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Interim leader: Up to 2,000 dead in Kyrgyz clashes (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country’s south — many times her government’s official estimate…

Interim pres: Kyrgyz violence likely kills 2,000 (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - A respected Russian daily quotes Kyrgyzstan’s interim president as saying the death toll from the ethnic unrest that has rocked the country’s south could be near 2,000.


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Kyrgyz interim leader in Osh, vows to restore city (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Uzbeks inspect their burned house in an Uzbek district in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh,Thursday, June 17, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a refugee crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful people without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim president is visiting the southern town of Osh and vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds…

Kyrgyz interim leader tells AP US base will stay (AP)

April 13th, 2010

Kyrgyz men stand under a poster with the images of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kyrgyz counterpart Kumanbek Bakiyev, in the central square of the town of Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. A leader of the self-declared interim government that has claimed power in Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday the deposed President must return to the capital or face arrest by special forces. But ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev was defiant, rallying some 5,000 supporters in his power base and refusing to give in to demands that he step down. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday that her government will extend for a year the lease of a U.S. air base key…

Kyrgyzstan interim leader says US base will stay (AP)

April 13th, 2010

Kyrgyz men stand under a poster with the images of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kyrgyz counterpart Kumanbek Bakiyev, in the central square of the town of Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. A leader of the self-declared interim government that has claimed power in Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday the deposed President must return to the capital or face arrest by special forces. But ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev was defiant, rallying some 5,000 supporters in his power base and refusing to give in to demands that he step down. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader tells The Associated Press that her government will extend the lease of a U.S. air base key to the war in Afghanistan.


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Kyrgyz forms interim govt backed by the army (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Protesters wave a national flag on the top of the Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - An opposition coalition proclaimed a new interim government Thursday in Kyrgyzstan after clashes left dozens dead and said it would rule until elections are held in six months.…

Kyrgyz opposition forms interim government (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Kyrgyz protesters waving the national flag, ride on a truck in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan proclaimed an interim government Thursday in the wake of clashes that left dozens dead nationwide, and said it would rule for six months…

Guinea interim leader rules out presidential bid (AP)

March 14th, 2010

AP - Guinea’s interim leader says he will not run in presidential elections planned for June in the small West African country.

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