Uzbekistan will update its defense and security documents to address new challenges, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced at an expanded meeting of the Security Council dedicated to strengthening the country's military security and defense on Tuesday.

At the plenary session of the Legislative Chamber today, the MPs unanimously passed the resolution abolishing the Samarkand district and expanding the territory of Samarkand city, the press service of the lower house said.

Issuance of environmental stickers for vehicles started as part of Eco-friendly Transport system. During the phase I it will be voluntary. Stickers in one of three colors, depending on the environmental category (green for Clean, yellow for Medium, and red for Harmful), will be issued free of charge and have an indefinite timeline. Stickers will be issued by default when purchasing and registering a new vehicle with the Road Safety Service.

Video footage has been circulating on social media showing a GM Cobalt hitting a pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing in Jizzakh city.

Zohid Karaev has been appointed Deputy chairman of Uzbekneftegaz in charge of Compliance and Internal Anto-Corruption Control, the company said in a statement.

On December 30, 2025, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on improving the anti-corruption system by 2030.

Warm and mostly dry weather is expected across Uzbekistan in the first half of the week, with light rain expected in some areas of Karakalpakstan on Wednesday, Uzhydromet said.

A total of 15,259 Uzbek nationals traveled to the United States in January-November 2025, recording an increase by 1.2 thousand to the same period last year, the National Statistics Committee said.

A man and three of his female relatives, who illegally held a woman and her five-month-old child in a barn for several months, subjecting the mother to violence, were handed long prison sentences, the spokesman to the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov said today.

Thai police have arrested a 37-year-old tourist from Uzbekistan accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a restaurant on the popular resort island of Phuket today.

The Uchtepa Civil Court ordered to pay 300 million soums in indemnity from the state budget to illegally convicted businessman Dilshod Mingboev, who spent five years in prison.

In Karakul district of Bukhara province, 20 students in study center where young people both study and live were hospitalized on January 11 due to poisoning health.

Islom Abdurakhmanov has been appointed as the chairman of Uzbekhydroenergo for a three-year term, the company announced on Friday following the extraordinary general shareholders meeting.

21-year-old history teacher in Pakhtachi district of Samarkand province was handed 12-day administrative arrest for a comment on a Telegram channel in which he insulted the prophet Muhammad.

Woman secretly gave birth to a child at a hospital in Payarik district of Samarkand province and left it in a trash bin, Zamon program on Sevimli TV channel reported.

Over 1.16 million needy families in Uzbekistan received a one-time financial assistance payment totaling 1.2 trillion soums in November 2025, the National Agency for Social Protection said.

Dry weather is expected across Uzbekistan on the weekend, Uzhydromet said in a statement. Fog will persist in some areas. Temperatures will rise during these days.

The provincial Ombudsperson conducted a monitoring visit to Penal Colony No. 5 in the Navoi province, where religious figure, Alisher Tursunov, a.k.a. Mubashshir Akhmad, is being held, the Ombudsperson's press service said.

Year-to-date, the Investigation and Search Department of the Interior Ministry and its territorial divisions have been conducting intensified operation activity against nationwide organized crime groups engaged in extortion.

Dense fog, which persisted in Tashkent city from evening until early morning, disrupted airport operations. Dozens of flights were diverted to other airports and neighboring countries.