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More than 1,000 ethnic Serbs protested in northern Kosovo on December 22 to demand the release of detained Serbs and other conditions that they say must be met before they will remove several roadblocks erected in the area.

Currently serving a six-year prison term for abuse of power, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is appealing for his sentence to be suspended due to poor health. As international support for his case grows, the dispute in Georgia over whether he's really ill has become even uglier.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited army units fighting in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said on December 22.

Ukrainian forces fought back numerous attacks by Moscow's troops in the east  of the country as Russians targeted a hospital in the Zaporizhzhya region with artillery fire over the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said on December 22.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked the citizenship of a billionaire of Armenian descent after he eschewed his homeland to move to the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The European Union's 27 heads of state and government and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will hold a summit on February 3, an EU spokesman said on December 22, but the location has not been determined.

Iranian protesters have staged fresh demonstrations by taking to the streets and the graves of victims of the government crackdown to protest during a night that is traditionally an ancient festival to mark the winter solstice.

Ukraine's president got a ride in a U.S. government jet, a red-carpet welcome at the White House, and more than dozen standing ovations from members of Congress -- plus a new Patriot air-defense system. But did he get what he really wanted?

Taliban security forces have used violence and arrested several people as they dispersed a protest by Afghan women against a ruling that bans female students from universities.

ARNSTADT, Germany, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH (CATT), CATL's first plant outside of China, has kicked off serial production of lithium-ion battery