A historic border agreement signed by Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan looks like the basis for growing cooperation between the two countries. But some in Kyrgyzstan have reservations about agreements struck with a larger, more powerful neighbor that was not always so friendly.
A court in the southwestern Uzbek city of Bukhara has handed sentences to 22 people -- including lawyer and journalist Dauletmurat Tajimuratov -- for taking part in unprecedented anti-government protests in the autonomous Karakalpakstan region last year.
A group of young Afghan women have arrived in Central Asia to study at local universities on European Union-funded scholarships. But with the hard-line Taliban in power back home, the students' future is unclear.
An explosion in a residential building in Uzbekistan's autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan has killed at least five people.
Residents of Russia sent money to accounts in Central Asian and the Caucasus at the greatest rate in more than a decade as hundreds of thousands of people fled the country following its invasion of Ukraine, the RBC news agency reported.
More than 20 bilateral documents have been signed during talks between Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov in Bishkek.
A U.S. jury on January 26 convicted an Uzbek man who used a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path in 2017 on murder and terrorism charges in the first federal death-penalty trial of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has arrived in Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, for a two-day official visit.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has cut the staff of the government and state entities by 24 percent.
The World Health Organization has called for "immediate and concerted action" to protect children from contaminated medicines after a spate of child deaths linked to cough syrups last year.
The coldest winter in at least 15 years has rocked several of Central Asia's largest cities, even costing the mayor of Uzbekistan's capital his job.
The Turkmen parliament's two years as a bicameral body are set to end after de facto leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov called for one house to be disbanded and another to be turned into an all-dominating council. It's a familiar pattern in the region.
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