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...This is leading to a new face of hunger in the world.' JOSETTE SHEERAN, head of the U.N. World Food Program, warning that the global rise in basic-food prices could continue until 2010. Food riots have broken out in Morocco, Yemen, Mexico, Senegal and Uzbekistan...
JOSETTE SHEERAN, head of the U.N. World Food Programme, warning that the global rise in basic food prices could continue until 2010. Food riots have broken out in Morocco, Yemen, Mexico, Senegal and Uzbekistan...
...Gazprom had also been reselling cheaper gas from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at higher prices to Europe. But Turkmenistan has raised its prices to Russia by 30%, and intends to add a further 20% raise in the second quarter of 2008. Uzbekistan has done the same. And Turkmenistan's plans to supply China will also break Gazprom's monopoly, via its control of pipelines, on delivering Central Asian gas exports...
...ISAF and the U.N. Assistance Mission agree that the Taliban have little natural support among the people. But they do have money from the opium trade - worth around $600 million a year in Uruzgan alone. And they have growing help from foreigners - Muslims from Pakistan, Chechnya, and Uzbekistan. "In the beginning it was just a lot of local fighters who were forced or paid to fight," says Groen. "They would fire the odd round to show they were participating." But these days the ISAF faces "a different Taliban that is obviously better trained, better coordinated and more proficient with their...
...piece. “The purpose of school is to experiment.”In the final two years of its residency at Harvard, the Silk Road Project plans to continue to expand the breadth of its music. “We are hoping to bring a composer from Uzbekistan next year,” said Freid. “Each time we come, we’re experimenting with different kinds of residencies.”But the future remains uncertain. As Freid put it, “We haven’t figured out our fifth year...