"Installation of alternative energy sources will be the priority of national policies of Uzbekistan", Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at the government meeting on energy conservation and expansion of the use of alternative energy sources on Tuesday.

Today in Tashkent, the 9th Annual Meeting of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) commenced. This event brings together global leaders, policymakers, economists, and experts from 63 countries and over 20 international organizations to deliberate on key issues in the fight against poverty.

Zakir Jalali, director of the third political department of the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Emirate, said that Abdul Ghafar Tirawi has been introduced as the ambassador of the Islamic Emirate to Uzbekistan. 

The Ministry of National Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has responded to the recent statements made by the US Ambassador to Uzbekistan.

Adoption of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) measures, including greater access to nicotine alternatives such as e-cigarettes, would help to save 464,000 lives in Uzbekistan, according to major new research.

Following the meeting with business leaders on August 23 in Tashkent, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev launched seven joint projects worth a total of $520 million in the two countries.

The Uzbek authorities and the United States have come to an agreement on the fate of the military aircraft and helicopters that were ferried from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan in August 2021, said the US Ambassador Jonathan Henick.

Russia will provide Uzbekistan with mpox test kits produced by the Vector Scientific Center, the press service of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) said.

The A320 aircraft of the private airline Qanot Sharq, operating Istanbul to Samarkand flight, made an emergency landing on Monday evening at the airport of the small town of Merzifon in the northern Turkish province of Amasya.

In Dangara district of Fergana province, on the evening of August 26, one of the local residents stabbed a local police officer, the provincial police department said.

Top officials from Uzbekistan and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) stressed their joint commitment to promote economic and social development through investments in sustainable infrastructure.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree aimed at improving the system of government support for civil society institutions, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

The Central Election Commission approved the creation of polling stations at diplomatic and other missions of Uzbekistan in foreign countries at its Monday session.

Dry and warm weather will prevail in Uzbekistan on Monday and Tuesday, Uzgidromet said. The air temperature in most areas will be within +32…+35 degrees Celsius range, in the south — up to +36…+38 degrees.

The foundation stone of a religious school was laid on sixty acres of land with financial cooperation from Uzbekistan in the New City area of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Tashkent will host the IV World Conference on Creative Economy on October 2-4., an organizing committee was formed to prepare and hold the conference, headed by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov By the August 23 presidential decree. The Uzbekistan Fund for Development of Culture and Arts has been named as the working body of the organizing committee.

The Karakalpak yurt in the Oq Qush (White Bird) complex in Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, is included in the Guinness Book of Records as a non-collapsible yurt with the largest diameter of 40.5 meters. This was reported by the Tourism Development Committee under the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change.

Dry and partly cloudy weather will persist in Uzbekistan over the weekend, Uzgidromet said. The temperatures at night will be within +19…+22 degrees Celsius, +33…+36 degrees during the day on Saturday, and +31…+33 degrees on Sunday.

Deputy mayor of Balykchi district of Andijan province was arrested while receiving 30 thousand dollars, the press service of the State Security Service said. The operation was conducted by the Service jointly with the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Prosecutor General's Office.

Olympic judo champion Diyora Keldiyorova has been appointed social commissioner of the National Agency for Social Protection to Combat Gender Inequality and Violence against Children, the agency's first deputy director Shakhnoza Mirziyoyeva announced on her Instagram page.