Sources: BBC
Uzbeks vote for a president following the approval of the constitutional referendum which reset term limits, allowing incumbent president Shavkat Mirziyoyev to serve two more seven-year terms. 2023-07-9
State security police in Uzbekistan arrest four people over the deaths of 19 children who consumed a cough syrup product manufactured by Indian drug manufacturer Marion Biotech last week. 2023-01-6
Uzbekistan orders companies in Tashkent to do remote working and makes protective masks as an effort to contain the coronavirus. 2020-03-22
Twenty gunmen open fire around a border checkpoint between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, killing a border guard and a policeman. Fifteen assailants are killed and five others captured. 2019-11-6
SAPO arrests three in the greater Stockholm area suspected of plotting a terror attack. SAPO says the case has an international connection; local media reports one of the detainees is an Uzbekistani citizen. 2018-04-30
The documents include names of individuals and companies such as that of United States businessman and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, United Kingdom monarch Elizabeth II, Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Russian-Uzbek business magnate Alisher Usmanov, the social media companies Twitter and Facebook, and pop stars Bono and Madonna. 2017-11-5
The United States is reportedly blocking a $400 million plan by South Korea to sell KAI T-50 Golden Eagle trainer jets, co-developed in 2006 with Lockheed Martin, to Uzbekistan, according to "The Korea Times". The aircraft uses Lockheed Martin technologies -- including avionics -- and as such requires permission under the U.S. Arms Export Control Act for its sale to other countries. 2015-10-26
A U.S. drone strike kills eight Uzbek people claimed to be linked with al-Qaeda in Pakistan. 2015-01-4
Minority Uzbeks accuse the majority Kyrgyz of carrying out genocide in the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. 2010-06-14
Zhalalidin Salakhuddinov, the leader of the Uzbek National Center, claims that 200 Uzbeks have died in the fighting. 2010-06-14