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The Serbian Progressive Party of President Aleksandar Vucic is likely to win the parliamentary election on December 17. The opposition does, however, enjoy strong backing in the capital, Belgrade.

The Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is suspected of money laundering and violating sanctions law. But the chances of this being proven in court seem slim.

The number of migrants from Tunisia to Europe doubled this year, as did the number of intercepts. What impact is the so-called EU migration deal having, and how might it affect President Saied's chances of reelection?

Some EU politicians see growing momentum for issuing a shared cease-fire call in Gaza. Nevertheless, it did not become an official policy position at this week's EU summit in Brussels.

Germany's last troops serving in Mali have returned home after the Russian-backed military government there ordered peacekeepers out. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told them their mission was not a failure.

The inflatable dinghy carrying over 60 people got into trouble off the coast of northern France. One person drowned and another is critically ill, while several others could still be missing.

India's Supreme Court was considering several petitions that challenged a 2019 decision that revoked the region's limited autonomy and imposed direct rule.

Despite intimidation by the authorities, relatives of conscripted Russian soldiers are campaigning for them to be brought back from the war front in Ukraine. What are the movement's chances of success?

Agnes Chow is one of Hong Kong's prominent pro-democracy activists. She fled to Canada amid Beijing's tightening clampdown on dissent and now cannot return.

As European leaders tussle over key decisions on Ukraine ahead of a crucial EU summit on December 14-15, Talking Europe hosts Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, Olha Stefanishyna.

Finland was admitted into NATO this April, delays have persisted on Sweden’s entry, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan linking a serious of unrelated issues to Ankara’s ratification of Sweden's accession – the latest of which is a potential sale of US F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. We discuss what Sweden’s entry to NATO would actually mean with Sweden's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström.

Ukraine's top general Valery Zaluzhny recently identified five areas that the country’s armed forces need to work on, in order to regain an edge over the Russians. Two of them involve drones: the drones themselves and the techniques for jamming them. Big and small, in the air, on land and in the sea, unmanned vehicles are absolutely central to this war. And the technology is evolving rapidly.