Two of Afghanistan's most notorious regional strongmen fled on Saturday as the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban and security forces abandoned the city in a headlong rush up the highway to the safety of neighbouring Uzbekistan.

Last week, Artel Electronics LLC (Artel) was delighted to welcome the Uzbek Olympic team to an event in Tashkent to thank the athletes for their achievements. In 2021, Uzbekistan’s Olympians achieved three gold medals and two bronzes, finishing higher up the medal table than any other country in Central Asia.

On August 13, 2021, JICA Uzbekistan Office, Ministry of Public Education, Scientific Research Institute for Studying the Problems and Determining the Prospects of Public Education named after A. Avloni and KEI Advanced, Inc. (Japan) signed Minutes of Meeting on JICA`s “SDGs Business Verification Survey with the Private Sector for the Introduction of a Japanese-style Academic Achievement Test Model in Uzbekistan”.  

The Deputy Minister of Energy Sherzod Khodjaev attended the first organized meeting of the energy ministers of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev invited the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to pay an official visit to Uzbekistan at any convenient time.

Another batch of AstraZeneca vaccine will be delivered to Uzbekistan tomorrow on August 14, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Joint drills with the participation of Uzbek, Russian and Tajik servicemen ended at the Harb-Maidon training ground in Tajikistan, the Uzbek Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Official Statistics Bill into Law, the Ministry of Justice reported. Official statistics consists of statistical data prepared and disseminated by the state statistical authorities and other producers of official statistics. The State Statistics Committee is the authorized state body in the field.

A few days ago, information surfaced on the social networks that the prosecutor of Kurgantepa district of Andijan province, Sardor Rajabboev, allegedly attracted employees of the district communal services department to work from spring to autumn in his house yard.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 925 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 493 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of August 12 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 140,210 (+925)," the report said.

The President signed the Measures to further improve system for ensuring the rights of the child decree. The document approved the proposals of the chambers of the parliament on:

On August 11, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the projects to improve drinking water supply in the Surkhandarya province, the presidential press service said.

Uzbeks own 2.8 million cars, the State Statistics Committee said in a report on Tuesday. As of January 1, 2021, the number of vehicles owned by individuals in Uzbekistan topped 2,955,295 units. This is by 14.5% more than in 2020.

On August 11, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the Ambassador of the United States of America Daniel Rosenblum, the Foreign Ministry said.

The government meeting on preparations for the meeting of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev with business executives was held on August 9, the presidential press service said in a statement.

The Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Education of Russia published 100,000 new textbooks on the Russian language in Tashkent.

Jurabek Laboratories, where Uzbekistan plans to produce the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, has passed quality control in the Russian Federation and will begin mass production of the jab next week, said the company CEO Farrukh Lutfullaev.

The proven reserves of natural gas in Uzbekistan as of January 1, 2021 are estimated at 1 trillion 866.9 billion cubic meters (BCM), follows from the presentation at a meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday.

Uzbekistan will host the World Youth Rights Conference on August 12-13, the press service of the National Center for Human Rights said. The initiative to hold the conference was put forward by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation are completing preparations to launch the Agroexpress pilot project, which provides for the swift delivery of agricultural products in a refrigerator train from Uzbekistan to Russia, said the Russian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Dmitry Volvach told.