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Mamadali Mahmudov, a renowned Uzbek writer once seen as a potential rival to the country's entrenched president, has been released after spending 14 years in penal custody.
The editor in chief of the Uzbek language "Ush sadosi" (Voice of Osh) newspaper in southern Kyrgyzstan has been placed under house arrest in connection with the case of a missing person.
The eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has attacked the country's deputy prime minister and finance minister on Twitter again.
At least 20 residents of the town of Shark in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh region have protested the arrest of a local journalist.
An Uzbek senator is denying reports that President Islam Karimov is having health problems.
Jailed Uzbek writer Mamadali Makhmudov is facing an extension of his prison term after serving a 14-year prison sentence that ended last month.
The websites of Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry, the State Property Control Committee, the Air Bishkek airline, and the official Bishkek online city guide on February 20 unexpectedly carried a message saying, "We are against racism!"
Thousands of Uzbeks have been stuck along the Uzbek-Kazakh border since February 17 as border guards introduced new regulations for labor migrants heading to Kazakhstan.
The value of Uzbekistan's national currency has dropped dramatically on the country's black market following a ban on the sale of foreign banknotes.
The website of Uzbekistan's National Television and Radio Company has been hacked.
Uzbek trucks carrying food and gasoline have crossed the Kyrgyz border and reached Uzbekistan's Sokh and Shokhimardon districts.
All border posts around Uzbekistan's Sokh exclave inside Kyrgyzstan remain closed.
Uzbekistan has banned the road transportation of liquefied natural gas through its territory, a decision the government says is intended to protect public safety and the environment.
The Uzbek Senate has adopted a resolution on amnesty that is expected to go into effect on December 6.
The European Union's foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton is now in Uzbekistan, the second stop of a tour of Central Asia.
The director of a California-based labor-rights group says more than 100 international clothing makers are boycotting Uzbek cotton over the use of forced child labor.
Uzbek authorities have told a prominent artist that he is prohibited from traveling abroad or leaving the Tashkent region where he lives.
Two Uzbek nationals arrested by Swiss authorities in July for their alleged role in a high-profile money-laundering case have been released on bail.
A website associated with the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) announced on August 4 that its leader Osman Adil was killed in a drone attack in Pakistan.
On August 1, more than 400,000 young Uzbeks will file into classrooms for nationwide university entrance exams. But with applications outnumbering university spots 8-to-1, many ambitious students are setting aside their books and reaching into their pockets -- offering thousands of dollars to organized cheating rings who have perfected the art of delivering perfect scores.
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