UN independent rights experts on Thursday condemned what they said was “coercive psychiatric treatment” inflicted on dozens of critics of the government in Belarus since presidential elections ...

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the relevant statement after hearing out a report from First Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Natalya Petkevich on 25 April ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “We have plenty of problems in the west but not as many as in the east. The state of affairs is unacceptable. I’ve just been to Vitebsk Oblast. Wherever I went ...

Global temperatures in the first quarter of 2025 were the second warmest on record, extending a remarkable run of exceptional warmth that began in July 2023. This is despite weak La Niña conditions ...

Independent UN rights experts expressed alarm Thursday about the use of forced psychiatric treatment to punish political dissenters in Belarus. The experts have stated that 33 people have been coerced ...

Australia is heading to the polls for a general election on 3 May. The ruling centre-left Labor party has for the past three years attempted to fix Australia’s “climate-laggard” reputation by setting ...

He’s also known for his parodies of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. By the end of 2021, Komissarenko had become a naturalized Russian citizen, but he left the country in 2022, citing ...

During his somewhat hectic visit, the PM held a one to one in depth meeting with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarus President has visited Pakistan a couple of times, the last ...

"If someone decides to hold elections in Diia, then the one who will control Diia will receive 102%. If the ruscists break Diia, then Lukashenko will receive 102% in the elections in Ukraine. And ...

The former Soviet state was gripped in 2020 by a huge protest movement against President Alexander Lukashenko, which prompted a ruthless crackdown on opponents. Follow our coverage of the war on the ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...

Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians fled their country in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, which handed the Moscow-allied Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office despite ...