Three figure skaters from Russia and Belarus, including an Olympic gold medal prospect, were approved Thursday by the IOC to compete as neutrals at the Milan Cortina Winter Games in February.
Lithuania's top envoy warned that a surge in cases of weather balloons ferrying smuggled goods from neighboring Belarus would harm Minsk's ambitions to seek an accord with the US.
The UK was among 33 mainly European countries to sign a joint statement expressing "serious concern" that International Paralympic Committee (IPC) members voted to lift the partial suspensions of Russia and Ukraine war ally Belarus.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 31 Ukrainians jailed in Belarus on criminal offences, the latest step in Minsk's effort to thaw relations with the West ...
Officials say two Roman Catholic priests imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were freed from prison following talks with the Vatican ...
The Lithuanian government decided Wednesday to reopen the country's two border crossings with Belarus, weeks after they were closed following disruptions at the capital's airport caused by balloons used to smuggle cigarettes across the frontier.