Predrag Mitrovic News Today

Your ears enjoy music but your heart may also benefit, according to a new study presented at the American College of Cardiologys Annual Scientific Session.Patients with early post-infarction angina, episodes of chest pain after a heart attack, reported significantly lower levels of anxiety and pain if they listened to music for 30 minute

Police in Siberia detained human rights activist Olga Suvorova on December 18 on her arrival in the city of Krasnoyarsk from Moscow.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on December 17 that it has launched a probe into the discovery of a listening device "at a place that could potentially be a working site" of Ukraine's commander in chief, General Valeriy Zaluzhniy.

A court in Russia's Rostov region sentenced a former fighter of the Wagner mercenary group, Pavel Nikolin, to six years and 11 months in prison on December 18 for opening fire with an automatic weapon on a group of police officers in December of last year, wounding one of them.

A court in the Russian city of Vladimir has again postponed a hearing into complaints filed by imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny “until his whereabouts are ascertained.”

Ukraine's Prosecutor-General's Office said on December 17 that a court has ordered the arrest of local councillor Serhiy Batryn, who detonated three grenades during a council session in the village of Keretsky in the western region of Zakarpattya two days earlier, killing one person.

A leader of the pro-European Serbia Against Violence coalition said his group “cannot…accept the results” of voting in Belgrade, where voters on December 17 were to elect a new 110-member City Assembly and smaller constituent councils.

Kazakh authorities have brought an additional number of riot police troops from other parts of the Central Asian nation to the town of Zhetybai in the western region of Manghystau as hundreds of oil-industry workers continue their strike launched last week.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on December 18 simplifying naturalization of Belarusian, Kazakh, and Moldovan citizens.

Pakistan's jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan used an audio clip generated by artificial intelligence (AI) late on December 17 to address a virtual rally in the first event of its kind in the country.