Page 268 - Icks News Today

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said Kyiv's lightning offensive in the Kharkiv region has gone "better than expected." RFE/RL spoke to Ukrainian military analysts about the genesis of the assault and how the military situation has changed.

Russia has redeployed troops from its bases in Central Asia to fight in Ukraine, multiple sources told RFE/RL. It comes as the Russian Army is reported to have suffered tremendous casualties in Moscow’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.

Families of prisoners on death row stage protest amid soaring execution rates, Ukraine claims to have downed an Iranian drone used by Russia, and jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is awarded a special prize at the Venice film festival.

World leaders have called for an immediate cessation in hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan after nearly 100 troops were killed in the deadliest clashes between the two Caucasus neighbors since the end of a 2020 war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Ukraine says it has for the first time encountered an Iranian-made suicide drone used by Russia on the battlefield, where its military has pushed Russian forces out of hundreds of cities and towns in the northeast of the country.

A court in Dushanbe has sentenced a retired security officer and journalist who is a native of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan to seven years in prison amid an ongoing crackdown on activists from the volatile region.

Pope Francis has warned religious leaders from a variety of faiths that religion can't be used to justify the "evil" of war, a thinly veiled criticism of Russia's Orthodox Church, which has supported President Vladimir Putin during his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis, whose first collaboration was the 1994 smash hit “Forrest Gump,” reunite for the fourth time with “Pinocchio,” Disney’s latest live-action remake

In another move to distance himself from his predecessor, Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has agreed to change the name of his country's capital city back to Astana from Nur-Sultan.

A documentary by jailed Tajik journalist Abdullo Ghurbati has won the top prize at the Baiqonyr International Short Film Festival in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty.