BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be a sabotage operation by Israel, it would “pay an equal price”. The leader of the powerful Iran-backed …
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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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WASHINGTON / OTTAWA (Reuters) – The United States will extend to a 30-day ban on non-essential travel at land borders with Canada and Mexico as several states struggle to contain a coronavirus outbreak, a top U.S. official confirmed amtner freed. FILE PHOTO: A Canadian maple leaf can be seen on …
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MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called for more protests and an election campaign, raising pressure on authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko as he faces the biggest challenge in his 26 years. In a video posted on YouTube of self-imposed exile in Lithuania, Tsikhanouskaya asked supporters to request …
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PHOTO PHOTO: Members of the United Nations Security Council attend a meeting on the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York, US, December 18, 2018. REUTERS / Shannon Stapleton NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council on Thursday began voting on a US bid to extend an …
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