On February 12, 2025, in Gomel, Belarus, a video captured explosions after an unidentified kamikaze UAV was shot down. In the video, residents reported hearing explosions, and eyewitnesses indicated ...

ZURICH — Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season. The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships ...

The European Union proposed imposing tariffs on the remaining agricultural products coming from Russia and Belarus that aren’t already facing duties, as well as some nitrogen-based fertilizers ...

Belarusian air defense shot down a Russian Shahed drone that entered the country's airspace in the overnight attack on Ukraine, Belarusian Hajun monitoring group wrote on Jan. 28. Observers reported ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to ...

Long-time leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed "Europe's last dictator", has been re-elected president with 86.8% of the vote. The result has been condemned as a sham by Lukashenko ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko attends a press conference after casting his vote in the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, January 26, 2025. File ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Brussels has threatened Belarus with a fresh raft of sanctions after President Alexander Lukashenko looked certain to win his seventh consecutive election since 1994 — a vote broadly understood ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments re ...