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Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have long depended on the Karakum Desert for their livelihoods, cultivating every square metre they can...
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Two men who escaped one of the world’s most secretive and repressive states have told AFP how they were tortured, beaten and raped in...
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People go to the “Gateway to Hell” gas crater in the middle of the Turkmenistan desert expecting an angry cauldron but are now coming...
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Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed the “Gateway...
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Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate...
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“We know about Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. But we can’t access them — everything here is blocked,” said Byashim Ishanguliyev, a fruit seller in...
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On the Caspian Sea coast in Turkmenistan — one of the world’s most secretive states — Batyr Yusupov can no longer ferry his passengers...
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Iraq on Friday signed an initial agreement with Turkmenistan to import much-needed gas for the country’s insufficient and dilapidated electricity grid, officials said. They...
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Turkmenistan’s authoritarian leader launched an “unprecedented” anti-smoking crusade Thursday, ordering the Central Asia country to rid itself completely of tobacco within two years. President...
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Parliamentary polls were underway on Sunday in Turkmenistan, a gas-rich nation ruled by one family for nearly two decades that does not tolerate political...