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Issued on: 01/05/2021 – 10:10Modified: 01/05/2021 – 10:08 Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) Kyrgyzstan accused Tajikistan of breaking a ceasefire by firing on homes on Saturday and said 33 of its people have been killed in the deadliest border clashes between the countries since their independence from the Soviet Union. The ceasefire was agreed on Thursday just …

BISHKEK (Reuters) – Hundreds of people rallied in front of Kyrgyzstan’s interior ministry on Thursday to demand the resignation of its leadership for what they called police inaction over the murder of a kidnapped woman. Aizada Kanatbekova, 27, was kidnapped on April 5 and found strangled in a car in a rural area two days …

Prosecutors have charged Kyrgyzstan’s former president Almazbek Atambayev with murder and causing mass unrest after a deadly clash last week with security forces who were seeking to arrest him. Atambayev surrendered to police on Thursday when they raided his house and took him in for questioning over a corruption case. His supporters had repulsed a …