
Kyrgyz leader: Up to 2,000 dead
Top news: Kyrgyz interim leader Roza Otunbayeva visited the city of Osh, which has been wracked by ethnic violence this week, vowed to restore order, and said the real death toll from the violence may be ten times larger than the official toll of 191 released by the country's health ministry.
The United Nations also doubled its estimate of the number of refugees who have been forced from their homes to 400,000. The U.N. will begin airlifting aid into Kyrgyzstan this weekend and believes that as many of 1 million people may eventually need aid.
Hundreds of thousands of Uzbek are staying put in squalid refugee camps on the border, fearing a new outbreak of violence if they return home. There is increasing evidence to suggest
Polls: A new survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that President Barack Obama remains popular abroad but has lost popularity in the Muslim world.
The United Nations also doubled its estimate of the number of refugees who have been forced from their homes to 400,000. The U.N. will begin airlifting aid into Kyrgyzstan this weekend and believes that as many of 1 million people may eventually need aid.
Hundreds of thousands of Uzbek are staying put in squalid refugee camps on the border, fearing a new outbreak of violence if they return home. There is increasing evidence to suggest
Polls: A new survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that President Barack Obama remains popular abroad but has lost popularity in the Muslim world.
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