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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan At least 75 people were killed and about a thousand other people were injured in ethnic violence that broke out in southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday.”Due to the conflict in the region of Jalalabad and Osh, Tuesday, 977 people were injured and 75 people were killed,” the Kyrgyz Health Ministry was quoted by AFP.

Kyrgyzstan’s interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva trying to enforce the rules in the Central Asian countries since taking over control of various rioting following the termination of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s regime forced the beginning of 2010.Eyewitnesses said that physical conflicts among ethnic groups Kirgis and Uzbeks in Osh has ever broken into the bag main support Bakiyev.(AFP)

The number of victims of last week’s flood that destroyed a village near Kazakh financial hub Almaty has risen to 37, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday.”According to the preliminary data of the Emergencies Ministry, 37 bodies have been recovered already,” Aset Isekeshev told a government meeting. The previous toll was 34.

Eager to show decisive leadership at a time of economic hardship, President Nursultan Nazarbayev has ordered the government to investigate the rupture Friday of a dam, and bring to justice those responsible.In a statement issued after Nazarbayev’s order, the interior ministry said it had detained five officials including the mayor of Kyzyl-Agash, a village which was completely destroyed when the nearby dam burst, flooding hilly pastures north of Almaty.

three suicide bomb blast occurred in the city of Baqouba, Iraq, Wednesday, March 3, 2010, causing at least 30 people dead and injuring 48 people. The explosion took the most casualties in recent weeks in Iraq this occurs an election (the election) to be held on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Elections were held to determine who will control the forces the United States (U.S.) out of Iraq, and help determine Iraq’s ability to overcome sectarian conflict since the U.S. invasion last seven years. U.S. and Iraqi authorities have repeatedly warned that the rebel group were expected to conduct such attacks is to disrupt the election. Police spokesman Diyala provincial capital of these, Captain Ghalib al-Karkhi, say, three explosions occurred and very quick succession in the town located 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.

First, a car bomb exploded targeting a local government office, close to the Iraqi military facility. Within minutes, another suicide bomber drove the vehicle and crashed into the headquarters of the provincial councils. While the third bomber, wearing a vest containing explosives, ride in an ambulance with wounded to hospitals as rescuers and the victims of two previous explosions burst into the hospital. The third explosion in the hospital more casualties than the first two explosions. The police later managed to tame the fourth car bomb which is about 200 meters from the hospital. Baqouba is a city inhabited by groups of Sunni and Shia Muslims. Both the city and the province of Diyala Baqouba is the headquarters of rebel attacks though since the peak in 2006 and 2007, rebel groups in the region to stop an attack today.

BAGHDAD

BAGHDAD

BAGHDAD  A man who was presumed dead in this week’s string of attacks in Baghdad stunned neighbors Wednesday when returned to his toppled home – and then he drew more stares as he cuddled his pet dog that was remarkably unharmed in the blast.”Lots of neighbors thought I was dead,” said Farouq Omar Muhei after his dog, Liza, was carried down to the street and began lapping at a puddle.

The ginger-colored dog was spotted chained to a roof railing and standing on a wall ledge over its collapsed home after Tuesday’s huge blast near Iraq’s Finance Ministry leveled shops and houses. The attack was part of coordinated bombings around Baghdad that claimed at least 127 lives.

Iraqi police and rescue officials said Muhei and his family were among the victims. But he stunned neighbors when he returned with his 14-year-old son, Omar, after being treated for cuts and other injuries. They were the only family members home at the time of the attack and all his family survived.

Only a few portions of the home remained standing – including one section of the roof where Liza was chained. The dog’s water bucket also remained by its side, but was empty when Muhei’s brother, Fuad, climbed over the rubble to unchain the dog and carry it down.

The dog was waiting calmly and even yawned as he approached. But it appeared to be shaking with joy as it was reunited with the 46-year-old Muhei, whose face was laced with cuts and had a bandage on his head. The thirsty Liza then began to lap water from a puddle.

“After we crawled out of the rubble of our home, I said to my son, `The dog is dead,'” said Muhei, who sells candy and small items in the local market. “But my son said, `No, I saw him.’ I came back today to rescue my dog.”

Muhei said he purchased Liza as a puppy six years year in Baghdad’s main pet market. The site was hit by two suicide bombers in February 2008, killing at least 100 people.