Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said Wednesday that authorities had re-established full control over the country's prisons after riots that left a number of people dead. The head of the Central Asian country's prison sentencing board,

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A new Uzbek opposition group wants Russia to publicly acknowledge human rights abuses in the Central Asian state and drop support for its authoritarian leader, an opposition politician said on Wednesday. The West has criticised

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Azeri ex-ministers and officials were paraded on television confessing their guilt in a coup plot, just days before a parliamentary election that is likely to be dominated by President Ilham Aliyev's supporters. The officials were

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Thousands of young Iranians chanting "Death to America" converged around the former US embassy in Tehran on Wednesday to mark the 26th anniversary of its take-over. The city centre compound, dubbed the "Den of Spies"

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The CIA has been holding and interrogating al Qaeda captives at a secret facility in Eastern Europe, part of a covert prison system established after the September 11, 2001, attacks, The Washington Post reported on

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Australia's government rushed controversial emergency anti-terrorist legislation through parliament Wednesday after Prime Minister John Howard said he had received credible reports of a planned terror attack against the country. "We have over the past few

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Britain's Tony Blair suffered a heavy blow on Wednesday when a scandal-tainted ally quit his government, compounding reverses the prime minister has faced since starting his last term in power this year. Cabinet minister David

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Omar al-Faruq, one of al Qaeda's most senior global operatives, escaped from an American military prison in Afghanistan this summer, a US defence official said on Wednesday. The official, who asked not to be identified,

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The European Union, in response to Israeli and Palestinian requests that it be a third party presence on the Palestinian border with Egypt, said on Wednesday it would send officials to the region to see

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Iran will process a new batch of uranium at its Isfahan atomic plant beginning next week, despite pressure from the United States and European Union to halt all sensitive nuclear work, diplomats said on Wednesday.

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