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Uzbekistan's top tax and customs agencies are being searched, documents seized, and employees questioned in a large-scale operation in Tashkent, officials say.
Failed Uzbek asylum seeker Rakhmat Akilov, accused of carrying out a deadly truck attack in Stockholm last April, had contact with high-ranking Islamic State militants, according to an investigation by RFE/RL's Uzbek and Tajik services with Swedish news agency TT.
An Uzbek journalist and rights activist says he was tortured in prison and is looking forward to getting on with his life after nine years behind bars.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has dismissed powerful longtime National Security Service (MXX) chief Rustam Inoyatov, removing an influential insider who had been seen as his rival, two senior government officials have told RFE/RL.
Uzbekistan's former interior minister has been detained, according to two law enforcement officials in the Central Asian state, though it remains unclear on what charges.
Media reports in Uzbekistan say authorities are investigating how 16 sewing needles got inside the body of an 11-month-old boy in the eastern region of Ferghana.
Uzbekistan's security services have detained two people for allegedly recruiting members for foreign militant groups.
One miner was reported dead and dozens were feared trapped on January 18 after a partial collapse at an abandoned gold mine in Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan plans to build numerous small mosques along roads and streets across the Central Asian country of 30 million.
The authorities have ordered mosques in central Uzbekistan to donate money for New Year's street decorations.
New Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov is on an official visit to neighboring Uzbekistan.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has signed a decree ordering what state media outlets called the first mass pardoning of convicts in the Central Asian country's history.
Murod Juraev, a prominent Uzbek opposition figure who was released in 2015 after more than 21 years in prison, has died aged 65.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree emphasizing that evidence obtained under torture is inadmissible in the Central Asian country's courts.
An Afghan Kam Air passenger jet landed at Tashkent International Airport on November 29 after making the first-ever direct commercial flight from Kabul to Uzbekistan's capital.
State media reports in Uzbekistan say President Shavkat Mirziyoev has reshuffled the cabinet, replacing long-serving ministers of economy and trade.
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