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Bearded soccer fans in the Uzbek city of Bukhara say they were not allowed to enter a stadium to watch a match until they shaved off their facial hair.
An Uzbek imam is facing embezzlement charges for allegedly misusing mosque donations to build a chicken coop.
Parents in Uzbekistan have been given an official list of activities their children are not allowed to do during the summer holidays.
A massive mudslide that covered a road in Uzbekistan's eastern region of Namangan has killed five people.
Many shops in Uzbekistan have begun rationing Coca-Cola amid a shortage of the beverage and unseasonably hot temperatures.
A high ranking officer of Uzbekistan's National Security Service has committed suicide, the second case in a few months.
An appeals court in the Swedish town of Sundsval has sentenced an Uzbek citizen to life in prison, increasing his initial sentence of 18 years for an assassination attempt on an imam.
A court in Uzbekistan's eastern region of Jizzax has sentenced five men to prison terms of between 5 1/2 and 12 years on religious extremism, separatism, and sabotage charges.
The leader of a group that sparked an uprising a decade ago in Uzbekistan that ended in massacre and colored Tashkent's relations with the West died some five years ago, sources have told RFE/RL.
A court in Uzbekistan has begun the trial of an ethnic Armenian accused with four others of plotting to carry out "anticonstitutional activities" in Uzbekistan and of being sympathizers of the Islamic State extremist group, among other charges.
Uzbek authorities have canceled a controversial plan to demolish an ancient minaret and replace it with a fountain in the eastern city of Andijon.
A Swedish court has sentenced an Uzbek citizen to 18 years in prison for an assassination attempt on an imam.
An Uzbek suspect in the 2012 assassination attempt on an outspoken emigre cleric living in Sweden has gone on trial.
Germany says it will close its air base in Uzbekistan, shutting the last Western military installation in former Soviet Central Asia.
Farmers in Uzbekistan say they were told to glue cotton back to bolls to impress the visiting prime minister with a fake image of an abundant harvest.
An arrested former top Uzbek security official who oversaw corruption investigations into the activities of presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova has been put under house arrest.
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.
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