SŁUCHAJ ON-LINE

EU leaders condemned the recent presidential election in Belarus as being neither free nor fair during a special summit held via video conference yesterday.

The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have appealed to the Belarus authorities to de-escalate tensions, stop using force against citizens and to free detained protesters. In a joint statement the four presidents called on the authorities in Minsk to initiate dialogue with the Belarusian people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told reporters his country has given approval to a vaccine for coronavirus.

Protests break out after Belarus elections. Police in Belarus fired water cannons, tear gas, and stun grenades in a crackdown on protests that erupted yesterday as President Alexander Lukashenko was set to claim another election win in the face of the biggest challenge in years to his grip on power.

The foreign ministers of Poland, France and Germany have voiced “great concern” ahead of today’s presidential election in Belarus amid “worrying reports of electoral irregularities during early voting.”

As of this weekend, Poland has further eased coronavirus restrictions concerning mass gatherings at sporting and cultural events.

2 court in Hamburg on Thursday convicted a 93-year old German man of helping to murder 5,232 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two and handed him a suspended two-year sentence.