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Recent remarks by a far-right French politician on the migration crisis at the EU's borders with Belarus sparked concern across the country on Friday. Speaking to the French BFM...

Turkey's flights to the Belarusian capital Minsk will be reduced to zero for a limited time after a deal with Turkish Airlines to stop the flow of Middle Eastern migrants to Belarus and to stop them trying to reach Poland

Poland has accused Turkey of cooperating with Russia and Belarus to enable the current migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border. In an emergency parliamentary session yesterday, Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz...

Countries bordering Belarus, on Thursday, warned the migrant crisis on the European Union's eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation, while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands more...

Some 4,000 to 5,000 Afghan refugees are fleeing daily into neighbouring Iran since the Taliban took control of their country in August, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said yesterday....

The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a "hybrid attack" by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for widened sanctions against Minsk, in...

The European Commission asked, on Wednesday, that Arab airlines cooperate in stopping the migration crisis at the bloc's borders with Belarus. European Commission Vice President, Margaritis Schinas, and European...

Russia blamed the European Union on Wednesday for the migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, accusing it of trying to "strangle" Belarus with plans to close...

Migrants trapped in Belarus made multiple attempts to force their way into Poland overnight, Warsaw said on Wednesday, announcing that it had reinforced the border as the European Union...

Thousands of irregular migrants are facing desperate conditions as they continue waiting at the Polish-Belarusian border, hoping to cross onto EU soil. After crossing the Bruzgi border point in...

Hundreds of migrants are stuck in freezing temperatures on the Belarusian border with Poland, trying to get into the European Union as EU capitals and Minsk accuse each other...

Hundreds of migrants shivered in freezing temperatures and huddled round campfires on the Belarusian border with Poland on Tuesday, in front of razor wire fences and lines of Polish...

Germany today urged the European Union to help Poland protect its borders as thousands of irregular migrants seek to enter the country from Belarus. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer...

Polish authorities today accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation and said they had mobilised additional soldiers as footage on social media showed hundreds of migrants walking...

Lithuania has built the first stretches of a steel wall on its border with Belarus, since migrants from the Middle East and other areas began entering from Belarus this...

Gordi, a Syrian Kurd who lives in Austria, says his parents are trapped in a forest between the Belarusian and Polish borders, with little food or water and he...

The European Union has to find the right balance to tackle the Belarus migrant scheme but not strip people attempting to cross the bloc's borders of their fundamental rights,...

Iraqi President Barham Salih said yesterday that his country has taken important and urgent measures to protect Iraqi migrants stranded on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. In a phone call with...

The European Union yesterday welcomed Iraqi authorities' decision to suspend outbound flights to Belarus amid a surge in the number of irregular migrants using it to enter Lithuania. Peter...

Egypt has been listed by the International Trade Union Confederation as one of the world's worst ten countries for workers in the world. In its annual report, the ITUC...

Egypt is one of ten countries where Apple Inc will not be offering its new private relay service, a feature which will prevent service providers and advertisers from being...

The US on Wednesday expressed concern at the presence of Belarus and Syria as Executive Board members of the World Health Organization (WHO), saying they have conducted "abuses" against...

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Belarus has claimed that a bomb threat from Hamas was the reason it diverted a plane to Minsk where authorities then arrested a journalist on board. The claim was...

The Syrian People's Assembly yesterday agreed to invite friendly Arab and foreign parliaments to observe the presidential elections scheduled in May, local media reported. SANA news agency said the parliaments...

Russia is planning to recruit Syrian mercenaries to deploy to Belarus to protect dictator Alexandr Lukashenko, a Syrian news outlet has reported. According to a source with knowledge of...

Last Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in Istanbul that the Fatih drilling ship has discovered reserves of 320 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the Black...

Egypt, an ally of China, has backed a Belarus text that praises Beijing for "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights" despite increasing condemnation for its treatment of...