The newly appointed minister of public education (MPE) Sherzod Shermatov fired all heads of departments and teams of the central apparatus of the MPE in a meeting Monday, the ministry said.

The Uzbek MMA fighter Murod “The Asian Bear” Khanturaev and several other people were arrested in Tashkent’s Yunusabad district Thursday, the Multimedia Information Center of the Tashkent Police Department said in a statement.

The preventive measure has been altered against the U.S. citizen, a native of the Kashkadarya’s Chirakchi district, Zokir Aliyev, who was detained at home on June 16 and was released on the 22nd. He was released on his own recognizance and to behave, with the investigation ongoing, a source said.

All construction works will be suspended in Samarkand, said the city mayor Furkat Rakhimov during a meeting Saturday. The mayor noted that some media outlets have recently published critical materials about the ongoing construction works, which had already cause irreparable damage to Samarkand's historical heritage, the mayor's office said in a statement.

A delegation of professors-epidemiologists from South Korea, Yonsei University, arrived in Tashkent with the support of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

Uzbekistan Airways, the state-owned airline, is providing airline services to the Colombia national team at the World Cup in Russia, the company said.

Members of the lower house in the second reading passed the Limiting Smoking of Shishas and Electronic Cigarettes in Public Places Bill Wednesday, the statement of the lower house said.

Employees of budget-financed organizations in Navoi province are being forced to buy chickens, Gazeta.uz reported. Teachers, doctors, bank workers, kindergarten teachers and others were “requested” to buy poultry.

Tashkent’s Almazar district criminal court announced the verdict to the previously convicted Abboskhon Khodjaev, 36, also known as Tashkent’s “crime boss” or “enforcer” and Mahamadjon Kurbanov, 36, the official of the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov said.

Sherzod Shermatov, former deputy innovations minister, has been appointed as minister of public education, replacing Ulugbek Inoyatov, who held the post since 2013, a source in the government said.

Former first deputy Tashkent prosecutor, Miraglam Mirzayev and his family members were detained under the investigation of the former prosecutor general Kadyrov's case by the Office for combating organized crime and corruption, the General Prosecutor Office said in a statement.

Delegation of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) will visit Uzbekistan. According to the press service of the Foreign Ministry, the delegation led by General Secretary Halil Ibrahim Akca will arrive in Uzbekistan on 20 June.

Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov today hosted the visiting National Security Advisor to the Afghan President, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, the ministry said.

President of Uzbekistan issued decree Tuesday introducing as an experiment of the Safe Capital concept as of July 1, which is aimed at “ensuring public order, prevention and combating crime” in Tashkent.

Uzbekistan delegation led by the Prosecutor General O. Murodov visited the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna Thursday.

Uzbek Foreign Ministry will move to the former building of the Tashkent city hall on Amir Temur avenue, the ministry said. In recent years the building has been occupied by the head office of the Xalq Bank.

Illegal induced abortions were perfromed in Sam Suzani Plus private clinic in Samarkand city, where newborns were sold and the bodies of the weak and dead babies were burned. The details of the high-profile case were reported by the Huquq (transl. Law) newspaper of the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan.

President"s Draft Raising Teachers’ Social Status in Public Education System Decree has been published on the portal for discussion of draft legal acts.

The State Security Service of Uzbekistan (DXX) issued a statement on the reasons of arrest of Zokir Aliyev, who arrived from the United States.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone conversation Saturday.