Monday, 13, October, 2025

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The key phase of a small-scale nuclear power plant (SSNPP) project has commenced in Uzbekistan, the Rosatom’s press service said Thursday.

The Foreign Ministry welcomed the agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza Strip and the release of hostages. "Uzbekistan welcomes the agreement on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages, reached with the direct involvement of the US President Donald Trump," the statement said.

The criminal case against a Navoi province resident who hit his wife with a GM Damas minivan has been upgraded to a more serious offense, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Customs duty on copper wire exports is due soon in Uzbekistan, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Davron Vakhabov told the Uzbekistan 24 television channel.

October in Uzbekistan will be very dry, posing significant risks to agriculture, according to weather forecaster Erkin Abdulakhatov.

The MPs of the Legislative Chamber passed the Protection of the Population from Harmful Noise Exposure Bill Tuesday.

Foreign citizens and stateless persons temporarily staying in Uzbekistan can now submit applications for visa extension online through the My.gov.uz portal.

The stances of Uzbekistan and the United States on a number of regional and global issues are getting increasingly aligned, , the presidential adviser on foreign policy Abdulaziz Kamilov told in Davra podcast on the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel Wednesday.

The Egyptian Football Association will host an international friendly tournament during the international break next November in preparation for the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco in December 2025.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a visit to Tajikistan on October 9-10 to attend the second Central Asia-Russia summit and the regular meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Dushanbe.

The initial "zero" point for Uzbekistan's national coordinate system was established at the Cho'pon-ota hill in Samarkand's Rasadxona neighborhood.

Delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) inspected the results of reclamation work at former uranium mines in Yangiabad in Tashkent province, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Climate Change said.

The Tashkent’s Uchtepa district criminal court today sentenced religious figure Alisher Tursunov, aka Mubashshir Akhmad, the spokesman to the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov said.

Enter Engineering has been appointed as a subcontractor for the construction of Uzbekistan's first nuclear power plant, the press service of the Atomic Energy Agency (Uzatom) said.

Law enforcement agencies arrested 37 individuals in the Bukhara province on suspicion of illegal gold mining, the Ministry of Mining and Geology said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Shavkat Mirziyoyev warmly congratulated the Russian leader on his birthday, sincerely wishing him good health, well-being, and success, as well as prosperity for the friendly Russian people.

In his address at the 12th Summit of the Summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), the President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijani proposed holding joint military exercises among the OTS member states.

Following the mass poisoning of children in public kindergartens in the Tashkent province, all heads of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service must be sacked. Zoyir Mirzayev, the Tashkent province governor announced this at the 20th session of the Council of People's Deputies in Nurafshan city.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed Cutting number of managerial positions in national executive bodies through the digitalization of their operations Decree Saturday.

The Director of the National Agency for Promising Projects Dmitry Li hosted a delegation of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads). During the discussion, the parties discussed opening of Meta’s representative office in Uzbekistan, cooperation in preventing fraud in advertising on the company's platforms, monetization and supporting digital content creators in the country.