Widespread flooding caused by heavy rains left at least 17 people dead and dozens missing during the Christmas weekend in the southern Philippines, authorities said as they updated the toll late Tuesday.
Some argue that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Monday visit to Belarus was an effort to persuade president Alexander Lukashenko to join a ground offensive.
President Alexander Lukashenko’s autocratic regime in Belarus has supported Russia throughout the war in Ukraine. Many Belarusians living outside of their country have had problems as a result of this relationship.
Opponents of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko are training in Poland, with their sights set on Russia, which has long helped Lukashenko in consolidating his position
More than a thousand people, many of them young children, are living in a temporary refugee camp in eastern Belarus under cold conditions, in what critics call a political humanitarian disaster. Several European countries accuse Alexander Lukashenko, the disputed president, of exploiting migrants as a weapon against Poland
According to the leader of a team that monitors Arabic and Kurdish social media, human traffickers are proposing trips to Russia as a new path for migrants to the European Union. There was “enthusiasm” online about the availability of a mechanism “to avoid the limits” on the Polish-Belarusian border
Thousands of migrants attempted to enter the EU with the help of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s government, drawing global media attention to the border between Belarus and Poland. The quarrel between Warsaw and Minsk over Poland’s policy of sheltering Belarusian political exiles lies at the heart of this problem
Thousands of refugees are still waiting in Belarus to enter the European Union through Poland, a crisis that has sharply divided Polish society between those who wish to help migrants and others who refuse to open their borders
Since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactor burst in 1986, many children in Belarus, just across the Ukrainian border, have been suffering from chronic radiation sickness. They’ve returned to school after yet another summer of being unable to escape contamination due to pandemic border restrictions
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wants to deepen his ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to ease his government’s international isolation, which has resulted from a harsh crackdown on political opponents