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This handout photo taken and received from the OIS/IOC on March 3, 2022, shows a neutral athlete outside the Paralympic Village in Beijing, China. (Chloe KNOTT / OIS/IOC / AFP)
February 17, 2026, 6:52 pm
Russian, Belarusian athletes allowed to compete under own flags at 2026 Paralympics
Paralympic committee says two countries to be treated like any other, ending partial suspension imposed after invasion of Ukraine that forced athletes to compete as neutrals
By AFP
Mourners march with the bodies of the Al Jazeera journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, from Al-Shifa hospital to their burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on August 11, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
October 22, 2025, 1:14 pm
Gaza aid workers, journalists among contenders for top EU rights prize
Victory for Gaza groups seen as unlikely due to EU’s divisions over Israel; other nominees are a Serbian student movement, and jailed journalists in Georgia and Belarus
By AFP and ToI Staff
Firefighters secure the area where it is believed that parts of a drone fell, probably after it was shot down, in Czosnowka near Biala Podlaska, Poland, on September 10, 2025. (Piotr Pyrkosz/various sources/AFP)
September 10, 2025, 8:20 pm
NATO shoots down Russian drones over Poland, raising fears of war spillover
Trump to speak with Polish President Nawrocki later Wednesday, White House official says, after at least 19 drone violations recorded, including several from Belarus
By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, ILLIA NOVIKOV and Rafal Niedzielski
In this photo, released by Belarusian Presidential Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian talk to each other during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, August 20, 2025. (Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)
August 20, 2025, 3:29 pm
Belarus and Iran, both friends of Putin, plan to strengthen military and broader ties
Pezeshkian tells Lukashenko that he can help ‘neutralize’ the impact of ‘illegal Western sanctions,’ citing 40 years of experience
By Mark Trevelyan
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands listening to the verdict in a glass cage of a courtroom inside the building of 'Palace of justice,' in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 19, 2024. (AP)
August 1, 2024, 10:09 pm
US reporter Evan Gershkovich freed in 24-prisoner swap between Russia, West
Biden hails ‘diplomatic feat’ alongside American prisoners’ families at White House; Medvedev celebrates Russians who ‘worked for the fatherland’
By Danny Kemp and Volkan NAKIBOGLU
Lidia Katliarski, right, with her husband and collaborator, Igor Katliarski, in front of one of their painted bomb shelters in Nahariya, spring 2024. (Lidia Katliarski)
July 5, 2024, 11:37 am
After fleeing Ukraine war, wife-husband artist duo paint bomb shelters near Lebanon
Six miles from the Lebanese border, new immigrants Lidia and Igor Katliarski bring life to concrete havens by covering them with murals, giving locals a momentary respite from war
By Diana Bletter
Members of The Together Plan catalog gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 3, 2023, 3:32 am
A new memorial rises up from the rubble of a Belarus cemetery destroyed by the Nazis
Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP, File)
September 3, 2023, 5:17 am
Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus, Iran to attend ceremonies
Invite U-turn comes after decision ‘provoked strong reactions,’ says Swedish PM, adds Stockholm stands with Ukraine; Swedish lawmakers threatened to boycott Nobel Prize event
By AP
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, looks from a military vehicle leaving an area of the HQ of the Southern Military District in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. (AP Photo, File)
July 20, 2023, 12:54 am
Wagner chief Prigozhin seen on video for first time since attempted coup
Head of militia that threatened Moscow continues to criticize Russian military, saying his troops are in Belarus prior to departing to Africa
By AP
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivering his speech during a ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, June 27, 2023. (Belarusian Presidential Press Office via AP)
June 27, 2023, 8:22 pm
Russian mutiny leader Prigozhin has moved to Belarus, its president says
Moscow won’t press charges against mercenary Wagner Group boss, who agreed to go into exile, but Putin hints at hounding him over financial activities
By AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the country's top security officials in Moscow on June 26, 2023. (Valery Sharifulin/Sputnik/AFP)
June 27, 2023, 10:50 am
After mutiny, Putin says Wagner fighters can join army, go to Belarus or return home
Russian leader accuses West of seeking ‘fratricide’ as Prigozhin defends his aborted rebellion, claims aim was to highlight military failures in Ukraine and not challenge Kremlin
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speak during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the resort city of Sochi, Russia, June 9, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
June 13, 2023, 2:37 pm
Belarus leader threatens to use Russian nukes ‘if we face an aggression’
Alexander Lukashenko stresses that imminent deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to his country came at his request, claims he’d have ‘no hesitation’ to launch them
By AP
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during an award ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, on July 2, 2021. (Vladimir Martsul/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
May 29, 2023, 11:38 am
‘Nuclear weapons for all’: Belarus leader invites others to join Russian alliance
Lukashenko and Putin recently announced deal to transfer Russian nuclear warheads to neighbor’s territory
By ToI Staff
File: Belarusian activist Roman Protasevich takes part in a briefing for journalists and diplomats organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Belarus in Minsk, June 14, 2021. (STRINGER/AFP)
May 3, 2023, 5:29 pm
Belarus sentences activist after forcing his plane down over fake Hamas bomb threat
Roman Protasevich gets eight years in prison for efforts to coordinate 2020 protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on January 5, 2023, Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski is seen in the defendants' cage in the courtroom at the start of the hearing in Minsk (Vitaly PIVOVARCHIK / BELTA / AFP)
March 4, 2023, 3:08 am
Belarus jails Nobel-winning rights activist Ales Bialiatski for 10 years
Nialiatski and two others convicted for activities linked to 2020 demonstrations against disputed re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko
By AFP
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