The death toll from a Russian strike on a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk climbed to 11 as Moscow claimed advances near Bakhmut.
At least two people have been killed and two others wounded in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region, officials said, blaming a drone strike carried out by neighboring Turkey.
Germany approved a request from Poland for the re-export of five Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, one of Kyiv's key requests to help repel Russia's forces.
FBI agents arrested a 21-year-old national guardsman suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive US government secrets -- including about the Ukraine war.
North Korea said it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, hailing it as a key breakthrough for the country's nuclear counterattack capabilities.