Sources: BBC
One person is killed and 162 others are injured in an explosion at a warehouse near the airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 2023-09-28
Millions of people are left without electricity after a major power outage affects Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan's energy ministry reports that the power outage had been triggered by an "energy imbalance" in Kazakhstan's power grid. 2022-01-25
Uzbekistan receives its first shipment of 660,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and distributed through the COVAX initiative. 2021-03-17
Commercial flights have resumed between the Tajikistan capital, Dushanbe, and the Uzbekistan city of Bukhara amid improving ties. 2018-08-6
Uzbekistan Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov is dismissed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who had earlier criticized Azimov for failing to control financiers' activities. He is replaced by former Deputy Finance Minister Jamshed Kuchkarev. 2017-06-6
Voters in Uzbekistan go to the polls for a presidential election, the first since the death of Islam Karimov who governed the country for 25 years. 2016-12-4
A U.S. drone strike kills eight Uzbek people claimed to be linked with al-Qaeda in Pakistan. 2015-01-4
A federal judge in Alabama sentences Ulugbek Kodirov, an Uzbek national, to 15 years in prison for plotting to kill Barack Obama. 2012-07-13
China flies 960 nationals home from Kyrgyzstan; evacuation continues. 2010-06-17
Kyrgyz Central Election Commission accredits Kazakh CEC Chair and his assistant to observe constitutional referendum.2010-06-17