Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko extended his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s orchestrated election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a sham.

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Belarus is placing a strong emphasis on environmental education for children and youth to address the challenges of brought by the climate crisis. Cultivating a generation that identifies as part of ...

But nothing seems to happen. For almost four years, Poland has been on a permanent state of high alert because of its neighbour, Belarus, which stands accused of luring asylum seekers from far ...

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like an Aboriginal flag emoji is finally here! Well, kind of. Representing some 60,000 years of First Nations culture, history, and pride, the flag has ...

The flag of the United States of America and the flag of the state of Utah are currently at Full Staff. Jan. 15, 2025 – Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox has issued an order for the flags of the United States ...

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As Europe’s biggest land war in decades rages, fewer places highlight the challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values more starkly than the border with Belarus.

A leafless, lifeless tree is among the most striking new emojis coming to our smartphones in the coming weeks, as part of the latest batch being released by the Unicode Consortium, which sets the ...

South Korea ‘welcomes’ U.S, Japanese leaders' call for North's 'complete denuclearization' North Korean leader calls for strengthened nuclear force in tirade against U.S. North sent thousands of ...

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