Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan and UNFPA (UN Population Fund) together commemorate the World Population Day 2018 to highlight global and national efforts on family planning as a human right.

The number of foreign nationals who entered Uzbekistan nearly doubled reaching 2.688 million, or a 91.6% increase in the first year-half compared to 2017, the Tourism development committee said.

UNICEF and Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan with support of the European Union, launched a project to protect children affected by migration. The project is being rolled out in eight countries of Southeast, South and Central Asia, including Uzbekistan.

The population of Uzbekistan as of July 1 stands at 32.9 million people, an increase by 243.4 thousand from 31 December 2017, or by 0.7%. The urban population is 16.646 million (or 50.6% of total population), and the rural population is at 16.254 million (49.4%), the Statistics Committee’s said in report.

The Legislative Chamber MP Sabit Tursunov died in car accident in Syrdarya province Saturday, when he was heading to Samarkand province on an unlicensed taxi to study problems related to water supply.

Journalist Furkat Yusupov perished in Karakalpakstan. Kruz.Uz reported today. On Saturday evening, Furkat reportedly met with four classmates and went for a swim in a canal. One of the girls decided to have a dip and started drowning. Furkat's friend man rushed to help her, but he could not cope with the current either. Then Furkat tried to help his friends. As a result, none of the three could swim out.

New chiefs have been appointed at the tax departments n Karakalpakstan and four provinces, the committee said in a statement.

Bekzod Abdrimov, acting deputy mayor of Urgench district in Khorezm province, was arrested red-handed when while taking 5 million soums in bribe from a local resident on July 1, Akhborot 24 news program on Uzbekistan 24 reported.

Tuberculosis (TB) laboratory experts from Uzbekistan returned today from a U.S.-sponsored study tour of Kazakhstan’s National Center for Tuberculosis and Pulmonology and regional TB laboratories in Almaty and Astana, where they met with Kazakhstani counterparts and shared information on TB testing and laboratory management.

The Samarkand city criminal court today reviewed and upheld the request of the province prosecutor office to arrest Sanat Umarov, accused of Abuse Of Power and Using Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan.

Technovation Uzbekistan, a project designed by a team of U.S. exchange program alumnae from Uzbekistan, has become one of the 70 winners of the United States Department of State 2018 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) competition.

President of Uzbekistan signed a decree on improving the system of social rehabilitation and adaptation, as well as the prevention of domestic and family violence Monday.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Ratification of the Agreement between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Tajikistan on Some Sections of the Uzbek-Tajik State Border Bill into Law Tuesday. The law was passed by the Legislative Chamber on May 31 and was approved by the Senate on June 28.

Kashkadarya province criminal court announced the verdict Monday against Zokir Aliyev, 46, a native of Kashkadarya province, a U.S. citizen who has no criminal record, the official representative of the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Mediation Bill into Law Tuesday. The bill was passed by the Legislative Chamber on June 12, 2018 and was approved by the Senate on June 28, 2018. The law will take effect on January 1, 2019.

Samarkand province Kattakurgan city police officer Sanat Umarov forced a woman, who was detained for theft, to strip naked, with the General Prosecutor's Office taking the case under special control, the chief of the Prosecutor office PR department Surayo Rakhmonova said.

President issued a decree Wednesday renaming Hi-Tech City, the international high-tech innovations business district to be built in Tashkent, to Delta City.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed Further Measures to Optimize the Procedure of Entry of Foreign Citizens into Uzbekistan Decree Wednesday.

President Mirziyoyev signed a decree Sunday which added the post of trade and economic adviser at the Uzbek embassies in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, the Foreign Ministry said.

The regular talks of working groups of the Joint Uzbek-Turkmen Intergovernmental Commission on Delimitation and Demarcation of the State Border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan were held in Turkmenistan from June 25 to July 1, 2018.