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.

A total of 27.8 thousand Uzbek nationals traveled abroad for study purposes in January-November 2025, which marks a decrease by 6.7 thousand or 19.3% compared to the same period last year, the National Statistics Committee said in a report.

The Ministry of Poverty Reduction and Employment has clarified one of the most frequently asked questions about student employment — “Is it against the law to employ students?”

2,328 violations related to the illegal felling of trees and shrubs were identified in Uzbekistan in 2025, the press service of the National Committee on Ecology and Climate Change said.

The newly appointed chairman of Uzbekneftegaz, Abdugani Sanginov sacked the directors of Termez, Jizzakh, Marokand, and Kuchlik oil depots, the company said in a statement.

During a press tour to the Republican Specialized Center for Oncology and Radiology on December 24, questions were raised about the fate of the areas of the former Republican Oncology Hospital and its Tashkent branch, which are being annexed to this institution. Earlier, environmental activists expressed concern that these territories could be transferred for private construction through closed resolutions.

The British Council in Uzbekistan continues contributing to the national reform on modernization of pre-service teacher training (PRESETT) and provides support to the network of practicing English leachers across the country. In close partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovations and the Ministry of Pre-school and School Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan the British Council organized National Forum of all universities training future teachers in Uzbekistan and launched the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Hub in Tashkent.