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A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.
 US President Donald Trump meets United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025.

UAE, Belarus, Bahrain join Trump's Board of Peace alongside US rivals China, Russia

Service members take part in what Russian Defence Ministry says is the deployment of the Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile system in Belarus, at an unidetified location in this still image from video released December 30, 2025.

Russia deploys nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles in Belarus amid rising tensions

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Syrian interim president at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on October 15, 2025.

Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find


New ambassadors present credentials to Herzog in personal ceremony

If there is one particular thing for which Herzog is well known, it’s the introduction of members of his family into many of his conversations with both local and foreign dignitaries.

US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, meets with President Isaac Herzog.

'Tunnel of Hope': The story of the Holocaust's biggest escape - review

Dr. Betty Brodsky Cohen, the daughter of Fanya Dunetz Brodsky, an escapee from the Novogrudok labor camp, has given names and faces to most who have no other memorial.

 The author’s mother, Fanya Dunetz, pictured after liberation from the Bielski partisans with a surviving cousin. Her head is covered with a kerchief after losing her hair to typhus in the forest.

Israel 'cannot be saved from annihilation,' says Iranian army commander

“We believe that this child-killing Israeli regime is nearing its end. History shows that anyone who rules with oppression will not remain in power and will be annihilated ASAP."

 Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2019, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis

Israeli national team blows out Belarus in friendly soccer match 4-0

Next up for the blue-and-white will be Nations League action in September, where the opponents will be a cut above the first two friendlies as Israel will play the likes of Italy, Belgium and France.

 ISRAEL HAD a decent showing in its pair of friendlies on the road this week, falling to Hungary 3-0 before routing Belarus 4-0.

Israel seeks redemption against Belarus after Hungary loss, celebrates hostage rescue

After a 3-0 loss to Hungary, Israel prepares to face Belarus under new coach Ran Ben Shimon. The team aims to improve coordination and celebrated the rescue of four hostages.

  ISRAEL COACH Ran Ben Shimon will continue to tinker with his lineup in Tuesday’s friendly at Belarus, his second match in charge.

Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus -Yale research

Children had been transported from at least 17 cities in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

 Children look at a war-damaged train carriage on display in St Michael's Square in Kyiv, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, November 3, 2023.

Jewish cemetery in Belarus destroyed by Nazis, now being made into a memorial

The Nazis also destroyed the city’s Jewish cemetery in part by selling half of its headstones.

People take part in a protest against the presidential election results demanding the resignation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and the release of political prisoners, in Minsk, Belarus August 16, 2020

Belarus says Polish military helicopter violated border

 A Polish helicopter did not cross the Belarus border on Friday, a Polish military operational command spokesman said, denying a claim from Minsk that such an incursion took place.

 Polish police guard border fence on the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Police, November 10, 2021.

Belarus leader: I urged Wagner's Prigozhin to 'watch out'

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he warned Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin that his life may be in danger.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko visit the Valaam Monastery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia July 24, 2023.

Belarus declares anti-Russian poems by 19th-century poet 'extremist'

The targeted poems called for fighting against the Russian Empire and promoted Belarussian nationalism.

 Belarusian and Polish writer, poet, dramatist and social activist Vintsent Dunin-Marcinkievič