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Media reports in Uzbekistan say Rustam Azimov, a long-influential official who had been seen as a possible successor to the late President Islam Karimov, has been dismissed from the post of deputy prime minister.
Long-serving Uzbek Central Bank chief Fayzulla Mullajanov has died at the age of 67, relatives said.
Three suspects have been arrested in Uzbekistan's eastern Andijon region after a bad batch of strawberry ice cream put nearly 200 people in the hospital, local police sources have told RFE/RL.
A bad batch of strawberry ice cream has put nearly 200 people in the hospital in Uzbekistan's eastern Andijon region, authorities and residents said.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev has signed a resolution to name Tashkent International airport after the Central Asian nation's first president, Islam Karimov.
A relative of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov has been moved from jail to house arrest in Kyiv, where he was detained in January.
Relatives of the Uzbek man that Swedish authorities accuse of ramming a truck into a crowd in Stockholm earlier this month say that his brother has been arrested in Uzbekistan.
State-run media in Uzbekistan say President Shavkat Mirziyaev has signed a law that softens punishment for some crimes and cuts the length of time that suspects can be held before charge or trial.
A schoolteacher in Uzbekistan has been dismissed after a video that appears to show her threatening and striking pupils was posted on the Internet, an education official says.
The president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was set to discuss "ways of increasing EBRD engagement with Uzbekistan" in a three-day visit to the Central Asian nation.
A leading Uzbek human rights campaigner has released a video from a Tashkent psychiatric facility in which she describes being abducted by police and hospitalized against her will.
Uzbek authorities have arrested several nursery-school employees after videos emerged showing child abuse and other violations in schools in the southern Surkhondaryo Province.
An Uzbek court has upheld an additional five-year prison sentence for Agzam Farmonov, a long-jailed human rights activist whose 2006 extortion conviction was widely seen as politically motivated.
An official in Uzbekistan says that an explosion at a chemical plant in the city of Ferghana killed six people.
An Uzbek journalist widely seen as a political prisoner has walked free after nearly 18 years behind bars.
Uzbekistan's Central Bank is expected to introduce a new 10,000-som banknote "in the nearest future" to make everyday cash payments easier.
A prominent Uzbek imam who was gravely injured in an assassination attempt in Sweden in 2012 has recovered the ability to speak, his son says.
A pioneering Uzbek banker who was widely seen as a political prisoner has been released after serving his 19-year sentence.
Imprisoned Uzbek rights activist and journalist Dilmurod Saidov is being kept behind bars despite a recent amnesty in the Central Asian country.
Uzbekistan plans to spend $2.6 billion over five years to develop the area around the shrunken Aral Sea, which is stricken by severe ecological problems.
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