By empty (10/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A Kyrgyz citizen found in the courtyard of a Moscow school on Saturday following an apparent beating, has died of his injuries, a source in Moscow law enforcement services told Interfax on Sunday. \"The incident was reported by a Kyrgyz man who works as janitor at the Avrora business park. He complained that his son, 23, had been beaten up by unidentified assailants and that he found him lying in a school courtyard.

By empty (10/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Two Canadian soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan, while a governor escaped an assassination attempt and officials reported 12 more deaths in Taliban-linked violence. The soldiers, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed on Saturday in the flashpoint province of Kandahar when their unit was ambushed, the Canadian defence ministry announced. Officials in Afghanistan said three other troops had been wounded when they were attacked by rocket propelled grenades and small arms.

By empty (10/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey have reached an agreement on key issues concerning the railway route from Kare (Turkey) to Baku via Akhalkalalki (Georgia) and Tbilisi (Georgia). “In the course of trilateral talks held in Baku yesterday, the drafts of three important documents were considered: a framework agreement on the project, the Georgian side’s obligations to allot land for the construction of the railway road, and a credit agreement between Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, and on the whole an understanding was reached,” Azerbaijani Transport Minister Ziya Mamedov told journalists on Saturday. The three countries will finalise the document within a month and resubmit them.