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An Uzbekistan soccer fan sounds a traditional trumpet during a World Cup qualifying match in Tashkent in June 2025.

Uzbekistan fans will descend on Mexico City Stadium on June 17 to watch their team become the first Central Asian country to play at the FIFA World Cup. The team's opening match against Colombia marks the pinnacle, thus far, of Uzbekistan’s century-long love affair with football.

Kyiv residents woke on June 15 to find their city’s most revered religious monument in flames after Russia launched a massive drone and missile barrage on sites throughout Ukraine. It is the latest war damage inflicted on the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the monastery's turbulent, nearly 1,000-year history.