The rapidly deteriorating situation in the Middle East is of deep concern to Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said today.

Baku hosted the 14th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Cooperation between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan Friday. The Uzbek delegation was headed by Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade Laziz Kudratov, and the Azerbaijani delegation was headed by Minister of Economy Mikail Jabbarov, the press service of the Uzbek Ministry of Investment said.

Uzbekistan, together with companies from Saudi Arabia and France, will implement a hazardous industrial waste management project, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a state visit to Mongolia on June 24-25, the presidentail press service said.

The president Mirziyoyev signed a decree paving the way for monitoring the business travels of Uzbek civil servants through a unified electronic system. 

Uzgidromet posted the weather forecast in Tashkent city for the business week. Dry and very hot air from the south will spread across the whole country from the beginning of the business week.

As we speak, locusts have been detected in more than 500 thousand hectares in Uzbekistan, the Plant Quarantine and Protection Agency said.

$3.5 billion in investments will be drawn to Kashkadarya province in 2025, said the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today at a meeting in Kukdala district.

The president Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to organize the civil service based on new approaches in Uzbekistan Decree which introduces IQ and general knowledge tests for newly-minted civil servants.

Uzatom and Rosatom signed an agreement on a large-scale nuclear power plant project in Uzbekistan, the Rosatom said in a statement today.

Nearly 6.3 million migrants landed in Russia in 2024, half of whom were jobseekers, said chief of the Main Department for Migration Affairs of the Russian Interior Ministry Valentina Kazakova.

Pupil of a private kindergarten died from an electric shock in Bukhara province, the press service of the attorney's office said Thursday.

The Sergeli District Criminal Court issued its ruling against the 32-year-old Abror Kozubaev, accused of raping an underage girl, the press service of the Tashkent City Courts said. The case was heard behind closed doors.

The State Security Service (SSS) together with law enforcement agencies halted the activities of illegal religious schools where children were subjected to physical violence allegedly for teaching purposes.

Uzbekistan will seek to connect a new external Internet channel, the chief of the Department for the Development of Telecommunications Infrastructure of the Ministry of Digital Technologies, Muradzhan Yuldashev told the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.

Aircraft landing and taking off were temporarily suspended at the Tashkent airport at 16:03 due to wind shift, the Uzbekistan Airports said today.

The MPs passed a bill mitigating penalties for certain traffic violations in the first reading Tuesday, introducing administrative warnings.

Uzbekistan will advocate for unifying the power systems of Central Asian countries and China, the Deputy Energy Minister Umid Mamadaminov told the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.

Kazakhstan’s grocery chain Magnum is pulling out from Uzbekistan. Several of the company’s stores have already shut down, while the remaining outlets are end-selling stocks.

A train conductor, who was on duty in the seventh carriage of passenger train No. 071 traveling from Alat to Tashkent, set up brothel on a train. On February 21, 2025, for 300 thousand soums, he provided the compartment No. 2 to a man and his girlfriend for sex purposes, despite the fact that the passengers had tickets for the 11th carriage, officials of the Navoi province transport security department found during a check. At the trial, the conductor fully pleaded guilty.