MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Friday told people to stay home so as not to be “cannon fodder” for what he said were revolutionaries with foreign support after large crowds took to the streets on the seventh consecutive day to demand that he departed. Lukashenko, whose Sunday …
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