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Internet access to Tajikistan's leading independent news agency Asia Plus remains cut off for a second day.
The European Union office in Dushanbe says a French female diplomat has been ordered by EU officials to leave Tajikistan after she and her husband were accused of assaulting Tajik police officers in a drunken confrontation.
Tajikistan's Association of Internet Service Providers says the cost of accessing the Internet in the Central Asian country is set to increase by four percent starting July 1.
Officials say the refusal of five Tajik citizens jailed in Afghanistan to return home is stalling the return to Afghanistan of nearly 100 Afghans jailed in Tajikistan.
The proposed legislation, proposed in March by President Emomali Rahmon, removes libel and insult from the Criminal Code and places it under the bailiwick of administrative law.
A court in the northern Tajik city of Khujand has handed down lengthy prison sentences to 17 men linked to the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan's anticorruption agency says a lawyer representing jailed former oligarch Nizomkhon Juraev has been arrested on forgery and corruption charges.
The lower chamber of Tajikistan's parliament has approved a bill that would permit visa-free visits by U.S. and European Union citizens, as well as nationals of some countries in Southeast Asia.
Tajikistan's customs service says a foreigner has been arrested after almost 63 kilograms of methamphetamine stimulant was found in his possession at Dushanbe International Airport.
Ex-leaders of Tajikistan's former Popular Front party have announced plans to resurrect the party to help unite the political opposition in the Central Asian nation.
A suspected regional leader of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and two associates have been arrested in southern Khatlon Province, Tajik officials say.
Seven Tajik men have crossed into Afghanistan on the first stage of a planned journey by foot to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform the key Muslim obligation of the hajj.
Tajik authorities said they are investigating the severe beating of a Tajik journalist and political activist.
An outspoken critic of the Uzbek and Tajik governments has reportedly been beaten by unknown assailants near his home in the Tajik town of Qurghon-Teppa.
A European Union delegation led by Belgium's foreign minister has met with Tajik officials in Dushanbe to discuss Tajik and Central Asian regional issues.
Tajikistan’s Supreme Court has banned an Islamist organization, Jamaat Ansarullah, ruling that it is an extremist group.
Six sets of Tajik parents have gone on trial for forcing their underage daughters into marriage.
A prominent scholar in Tajikistan is being criticized after calling for Muslim prayers in the country to be performed in the Tajik language rather than Arabic
Russia and Tajikistan are continuing talks over the future of Russian troops in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon says NATO troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 will affect regional security.
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