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Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to "strike at those targets that we have not yet been hitting" in Ukraine if the West provides Kyiv with longer-range weaponry.

Voters in Kazakhstan are voting in a constitutional referendum that President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has said will shift the country from a "super-presidential form of government to a presidential republic with a strong parliament."

BEIJING, June 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Finance Forum (IFF) will start accepting applications for the annual IFF Global Green Finance Award, from June 5, which is also the World

Alina Korenyuk's hometown of Popasna has been virtually destroyed since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine 100 days ago. Insult was added to injury for the displaced woman and her family when they spotted a photograph of a Russian tank carting off their possessions as war booty.

Dozens have been injured after Armenian opposition protestors clashed again with police as they continue to reject the government's handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute with Azerbaijan.

Russian invading forces are now focused on seizing control of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine after being repelled in Kyiv. But Russian leader Vladimir Putin could target the Ukrainian capital again, a Ukrainian special forces commander says.

A U.S. federal court on June 3 sentenced a citizen of Uzbekistan living in New York to 15 years in prison for supporting the Islamic State extremist group (IS), a designated terrorist organization.

Ukraine said its forces had recaptured 20 percent of the territory they had lost in the city of Syevyerodonetsk, the focus of a Russian offensive to take the eastern Donbas region, and could hold it for up to two weeks as fighting continued on June 4.

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied accusations his armed forces are blocking Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea and said his government would “guarantee" peaceful passage to ships leaving its ports. 

Tens of thousands of Russians fled to Central Asia shorty after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Some emigres are calling Central Asia their new "forever homes" while others mull a return home as they carefully watch events in Russia.