Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has postponed a planned visit to Minsk following the death of his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei, according to Russian media reports quoting the Foreign Ministry.
Belarus's state news agency Belta (...)
Belarus is pushing migrants across the Lithuanian border barefoot in a bid to exert pressure on the country, Lithuania's government said on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Agne Bilotaitė told reporters that nine people had been found without shoes, and (...)
Poland's government has authorized the construction of a new barrier along the 210-kilometer border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday the frontier needs to be "sealed" so that the (...)
More than 29,000 people have died on migration routes to Europe since 2014, according to a new report.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said at least 5,684 migrants had died trying to reach Europe since the start of last year (...)
Kiev residents have been urged to cut down on electricity use in the evenings, after a Russian missile strike disabled a power installation near the capital.
Officials said power had been restored across Ukraine earlier after Russian missiles hit (...)
Polish operator PERN has detected a leak in one pipeline in the Druzhba system that carries oil from Russia to Europe, an event that will add to concerns about Europe's energy security after the Nord Stream gas leak.
The discovery of the leak, which (...)
Russia has been widely condemned after bombarding cities across Ukraine, including launching missile strikes on the center of Kyiv for the first time.
The US said the "brutal" attacks had hit non-military targets, including a university and (...)
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, the award's judges said Friday.
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of (...)
Heating turned down and boilers adjusted — these are the measures Europeans need to take to prepare for Russian gas supplies being completely cut, according to a report.
The EU faces "unprecedented risks" of gas shortages this winter after Russia (...)
The center-right New Unity party of Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš won Saturday's election, according to provisional results, with its 19% of the vote putting him in a position to head another coalition government.
The results — with 91% of (...)
A group of United Nations experts investigating human rights violations committed in Ukraine in the seven months since Russia invaded said on Friday they had turned up evidence of war crimes.
The experts from the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, (...)
Russia must be punished for its "illegal war" against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday — part of a "peace formula" that also calls for greater civilian protection and defense support.
"A crime has been (...)
Saudi Ambassador to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus Abdulrahman bin Suleiman Al-Ahmad yesterday delivered Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's gift of 50 tons of fancy dates for the 1443-1444 Hijri (...)
Russia said it would launch sweeping military drills in the country's east together with forces from China — a show of increasingly close defense ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West.
Yet the war games poised to take place (...)
The Belarusian military on Thursday denied reports of explosions overnight near a military airfield in the Gomel region of southeastern Belarus, not far from the border with Ukraine.
"On 10 August, near 23:00 (20:00 GMT), during a control run, a (...)
UN experts on Wednesday denounced the decision by Belarus to withdraw from an international agreement that upholds people's right to access information, as well as justice, in environmental matters.
The Aarhus Convention, adopted in 1998, also (...)
A top UN-appointed human rights expert on Thursday raised the issue of an alleged "double standard" in Poland and Belarus toward those forced to flee the war in Ukraine.
González Morales was referring to third country nationals who had been based in (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of congratulations to President Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko of the Republic of Belarus on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
In his cable, (...)
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister, has sent a cable of congratulation to President Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko of the Republic of Belarus on the anniversary of his (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulations to President Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko of the Republic of Belarus on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
In his cable, the Monarch wished (...)
The deterioration of human rights in Belarus continues to engulf the country in a climate of fear and arbitrary rule, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Wednesday.
Presenting her annual report to the Human Rights Council in (...)
Under the beating Tanzanian sun, Lossim Lazzaro nervously looks over his farm.
He slowly pours livestock manure on his crops, in a last-ditch attempt to help them grow.
Lazzaro owns five acres of land and was once a successful tomato farmer in the (...)
RIYADH — The travel ban for Saudi citizens to 11 countries, including five Arab countries, is still in force, according to the General Directorate of Passports.
The ban was imposed following the spread of COVID-19 pandemic cases in those (...)
Lithuania has banned the transit of some goods through its territory from Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad.
It includes coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology, accounting for around 50% of all goods that Kaliningrad (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Monday lifted a temporary ban on direct and indirect travel to Ethiopia, Turkey, Vietnam and India, an official source at the Ministry of Interior said.
The source stated that the lifting of the ban was based on the (...)
