A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection and making him the first elected head of state in the country’s democratic era to receive the maximum custodial sentence.

Uzbekistan and the United States signed an agreement for an investment platform during President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's working visit to Washington on Wednesday. The goal of the investment platform will be systemic promotion of bilateral projects, the Uzbek presidency website reported.

Coach of Navoi-based Kyzylkum football club’s U-19 team was caught redhandedly while he was taking a bribe of 20 million soums, the Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) reported.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev began his official program in the U.S. with a meeting with the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the people of Uzbekistan on the beginning of the holy Ramadan Month, emphasizing that this month was the embodiment of kindness, mercy, and generosity.

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The chairman of the Tax Committee Farrukh Pulatov and the director of the Anti-Corruption Agency Akmal Burkhanov today signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.

From February 26 to March 2, 2026, Tashkent will host a new edition of the Creative Central Asia (CCA 2026) forum — a regional platform for dialogue on the future of creative industries and their role in the economy, technology, and identity formation.

The UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) hosted the UK-Uzbekistan Infrastructure Conference in Tashkent, convening policymakers, state‑owned enterprises, investors and leading UK and Uzbek companies to advance practical collaboration on Uzbekistan’s priority infrastructure agenda.

Fire in a Beltepa street home in Tashkent's Shaykhantakhur District on Monday killed three people and injured one, Milliy TV's Millar program reported.

A group of individuals engaged in trafficking human organs and tissues has been uncovered in Tashkent, the press service of the Interior Ministry said.

The 2026 State Program, approved by the president Mirziyoyev on Monday includes an item on relaxing the use of civilian UAVs.

The 2026 State Program, approved by the president on Monday includes an item on the pilot project of jury trials and a number of other reforms to the judicial system.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon hosted the Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov in Dushanbe Tuesday, the press service of the Tajik President reported.

The president signed a decree on February 16 approving the 2026 State Program which includes an item envisaging transition to digital ways to prevent corruption and to impose restrictions on civil servants moving to private sector jobs.

New passenger car sales in January increased by 7.2% year-on-year to reach 28,600 units, the Center for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR) said in a report.

The president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution on holding the Ramadan Month in Uzbekistan which will begin on February 19.

Akmal Yuldashev, a first-year graduate student at the University of Journalism and Mass Communications complained that he had not been allowed into classes for not complying with the university’s dress code, which includes wearing a tie. His interview, published Monday by Bakhodirkhon Eliboev, sparked a new debate about the need for uniforms in universities.

Thousands of Western nationals joined the Israeli military amid its war in Gaza, Al Jazeera said. More than 50,000 soldiers in the Israeli military hold at least one other citizenship, with a majority of them holding US or European passports.

Central Asian countries will hold its first summit with South Korea later this year, in what will mark another opportunity to expand the ties between the region and South Korea.