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It is too early for people who left their homes in Kyiv and surrounding areas to return, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar has said, even as the border service said it has seen an uptick in the number of people returning to the country.

A large stake in Kazakhstan's communications monopoly, Kazakhtelecom, owned by former President Nursultan Nazarbaev's nephew has been seized by the  government.

In the wake of the withdrawal of Russian forces from around Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, numerous allegations of rapes committed by Russian soldiers are emerging. Ukrainian prosecutors are probing whether the alleged incidents indicate a policy of war crimes approved by the Russian authorities.

As the weather gets warmer and more Pennsylvanians venture outside, state officials are encouraging them to protect themselves against potentially serious tick-borne diseases.

Kyrgyzstan's Border Guard Service says one person has been wounded in the latest shoot-out near a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.

Russian military patrols prowl the streets, Russian channels fill the airwaves, and the occupying forces take a cut of the fishermen’s catch. Phone service is dead, and protests have been quashed. This is life in Berdyansk, an Azov Sea port city seized by Russian forces days after the invasion.

A veteran human rights lawyer who was the lead prosecutor at the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic says building a war crimes indictment against Russian forces -- even Russian President Vladimir Putin -- "is a substantial task" but "not necessarily" difficult.

Ukraine says Russian hackers sought to attack and disable Ukraine's electricity grid for a second time last week but were thwarted.

Four former editors of the Doxa student magazine in Moscow have been sentenced to two years of correctional labor each over a video questioning whether it was right for teachers to discourage students from attending rallies protesting opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's incarceration.

The UN's chemical-weapons watchdog says it is "concerned" about unconfirmed reports of the use of chemical weapons in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.