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Uzbekistan's government has banned people under the age of 18 from attending regular Friday Prayers or special prayer services at mosques across the country, including the Eid al-Adha celebrations on September 24 that mark the end of the hajj.
TeliaSonera says it plans to exit six markets in the former Soviet Union in which the Scandinavian telecoms giant has been hit hard by bribery investigations, troubles repatriating cash, and difficulties identifying who, exactly, its local partners are.
For Uzbekistan's government, cotton is king, and that means at harvest time everything else takes a backseat -- including matrimony, in some cases.
A Swedish prosecutor says an Uzbek suspect in the 2012 assassination attempt on an outspoken emigre cleric was allowed into the European Union on the basis of a letter of support from Uzbekistan's leading soccer club ahead of the attack.
A bomb has exploded near the Tokhtaboy Mosque in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where a controversial imam was once the chief cleric.
A Swedish prosecutor says there is abundant evidence suggesting that Uzbek authorities were behind a February 2012 assassination attempt against an outspoken emigre cleric who was critical of President Islam Karimov's government.
Uzbekistan's Education Ministry has eliminated political science from university curriculums, saying it doesn't fit the domestic developmental model.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov has ruled out the establishment of any foreign military base in his country.
An Uzbek suspect in the 2012 shooting of an outspoken emigrant cleric who was critical of the Uzbek regime has been extradited to Sweden.
Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested nine more individuals with current or former business ties to Gulnara Karimova, further widening the pall of corruption around the disgraced eldest daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
The organizer of an outdoor concert marred by the fatal collapse of a bridge railing is under investigation, sources in Uzbekistan say.
At least 15 people have been reported killed in the western Uzbek city of Urgench after a bridge railing collapsed during a concert, sending spectators into the lake below, Uzbek officials say.
Many people are feared dead in the western Uzbek city of Urgench after a fence on a bridge collapsed during a concert.
The Russian government has agreed to send a debt agreement with Uzbekistan to the State Duma for ratification.
A former top Uzbek security official, who in his position oversaw corruption investigations into the activities of presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova, has been arrested.
The U.S. Justice Department has won permission to seize $300 million allegedly linked to a Russian-Uzbek bribery scandal involving a close relative of Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Four Uzbeks who sought refugee status in Russia have gone missing after their release in Moscow, prompting concerns that they have been secretly repatriated despite a European court ruling barring their extradition
An Uzbek Central Bank official has complained to Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev that the country suffers from a shortage of traceable funds.
A number of Uzbek officials who played a role in the downfall of the president's daughter Gulnara Karimova have themselves fallen from grace.
The Kremlin says Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov has indicated that he will visit Moscow on May 9 to take part in events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
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