones, a Khan’s palace, and standing on one foot have in common? They’re all part of the Kyrgyz game of ordo

August 8, 2019

Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek...

Special police forces have stormed the residential compound of former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev and reportedly arrested him following a night of violent clashes. Video footage purports to show Atambaev being taken away by security services in a vehicle

August 2, 2019

‘I Still Have Nightmares’: Kyrgyz Police...

From brutal beatings to suffocation with plastic bags, police in Kyrgyzstan have been accused of using torture tactics on hundreds of people

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

July 3, 2019

Busted! A Fake Cop Keeps Traffic...

He wears a sailor’s hat and general’s epaulettes, but it’s enough to pass himself off as a traffic cop in Kyrgyzstan’s busy capital

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

March 16, 2019

Rainbow Rage: Kyrgyz Rail Against LGBT...

The peaceful march by some 400 people in central Bishkek on Women’s Day on March 8 promoting women’s rights and “equality for all” was fiercely criticized by socially conservative lawmakers in the predominantly Muslim country

February 6, 2019

Kyrgyzstan’s #MeToo Moment? Moving To Outlaw...

Female lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan plan to introduce a bill to outlaw sexual harassment

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