TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian president has pardoned 18 more prisoners as part of his recent effort at a rapprochement with the United States. In a decree announced on Thursday, ...

Feb 19 - Belarusian opposition politician Mikola Statkevich, who refused deportation to Lithuania after his 2025 release and was imprisoned again, has been freed after he suffered a stroke while in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov speaks during a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister ...

In 2022, Moscow used Belarus as a launchpad for its attack and has been trying to drag Minsk further into its war since. Ukraine has imposed sanctions against Belarus President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that Russia was using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ...

The European Union expanded sanctions against Belarus, just days after the US said it would lift restrictions on exports of potash from the country, underscoring diverging approaches to the close ally ...

VILNIUS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy John Coale said on Saturday that Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko had promised to stop weather balloons flying from his country ...

Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison, Pavel Sapelka, human rights advocate with the Viasna rights ...

Minsk has released jailed Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski along with 122 other political prisoners. The move comes as Belarus seeks to mend ties with Washington and the US lifts some sanctions. The ...

Belarus has freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova, in exchange for sanctions relief from the United States. John Coale ...

More than 180 migrants crossed into Poland through a tunnel hidden in a forest on the border with Belarus, frontier guards said on Friday. Around 130 of them were detained in Poland after the passage ...

The Baltic state says the cigarette-laden balloons originating from Moscow-allied Belarus are a form of hybrid attack and a threat to its national security. Lithuania's government on Tuesday declared ...