ANKARA (AA) – Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on Saturday inked a string of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth $2.5 billion, state media reported. Some 35 agreements in energy, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors were signed by Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economi...
Two pharmacy owners in New York have been sentenced for orchestrating an $18 million healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme. Peter Khaim and Arkadiy Khaimov pleaded guilty in November 2022 to conspiracy charges involving money laundering. The scheme involved their New York pharmacies submitting millions of dollars in false Medicare clai...
Soykechar, Uzbekistan – AFP Sifting through a greyish mixture of sand and pebble in the steppe of Uzbekistan, Khislat Ochilov was searching for gold. He is one of hundreds of new prospectors trying to strike it rich in a modern-day gold rush in the Central Asian country, chock-full of the precious metal. It was a […]
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – AFP Saodat Shermatova “cried with joy” after Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic, lifted a ban last month on women working as bus drivers. “I was waiting a long time,” said the 49-year-old, who used to work in public transport maintenance in the Muslim state’s capital, Tashkent. Sherm...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has been handed over to the Taliban administration, local media reported Sunday. Afghan envoy Ahmed Khalid Alemi, who was appointed during the period under the leadership of Ashraf Ghani, handed over his duties to Charge d’Affaires Maghfrullah Shahab, wh...
