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Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) says it has uncovered a large-scale embezzlement scheme to siphon off public funds earmarked for the purchase of food for the military as it battles to repel Moscow's nearly yearlong invasion. 

The Taliban warned private universities in Afghanistan on January 28 that female students were banned from taking university entrance exams scheduled for later this month.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on a previously designated Iranian drone maker, Paravar Pars, this time targeting the board of directors.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been temporarily released from prison days after going on a hunger strike to protest “the illegal and inhumane behavior" of Iran's judiciary and security apparatus, which have led a brutal and sometimes deadly crackdown on recent unrest in the country.

Afghan university professor Ismail Mashal made headlines when he ripped up his degrees on live TV to protest the Taliban's ban on female education. He followed that up by walking around Kabul and donating books to Afghan girls and women. On February 2, Mashal's challenge to the Taliban authorities landed him in prison after he was arrested.  

After months of morale-boosting Ukrainian victories powered in part by Western weaponry, the tides of battle are turning yet again: Momentum seems to be shifting to Russia, bolstered by tens of thousands of mobilized men and thousands of prison inmates recruited by the Wagner mercenary group. 

Tensions have skyrocketed as Macedonians and Bulgarians prepared to honor a revolutionary hero whose legacy is still disputed. But on the 151st anniversary of Gotse Delchev's birth, why is it all kicking off now? 

Ukraine's military says there are clear signs that Russian forces are getting ready for a major push in the east, where a stalemate continues despite months-long heavy fighting and intensive daily shelling by Moscow's troops.

A rights group says at least 185 citizens in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan have been arrested in the past month by security forces trying to stifle widespread dissent.