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The Latest Breaking News from Kyrgyzstan

Shooting breaks out between Kyrgyz, Tajik border guards - Russian agencies

Shooting broke out on Wednesday between guards patrolling the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Russian news agencies said, citing the Kyrgyz border service.

Reuters

Bosnia-Herzegovina agree to play Russia in friendly despite ongoing Fifa ban and Ukraine invasion

Kyrgyzstan will also face the suspended nation in their first fixture for almost a year

The Independent UK

Former Kyrgyzstan President Named UN Envoy to Afghanistan

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has named former Kyrgyzstan president Roza Otunbayeva as the UN's new special representative for Afghanistan, his office announced Friday. Otunbayeva became interim president of Kyrgyzstan in April 2010 after a bloody uprising forced then-leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev into exile. She relinquished power the following year after…

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U.N. chief appoints former Kyrgyzstan president as Afghanistan envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appointed a former president of Kyrgyzstan as his new special envoy for Afghanistan.

Reuters

Mum who 'sold seven-year-old son had advertised him on human organ transplant sites'

Mum Nargiza Aitmatova from Kyrgyzstan was caught in a sting operation by Russian police and anti-slavery groups after she agreed to sell her son even going so far as to advertise his healthy organs on a transplant site

Daily Mirror

AP PHOTOS: Fermented horse milk season on in Kyrgyzstan

High up in the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the season for making the fermented drink known as kumis is in full swing.

The Independent UK

The grey Zara market: how ‘parallel imports’ give comfort to Russian consumers

Western brands that pulled out are still on sale, due to legal changes that have fuelled entrepreneurship

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Fake passport used to pass off transplant as between relatives

The price per kidney was 15,000, dollars the equivalent today of about 2 million yen. The kidney transplant for the Japanese patient was conducted in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. A Japanese nonprofit organization acted as an intermediary. A passport was forged for the Ukrainian donor to make it…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Nomad Fashion Show Mixes Ancient, Modern

On the shore of one of the world’s deepest lakes, high up in Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains, models strutted and sashayed in outfits mixing the ancient and modern at the World Nomads Fashion festival. The event, now in its third year, drew designers and fashion-industry figures from about 20 countries…

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Nomad fashion show mixes ancient, modern

On the shore of one of the world’s deepest lakes, high up in Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains, models strut and sashay in outfits mixing the ancient and modern at the World Nomads Fashion festival

The Independent UK

Tokyo retiree donates canes to Kyrgyzstan association Tokyo man sends canes to help keep Kyrgyzstan people in need on their feet

A rehabilitation center in Kyrgyzstan has received a shipment of canes donated by a Tokyo man who has been helping visually impaired people in the central Asian country.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Kyrgyzstan promotes its traditional mare's milk to lure tourists

Kyrgyzstan is seeking to attract more tourists by promoting its traditional kumis - fermented mare's milk - which locals drink and bathe in and say is good for their health.

Reuters

Videos of the week: Giant avalanche sweeps over hikers in Kyrgyzstan

In this week’s selection of videos, TND takes a look at the moment a mammoth avalanche sweeps over unsuspecting hikers in Kyrgyzstan.

The New Daily

Tian Shan mountains: The moment British tourists survive avalanche in Kyrgyzstan

One of those on the trip said: ‘I thought I might die’

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Terrifying footage shows tourists caught in the path of ice avalanche in Kyrgyzstan

A tourist was taking pictures when he heard the sound of “ice cracking” and saw the avalanche hurtling down the mountain

The Independent UK

Shocking moment avalanche plunges towards tourists in Kyrgyzstan

‘If we had walked five minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead,’ writes shell-shocked hiker

The Guardian - UK

British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan

The group of 10 people, including nine from UK, managed to take shelter when avalanche struck

Reuters

Putin orders talks on unified regional air defence with Kyrgyzstan

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered the defence and foreign ministries to begin talks with Kyrgyzstan on a common regional air defence system, according to the text of the order posted on a government website.

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Saudi King Receives Written Message from President of Kyrgyzstan

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has received a written message from President Sadyr Japarov of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, regarding bilateral relations between the two countries and peoples, and ways to strengthen them in various fields, the Saudi Press Agency reported Sunday.…

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Black Death pandemic originated in Kyrgyzstan, ancient DNA from plague victims' teeth suggests

DNA analysis of seven people who died in the 14th century suggests the Black Death may have originated in modern-day Kyrgyzstan.

Daily Mirror

Mystery of where Black Death began solved - and it took 10 years to reach UK

The bubonic plague outbreak ravaged the world from 1346 to 1353 and is the most deadly pandemic recorded in human history killing around 200 million people

The Guardian - UK

Mystery of Black Death’s origins solved, say researchers

International team link spike in deaths at cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan in 1300s to start of plague pandemic

The Independent UK

Place where Black Death emerged is discovered after more than 600 years

The medieval plague, which killed millions, is believed to have emerged in North Kyrgyzstan in the late 14th century.

Reuters

Tajikistan accuses Kyrgyzstan of provoking latest border clash

Tajikistan on Saturday accused neighboring Kyrgyzstan of provoking a border clash, the latest in a series of armed confrontations between the two small impoverished Central Asian nations.

The Guardian - UK

Save your breath: traditional Kyrgyz dance helps ease chronic lung disease

Exercise to help COPD hospital patients is being rolled out across Kyrgyzstan and to neighbouring countries

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