German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on fellow European Union members to provide more military support this year to Ukraine in its fight against Russia's full-scale invasion.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, is set to mark on January 9 an unconstitutional "national day" amid international warnings about the increasingly secessionist policies of the entity's leader, Milorad Dodik.
A Russian court has sent U.S. citizen Robert Romanov Woodland to pretrial detention for two months on drug-possession charges that could see him imprisoned for up to two decades.
A roadside bomb explosion targeting a police vehicle that was guarding an anti-polio vaccination team has killed at least five police officers and wounded another 22 in northwestern Pakistan, local officials told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on January 8.
Russia launched a massive wave of missile strikes at Ukrainian regions on January 8, injuring several people and causing damage to civilian infrastructure and economic facilities, Ukraine said, as an air -raid alert was declared for most of the country, including the capital, Kyiv.