Topic - Uzbekistan

• Roddick ousted from SAP Open by Istomin

  Andy Roddick's return from injury lasted all of two matches.

• Harrison moves into semifinals at SAP Open

  Ryan Harrison moved closer to his first ATP Tour title Friday, advancing to the SAP Open semifinals with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Bulgaria's Dimitar Kutrovsky.

• Roddick ousted from SAP Open by Istomin

  Andy Roddick's return from injury lasted all of two matches, losing to Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the SAP Open on Friday night.

• Kyrgyzstan has energy crisis during very cold winter

  Kyrgyzstan's Soviet-era electrical system has been pushed beyond its limits in recent weeks, as temperatures in this Central Asian nation have hit record lows of minus-13 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Analysts: Radical Uzbek group recruiting in Europe

  German prosecutors last week charged an Afghani man with recruiting for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan — a case that underscores how the Central Asian radical group has become an international jihadist movement with links to the Taliban and al Qaeda.

• Ex-Soviet states aid U.S. transit

  The United States is relying increasingly on three transit routes snaking through Central Asia, Russia and the Caucuses to ship nonmilitary supplies and fuel into Afghanistan as the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Pakistan closes off border crossings, according to a Senate report obtained by the Associated Press.

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  Human rights report alleges torture, abuse in Uzbekistan

  Human rights officials expressed concern this week over the widespread use of torture in Uzbek prisons and called on Western governments to impose sanctions on and end dealings with the former Soviet republic's autocratic regime.

• U.S. rerouting some Afghan war supplies

  The U.S. military is working around a Pakistani government border blockade by shipping small amounts of some supplies for the Afghan war through other countries, U.S. defense officials said.

• Measles outbreaks on the rise across Europe

  After years of decline, measles is on the rise in Europe, according to a new report released Thursday.

• Historic rivalry as Japan heads to NKorea

  There are no noisemakers and no one does the wave, yet football fans in North Korea are passionate in their own way about the team that has become a symbol of national pride.

• Historic rivalry as Japan heads to North Korea

  There are no hot dogs, peanuts or plastic cups of beer for sale when the North Korean soccer team takes the field. There are no noisemakers, and no one does the wave.

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  PANTUCCI & PETERSEN: Uncertain times for Afghan neighbors

  There is a sense in Kyrgyzstan that the United States is on its way out. It is a worrying prospect when one considers that almost a fifth of its gross domestic product comes from the U.S. "transit hub" for Afghanistan at Manas Airport, outside the capital, Bishkek. Against this backdrop, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a visit to neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan last month to highlight how America has a strategy for the region, post-Afghanistan.

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  Kyrgyz election winner says U.S. base poses risk

  Kyrgyzstan's president-elect said Tuesday that the U.S. air base at Manas needs to close by 2014 because its presence on Kyrgyz soil puts this former Soviet nation at risk of retaliatory strikes from those in conflict with the United States.

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  Kyrgyz voters have little hope for change in Sunday election

  Kyrgyz voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president in what is seen as a landmark election in the region but what locals dismiss as not bringing real change to the country following last year's uprising.

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  Key general: Iraq pullout plan a 'disaster'

  President Obama's decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an "absolute disaster" that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian "strangling," said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war.

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