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Missing Wirecard executive could be Austrian spy, prosecutors say
- Financial Services
- October 30, 2020, 17:43
German authorities say a missing Wirecard manager, who vanished just as the digital payments company collapsed, may be an informer for Austria’s intel(...)

Belarus allows police to use military weapons at anti-government protests
- Europe
- October 12, 2020, 17:06
Belarus police will now be permitted to use combat weapons in the streets if needed to respond to what the interior ministry described as increasingly(...)

Four killed, 10 hospitalised in forest fires in eastern Ukraine
- Europe
- October 1, 2020, 07:46
Four people have died and 10 were hospitalised as a series of forest fires swept through part of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, Ukraine’s em(...)

Belarusian police have personal details leaked by hackers
- Europe
- September 20, 2020, 18:01
Tens of thousands of people calling for the authoritarian president of Belarus to resign have marched through the capital, Minsk, as the country’s wav(...)

Hundreds of protesters arrested at women’s march in Minsk
- Europe
- September 19, 2020, 21:55
Police in the capital of Belarus have cracked down sharply on a women’s protest march demanding the resignation of the country’s president. Officers (...)

The Irish Times view on Belarus: Moscow holds back for now
- Editorial
- September 14, 2020, 19:00
Demonstrations in Belarus have continued despite growing levels of brutality and intimidation. Tens of thousands were out in Minsk and other cities on(...)

Belarusian activists demand answers after protest leader ‘foils expulsion bid’
- Europe
- September 8, 2020, 13:01
Opposition activists in Belarus are demanding to know the whereabouts of high-profile protest leader Maria Kolesnikova, after she reportedly foiled a (...)

Arrests after Belarusians protest against Lukashenko in huge numbers
- Europe
- September 6, 2020, 21:05
Security forces in Belarus detained scores of protesters and were filmed beating a man as he lay on the street, as the authorities launched a crackdow(...)

Belarus poll workers describe vote rigging in August election
- Europe
- September 1, 2020, 09:12
Poll workers in Belarus have made claims over vote-rigging in the August 9th election that kept the country’s authoritarian president Alexander Lukash(...)

Belarusians chanting “Happy birthday, you rat” and flying red-and-white opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenko’s residence on S(...)