Europe

Georgia arrests 107 more people as pro-EU protests continue

Riot police fired water cannons and tear gas at protesters, who tossed eggs and fireworks

Ukrainian president says NATO membership can end 'hot phase' of war

Zelenskyy suggests he would be willing to consider a ceasefire if Ukraine’s unoccupied territories fell under NATO’s protection

Iceland votes for new parliament amid disagreements on immigration, economy

Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson forced to call early elections

Icebreaker deal would challenge Russian supremacy in Arctic

Ship-building pact among US, Canada, Finland aims to defend sovereignty against Russian, Chinese threats

As Arctic climate warms, even Santa runs short of snow

The town of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland — marketed by tourism officials since the 1980s as the "real" home of Santa Claus — seeing milder and more unpredictable winters

Explosion damages canal feeding Kosovo's main power plants

Plants generate nearly all of the country's electricity

Moody's downgrades Hungary outlook on institutional 'weaknesses'

Georgian protesters clash with police for 2nd night after EU talks suspended

Clashes between police and protesters also erupted late Friday in the Black Sea port of Batumi

North Korea: Russia has right to exercise self-defense against Ukraine 

'The US and the West made Kyiv authorities attack Russia's territory with their own long-range strike weapons,' North Korea's Kim Jong Un is quoted as saying

From VOA Russian: Who is Belarusian soldier extradited from Vietnam to Minsk?

From VOA Russian: Astana welcomes Putin, but its oil exports set to bypass Russia 

Putin claims new Oreshnik missile is unstoppable, sparking doubts

Russia struck Dnipro, Ukraine, with an experimental Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile on November 21. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the day after that the missile could not be intercepted. The claim is likely false. Leonid Martynyuk explains.