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Heading into the third international break of the 2024-25 football schedule, 18 member nations of the AFC are fighting it out for six automatic spots at the 2026 World Cup. Battling through the first and second rounds of qualifying, the remaining countries find themselves in three groups of six, with the top two in each […]
Komil Allamjonov, the former deputy head of the Presidential Administration and previously head of the Information Policy Department in Uzbekistan’s Presidential Administration, survived an assassination attempt on October 26. According to Uzbekistan’s General Prosecutor’s Office, two unidentified individuals fired multiple gunshots at a Range Rover driven by a civilian identified only as S.S. (the prosecutor’s […]
A small mountainous jewel of a country wedged between Afghanistan and China, Tajikistan has changed since I first visited it as a backpacker in 2009. Back then, landing in the diminutive capital, Dushanbe, at 3am, a permit for trekking and letter of invitation in hand, I was met by a virtually deserted airport and a […]