Turkmenistan

...Afghan security forces died, Afghan and international forces hurt Occurred in Badghis province in western Afghanistan which borders Turkmenistan NATO forces launched a search in the region for two American paratroopers who went missing...

In this article: NATO, U.S., Afghanistan, Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Narcotic, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

...service members. We continue to do everything we can to find them." The service members disappeared near Afghanistan's border with Turkmenistan, in the town of Bala Morghab and the province of Baghdis, said Sayed Ahmad Sami, the provincial...

In this article: NATO, Afghanistan, U.S., E mail, 82nd Airborne Division, British soldier, Brigade Combat Team, and Taliban insurgents

...to Save the World film competition Vote for the best entry in the One Minute to Save the World green video competition From Kenya to Turkmenistan and the US to the UK, hundreds of people from 30 countries have submitted their eco-themed...

In this article: YouTube, Copenhagen, Kenya, UK, and US

...Mineral Resources Minister Duisenbai Turganov announced on Tuesday his country's decision to withdraw from the organisation. Turkmenistan was the first to abandon the system in June 2003. (c) 2009 Published with permission from United...

In this article: Uzbekistan, UPS, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, CIS, Moscow, and India

...Taipei, DPR Korea, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kazhakistan, Jordan, Laos, Macau, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and host India will participate for seven titles to be at stake. Prominent...

In this article: India, China, Table tennis, Korea, and Asia

...ballet and the circus are banned. To get a driving licence, citizens must sit an exam on the dead leader's autobiography. Welcome to Turkmenistan. Turkmen women mop water in front of Niyazov's family mausoleum (right) in Kipchak

In this article: Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Ruhnama, Saparmurat Niyazov, Birmingham, HIV, and Unemployment

...in Central Asia which shares borders with Iran, Pakistan, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. * Hamid Karzai has led the country since 2001, when U.S.-backed Afghan forces ended the five-year rule of the austere Islamist...

In this article: Afghanistan, NATO, Opium, United States, United Nations, Hamid Karzai, Taliban insurgency, Heroin, World Bank, and Transparency International

Andrei Zatoka has been campaigning on ecological issues An environmental activist sentenced to five years in prison in Turkmenistan was jailed on trumped-up charges, rights campaigners have said. Andrei Zatoka was arrested for assault...

In this article: Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Human Rights Watch, Saparmurat Niyazov, Natural gas, and Dashoguz

...supply of 30 billion cu m/year of gas through the new line. The new development comes at an opportune moment for Turkmenistan, whose gas historically has been piped to Russia. But the Central Asian country has been seeking to diversify its...

In this article: China, Uzbekistan, Russia, Natural gas, China National Petroleum Corp., OAO Gazprom, Kazakhstan, and Amu Darya

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 -- Turkmenistan, now negotiating with Russia's OAO Gazprom, is seeking to ban the Russian firm from re-exporting the natural gas it purchases from the Central Asian nation. "The new contracts will include a clause...

In this article: Gazprom, Natural gas, Alexei Miller, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Russia, and Los Angeles