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The Finnish subsidiary of Russian state-owned energy provider Inter RAO has announced a halt in electricity supplies to Finland as of May 14 over unpaid bills.

Thousands of protesters have blocked government buildings in the Armenian capital as nearly two weeks of opposition-led demonstrations continued in an effort to force Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from office.

President Joe Biden has stressed "close security and defense cooperation" between the United States, Finland, and Sweden in a joint call with those countries' leaders in which he also encouraged their looming NATO bids amid Russia's attack on Ukraine.

The White House has accused Moscow of "wrongfully" detaining American basketball player Brittney Griner and put its envoy for hostage affairs on the case after a Russian court extended the WNBA star's pretrial custody since her detention at a Moscow airport in February.

Former Russian Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2017 for bribery, has been released from prison after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court ruling last month that accepted his request for early parole.

Anastasia Konchakovska, 5, is recovering from surgery to remove part of a bullet from her skull following a Russian ambush on her father's car. She has yet to learn her parents were killed.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin say they support joining the NATO military alliance, abandoning decades of neutrality for the Nordic country, which shares a long border with Russia.

Romania's Foreign Ministry says two Romanian journalists were briefly detained by security forces of the breakaway region of Transdniester, a sliver of land inside Moldova held by Kremlin-backed separatists.

Late May through early July is the highest risk time for tick bites and the spread of Lyme disease in the North Country. Lee Ann Sporn, a biology professor at Paul Smiths College, studies and monitors tick populations in the region. Sporn says the...

As heavy fighting continues to rage in eastern Ukraine, Finland has said it intends to apply to join NATO "without delay," in a major policy shift that sees the Nordic country, which shares a long border with Russia, abandoning decades of neutrality.