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 ...

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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 ...

of Journalists, told AP. Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown after the disputed election led to more 65,000 arrests from 2020 to 2025. Thousands told of being beaten by police, opposition figures were ...

Watch a series of events on climate change, broadcast live from the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The World Bank Group is doubling down on its climate action, as part of its new ...

Amidst this, independent media struggles with dwindling US aid, while Lukashenko's regime intensifies repression, leading to widespread arrests and exile. Photo: AP TALLINN, ESTNOA: Journalist ...

A follow-up exhortation, or official statement, Laudate Deum, was released in October 2023, just before another UN climate summit, Cop28 in Dubai. Did the decisions at these global meetings shift ...

“We agreed that Pakistan will soon dispatch specialists in the sectors we request—perhaps 100,000, maybe 120,000‑150,000,” Lukashenko said, according to state agency BelTA. “We are ready ...

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 ...

Credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi Lukashenko's brutal crackdown after the disputed election led to over 65,000 arrests between 2020-25. Thousands told of being beaten by police, opposition figures were ...

Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown after the disputed election led to over 65,000 arrests between 2020-25. Thousands told of being beaten by police, opposition figures were jailed or forced into ...