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Global Waste-To-Energy, Corp (GW2E) announced today that it has signed an additional agreement with Freedom Renewable Energy Corporation (FREC) to be the sole distributor of the Biosphere Gasification System(TM) for the countries of Brazil, Dominican Republic and Kyrgyzstan. The agreement will be one of many between the two entities as GW2E expands their initial territory offering. "We are excited to expand our agreements with FREC to be the sole distributor of the Biosphere System for...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - An American citizen working at a U.S. military airbase in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has gone missing, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday. The incident happened just weeks after the United States agreed terms with Kyrgyzstan to carry on using the Manas airbase to support operations in nearby Afghanistan. The embassy said the serviceperson went missing on Tuesday while shopping with a group of other Manas staff members. It did not reveal the person's...

ALMATY (Reuters) - U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said on Friday the lives of Uzbek refugees suspected of having been abducted in Kyrgyzstan and forcibly returned to their homeland were in danger. Kyrgyzstan is under fire from the West over reports that refugees who had fled to its territory to escape a bloody crackdown by troops in neighboring Uzbekistan were being forcibly returned home. "In recent weeks, Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies have detained a number of asylum seekers as...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States urged Kyrgyzstan on Thursday to investigate reports that two Uzbek refugees had been deported to neighboring Uzbekistan. The United Nations and other organizations believe refugees handed back to Uzbekistan may face torture and execution. "The United States is very concerned by reports that two officially registered Uzbek refugees were forcibly removed from their homes in Osh, Kyrgyzstan," the U.S. embassy said in a statement. "According to...

By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United Nations' refugee agency said it was shocked by Kyrgyzstan's extradition of five Uzbeks, adding that the decision to hand the men over to Uzbek authorities had put their lives at "grave risk." The five were removed from a remand prison in the southern city of Osh and driven to the nearby Uzbek border on Wednesday, according to a Kyrgyz prison official and a lawyer for the men. The men were the last among hundreds of refugees who fled the...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States has expelled two Kyrgyz diplomats following the expulsion from the Central Asian state of two of its own envoys, Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Kyrgyzstan, home to a U.S. military base, deported two U.S. diplomats in July after it accused them of interfering in its domestic affairs. "The American side, without providing any explanation, declared two staff members of Kyrgyzstan's embassy in the USA persona non grata in response to...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz security forces have arrested five men accused of playing a part in organizing unrest in the Uzbek town of Andizhan last year, officials said on Wednesday. Uzbekistan has already pressured impoverished neighbor Kyrgyzstan to extradite refugees who it says are Islamist terrorists responsible for the Andizhan violence. Human rights groups say Uzbekistan uses the threat of militant Islam as an excuse to clamp down on dissent. On Wednesday, Kyrgyzstan's SNB...

By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan, home to a U.S. military base, threatened to expel two American diplomats on Wednesday after accusing them of interfering in the Central Asian state's domestic affairs. The U.S. embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek declined to say whether or when they might leave the country. The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said the diplomats were no longer welcome. "The decision was taken based on facts presented by Kyrgyzstan's special services about...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan, home to a U.S. military base, said two American diplomats were no longer welcome on Wednesday, accusing them of interference in the Central Asian state's domestic affairs. "The decision was taken based on facts presented by Kyrgyzstan's special services about their repeated involvement in the country's domestic affairs..." the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The U.S. embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek declined to say whether or when the...

BISHKEK/DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A gang of armed men from Kyrgyzstan killed five people on the Central Asian state's border with Tajikistan early on Friday, ransacked two border posts, hijacked a car and seized weapons, officials said. The motive for the attacks was not clear. The mountainous border area is one of the main transit routes for drugs smuggling from Afghanistan but has also in the past been described by governments as a base for Islamist extremists. In a statement,...