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Ilya Ponomaryov, a former member of the Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has been added to the Interior Ministry's list of terrorists and extremists.

The United States and Germany are expected to greenlight sending modern tanks to Ukraine, multiple sources say, in an important U-turn that Kyiv hopes will alter the balance on the battlefield as Russia piles massive pressure on Ukrainian defenders in the Donbas.

Iranian film producer Javad Norouzbeigi says a legal case has been filed against him due to the production of his banned prizewinning film, Leila’s Brothers.

The United Nations aid chief, Martin Griffiths, said on January 25 that he had urged the Taliban authorities to offer more clarity on humanitarian sectors that could be reopened for Afghan women workers.

Russia-imposed law enforcement officers have detained at least 34 Crimean Tatar activists who came to express support for six men arrested for belonging to the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group in Ukraine’s Moscow-annexed Crimea.

A Ukrainian deputy defense minister said on January 25 that Russian forces are "intensifying" their attacks near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine and warned that Moscow had a "superior number of soldiers and weapons" in what has become a hot spot in the 11-month-old invasion.

Iran has announced tit-for-tat sanctions against more than 30 European individuals and entities in response to a similar move by the European Union over Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.

Ukraine’s armed forces will receive a boost as the West allocates tanks with superior capabilities.

Bosnia-Herzegovina's overall parliament has approved a new Council of Ministers led by an ethnic Croat to spearhead the beleaguered Balkan state's freshly reinvigorated EU bid despite ongoing threats to unity.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made it clear on January 25 that it wants Russians to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics as neutral athletes in defiance of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s call to exclude them entirely.