BRUSSELS -- Ryanair flight 4978 was about to begin its descent to Vilnius in Lithuania on Sunday when it suddenly changed direction after a "security alert," turning sharply east and descending ...

Belarus' authoritarian president said Thursday that Russia had deployed its latest nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system to the country, a move that comes as talks to end the war in Ukraine have ...

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told AFP in an interview that her country must not become a ...

Belarus freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and more than 120 other political prisoners Saturday, capping two days of talks with Washington aimed ...

MINSK, 25 March (BelTA) – Belarus is a country of hard workers and creators, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the inauguration ceremony in the Palace of Independence on 25 March, ...

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.

Belarus already "fully or partially" hosts Russia's Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv on Feb. 6, warning that Moscow is trying to draw ...

MINSK, 12 February (BelTA) – Belarusian Labor and Social Protection Ministry and the UN Country Team in Belarus have discussed priority areas for cooperation in 2026–2030, the ministry’s press service ...