US drops China from list of top human rights abusers
The United States dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violators, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to its top 10 offenders in an annual report released Tuesday. Nations:[Uzbekistan][China][Mauritania][Belarus][Kyrgyzstan][Nigeria] People:[Condoleezza Rice] Activities:[Darfur Genocide Crisis][China-U.S.] 2008-03-11 Sept. 11 anniversary marked overseas
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan marked the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Tuesday by watching in silence as an American flag was lowered to half-staff at a U.S. base. Nations:[Japan][Australia][Canada][Russia][Kyrgyzstan] People:[Stephen Harper][Shinzo Abe] 2007-09-11 Russia, China and allies play war game
BEIJING — Russia , China and four former Soviet Central Asian republics have sent some 6,500 troops to participate in a multinational war game, in which they've deployed paratroops, 80 aircraft and hundreds of armored combat vehicles to suppress an Islamic uprising, similar to one that occurred in Uzbekistan in 2005. Nations:[Uzbekistan][China][Pakistan][Belarus][Russia][Turkmenistan] People:[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] Activities:[2007 SCO Drills] 2007-08-11 China, Russia, lead anti-terrorism drills
China, Russia and four central Asian nations began a joint anti-terror military drill in a remote Muslim-dominated Chinese region on Thursday, state press reported. Nations:[China][Russia][Tajikistan][Uzbekistan][Kyrgyzstan][Kazakhstan] Activities:[2007 SCO Drills] 2007-08-09 10 million people at risk from pollution
More than 10 million people are at risk for lung infection, cancer and shortened life expectancy because they live in the 10 worst-polluted cities in the world, according to a report issued Wednesday. Nations:[Kyrgyzstan][Ukraine][Dominican Republic][China][Zambia][India] Activities:[1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident] 2006-10-18 Missing U.S. officer arrives in Germany
A U.S. Air Force major who went missing for three days arrived at a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday, and a senior Kyrgyz police official said that her departure "strongly complicates" the probe into her disappearance. Nations:[Kyrgyzstan][U.S.] 2006-09-10 Missing American found in Kyrgyzstan
A U.S. Air Force officer found alive three days after she went missing near the Kyrgyz capital was abducted by someone who put a purported bomb object in her pocket, a top government official said Saturday. Nations:[Kyrgyzstan][U.S.] 2006-09-09 Traveling China's ancient Silk Road
From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. Nations:[China][Kazakhstan][Kyrgyzstan][Uzbekistan][Tajikistan] People:[Genghis Khan] 2006-08-08 Shanghai summit opens with Iran crowding the agenda
The leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian nations have begun their annual summit in Shanghai with Iran's nuclear program threatening to crowd out all other agenda items. Nations:[Iran][China][Tajikistan][Kazakhstan][Russia][Uzbekistan] People:[Pervez Musharraf][Hamid Karzai] Activities:[Iran Nuclear Crisis] 2006-06-15 Shanghai summit opens with Iran crowding the agenda
The leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian nations have begun their annual summit in Shanghai with Iran's nuclear program threatening to crowd out all other agenda items. Nations:[China][Tajikistan][Kazakhstan][Russia][Iran][Kyrgyzstan] People:[Pervez Musharraf][Hamid Karzai] Activities:[Iran Nuclear Crisis] 2006-06-15 Iran President Ahmadinejad to visit China, meet Hu Jintao
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to China next week for a regional summit and hold a one-on-one meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, the foreign ministry said. Nations:[Uzbekistan][Kyrgyzstan][Mongolia][Tajikistan][Russia][Kazakhstan] People:[Hu Jintao] Activities:[China-Iran][Iran Nuclear Crisis] 2006-06-08 Pentagon Releases Names of Gitmo Inmates
After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon handed over documents Friday that contain the names of detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The release resulted from a victory by The Associated Press in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Nations:[U.S.][Afghanistan][Pakistan][Cuba][Kyrgyzstan] Activities:[CIA Prison Scandal] 2006-03-03
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