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Uzbek President Islam Karimov gestures during a news conference in Tashkent, Saturday, May 14, 2005. Karimov told a news conference that the protesters' demands were unacceptable and that force had to be used to put down the uprising Friday in the city of Andijan. Scores of civilians were reported killed in the violence, and Karimov said 10 soldiers were killed
Elections   Photos   Politics   Society   Uzbekistan
 Al Jazeera 
Uzbeks vote in parliamentary poll
Sun 27 Dec 2009
Uzbeks have gone to the polls in an election set to hand all the seats in the lower house of parliament to allies of Islam Karimov, the country's president. Uzbekistan has no opposition parties or... (photo: AP Photo / Anvar ilyasov)
Women pick cotton in the town of Andijan, East of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Wednesday, April 6, 2005.
Child Labour   Human Rights   Photos   Society   Uzbekistan
 BBC News 
Uzbek cotton fields still using child labour
Wed 11 Nov 2009
The BBC Uzbek Service has found that schoolchildren are still being sent out to work in Uzbekistan's vast cotton fields , despite government promises to stop using child labour during the harvest. The... (photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel)
FILE - Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Sept. 22, 2009 file photo. Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion because of his support of abortion rights. The Providence Journal reported on its Web site Sunday Nov. 22, 2009.  The New York Times  Thu 11 Mar 2010
Rep. Patrick Kennedy Rips Media in Afghan Speech
Filed at 8:02 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy is blasting the news media as ''despicable,'' accusing it of ignoring the war in Afghanistan even as troops continue to die there.... (photo: AP / Harry Hamburg, File)
Afghanistan   Media   News   Photos   Politics
 Gordon Brown  The Daily Mail  Thu 11 Mar 2010
Brown's £9bn Afghan blunder: Prime Minister 'totally miscalculated cost of war'
  Gordon Brown was branded 'cheap' yesterday by a former head of the Armed Forces as it was revealed he totally miscalculated the cost of the war in Afghanistan. Documents revealed under freedom... (photo: WN)
Afghanistan   Brown   Photos   Political   UK
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Hamid Karzai CBC Wed 10 Mar 2010
Is it time to give up on Hamid Karzai?
While the U.S. surge in Afghanistan seems to be lifting NATO's military spirits, at least for the moment, there is no disguising the international coalition's deep... (photo: Creative Commons / BotMultichillT)
Afghanistan   Karzai   Nato   Photos   Time
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Tuesday Sept. 23, The Star Wed 10 Mar 2010
Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to... (photo: AP / Frank Franklin II)
Nejad   Iran   Photos   Politics   Washington
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks during the inaugural ceremony of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement Foreign Ministerial meeting, in Tehran on Tuesday July, 29, 2008. Indian Express Wed 10 Mar 2010
US playing Afghan game: Iran
Taking aim at the US, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that it is the United States that is playing a “double game” in Afghanistan, fighting... (photo: AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian)
Iran   Nejad   Photos   Politics   US
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes the "V-sign", Breitbart Wed 10 Mar 2010
US-Iran tension plays out in Afghanistan
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a joint press conference... Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with Iranian President... Iranian... (photo: AP Photo / Christophe Simon, POOL)
Afghanistan   Iran   Nejad   Photos   Washington
Hamid Karzai Khaleej Times Wed 10 Mar 2010
Taliban talks likely on Karzai agenda in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD ' What role Pakistan plays in any peace effort aimed at the Taliban is likely to rank high on the agenda during Afghan President Hamid Karzai's two-day visit to... (photo: Creative Commons / BotMultichillT)
Afghanistan   Karzai   Pakistan   Photos   Taliban


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