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Two officials in Uzbekistan say dozens of managers at industrial facilities who are allegedly associated with President Islam Karimov's embattled daughter, Gulnara Karimova, have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
Uzbek media reports say a Tashkent police officer who struck and killed two people with a car has been released from prison after serving only six months of his seven-year sentence.
More than 3,000 Uzbek military officers and cadets will receive education in Russia next year.
Authorities in Uzbekistan say dozens of paintings at the Tashkent State Arts Museum have been sold off and replaced by fakes.
Reports from Turkey say a prominent Uzbek imam -- a critic of Uzbekistan’s government who was considered a radical Islamist -- has been shot dead in Istanbul.
Uzbekistan has banned the import, sale and use of pilotless drone aircraft, citing air safety and security concerns.
Russian mobile phone operator MTS has resumed operations in Uzbekistan, more than two years after being forced out in a dispute with Uzbek authorities.
Uzbekistan is allowing foreigners to hunt animals, including rare and endangered species, in exchange for cash.
Relatives of an Uzbek university student who died at a compulsory cotton picking site have filed a lawsuit with regional prosecutor's office.
Uzbek authorities have barred the wife and a son of exiled opposition leader Bahodir Choriev from entering the country.
Prices for electricity, natural gas, heating, and water are due to rise in Uzbekistan beginning on October 1.
A spokesman for Gulnara Karimova says the eldest daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov is prepared to face a fair trial but won't get one in Uzbekistan.
Relatives say security forces severely beat a member of a banned Islamic group while arresting him in southern Kyrgyzstan.
The compulsory cotton harvest campaign has started in Uzbekistan.
Uzbek police have questioned dozens of people in an attempt to discover who hung the black flag of the Islamic State militant group from a bridge in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.
A gasoline shortage in Uzbekistan has led to the closure of filling stations across the country and long lines at those still selling gas at the state-fixed price of 2,000 soms ($0.85) per liter.
Uzbekistan is redeeming government bonds issued when the country was just stepping out on its own. But on seeing the payoff, investors are feeling like the government walked all over them.
Uzbek authorities suspended Internet and messaging services across the country on August 1 to prevent cheating at university entrance exams.
Russia's cement-producing giant Eurocement is facing the loss of its facility in Uzbekistan in a nationalization drive by the Central Asian country.
An Uzbek human rights group says that six people have been sentenced to long prison terms for being members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) as part of a large ongoing trial of some 66 suspects accused of terrorism.
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