AP - Thousands of protesters demonstrated Saturday in the capital Bishkek to demand that the government undertake promised constitutional reforms.

AP - Gunmen attacked border posts on both sides of the frontier between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan early Friday, killing five people and injuring two, Kyrgyz and Tajik officials said.

AP - A billboard with a smiling President Islam Karimov meeting a worker in a hard hat decorates the road leading to the central square of this Uzbek city, where activists say government forces gunned down hundreds of protesters a year ago.

AP - A gunman in a passing car shot and killed a reputed crime boss Wednesday night who was recently elected to Kyrgyzstan's parliament, the Interior Ministry said.

AP - Thousands of protesters demanding reform gathered in the main square in Kyrgyzstan's capital on Saturday but dispersed peacefully after the president and prime minister addressed the crowd.

AP - Investigators detained the daughter of ousted Kyrgyz leader Askar Akayev for questioning Monday as a witness in criminal inquiries against her husband and brother, the prosecutor general's Office said.

AP - The U.S. Embassy on Friday condemned an attack this week that wounded a leading Kyrgyz pro-democracy activist who had campaigned against an alleged crime boss, and it said the government must uphold the rule of law.

AP - A leading pro-democracy activist was shot and slightly wounded Wednesday in an apparent assassination attempt, the latest sign of persistent tension in Kyrgyzstan a year after the ouster of the longtime president.

AP - Kyrgyzstan's president effectively ended the use of the death penalty in this ex-Soviet republic by extending a moratorium on the punishment until its planned abolition, a presidential spokesman said Friday.