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IOC moves closer to allowing Russia full Olympic return ahead of 2028 Los Angeles Games

Europe

Poland detains suspect in fatal shooting of Russian artist critical of Putin, Tusk says

Europe

Sabalenka beats Osaka, Berrettini reaches quarter-finals at French Open

Sport

Russia and Belarus stage joint nuclear weapons drills

Europe

North Korea's Kim Jong Un gifted gun by Belarusian leader

Europe

Belarus's Lukashenko greeted by Kim Jong Un on first visit to North Korea

Asia / Pacific

Lukashenko 'not an independent actor’: Opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya on why Belarus needs Russia

Interview
Europe

Estonia and Latvia hit by drones as Ukraine unleashes massive attack on Russia

Europe
Focus

Europe’s borders under threat from Russia: Baltic states gear up for war

Europe

Winter Paralympics officially open, Russian athletes greeted with boos

Sport

Winter Paralympics opening ceremony clouded by boycott over Russia’s return

Europe

Ukraine's officials to boycott Paralympics over Russian flag decision

Europe

Ukraine's officials to boycott Paralympics over inclusion of Russian athletes

Sport

Russians, Belarusians to compete under own flags at Paralympics: IPC tells AFP

Europe

Paralympic governing body lifts ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes ahead of 2026 games

Sport

'Pressure works': Belarus opposition leader Tikhanovskaya reacts to release of political prisoners

Belarus frees Nobel Prize laureate Bialiatski, opposition figure Kolesnikova among others

Europe

Belarus frees 123 prisoners in exchange for lifting of US sanctions

Europe

Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laureate Bialiatski in US-brokered deal

Europe

European leaders spoke with Trump about Ukraine, French presidency says

As it happened
Europe

Zelensky 'ready' to hold Ukraine elections after criticism from Trump

As it happened
Europe

Lithuania accuses Belarus of 'hybrid attack' after contraband balloons shut airports

Europe

Bialowieza Forest at threat from military tensions along the Poland-Belarus border

Analysis
Europe

Jailed journalists in Belarus, Georgia win EU’s 2025 Sakharov human rights prize

Europe
Down to Earth

Earth's oldest living organisms survive in Europe's last wild forest

Environment

Russia-Belarus drills show off Moscow’s military might, stoking tensions with NATO

Europe

Russia tests supersonic missiles in major joint Belarus exercises

Russia, Belarus start ‘Zapad 2025’ drills as West watches warily

Europe

EU diplomat and opposition veteran among 52 political prisoners freed by Belarus

Europe

Ukrainian attack halts Russian crude oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia

Europe

Russia: Numerous flights cancelled after massive cyberattack

Tête à tête

Freeing remaining Belarusian dissidents could be Trump's 'great victory', Tikhanovsky says

Europe
Focus

Russians and Belarusians trapped in administrative limbo in Serbia

Europe

Belarus pardons, frees opposition leader Tikhanovsky following visit from Trump envoy

Europe

Russia and Ukraine complete second round of ongoing prisoner swap

Europe

Poland fights digital interference ahead of final round of presidential vote

Analysis
Europe

Belarus releases three prisoners, including US citizen and jailed journalist

Europe

Baltic states join European power grid after cutting ties with Russia's network

Europe

UK, Canada impose new sanctions on Belarus after ‘sham election’ hands Lukashenko seventh term

Europe

Belarus‘s Lukashenko wins election slammed by EU as ‘sham’

Europe

Belarus votes in election poised to extend decades-long rule of Alexander Lukashenko

Europe

Belarus's Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who fled Tokyo, runs for Poland at Paris Olympics

Changing allegiances
Sport

Biden and Harris greet US prisoners released in landmark exchange with Russia

Americas

IOC issues initial list of 14 Russians, 11 Belarusians given neutral status for Paris Olympics

Europe

Russia, Belarus launch second stage of joint tactical nuclear weapons drills

Europe

Russia begins tactical nuclear weapons drills near Ukraine

Europe

Putin warns of global crash at celebration of Russia's WWII Victory Day

Europe

US, Russian and Belarusian ISS crew members safely return to Earth

Asia / Pacific

Russian, Belarusian athletes will not take part in Paris Olympics opening ceremony

Sport

Japan expands sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Asia / Pacific

IOC clears Russian, Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals in Paris Games

Sport

Thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Belarus, says Yale research

Europe

Belarus's Lukashenko says Ukraine-Russia conflict at stalemate, urges talks

Europe

China removes defence minister, ousts former foreign minister from cabinet

Asia / Pacific

Belarusian exiles: No passports and no chance of return

Europe

Russian and Belarus Paralympians to compete at Paris 2024

Sport

Kim Jong Un visits military aviation plant in Russia's far east

Poland says to boost troops level to 10,000 at Belarus border

Poland-Belarus tensions: Poland worried about Belarus invading its airspace

Europe
Europe

One-year countdown to war-clouded games: Russia and Belarus omitted from Paris Olympics invitees

Paris 2024
Europe

Belarus reviewing border security with Russia's Wagner fighters

Europe

‘Everyone is afraid’: Wagner’s arrival in Belarus sparks fear in Polish border town

Europe

Funny thing happened on way to Kremlin: Mutiny staged for 'political stability' ahead of elections?

Truth or Fake

No, this video doesn’t show the Wagner Group moving to Belarus

Europe

Migration crisis, Wagner threat, NATO summit... Poland boosts security on its border with Belarus

Poland

Belarus says Wagner Prigozhin is in Russia, raising questions about Kremlin's strategy

Prigozhin's whereabouts: Kremlin says not tracking mercenary leader's movement

Russia
Europe

Belarus leader says Wagner chief is in Russia, adding uncertainty about his fate after failed revolt

Russia
Europe

Russian raid on Prigozhin's residence reveals wig collection, souvenir sledge hammers

Europe

Satellite photos, reports suggest Belarus is building an army camp for Wagner fighters

Talking Europe

Regional security 'deteriorating', says Lithuania's president

Europe

'Putin definitely weaker': Wagner faced no resistance advancing to Moscow, seizing key military base