News Digest
US SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (8/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A US soldier and at least 16 militants have been killed in an attack on a US and Afghan patrol in southern Zabul province, the US military says. In a separate incident, two other US soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb in Ghazni province. Also in Ghazni province, suspected Taleban militants killed a doctor and a bystander in an attack on a clinic.AZERBAIJAN POSTS HIGHEST CIS INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN H1
By empty (8/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan posted the highest industrial growth, up 20.1% year-on-year, among CIS nations in January-June, the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee said. Growth was 10.OSCE SLAMS VIOLENT ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION IN AZERBAIJAN
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Europe\'s top election-monitoring body, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on Tuesday condemned the violent attacks directed at the opposition in Azerbaijan. \"We strongly condemn these acts of violence. It is unacceptable that groups of private citizens decided to take justice into their own hands,\" the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Maurizio Pavesi said.OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER CALLS YOUTH MOVEMENT CHAIR’S ARREST SUBVERSION
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Popular Front Party (PFPA) chairman Ali Karimli has refuted reports on the Yeni Fikir (New Thought) youth movement chairman’s Ruslan Bashirli’s cooperation with the Armenian secret service. The reports and relevant TV broadcasts are another subversion of Azerbaijani secret service, Karimli told a news conference. The Prosecutor’s Office issued a report on Thursday saying that while visiting Tbilisi, Bashirli plotted with the Armenian secret service to stage a coup and provoke stand-off in Azerbaijan.Visit also
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