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Leaders of Poland's ruling coalition government met in Warsaw yesterday for emergency talks as the conservative alliance, which has governed Poland since 2015, looks close to breaking point.In recent weeks, political tensions have divided the ruling United Right Coalition, which...

Tens of thousands of people marched through Minsk yesterday chanting “go away” on the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, keeping up the pressure on the veteran Belarusian leader to quit.In tandem with the protests, anonymous hackers...

The president of Belarus said on Thursday that Belarus needs to close its borders with Poland and Lithuania, and strengthen border controls with Ukraine. Belarus is in a political crisis following the presidential election marred by vote-rigging allegations that led...

Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims heading into Ukraine from Belarus are reportedly stranded at the border, unable to cross due to Ukraine's strict coronavirus travel restrictions. The pilgrims had been on their way to the town of Uman in central Ukraine,...

Due to rising numbers of COVID cases abroad, Poland has banned direct passenger flights to and from 30 countries under new rules that came into force today. Most notably, flights between Poland and France have now been suspended, while flights...

Officials in the UK and Poland are today commemorating the moment when Britain’s Royal Air Force and its Allied counterparts turned the tide of the battle after months of air raids by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). In preparation for...

An estimated 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets yesterday in a continued show of defiance against the regime of current president Alexander Lukashenko. Over 400 people were arrested during Sunday’s protests around the country, according to the Belarusian Ministry of...

The prime ministers of Poland and three regional partners have urged the Belarusian authorities to release all political prisoners. The call came after the premiers of Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, which together form a regional cooperation platform...

Belarus’s opposition could ask foreign countries to play a mediation role if Belarus is not able to resolve its own internal conflict, exiled opposition leader has said during a visit to Poland this week. Belarus has been rocked by mass...

The exiled Belarusian opposition leader, Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya, has called on her supporters to continue peaceful protests against Belarus's authoritarian President Aleksandyr Lukashenka. Tsikhanovskaya, who ran against Lukashenka in last month's contested presidential election, made the comments while in Warsaw for...