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Kazakh officials have hinted at ending their relationship with a company that oversees a heavy polluting steelworks and a network of coal mines where scores of people have died in accidents. But they don't seem to have a replacement for an investor that entered the Kazakh market almost 30 years ago.
Two years after re-instituting the Constitutional Court, Japarov has approved a law that opens its decisions to presidential interference.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov is set to gain new powers to interfere in the rulings of the Constitutional Court in cases where national morals are at stake. But definitions are vague and critics see another blow to the rule of law.
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The International Assistance Mission (IAM) in Afghanistan says it is "working together with the UN and ACBAR, the coordinating body for NGOs in Afghanistan," to seek the release of 18 staff members it says were detained by the Taliban without explanation from its Ghor Province premises.