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One person was killed and at least 30 others were injured as heavy winds swept across Uzbekistan's southwestern region of Bukhara, felling large numbers of trees.
Officials of the Tashkent City Education Department may be behind hundreds of electronic messages sent by local teachers praising efforts by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev and several state bodies to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the Central Asian nation.
Uzbek businessman Gafur Rakhimov has failed in his bid to have his name removed from a U.S. sanctions list for alleged links to international heroin trafficking.
Uzbekistan's central bank has devalued its national currency, the som, against the U.S. dollar and euro for the second time in three days.
Two Uzbek comedians who perform on stage as women have filed a libel lawsuit against prominent singer Yulduz Usmonova after she called them "gays" in a video statement on YouTube.
Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned elder daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has received an additional 13 years and four months in prison in the latest court ruling against her and her former associates.
Uzbekistan’s Justice Ministry has registered a group protecting inmates' rights and a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization that focuses on poverty relief.
An Uzbek governor wants to plant thousands of trees and turn his region into a green city – but the catch is that the people have to pay for the seedlings from their own pockets.
President Shavkat Mirziyoev has ordered the abolition of a decades-old state quota system for cotton crops, a major change that rights activists said should help end the Uzbekistan's longtime problem with forced labor.
A retried Uzbek Army officer, Colonel Vladimir Kaloshin, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on high treason charges in a case that was tried behind closed doors.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has signed a decree allowing people who are not registered as living in Tashkent to purchase real estate in the capital as of April 1.
Legendary Uzbek gymnast Oksana Chusovitina will compete in her eighth and final Olympic Games this summer in Tokyo. Chusovitina, who is now 44 years old, has competed for four different teams, winning a gold in 1992.
Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has offered to return $686 million to the country's treasury in exchange for closure in the latest court case against her.
Two top former Uzbek officials have been convicted of corruption in a case involving more than a dozen defendants from the public sector.
A Kyrgyz citizen who spent 13 months in Russian custody over a deadly explosion that brought down part of an apartment building and killed at least 39 people in the Urals city of Magnitogorsk on New Year's Eve in 2018 says he was tortured while under arrest and will seek justice.
Dozens of followers of a renegade Tajik colonel who fled to Uzbekistan in the late 1990s after fighting government forces in the Tajik Civil War are now seeking legal residence, afraid to return home to Tajikistan.
An Uzbek woman attempted to self-immolate to protest plans by local authorities to demolish her house.
Uzbekistan's Interior Ministry says it has detained 21 suspected supporters of a banned Islamist militant group that has been functioning in Syria.
Residents of a southern Uzbek village scuffled with local officials who planned to demolish homes that were allegedly built without proper permission. Uzbek authorities say there are thousands of cases of illegal building enabled by corrupt former officials.
Clashes between Uzbek police and residents of a village some 650 kilometers southwest of the capital Tashkent erupted in which three people were injured, including two police officers, after local inhabitants were told their homes would be demolished.
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