Pope recognizes the resignation of the archbishop of Belarus, who has upset Lukashenko
Pope Francis on Sunday accepted the resignation of the head of the Catholic Church in Belarus, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who spent time in exile last...
Lukashenka’s Long Rule Over Belarus Looks Set To Survive 2020. What About 2021?
Alyaksandr Lukashenka talks to medical workers during a visit to a district hospital in Stolbtsy on December 8. Even before the election in August, his...
Top Belarus Diplomat, New Ambassador To U.S. Dies
Aleh Krauchanka (file photo) A top Belarusian diplomat who had been appointed the first ambassador to the United States in nearly 12 years has died....
Exiled archbishop returns to Belarus after Pope lobbies Lukashenko – Ifax
Minsk’s exiled Catholic archbishop has returned to Belarus after Pope Francis successfully lobbied Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to allow him back, the Interfax news agency...
Thousands of anti-Lukashenko protesters march in Belarus, hundreds detained
Thousands of demonstrators marched in the Belarus capital Minsk and elsewhere on Sunday as weekly protests demanding the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko continued,...
Tens of thousands protest in Belarus, defying warning shots
Riot police fired warning shots into the air, used stun grenades and arrested more than 200 people to deter tens of thousands of Belarusians who...
Belarus opposition prepares mass strikes after Lukashenko ignores deadline to quit
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko defied an ultimatum to surrender power by midnight on Sunday, challenging his opponents to make good on their threat to paralyse...
FBI says it has reached no conclusion on cause of Beirut blast
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday it has reached no firm conclusion about what caused the Aug. 4 explosion in the port...
Police in Belarus crack down on protesters, detain dozens
Security forces in Belarus detained dozens of protesters on Sunday and used force, including water cannon and batons, to break up crowds demanding a new...
Tens of thousands rally in Minsk, police use water cannon
Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday to demand that authorities free political prisoners, prompting police...
Washington hits Belarus with sanctions as Minsk retaliates against EU measures
The United States imposed sanctions on eight Belarusian officials on Friday, accusing them of involvement in rigging President Alexander Lukashenko’s re-election victory in August or...
Belarus announces sanctions list in retaliation against EU
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had compiled a list of people barred from entering Belarus in retaliation against sanctions imposed by the...
U.S. holding back on Belarus sanctions, hopes for joint move with EU: sources
The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal...
Britain and Canada impose sanctions on Belarus leader Lukashenko
Britain and Canada imposed travel bans and asset freezes on Tuesday on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and other senior officials, accusing their government...
Tens of thousands rally against Belarus president in ‘people’s inauguration’
Masked police dragged people into vans and fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds as tens of thousands marched for a seventh straight...
If it was that easy: ‘Lukashenko has to go,’ says France’s Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Corsica on September 10, 2020. © Ludovic Marin, POOL, AFP French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday...
U.S., UK, Canada plan sanctions on Belarusians, perhaps Friday
The United States, Britain and Canada plan to impose sanctions on Belarusian individuals following what they view as a rigged election and violence against peaceful...
Canada says Lukashenko is not ‘legitimate’ leader of Belarus: foreign minister
Alexander Lukashenko is not the legitimate leader of Belarus and he is disregarding basic human rights and democratic principles, Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said...
EU says Lukashenko is not legitimate Belarus president
President Alexander Lukashenko is not the legitimate president of Belarus, the European Union said on Thursday, saying his abrupt swearing-in on Wednesday went directly against...
Thousands protest after Belarusian leader hastily sworn in
Belarusian security forces detained protesters and fired water cannon to disperse crowds as thousands took to the streets of Minsk against the abrupt inauguration of...
Belarus leader Lukashenko sworn in at secret ceremony: agency
Lukashenko, seen here at a rally in August, has faced massive demonstrations against his rule since claiming victory in disputed elections on August 9 Siarhei...
Belarus opposition appeal to EU fails to unblock sanctions
European Union foreign ministers failed to agree sanctions against Belarusian officials on Monday, despite an appeal by the country’s main opposition leader. After a sixth...
Mass rallies and police data leaks in Belarus keep pressure on Lukashenko
More than 100,000 people marched through Minsk on Sunday on the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, keeping up the pressure on...
Belarus police detain hundreds of protesters in Minsk
Belarusian police detained hundreds of protesters in central Minsk on Saturday, a witness said, as around 2,000 people marched through the city demanding that President...
Belarus opposition offers talks as U.N. hears fears of ‘another iron curtain’
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya demanded on Friday an international mission to document what she called “atrocities” during crackdowns on anti-government protests but said she...
Poland proposes billion-euro EU fund for Belarus
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the EU must offer Belarus significant support after meeting Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis PETRAS MALUKAS AFP Poland on...
Russia accuses U.S. of promoting revolution in Belarus, toughens stance
Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of trying to foment a revolution in Belarus, where it sent its defence minister for talks on military ties, in...
EU calls for U.N. monitoring of Belarus rights abuses: document
The European Union is calling for close monitoring of the human rights situation in Belarus by the U.N. human rights chief, adding to pressure on...
Putin throws $1.5 billion lifeline to Belarus leader
Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed a $1.5 billion loan on Belarus on Monday in a gesture of support for its leader Alexander Lukashenko, who flew...
At least 100,000 Belarus protesters flood streets to demand end of Lukashenko
At least 100,000 Belarusian protesters took to the streets of Minsk on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations yet against President Alexander Lukashenko after...
Tens of thousands of Belarus protesters rally on eve of Putin-Lukashenko talks
A protester with a historical white-red-white flag of Belarus knees in front of law enforcement officers during a rally against police brutality following protests to...
Russia to send paratroopers to Belarus for joint drills starting on Monday: RIA
Russia will send troops from its Pskov division of paratroopers to Belarus for joint military drills starting on Monday, the RIA news agency cited Russia’s...
Belarus police detain dozens of protesters at anti-government rally
Police detained at least 46 protesters on Saturday as thousands of people gathered in the Belarus capital Minsk demanding the release of a jailed opposition...
Belarus president to visit Russia on Monday: Kremlin
Thousands of protesters have been detained - TUT.BY/AFP/File Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday will hold talks with Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, who faces the...
EU determined to impose Belarus sanctions, bloc’s top diplomat says
FILE PHOTO: The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell wears a face mask as he arrives for...
Czech PM vetoes V4 meeting with Belarus opposition leader
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis vetoed on Thursday a Polish proposal to invite Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to Friday’s summit of central European heads...
Ukraine’s border is open to Belarusians, says foreign minister
Ukraine said on Wednesday its borders remained open to Belarusian citizens but Kyiv would deal harshly with any attempt by Belarusian or Russian intelligence services...
Serbia suspends Belarus military drill, citing EU pressure
Serbia suspended military drills with foreign troops for six months on Wednesday, halting planned joint exercises with Russia in protest-hit Belarus, after what the government...
Nobel laureate Alexievich denounces Belarus ‘terror’ as another activist is detained
Nobel prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich accused the authorities in Belarus of terrorising their own people on Wednesday as another opposition politician was detained by masked...
Belarusian protest leader ripped up passport to avoid expulsion, allies say
Belarusian authorities drove prominent opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova to the border with Ukraine on Tuesday, a day after she was snatched from the street in...
U.S. ‘extremely concerned’ by human rights violations after Belarus vote, official says
The United States is “extemely concerned” by human rights violations after the Belarus election, citing reported kidnapping and threats to opposition figures, a senior administration...
Germany calls on Lukashenko to clarify whereabouts of protest leader Kolesnikova
Germany has called on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to clarify what happened to protest leader Maria Kolesnikova following reports that the opposition politician was detained...
Hundreds of Belarus protesters say they were beaten by police, demand justice
Artur Khomenko, an entrepreneur from Minsk, said police officers began beating him with their fists and truncheons after they detained him on the fourth night...
Lithuania fears Lukashenko will sign away Belarus independence to Russia
FILE PHOTO: Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius attends a news conference, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Riga, Latvia May 15, 2020....
Belarusian protest leader disappears after being detained by masked men
Masked men detained Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her away in a van and two of her...
Masked men reportedly seize senior Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova in Minsk
Maria Kolesnikova is one of the campaign partners of opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who claimed victory against President Alexander Lukashenko in a disputed election on...
EU to blacklist 31 Belarus senior officials over election, diplomats say
The European Union aims to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials including the country’s interior minister by mid-September, three EU diplomats said, in...
Scores detained as security forces crack down on mass protest in Belarus
Security forces in Belarus detained scores of protesters and were filmed beating a man as he lay on the street, as the authorities launched a...
Belarusian opposition activist Kovalkova leaves country after arrest
Kovalkova, a senior figure in the Belarusian opposition Coordination Council, was sentenced to 10 days in jail on Aug. 25. A person waving a historical...
Masked men drag protesting Belarusian students off the streets
Up to 30 people were detained for taking part in unsanctioned protests. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures as he delivers a speech during a rally...