Europe

Over 1,2 million people, both Bucharest residents and tourists, visited the Christmas Market in Constitution Square this year; admission to the event was free and lasted for almost a month

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny spoke out for the first time since his sudden disappearance weeks ago, after his team claimed to have located him on Monday in a penal colony in Siberia

A San Marino vet has rescued a golden jackal shot by hunters and trapped in a steel lasso, making it the first specimen recovered in Emilia Romagna able to return to the wild; the radio collar it wears will provide information on its species

A multimillion-euro telecoms corruption case against three former managers of North Macedonia’s partially state-owned Makedonski Telekom has passed the statute of limitations, therefore ending with no final verdict after 12 years of setbacks and delays

Contracts were announced for the design of Rail Baltica infrastructure objects in Lithuania in the Kaunas railway junction and the Jiesia section

Malta's largest annual charity telethon, L-Istrina, started at noon yesterday and by 7;15pm €3 million had already been raised, raising funds for the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation

Union of Merchants and Artisans of Monaco took part in the centenary celebrations of the birth of Prince Rainier III and the competition held by the Commemoration Committee chaired by Princess Stéphanie decreed the best store window decorations

The two-day Christmas period was the second warmest since records began in 1901; five of the 10 warmest Christmas periods have been recorded since the turn of the century

Tesla said over 20.000 cars were registered in Sweden this year, even though ongoing labour strikes seem to threaten its operations in the country

Travelling by train from Bratislava to various European cities at Christmas is on average twice as expensive as travelling by plane, claims Greenpeace Slovakia