BISHKEK (Reuters) - An emotional Kyrgyzstan president on Tuesday said "mob rule" had wrecked the sale of a gold field, blaming local clans for tripling the asking price and scaring off investors. Full story
Search teams on Saturday found the bodies of two American crew members near where their military refueling plane crashed in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, while the third crew member was still missing, the emergencies minister of the Central Asian nation said. Full story
BISHKEK (Reuters) - A U.S. military refueling plane exploded in mid air and crashed in southern Kyrgyzstan on Friday, the Central Asian country's Emergencies Ministry said. Full story
An American military tanker refueling plane has crashed in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan. NBCNews.com’s Dara Brown reports.
KUMTOR, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - In an impoverished young nation with a habit of overthrowing its rulers, the future now balances on a mountain of gold at the top of the world, where the air is so thin collapsing visitors may be rushed to a pressure chamber for oxygen. Full story
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan expects to reach a final agreement on the sale of its natural gas network to Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom <GAZP.MM> by the end of this month, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev said on Tuesday. Full story
Wreckage from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft is strewn across a field near the village of Chaldovar, about 100 miles west of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Friday. The emergencies ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a US military plane has crashed in the country. Kyrgyzstan hosts a US base that is u
A view shows the wreckage of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker plane near the site of its crash near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, May 3, 2013. A U.S. military refuelling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in mid air and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Friday when its cargo of fuel ignited, the Centr
A horse rider looks at the wreckage of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker plane near the site of its crash near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, May 3, 2013. A U.S. military refuelling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in mid air and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Friday when its cargo of fuel ignited,
An Interior Ministry officer questions local residents near the wreckage of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker plane near the site of its crash near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, May 3, 2013.A U.S. military refuelling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in mid air and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Fr
