Interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva has been sworn in as president of the troubled republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Mrs Otunbayeva took power after bloody street riots in April which ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
The former foreign minister becomes the first female president of an ex-communist Central Asian country.
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