Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power ...

People dressed in festive costumes attend a ball in Minsk, capital of Belarus on Jan. 13, 2025. A ball was held here to welcome the upcoming old calendar New Year. (Photo by Henadz Zhinkov/Xinhua ...

Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the KGB, and it's the only country in Europe to keep the death penalty, with executions carried out with a gunshot to the back of ...