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00:00Voting is underway in Croatia this Sunday as EU critic Zoran Milanovic faces centre-right candidate Dragan Primoraz.
00:11Ukrainian security says the arrest of two North Korean soldiers in Kursk is indisputable evidence of Pyongyang's involvement in the war.
00:22Thousands of Romanians took to the streets in Bucharest to call for new elections after the recent vote was annulled.
00:31European and Arab diplomats meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Syria's future after the fall of the Assad regime.
00:41Voting is underway this Sunday in Croatia's presidential election runoff.
00:47Left-leading incumbent president Zoran Milanovic is up against centre-right candidate Dragan Primoraz.
00:53Milanovic, who gathered nearly half of the votes in the first round, is expected to win, according to the latest polls.
01:01He is against military Western support for Ukraine and is critical of the EU and NATO.
01:07Primoraz, on the other hand, has repeatedly stated that Croatia's place is in the West.
01:13He is backed by the prime minister and Croatia's government, but his presidency bid has been marred by a high-level corruption case.
01:20Croatia has around 3.5 million eligible voters.
01:25Their turnout in the first round was 46 percent, the lowest of any presidential election in 15 years.
01:32The first results are expected in the early evening of Sunday.
01:36A spokesperson for Ukraine's security service has said the arrest of two North Korean soldiers in Kursk is indisputable evidence of Pyongyang's involvement in the war.
01:51The two unnamed men were captured by Ukrainian forces on Saturday and have since reportedly been sent to Kiev for questioning.
01:59Artem Dektyarenko said one of the men was carrying a Russian military ID card issued in the name of a different person.
02:06Video released by the SSU purports to show the two men in detention apparently in Kiev.
02:14In his nightly video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the two North Koreans were being questioned by investigators with the help of Korean translators.
02:23Zelensky said their presence on the battlefield is proof of Russia doing everything to prolong and escalate the war.
02:31There's been no comment from Pyongyang about the capture of the two soldiers.
02:36European and Middle Eastern diplomats have met in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to discuss Syria's future after the fall of the Assad regime in December.
02:50According to the UN, seven in ten Syrians are in need of aid, the delivery of which is complicated by sanctions.
02:57The EU's top diplomat, Kayyak Halas, underlined the union's priorities which would be prerequisite for the lifting of sanctions.
03:04In Syria there are a lot of different groups, so it has to include all those groups.
03:11We also want to see no radicalization, we want to see inclusiveness of women also in the process.
03:20Germany's foreign affairs minister, Annalena Baerbock, called for a quote smart approach to the sanctions that would enable aid to reach Syrian civilians.
03:29She also announced an additional 50 million euros in aid for food, emergency shelters and medical care.
03:36EU foreign ministers are due to meet on the 27th of January to discuss the sanctions against Syria.
03:47Thousands of supporters of the right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians attended demonstrations in Bucharest on Sunday,
03:54calling for new presidential elections after the recent vote was annulled.
03:59The party's leader, George Simeon, organized the march, calling on his supporters to protest against the decision.
04:06Kalin Georgescu, a right-wing populist, came first in the first round of the presidential race.
04:12But allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference led to the unprecedented move by the Constitutional Court to cancel the second round and annul the race.
04:22It came as Romania's outgoing president, Claus Ioannis, tasked the incumbent prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, with leading a new pro-European coalition government.
04:33He said he will stay in office until his successor is appointed and has called on Romanians to respect the court's ruling.
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