MINSK (Reuters) – The rising political opposition in Belarus on Tuesday set up a council in the country, dismissing a move by President Alexander Lukashenko in an attempt to seize power 10 days after an election that postponed mass demonstrations. Many of Belarus’s main opposition figures are in prison as …
Read More »Opposition in Belarus sets up council; Lukashenko decides to ‘try to gain power’
MINSK (Reuters) – The rising political opposition in Belarus on Tuesday set up a council in the country, dismissing a move by President Alexander Lukashenko in an attempt to seize power 10 days after an election that postponed mass demonstrations. Many of Belarus’s main opposition figures are in prison as …
Read More »WHO blasts ‘vaccination nationalism’ in the latest slate against opposition
GENEVA / MANILA (Reuters) – Nations that may preserve COVID-19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic, Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, issuing a final closes call for countries to participate in a global vaccine pact. The WHO has an August …
Read More »Mali president detained by shrinking troops, security sources say
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was arrested on Tuesday by reducing troops in the capital Bamako, two security sources told Reuters. Soldiers had mutated earlier in the day at Kati’s military base about 15 km (9 miles) outside Bamako and marched on a number of senior and …
Read More »Slaughtered Mali soldiers march on officials, Protestants take to the streets
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Soldiers who climbed a wall in Mali on Tuesday marched on a number of senior civilian and military officials from the capital and drove them back to their base, said a Malian security source and an official in the office of the Prime Minister.
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