LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — A woman who ran a Belarusian opposition messaging app channel and was arrested along with her activist boyfriend when an airliner they were on was forced…
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Paralympics Reverses Course and Bans Athletes From Russia and Belarus
BEIJING — A day after organizers of the Paralympic Winter Games announced that they would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in the competitions, the organization’s board made…
The U.S. extends technology restrictions to Belarus and the Russian oil industry.
The Biden administration ramped up restrictions on exporting certain technologies to Russia and Belarus on Wednesday, actions it said would degrade the ability to sustain a military campaign against Ukraine.…
Poland Uses Water Cannons and Tear Gas as Tensions Rise at Belarus Border
WARSAW — The Polish authorities claimed that border guards utilised water cannons and tear gas on Tuesday to repel what they reported was an try by migrants moving en masse…
Air Route to Belarus Closed to Migrants in Bid to Halt Crisis
Dubai on Sunday began banning tourists from Iraq from passing through the emirate on their way to Belarus, reducing off the last major air route from the Middle East to…
Migrant Crisis in Belarus Tests Putin’s Uneasy Alliance With Lukashenko
MOSCOW — As European governments threatened Belarus with further sanctions this week for fomenting the migration disaster on the Belarusian-Polish border, its bombastic leader countered with what sounded like a…
Live Belarus-Poland Border Crisis Updates: Airlines Limit Flights to Belarus
ImpressionMigrants collected in Minsk, the funds of Belarus, on Thursday.Credit rating…The New York Situations With thousands of migrants stranded on the Polish-Belarusian border and global stress mounting to conclusion the…
E.U. Blames Belarus for Migrant Crisis at Poland Border
Poland has massed hundreds of troops on its border with Belarus to preserve out Center Eastern migrants who have established up camp there, as Western officers accuse Belarus’s leader of…