UZBEKS REJECT RUMORS OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

Uzbek officialson July 20 dismissed as exaggerations media reports that therehad been an assassination attempt against Uzbek president IslamKarimov, Interfax reported. Those reports surfaced when a stone,or some other object, bounced off the window of Karimov’s limousineon July 19.

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