The external borders of the European Union registered more than 120,000 cases of pushback by national authorities against irregular migrants in 2024, according to a new report by a group of nine human rights organizations.
The report, released on (...)
Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday.
Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that (...)
Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus — and lean in more with their (...)
Brussels has threatened Belarus with a fresh raft of sanctions after President Alexander Lukashenko looked certain to win his seventh consecutive election since 1994 — a vote broadly understood to be rigged in his favor given his iron rule over the (...)
Belarusians began voting Sunday in a presidential election as President Alexander Lukashenko seeks a seventh term in office after nearly three decades of rule.
Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT) and will remain open until 8 p.m. (...)
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election.
"It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance staged by the regime to hold on to power."
For three (...)
KAZAN — There aren't many world leaders who've been in power for 30 years. Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has been accused of stealing elections, crushing dissent and dismantling democracy.
The UK, the EU and the US do not recognize him as the (...)
Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling.
The journalist was imprisoned in 2022 and sentenced to four years for his reports on the mass opposition (...)
Belarus and China kicked off 11-day joint military training exercises Monday, Belarus' defense ministry said – with activities taking place just miles from the border of Poland, a NATO and European Union member.
The joint anti-terrorist training (...)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says he will run for another term in elections set to be held in 2025, a move likely to extend the long rule of a key ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Lukashenko, while speaking to journalists at a polling (...)
The UN Secretary-General addressed the Security Council on Friday, underscoring the fundamental need to honor the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as the full-scale invasion by Russia of the country marks its (...)
Belarus has conducted mass raids, interrogations and arrests of dozens of friends and relatives of political prisoners, a Belarusian human rights group said, in the regime's latest crackdown on dissent.
At least 159 people were persecuted across the (...)
Ukraine's military says it has shot down a Russian military spy plane over the Sea of Azov, in what analysts say would be a blow to Moscow's air power.
Army chief Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the air force had "destroyed" an A-50 long-range radar (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman received his Italian and Turkmen counterparts at his office in Riyadh.
During the meeting between Prince Khalid and Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, they reviewed aspects of (...)
This week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles.
Estimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia (...)
Two Russian warships were damaged after Ukraine launched an extensive assault on a Russian ship repair base in Crimea early Wednesday morning, officials said, in what appears to be Kyiv's most ambitious strike on the port since the war (...)
The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been listed as an "educational organization" in Belarus.
Media reports on Wednesday revealed that the group had been registered as a limited company on Aug. 4.
The place of registration corresponds to the area (...)
Poland is set to hold its largest military parade in decades on Tuesday, in a flex of defensive muscle that comes as tensions rise on the border between the NATO nation and key Russian ally Belarus.
Poland's Defense Ministry said the celebration of (...)
Western countries announced new sanctions against Belarus on Wednesday, three years after the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
The 9 August 2020 vote sparked a massive protest movement in Belarus, with hundreds of thousands of people (...)
Wagner fighters in Belarus could pose as migrants and enter the EU, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned.
Wagner could also facilitate illegal migration from Belarus, which Poland describes as "hybrid warfare", he says.
About 100 (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA.
Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner mercenary group who led a mutiny in Russia a month ago.
That mutiny (...)
A video on Telegram channels linked to the Wagner mercenary group appears to show its boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus.
He is seen welcoming fighters and describing recent developments on the front line in Ukraine as a "disgrace".
He also hints (...)
KRYNKI — The prospect of mercenaries from the Russian Wagner group moving to Belarus as part of the deal struck to end their mutiny has made Poland extra wary of its neighbor.
A border once marked by a few pillars and wooden look-out posts has (...)
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin -- who led a short-lived rebellion in Russia last month -- is in Russia and not Belarus, the leader of Belarus says.
Prigozhin's whereabouts have been a mystery since the mutiny.
Under the deal to end the stand-off, (...)
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has invited Wagner Group mercenaries to his country to train its military.
Lukashenko alluded to the invitation in a speech Friday dedicated to Belarus' Independence Day, according to state news agency (...)
