Uzbekistan

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) reports that China is now the largest foreign investor in Central Asia, surpassing Russia after a decade of growing investments in oil, gas, mining, and transportation infrastructure.

Border Patrol agents in Arizona arrested an illegal alien from Uzbekistan who was allegedly operating a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10 with five fraudulent driver’s licenses. The Uzbek national illegally entered the United States during the Biden administration and ignored an order of removal this year from an immigration judge.

ICE has arrested an illegal alien, wanted in his native Uzbekistan on terrorism charges, found driving a semi-truck in Kansas.

Russians are reportedly growing exasperated with Muslim migrants praying in public places, while the Muslims say they need more mosques.

The Ministry of the Interior for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced three arrests on Monday in connection with the disappearance and death of Rabbi Zvi Kogan of Abu Dhabi.

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan sent a high-level trade delegation to Pakistan on Tuesday for trilateral talks that included Uzbekistan.

The FBI is reportedly investigating a human smuggling network that is helping move Uzbek migrants across the border into the United States. At least one of the smugglers is reportedly connected to the ISIS terrorist organization.

Russia is settings its sights further east to man the front lines, with Tajik and Uzbeki recruits enticed with signing bonuses and high pay.

Jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before finding Sayfullo Saipov guilty in a Halloween attack inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday called for “immediate and coordinated action” after more than 300 children in seven countries were killed by contaminated cough syrup last year.

The murder trial has started for a legal immigrant who arrived in the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery” and is accused of killing eight people in New York City in 2017 in a terrorist attack carried out on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS).

The Health Ministry of Uzbekistan on Wednesday blamed a cough syrup called Doc-1 Max, produced by a company in India called Marion Biotech, for the deaths of at least 18 children. Marion Biotech said it has halted production of the suspect medicine and is awaiting the results of an official inquiry.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Thursday, their first in-person meeting since the Beijing Winter Olympics, telling one of his closest allies that he appreciated Beijing’s “balanced” position on his invasion of Ukraine and understood its “concerns.”

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will meet with his Russian ally Vladimir Putin during a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that begins on Wednesday. The trip will mark Xi’s first journey beyond China’s borders since the beginning of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

An estimated 14,000 Russians have fled to Turkey since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last month, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported on Monday.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) cautioned Tuesday the threat of armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not the only concern on the horizon, pointing to rising coronavirus rates in Eastern Europe as the source of more worries.

A three-year-old girl was apparently dropped into a bear’s enclosure while visiting a zoo in Uzbekistan by her mother, reports said Monday.

Afghan Air Force pilots who fled to Uzbekistan before the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan began flying to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for permanent refuge over the weekend. The fate of several dozen combat aircraft they brought with them to Uzbekistan remains in doubt.

Uzbekistan’s air defense forces shot down an Afghan military plane on Monday, shortly after it crossed the border, the Uzbek Defense Ministry confirmed.

Acting Finance Minister Khalid Payenda on Wednesday resigned his position with the government of Afghanistan and fled the country after the brutal Taliban insurgency gained control of vital border crossings and captured three more provincial capitals, bringing its total to nine.

President Joe Biden said Afghans who aided America and their families may relocate to American facilities outside the continental U.S.

President Biden is racing to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting U.S. visas for aiding the American war effort.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials report an increase in the number of illegal border crossers from Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. These Asian migrants reportedly come to the U.S. seeking asylum from persecution, officials stated.

The government of Uzbekistan will pay tourists $3000 should they contract the Chinese coronavirus while visiting the country, officials confirmed this week. 

MOSCOW – Nine hulking Il-76 cargo planes are being loaded at the Chkalovsky military airport in Moscow as Russia prepares to send medical personnel and supplies to Italy to help the country’s efforts against the coronavirus.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the Communist regime in China is the “central threat of our times.”

The Islamic State (ISIS) terror suspect — who came to the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery” — accused of murdering eight people in New York City, said in court he is “following orders of Allah.”

Swedish police have arrested an Uzbek migrant this week on suspicion of terrorism who had previously been deported from the country and held as an example of successful integration.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday released the International Religious Freedom Report for 2018 and announced the expansion of the State Department’s efforts to address religious liberty around the globe.

A 46-year-old man was found guilty Friday of preparing an attack in Stockholm on behalf of the Islamic State group and sentenced to seven years in jail.

As Christians around the world prepare to observe the holy weekend of Easter, many will be asked at their services to pray for the persecuted around the world.

A refugee from Uzbekistan is on trial on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization after he allegedly used code words to send money to the Islamic Jihad Union.

Federal officials stopped the attempted smuggling of two Uzbek nationals who illegally crossed the border from Canada into New York. The effort led to the arrest of a U.S. citizen who officials say was transporting them.

Contents: Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev promises to end atrocities of previous leader Islam Karimov; Rise of Islamic radicalism and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU); Who’s going to pick the cotton in Uzbekistan?

The man accused of carrying out last month’s New York terror attack, Sayfullo Saipov, pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism and first-degree in a federal court Tuesday.

CBS News reported on Tuesday that evidence existed that American embassy staff in Uzbekistan may have suffered similar symptoms to those targeted by unexplained acoustic attacks in Cuba. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert fervently denied that any incident had occurred in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital.