Page 410 - Icks News Today

Attendees at a fund-raising event in Warsaw have pledged nearly $10 billion in donations, loans, and grants to support refugees fleeing war in Ukraine and those internally displaced following Russia's unprovoked February 24 invasion.

Leading Western experts on fascism agree that Vladimir Putin's Russia is an aggressive and dangerous dictatorship that shares some characteristics with fascist regimes. But, they say, it is not fascist itself, and other historical precedents are more useful for understanding the Kremlin.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said Iran will continue nuclear development activities as talks to revive Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers remain stalled.

Georgia is marking National Unity Day, the anniversary of the deadly dispersal by Soviet troops of pro-independence rallies in Tbilisi on April 9, 1989.

As more coffins and death notices come home, the brutal reality of Moscow's six-week war in Ukraine begins to hit regular families.

Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded its assessment of Russia's ability to repay external debt, an indication Moscow will soon default on its foreign loans for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution.

In a joint interview with RFE/RL, Columbia University's Tanya Domi and Dr. Laura Cohen, director of the Holocaust center at the City University of New York, discuss the role of the ICC and the UN in pursuing Ukraine war crimes allegations, and look at comparisons with Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The war in Ukraine is a test of whether the European Parliament can show courage and leadership and act as a strong defender of democracy, the legislature's president, Roberta Metsola, tells RFE/RL.

A stabbing attack at a revered shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad has claimed the life of a second Shiite cleric, state television reports.

Sixteen men arrested in the northeastern Kazakh city of Oskemen during deadly anti-government demonstrations that shook the country in January have launched a hunger strike to protest the conditions they are held in and a court's decision to extend their pretrial detention.