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Polish leader Donald Tusk defends decision to suspend asylum law
FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk pauses as he speaks, during a news conference following his meeting with Lithuania's Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte at the government's headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
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Belarus says it sends more troops, aircraft, armoury to border with Ukraine
FILE PHOTO: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan July 4, 2024. Sputnik/Sergei Savostyanov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Belarus president Lukashenko says nearly a third of army sent to Ukraine border
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a press briefing following talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Minsk, Belarus, May 24, 2024. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Ottawa imposes sanctions on anniversary of fraudulent 2020 Belarus election
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada his imposed sanctions on 10 people and six entities on the anniversary of the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus. Joly speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons before Question Period, in Ottawa, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Macklin Celebrini remains top North American prospect in final NHL pre-draft rankings
Apr 11, 2024; Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; Boston U. forward Macklin Celebrini (71) looks on in the semifinals of the 2024 Frozen Four college ice hockey tournament during the first period against the Denver at Xcel Energy Center. Mandatory Credit: Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports
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Belarusian opposition in exile seeks recognition for its own passports
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, exiled Belarusian opposition leader, holds a photo of her husband in Ottawa on April 15, 2024.
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For exiled Belarusian leader, Navalny’s death stirs fears for jailed husband’s fate
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus leader in exile stands with the portrait of her jailed husband. at her office in Vilnius, Lithuania. The picture made on Mar 14 2024
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Belarus election reinforces Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule despite opposition’s call for boycott
In this photo provided by the Belarusian Presidential Press Service, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko addresses the media after voting, at a polling station in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. Lukashenko was believed a few years ago to be considering whether to lead the new body after stepping down, but his calculus has apparently changed, and he announced on Sunday that he will run in next year's presidential election. (Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)
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Belarusians vote in tightly controlled election amid opposition calls for its boycott
FILE - A woman holds a placard during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, on Oct. 25, 2020. Belarusians will cast ballots Sunday in tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections that are set to cement an authoritarian leader's rule, despite calls for a boycott by an opposition leader who described the balloting as a "senseless farce." (AP Photo, File)
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Ukrainian hockey overcomes obstacles on the way to its Olympic dream
2024.02.09 Sosnowiec Hokej na lodzie Reprezentacja Mezczyzn Kadra IIHF Turniej Pre-Kwalifikacyjny do Igrzysk Olimpijskich Sosnowiec 2024 Polska - Ukraina N/z Bramka gol radosc Yevheni Ratushny Foto Lukasz Sobala / PressFocus 2024.02.09 Sosnowiec Ice Hockey Men IIHF Olympic Ice Hockey Qualification Round 3 Group J Season 2024 Poland - Ukraine Bramka gol radosc Yevheni Ratushny Credit: Lukasz Sobala / PressFocusNo Use Germany.
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IIHF bars Russia and Belarus from world championships through 2024-25 season
FILE PHOTO: The logo of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is seen in front of its seat in Zurich, Switzerland April 26, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
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Gymnastics body gives neutral status to 30 Belarusians, but path to Paris Olympics still unclear
FILE - Gold medallist Ivan Litvinovich, of Belarus, poses for a photo during a medal ceremony after men's trampoline gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 31, 2021, in Tokyo. The International Gymnastics Federation said Monday Jan. 15, 2024 it gave neutral status for competitions to 30 athletes and officials from Belarus though it is unclear how any could still qualify for the Paris Olympics. The only Belarusian gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, trampoline gymnast Ivan Litvinovich, is on the FIG list of approved people who could return to international competitions during the military invasion of Ukraine by Russia which Belarus supports. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
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Ukrainian teen who was taken to Russia from occupied Mariupol returns to family
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian teenager Bohdan Yermokhin, right, holds the Ukraine flag on the Ukraine-Belarus border in Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. The orphaned Ukrainian teenager was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country and has now returned home after being reunited with relatives in Belarus on his 18th birthday Sunday. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
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Nobel peace laureate Ales Bialiatski put in solitary confinement in Belarus, wife says
FILE - Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been transferred to a notoriously brutal prison in Belarus and hasn't been heard from in a month, his wife said Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend ceremonies
FILE - The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Saturday Dec. 10 2022. Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday, Sept, 1, 2023, they will boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran who had previously been barred from attending. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP, File)
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Poland, Baltics will shut Belarus border if ‘critical incident’ with Wagner Group occurs, minister says
(FILES) People with bicycles stand at the border crossing point Sumskas (Sumsko) between Lithuania and Belarus on August 12, 2023 next to a sign reading "Do not risk your safety -- do not travel to Belarus. You may fail to come back". Lithuania on August 18, 2023 closed two of its six border checkpoints with Belarus in a move it announced earlier this month citing the security risk posed by Russia's Wagner mercenary group. "Both Sumsko and Tvereciaus border checkpoints were shut at midnight," the spokeswoman of the border guard service Lina Laurinaityte-Grigiene told AFP. Officers laid road spikes at the closed checkpoints and will proceed to erect fences with barbed wire in the area on Friday, she added. (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Saulius Jakucionis (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Poland’s leader says Russia’s moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, shifting regional security
Poland's President Andrzej Duda attends a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki/File Photo
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Canada, allies sanction more Belarusian officials for role in democratic suppression
Canada has announced more sanctions against officials in Belarus, marking three years since a presidential vote widely seen as rigged. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visit the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, on Valaam island in Lake Ladoga, Republic of Karelia, Russia, Monday, July 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-POOL, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo, Alexander Demianchuk
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Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
(FILES) Border guards patrol along the border wall at Polish - Belarus border not far from Bialowieza, eastern Poland, on May 29, 2023. Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighbouring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said om August 9, 2023, as a record number of migrants try to cross. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Belarus begins military drills near its border with Poland and Lithuania as tensions heighten
FILE - A Polish border guard patrols the area of a built metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, near Kuznice, Poland, on June 30, 2022. NATO allies located along the alliance’s eastern front are growing increasingly worried about the presence of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)
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