The president Mirziyoyev signed decree raising unemployment benefits from November 1, while the eligibility terms changed Monday.

Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will send 600 million cubic meters of water to Kazakhstan to handle the irrigation deficit in the south of the country, the 24.kg said.

Fire broke out at the Uch Kakhramon market on the night of August 11, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

Uzgidromet posted the Tashkent city weather forecast for the business week. Mostly partly cloudy weather is expected in the capital city. Temperatures at night will be within 21-23° Celsius range, during the daytime on August 11-12 it will reach 38-40°, while on August 13 it will be 36-38°, and 34-37° on August 14-15.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a government meeting familiarized himself with the presentation of measures to provide Tashkent with stable energy resources and prepare for the autumn-winter period Friday.

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.