>"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko plans to visit China next week amid concerns about Beijing taking _...Read More_

Wimbledon barred Russian and Belarusian players from this year's championships due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with the grasscourt Grand Slam becoming the first tennis tournament to ban individual competitors from the two countries.

>"Satellite imagery shows much Russian hardware has been moved to locations close to Ukraine border"

>"Darya Dolidovich, 17, was stripped of the right to compete over her father’s participation in anti-government protests."

>"British PM’s support for Ukraine criticised in light of the ‘Partygate’ scandal facing his government"

>"The State Department warned that the United States would “not be in a position” to evacuate U.S. citizens should Russia invade."

>"Belarusian leader makes first public appearance near the chaotic border since crisis broke out."

Social media worsened a migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland and helped smugglers profit off desperate people trying to reach Europe.

>"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's willful manipulation of migrants, enabling their easy passage to and through his country toward the border of the European Union, is a classic assault on democracy by an autocrat who knows _...Read More_

>"Hundreds of desperate Iraqis are being sent home after becoming political pawns in Belarus’s quarrel with its European Union neighbors."

>"It was clear who the losers were in the dispute between Poland and Belarus. The thousands of migrants who became stranded on the border in freezing conditions had their dreams of a new future in Europe dashed, and some are now being _...Read More_

"About 430 Iraqi citizens who were transferred from the border to Belarus' capital Minsk were set to be evacuated on an Iraqi Airways plane on Thursday, the Iraqi Transportation Ministry said in a statement."

>"Minsk now appears keen to deescalate border crisis, which has claimed lives of 13 people"

>"Belarus' leader, Alexander Lukashenko, talks to Germany's Angela Merkel about the migrant crisis in hopes it will ease."

[https://aje.io/63x3um](https://aje.io/63x3um) >"Thousands remain stranded at the freezing frontier as the EU prepares to hit Minsk with fresh sanctions."