Veterans’ advocacy groups sued the U.S. Department of Defense on Monday seeking records of toxic conditions at an air base in Uzbekistan blamed for causing cancer and other illnesses among American troops who served there in support of the war in Afghanistan.

In January-March 2023, the total amount of cash receipts (cash and through points of sale) topped 140.8 trillion soums, or US$ 12.8 billion, recording a 37.0% increase to the same period in 2022, the Central Bank said in the Brief Review of Cash Circulation report.

Microsoft Corporation will open a multi-regional hub in Kazakhstan for Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Mongolia and Pakistan, Orda with reference to the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan said.

The flow of parallel imports to Russia, which in 2022 surpassed $20 billion, has led to a shortage of warehouse capacities in the CIS countries. In Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, there are virtually no free spaces; in Belarus, the vacancy rate in logoparks does not exceed 2.8% out of 1.6 million sqms of finished facilities, and in Uzbekistan - 4.5% of 207 thousand sqms.

On Monday, with the passage of the atmospheric front in the central and eastern provinces, it will rain in the Tashkent province and the provinces of the Fergana Valley - heavy in places, hail is possible in some areas, Uzhydromet reported.

Law enforcement agencies detained the deputy mayor of Izbaskan district of Andijan province in charge of investment, industry and trade, A. Karimov on Saturday, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Syrdarya province, where he attended an extraordinary session of the provincial council of people's deputies in Gulistan. In his remarks. Shavkat Mirziyoyev underscored that the results achieved are now history, and there are still many opportunities for the socio-economic development of the province.

Peshku district man of Bukhara region cut off the ears of a donkey, after which the animal died. The incident was reported on Saturday morning by the Mehr va Oqibat Animal Welfare Society.

On April 7, 2023, a ceremony of handing over equipment to the Society of the Blind of Uzbekistan took place in Tashkent as part of the grant program “Grants of assistance to small-scale social projects to ensure human security”, at which the Japanese Ambassador to Takashi HATORI delivered a welcoming speech.

Uzbek-Chinese biotechnology cluster could be set in Syrdarya province through investments of $500 million. This was discussed at a meeting of the provincial deputies council on April 7, president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Amendments to the Law on Banks and Banking Activities were revieweedd at the plenary session of the Senate. The Amendments provide for increase the amount of authorized capital of banks gradually from 100 billion soums to 500 billion soums, from US$ 8.8 million to 44 million from September 1, 2023 to January 1, 2025.

On April 5, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a government meeting via conference call on the construction of new housing and priorities of 2023 mortgage program.

Next meeting of the Council of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (RATS SCO) kicked off today in Tashkent.

At the plenary session on Thursday, the senators reviewed the Ratification of the agreement between the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on cooperation in the military field Bill (Tashkent, June 21, 2022)” and the ratification of the agreement between the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on military-technical cooperation Bill (Tashkent, June 21, 2022).

The new railway from China through Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will save seven days of transportation time, official of the Ministry of Transport of Kyrgyzstan, Nurmat Musabekov told Birinchi Radio on April 6.

Reacting to Uzbekistan’s upper house of Parliament passing legislation that criminalizes domestic violence, Heather McGill, Amnesty International’s Central Asia Researcher, said:

15-year-old girl was gang-raped by 11 or 12 men in Khorezm’s Yangiaryk district. The victim's aunt told Gazeta.uz on condition of anonymity.

At the Senate’s thirty-ninth plenary session, the senators reviewed the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, aimed at ensuring the inevitability of liability for corruption crimes".

Amendments to the legislation that will enhance the protection of the rights, freedoms and interests of women and children was passed At the Senate’s April 6 plenary session, the Senate’s press service said.

Today, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court reviewed the cassation protest of the Khorezm province prosecutor's office against the sentence of the former heads of the department of justice of the province, Aibek Masharipov and the Yangiaryk district department for emergency situations, Anvar Kuryazov, who were convicted of having sexual intercourse with pupils of an Urgench orphanage.