On Friday, September 5, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev a telephone conversation spoke to the President of the United States Donald Trump, the Uzbek president’s press service said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev noted the need to further boost the pro-activeness, accountability and authority of leaders in the timely and high-quality implementation of reforms in a government meeting Friday.

A historic event occurred in Arnasay district of the Jizzakh province - for the first time ever a passenger plane made a test land at the local airport, which is now under construction, UzA said.

An Uzbek man, 29, died in the mountains of the Turkestan province of Kazakhstan. A young Kazakh man who accompanied him was rescued, the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations said today.

The chairman of the Commerce and Industry Chamber Davron Vakhabov in an interview to the Uzbekistan 24 channel called the president's decision to adopt a zero VAT rate on agricultural goods historic and stressed that it creates all the conditions for transparent and efficient work of farmers and processing firms.

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a Regulation for registering underground water pumping meters. The state-owned enterprise “Uzbekhydrogeology” under the Ministry of Geology and Mining Industry will be in charge of registering water meters. The installation of metering devices will become mandatory starting 30 November, when the regulation will take effect.

The Russian president Vladimir Putin by the September 5 decree appointed Alexey Erkhov as new ambassador to Uzbekistan, to replace Oleg Malginov who had worked since March 2021.

Mostly partly cloudy and moderately hot weather will prevail across Uzbekistan on Friday and the weekend, Uzhydromet said.

Five workers fell into an 8-meter-deep sewer manhole on the afternoon of Thursday in Bukhara city and were carried away by the current, the Bukhara province police department said.

On September 1, a number of Kyrgyz online news publications reported, citing the country's border service, that Uzbek border guards had shot down two Kyrgyz citizens. A report of missing two residents of Aygyr-Zhal village in Chatkal district was received by law enforcement agencies in Kyrgyzstan on August 25.

Pedestrian was fatally hit in Yangiyul district of Tashkent province in August 2025, the Millar TV program reported today. Video footage shows a GM Spark driver who was at high speed trying to evade hitting a younger boy steered to the left and hit a 21-year-old guy who was also crossing the road. As a result of the accident, the pedestrian died at the scene from the injuries he sustained.

A local resident was tortured in the Namangan police department, the head of the Ezgulik human rights society, Abdurakhmon Tashanov said on his Facebook page.

The Senate passed the Improving the effectiveness of morale building work with convicts serving sentences in penitentiary institutions bill Thursday.

The authorities have identified the land plots in Tashkent province for the new international airport project. According to the press service of the province’s Cadastre Agency, 1,309.76 hectares will be allocated for the project.

Senior investigator of the investigative department of Angren police department has been arrested on suspicion of receiving a bribe in Tashkent province, the press service of the State Security Service said.

Uzbekistan and China have agreed on power projects, with plans to erect pumped-storage power plants, construct new transmission lines, and train personnel in renewables.

Major fast-food franchise company Mom’s Touch will open its first restaurant in Uzbekistan, launching its bid to expand its market to countries in Central Asia and Middle East, the company said Monday.

A medical waste incinerator plant was commissioned near the city hospital No. 16 in Tashkent. 90 thousand tons of medical waste are generated annually in Uzbekistan, said Jamshid Khasanov, chief expert at the Waste Management and Circular Economy Development Agency. Until now, they have been taken to special landfills, like other types of waste.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Beijing Tuesday, the presidential press service said.

In Angren, a truck rammed a Yutong bus of the city public transport fleet. The video footage shows that the impact of the hit was so powerful that it threw the driver out of the cabin; there is no information about the victims and their condition; officials have not yet commented the event.