Three cars were damaged in a fire in Dzhambay district of Samarkand province, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Monday.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke to the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev over the telephone Saturday, the presidential press service said.

On August 7, while trying to save a drowning girl from Ukraine on the Kavatsite beach in Sozopol (Bulgaria), a 22-year-old national of Uzbekistan, Zh. M., died. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

During a government meeting on the nuclear energy projects on Friday, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev gave a dricetibe to elaborate a project for a large-scale nuclear plant, the Director of the Atomic Energy Agency, Azim Akhmedkhadjaev told the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.

The South Korean Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC) will implement its heating technologies in Uzbekistan, The Korea Times said.

Remediation work on the former uranium mine has been completed in Yangiabad, Tashkent province, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change said.

Mostly partly cloudy and dry weather will persist across Uzbekistan over the weekend, Uzgidromet said. Partly cloudy weather will prevail in Tashkent. Temperature at night will be withing 21-23° Celsius range, while during the daytime on August 8 will be 35-37°, on August 9-10 - 37-39°.

The Uzbek State Security Service together with the Federal Security Service stopped the activity of a cell of an international terrorist organization in Moscow, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said.

The leader of the Milliy Tiklanish party, Alisher Kadyrov, commented on the beer festival and Jennifer Lopez’s concert in Tashkent. He said that Uzbekistan is a secular state that provides the opportunity to live the way a person wants, provided that he does not violate the laws.

When U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the White House on Friday, the meeting will culminate in the signing of a peace framework that includes exclusive U.S. development rights to a strategic transit corridor through the South Caucasus, officials told Reuters.

The Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke to the Russian president Vladimir Putin over telephone today, the presidential press service said.

Two teen girls drowned while swimming in Okhangaron Suv reservoir in Akhangaran city, the Prosecutor General's Office said. The tragedy occurred on July 28 in the Chinor neighburhood of the Akhangaran district. On that day, 19-year-old D. P., 16-year-old D. A. and 19-year-old N. E. came to swim in the reservoir. However, after some time, D. P. and N. E. did not come out of the water and disappeared.

Concerns about the Chikungunya virus, which is spreading in China, have spread on social networks. The Sanitary Epidemiological Service commented on the situation.

Bees are dying in Uzbekistan, presumably due to the indiscriminate spraying of cotton fields with potent chemicals and the lack of systematic monitoring, the Gazeta said in story.

Traffic will be restricted on a number of streets in Tashkent's Chilanzar district, and free buses will be deployed for the spectators of Jennifer Lopez’s concert at the Milliy Stadium (Bunyodkor) today.

The speed limit on some sections of the M39 international highway in the Surkhandarya province may be raised to 130 km/h, the Surkhandarya TV channel said in a story.

The Uzbek Ambassador Ilhom Haydarov held talks with the Turkish Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat. During the meeting, the parties discussed the ways to advance bilateral trade, economic and investment cooperation.

Government delegation led by Deputy PM J. Khodjaev held talks with officials of China National Gold Group in Beijing Wednesday. During the meeting, Deputy Minister of Mining and Geology U. Yusupov signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the leadership of CNGG.

Officers of the Tashkent Police Department identified 1,631 people on streets and in public places who had items that could be used as blades, the press service of the Department said.

The Russian Peace Foundation has nominated President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov and the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon for the Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize for “their significant contribution to ensuring universal and equal security based on the rule of international law, building a multipolar world, strengthening mutual understanding and cooperation between peoples”. This was stated in a letter from the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation/Chief of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky to the jury of the prize.