Chairman of the Office of Muslims of Uzbekistan, Mufti Sheikh Nuriddin Khaliqnazar and Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Nazir Muhammad Ayyod, discussed the development of bilateral relations, especially cooperation in the field of fatwa.

In Tashkent, a group of musicians and bloggers were arrested and imprisoned for 15 days for promoting promiscuity, drunkenness and homosexuality under the guise of humor. The Court of Appeal acquitted them.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan reported that it has not received any request from the Taliban to cancel concerts and musical programs in the international trade center "Termiz". Earlier, the Afghan press reported that the Taliban sent such a request to the Uzbek authorities and threatened to ban Afghan citizens from visiting this shopping area if this request was not met.

The chairman of the Committee on Religious Affairs, Sadiqjon Toshboev, supported the request to deposit $1 million for the Umra license. "This is not a big amount... If there was a problem with those 15,000 people, we could not bring back even 100 people for the 100,000 dollars invested," said the representative of the Religious Committee. He also gave information about going to Umrah pilgrimage independently.

Electronic voting will be tested for the first time in Uzbekistan. The Central Election Commission has decided to test electronic voting in 10 polling stations in Tashkent in the elections of deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis and local councils to be held on October 27, 2024.

Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Nurlan Kurtulmus called on the nation to unite in "an important time for humanity" at the meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. "Israel's strength is not in its army, not in its dominance of the world financial market and the press, not even in its sponsors. Israel's power lies in dividing the Islamic world," he said.

A prestigious international conference on "Islam - the religion of goodness and peace" has started in Tashkent. More than 70 leaders of influential international organizations, religious leaders, muftis and famous scholars from 22 countries of the world, in particular, Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Sheikh Muhammad Awwama, Nazir Muhammad Ayyod, Arshad Madani, among the mujtahid scholars of our time, are participating in the conference.

Since the end of the Second Karabakh War on November 10, 2020, 70 Azerbaijani citizens have been victims of the explosion of mines hidden by Armenians, and 311 people have been injured. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan called on the international community not to turn a blind eye to Armenia's "landmine terror" against Azerbaijan.

In 2023, the European Parliament decided that Turkey would not be able to join the union until it changed its course. Erdoğan, angered by this decision, announced that "Turkey, which has been "yellowing" in front of the EU gate for 40 years, no longer expects anything from the union." Meanwhile, Ankara has become the first NATO ally to be a candidate for BRICS, and the bloc will consider the request at a summit in Russia in October.

Turkey's Daron Ajemoğlu, American Simon and British James Robenson have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics "for their research on the formation of institutions and their impact on well-being".