Dushanbe
(2002 est. pop. 581,000). Formerly named Stalinabad (1929–1961), Dushanbe is the administrative, industrial, and cultural center of Tajikistan, a small republic adjacent to Afghanistan...
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DUSHANBE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in Tajikistan
on Wednesday outside a building where the country's prime
minister had been due to attend an EU-organised conference,
officials and witne...
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DUSHANBE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Millions of Tajiks struggled to
survive in their freezing homes on Friday as the harshest cold
snap in decades crippled the impoverished nation north of
Afghanistan. T...
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TOP STORIES ----------- BAGHDAD - A loud explosion rocked central Baghdad on
Wednesday, shaking buildings inside the heavily fortified Green
Zone compound that houses the U.S. embassy and Iraqi go...
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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I like...
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With electricity reserves depleted, officials in impoverished Tajikistan — where residents are enduring one of the coldest winters in 25 years — said Tuesday they would be forced to cut...
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Moscow (dpa) - President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Tajik
capital of Dushanbe on Friday to meet with the heads of former Soviet
republics to discuss ways of reforming the...
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TOP STORIES ----------- ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto
is trying to forge an alliance with Islamists and other
opposition parties to launch a campaign to force military...
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TOP STORIES ----------- ISLAMABAD - Pakistani opposition parties tried to forge a
united front on Wednesday against military president Pervez
Musharraf, who insisted his state of emergency was vit...
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Dushanbe
Explosion in Tajik capital ahead of EU conference
