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Uzbekistan's president has told overweight police officers to shape up.
An explosion at a clinic in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Andijon has injured 22 people.
Three former executives of telecom giant Telia have been acquitted in Sweden in a high-profile bribery case involving the eldest daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has appointed new heads of the state security agency and the Defense Ministry after the previous security chief resigned on health grounds, the president's office has said.
Mirodil Jalolov, the jailed former CEO of the Uzbek firm Zeromax, has been released from a detention center in Tashkent after spending more than eight years in custody without a trial.
Sources close to the Uzbek government have told RFE/RL that a corruption trial has begun in Tashkent against the country's former prosecutor-general, Rashidjon Qodirov.
Police in one district of corruption-plagued Uzbekistan have been forced to swear on the Koran that they will be good cops.
Relatives of Kadyrjan Batyrov, a fugitive leader of the ethnic Uzbek community in Kyrgyzstan, say Batyrov has died in Ukraine after eight years of self-imposed exile.
A policeman in Uzbekistan has been sacked after slapping and kicking a local baker in his shop. It was another example of official misconduct caught on camera in the Central Asian country.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has fired Deputy Prime Minister Zoyyir Mirzaev after an RFE/RL report revealed he had humiliated farmers on a recent agricultural inspection trip.
Dozens of Uzbek villagers have been left homeless after their homes were bulldozed to make way for Shavkat Mirziyoev's presidential palace and a bigger road leading to it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev have launched the construction of a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan's western region of Navoiy, which Moscow estimates will cost $11 billion.
A new statue of the late Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, was unveiled in Moscow on October 18 -- amid a petition drive to have it immediately pulled down.
Uzbek writer Mamadali Mahmudov spent much of his life opposing Soviet rule only to find himself imprisoned by authoritarian leader Islam Karimov in an independent Uzbekistan. After being subjected to torture and 17 years behind bars, he speaks proudly of his life.
A prominent Uzbek human rights activist and outspoken critic of late President Islam Karimov has returned to Uzbekistan after spending more than a decade in exile in France.
Underground rapper Young Zapik's song Beautiful Girl In Hijab has gone viral in Uzbekistan, in opposition to the government's ban on women wearing Islamic head scarves in public.
The imam of a Tashkent mosque has been relieved of his duties just hours after he posted a video appeal to the Uzbek president calling for greater religious freedom.
Three former executives from telecom giant Telia have gone on trial in Sweden in a high-profile bribery case involving the eldest daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
President Shavkat Mirziyoev says Uzbekistan is eager to join the Council of Cooperation of the Turkic-Speaking Countries, also known as the Turkic Council.
Just ahead of the second anniversary of Islam Karimov's death, Uzbek state TV channels have stopped mentioning the late president's name as his image disappears and cult of personality diminishes.
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