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  • Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)

    Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home

    Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don't have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold responsible for days of shootings, arson and sexual assaults.


  • Ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz jointly dismantle a street barricade on the border of Uzbek district in the southern city of Osh, Saturday, June 19, 2010. Some 4,500 refugees have returned to Kyrgyzstan from neighboring Uzbekistan in the past few days, the Kyrgyz Border Service said in its press release on Saturday, according to reports by Itar-Tass. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

    U.S. envoy urges action on Kyrgyz riots

    A top U.S. envoy called Saturday for an independent investigation into the violence that has devastated southern Kyrgyzstan, as amateur video emerged of unarmed Uzbeks gathering to defend their town during the attacks.


  • Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Kyrgyz leader says 2,000 dead in clashes

    Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south — many times her government's official estimate — as she made her first visit to a riot-hit city since the unrest erupted.


  • Illustration: Jones Act by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    MURDOCK: Keeping up with the Jones Act

    As a self-proclaimed "citizen of the world," President Obama should have welcomed rather than spurned international assistance to prevent BP's underwater oil geyser from wrecking the Gulf Coast. But spurn, he did. Mr. Obama's failure to waive the Jones Act still maintains a sea wall that blocks potentially helpful foreign ships from this tear-inducing mess.


  • Ethnic Uzbek men push a truck as they build a barricade in the Uzbek district in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a refugee crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful people without enough food and water in grim camps along the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

    U.N.: 400,000 now uprooted by Kyrgyzstan unrest

    Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border.


  • In this Jan. 8, 1951, file photo, President Harry S. Truman delivers his State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is hosting the release Wednesday, June 16, 2010, of the largest amount of intelligence documents on the Korean War, which began 60 years ago. The release includes more than 1,300 documents on intelligence from 1947 to 1954. More than half of the documents have never been made public, or are being re-released with new information. (AP Photo/File)

    CIA papers show agency struggled in Korean War

    The young CIA was badly organized and the American military was ill-prepared to cope with the maneuvers of Communist forces during the Korean War, according to intelligence documents released six decades after the conflict began.


  • World Scene

    The pope met Thursday with the head of the Legionaries of Christ before an expected announcement about who will take charge of the conservative order scarred by revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one child.


  • Kyrgyz soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons at a check point on the Uzbek border side on the outskirts of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over the Kyrgyz city of Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots. The violence has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Kyrgyz army tries to get control in riot-hit south

    Kyrgyzstan's weak military attempted Wednesday to regain control of the city of Osh, a major transit point for Afghan heroin and the epicenter of ethnic violence that has driven much of the Uzbek population from the country's poor, rural south.


  • Demonstrating against Israel's closure of Gaza, Palestinians, some with national flags, stage a weekly protest near the Israeli border (background) in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

    Israelis make no decision on ending Gaza blockade

    Israel's Security Cabinet has ended its session without a decision on easing the blockade of Gaza, a participant said Wednesday.


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