In a prerecorded address from Tehran on September 22, Iranian President Hassan Rohani has told the UN General Assembly that although life is difficult under U.S. sanctions, it is “harder still [to live] without independence.”
A Belarusian student who was severely beaten during protests in Minsk has told Current Time about his ordeal at the hands of the security forces.
Leading Belarusian soccer players, including current members of the national team, have issued a video message condemning a police crackdown against anti-government demonstrators. Protests began on August 9 after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory in an election widely seen as rigged.
Afghan government officials, Taliban extremists, and U.S. officials are in the Qatari capital, Doha, for the negotiations that opened on September 12 designed to bring permanent cease-fire, ensure the rights of women and minorities, etc. (Reuters)
Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in a virtual appearance before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on September 8, urged international pressure, including sanctions on President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his government. (Council of Europe)
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressed an informal session of the UN Security Council on September 4 hosted by Estonia. She called for a special UN Human Rights Commission session over the violent crackdown by the government of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (Reuters)
The mother of a Belarusian man who died after being detained by security officials is demanding a criminal inquiry into his death. Alyaksandr Vikhor, 25, died in a hospital in Homel.
A Belarusian protester has proposed to his girlfriend during ongoing demonstrations against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The moment was captured on camera with crowds cheering them. Mass protests began after Lukashenka declared a landslide victory in an August 9 election widely seen as rigged.
Wrapped in white-red-white national flags the march participants on August 29 chanted slogans demanding President Aleksandr Lukashenka to step down and violent postelection crackdown perpetrators to be brought to justice as 17 journalists from foreign media were stripped of accreditations. (Reuters)
On August 29, locals in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have held yet another protest against the July arrest of the region’s popular former governor, Sergei Furgal, the suspected August 20 poisoning of Aleksei Navalny, expressed support for anti-Lukashenka movement in Belarus. (Reuters)
Torrential rain lashed the Pakistani city of Karachi on August 27, causing widespread flooding. People were seen wading through knee-high water as cars were submerged and houses inundated.
Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke in an interview from Vilnius, Lithuania, where she moved for safety reasons following the August 9 presidential elections that sparked strikes and protests against the incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (Reuters)
Russian anti-corruption campaigner and opposition figure Aleksei Navalny was transferred to Berlin for treatment and diagnosis from a hospital in Omsk, Russia, by a medical jet on August 22 following urgent requests by his family after a suspected poisoning attempt two days earlier. (Reuters)
Protests have continued in Belarus for a second night after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed he had been reelected for a sixth term. The results are widely seen as falsified. At least one protester died in Minsk overnight amid clashes between riot police and demonstrators.
An unknown disease is threatening the vital sponge population at the bottom of Lake Baikal in Russia, considered the deepest lake in the world.
A quarter of a century after the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the remains of nine more victims were laid to rest at the Potocari memorial cemetery on July 11 remembering the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II. (Reuters)
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Russia’s Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on July 11 to protest against the arrest of their regional governor Sergei Furgal on murder charges he denies, chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters)
Srebrenica genocide survivor Ramiz Nukic has made himself a promise: He will search for the remains of victims of the mass killing outside the village of Kravica 25 years ago until the last of them is found.
Parliamentary elections are taking place in Croatia on July 5.
Anatoly Konenko, a Russian artist famous for his miniature artworks, found a way to apply his skills in the pandemic situation -- creating tiny masks for insects. "It is not just people who need to be saved, but also animals and insects," Konenko said in his studio in Omsk on May 22. (Reuters)
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