In the first half of 2026, Uzbekistan's airports handled 64,831 flights, up 8% compared to the same period last year, the press service of Uzbekistan Airports reported. Of the total, 47,371 flights were international and 17,460 were domestic.

A ​Swiss court handed private bank Lombard Odier a 3 million Swiss franc ($3.68 million) ‌fine on Monday for failing to prevent money laundering but dropped proceedings against Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's former president.

Tashkent is exploring the procurement of agricultural products from Afghanistan to secure local food supplies, the press service of the capital’s mayor's office  reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized the Russian government to open negotiations with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to amend their existing military-technical cooperation treaties. Two executive orders, signed on July 27, were published on the official portal for legal information. They target the December 24, 2013 agreement with Kazakhstan and the November 29, 2016 treaty with Uzbekistan.

A 12-year-old schoolboy has tragically lost his life in a traffic accident, triggering a criminal investigation. Video footage obtained by Kun.uz reveals a Cobalt driving on the wrong side of the road before striking the child, who was crossing the pedestrian walkway on a bicycle.

A woman in the Chiroqchi district of the Qashqadaryo region has stood trial on charges of driving her daughter-in-law to suicide. The case was reported by the news outlet Daryo, citing official criminal court records.

On Monday, following the government meeting on problems in the fuel and energy sector, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited construction sites in New Tashkent, his press service reported.

On July 27, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a video-conference government meeting on priority tasks in the fuel and energy sector.

Georgy Sorokin, a notorious underworld figure known by the aliases "Jora Tashkentsky" and "Soroka" (The Magpie), has been arrested in Egypt and extradited to Uzbekistan.

A new Center for Digitalization of Fuel and Energy Complex and AI Implementation will be established under the Ministry of Energy, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced during the government meeting Monday.

A criminal case has been launched in Samarkand after three men brutally beat a local resident, the press service of the Provincial Police Department reported.

The Shaykhantakhur District Criminal Court in Tashkent has handed down a verdict against Mubin Mirzaev, the former First Deputy Chairman of the Tax Committee, alongside nine co-defendants, the press service of the Tashkent City Courts said.

In the first half of the year, Uzbekistan's local government bodies failed to publish nearly 24,200 of their adopted decisions — almost 29% of the total, the Anti-Corruption Agency said in a report.

Oilada chaqaloq paydo bo‘lganda, do‘konlardagi banka va qutichalar javonlari avvaliga sarosimaga soladi. Ko‘plab brendlar keng assortiment, turli tarkiblar va yosh oralig‘ini taklif etadi. Ota-onalar farzandi uchun eng yaxshi bolalar ovqatini tanlashda nimalarga e’tibor qaratishlari kerak? Maqolada aytib o‘tamiz. 

A court in Surkhandarya province has sentenced a police officer to 15 years and 1 month in prison for raping a minor, the press service of the provincial courts.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the decree appointing Sherzod Khodjayev as the Minister of Energy, replacing Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov, presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov announced today.

Uzbekistan has announced new concessions and incentives for Afghan transit vehicles, AtlasPress reported. According to the Taliban’s Ministry of Transport and Aviation, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Transport, Ilkhom Makhkamov, met with Mullah Mohammad Fazel Mazloom to affirm that Tashkent will introduce favorable conditions to help boost the volume of Afghan transit traffic.

Road traffic accidents across the country left 3,306 people injured during the first six months of this year, the National Statistics Committee said in a report.

At a session of the Legislative Chamber, lawmakers reviewed, in its first reading, a Bill On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts in Connection with the Improvement of Legislation in the Sphere of Migration.

In Tashkent, a 29-year-old man who beat to death the five-month-old child of the woman he was living with has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.