Iraq is sending more planes to repatriate about 800 migrants stranded on the Belarus-Poland border, adding to nearly a thousand already brought home, the Foreign Ministry said.
A journalist who has worked for RFE/RL as a freelancer has been detained in Minsk, his wife said, amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Around 600 Iraqis stranded for weeks on the Belarus-Poland border have returned home, local media report.
As the conflict in the Donbas simmers on, talk of a wider war is in the air again. Russia has massed tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine, fueling fears that the Kremlin could be preparing a major new offensive. Here's what we know -- and don't know -- about the tense situation.
Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that the European Union needs to be ready to increase sanctions against Russia if the situation worsens near either the Ukrainian border or the Belarus-Poland border.
Some 200 migrants attempted to break through a fence on the Polish-Belarus border late on November 24, the Polish Border Guard said, amid continuing tensions at the European Union's external border.
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she had been "extremely surprised" by the news of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent phone call to Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka over the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on the European Union to do more to help Belarusians, whom she called "forgotten Europeans," in their fight for freedom.
As a migrant crisis intensifies on Belarus's borders with the EU, some travelers from war-torn countries describe paying a high price for the unfulfilled promise of reaching Western Europe. One family from Iraq's Kurdistan region were forced to pay traffickers to return home after a failed trip.
U.S. President Joe Biden has reiterated "unwavering support" for Kyiv as Russia and Ukraine both launched military exercises near their border amid rising tensions between the two neighbors.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a standoff at the border between Belarus and Poland is leading to “serious” human rights violations against migrants and asylum seekers by the governments of both countries.
Belarus' oldest newspaper was banned as “extremist" on the 115th anniversary of its establishment, in the latest assault on independent media since last year’s disputed presidential election.
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