Tashkent International Airport gave a ceremonial welcome on August 10 to the first Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi, Uzbekistan Airports' press service reported.

At its 18th plenary session, the Senate reviewed the National Report on Combating Corruption in the Republic of Uzbekistan, submitted by the Anti-Corruption Agency.

China's Outlook New Era Magazine has published an article on Central Asia's tourism growth, based on the World Travel & Tourism Council's (WTTC) 2026 Economic Impact Research report.

During its 18th plenary session, the Senate approved the constitutional International Center for Digital Technologies bill.

A total of 17,226.5 hectares of land from four neighboring districts will be annexed into Samarkand to facilitate the city's territorial expansion, the press service of the Senate reported.

A video surfaced on social media showing a bridge beam under construction tilting to one side at a work site in the Dehkanabad district of Kashkadarya province.

A contract laborer was killed in the Qiziltepa district of the Navoiy province after a trench collapsed during underground pipe repairs, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General’s Office Hayot Shamsutdinov said.

Starting September 1, 2026, fare enforcement rules will tighten across all згидшс bus networks operating under gross-cost contracts.

Central Asian countries are preparing a work plan to expand automated water-resource accounting in the Syr Darya basin. A working group made up of officials from participating countries is expected to be formed by the end of September.

Uzbekistan plans to double its current pace of housing construction by 2040, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said in his wishes on the Construction Workers' Day.

Uzbekistan is planning to create a separate regulatory system for small and amateur aviation and use it to develop adventure tourism. The measures are set out in a draft presidential decree drafted by the Tourism Committee together with relevant government agencies.

Mansur Aripov, an alleged crime boss widely known by the underworld alias Mansur Kazanskiy, has been arrested in Fergana for his suspected involvement in a $200,000 extortion plot targeting a local property owner.

The Interdepartmental price Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers has approved new prices for the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity, along with prices and prices for natural gas.

Four Uzbek nationals have been sentenced to eight years and six months in prison by a court in the Sariasiyo district on terrorism and extremism charges, the State Security Service (DXX) reported.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance has opened public consultations on a draft Cabinet of Ministers resolution that would subsidize interest rates on auto loans for electric vehicles (EVs).

Two Uzbek nationals  were killed and three others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a traffic accident in Russia’s Republic of Mordovia, the Consulate General of Uzbekistan in Kazan said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been briefed on the recent outcomes and future priorities for developing Uzbekistan's AI ecosystem, according to the presidential press service.

Uzbekistan has enacted a dedicated law to regulate real estate brokerage activities, following its passage by the Legislative Chamber on July 1, 2025, and subsequent approval by the Senate on April 7, 2026.

Uzbekistan international defender Bekhruz Karimov has completed a transfer to Swiss Super League side FC Lugano from Surkhon Termez. The Uzbekistan Football Association announced that the 19-year-old fullback has officially signed a contract with his new club.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump Friday, the Uzbek presidential press service reported.