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As Belarus Cracks Down, Protesters Stomp, Chant

Mark Russell — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:52:55 CDT

For the third Wednesday in a row, clapping and stomping demonstrators across Belarus yesterday turned out to protest their country's economic crisis and the iron fist of longtime President Alexander Lukashenko, reports the AP . The government has in turn banned all such rallies, using state security forces to break them...

Belarus Behind on Bills ... So Russia Cuts Its Power

Tim Karan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:52:36 CDT

You know what happens when you don't pay your electricity bill. What happens when a country doesn't? Basically the same thing: Russia has cut electricity supplies to Belarus in half over unpaid bills, and may shut off supplies—which fulfill 10% of Belarus's needs—completely. Belarus is in the middle...

Belarus Prez Links Subway Blast to 'Foreign Plot'

Rob Quinn — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:59:26 CDT

The autocratic leader of Belarus says he thinks a deadly subway blast in the capital was an attempt to destabilize his country. A 12th victim of the rush-hour explosion in Minsk has died. At least 126 others were injured, many of whom lost arms and legs. "We must find out...

Belarus Subway Blast Kills 11

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:51:39 CDT

An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour today killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act. "I do not rule out that this gift could have been brought from outside," President Alexander...

Subway Blast Kills 7 in Belarus

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:35:05 CDT

An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour today, killing seven and wounding 50 others, officials said. An AP reporter at the scene saw heavily wounded people being carried out of the Oktyabrskaya subway station, which within 100 meters of...

Wounded Fox Shoots Hunter

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:05:12 CST

A wily fox turned the tables on a pursuing hunter and shot the man as the two battled in the woods. The Belarusian hunter was about to finish off the fox, wounded by one shot, with the butt of his rifle. But as he raised his gun, the animal leaped...

Belarus Protesters Attack Government HQ

Rob Quinn — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:57:00 CST

Tens of thousands of protesters tried to storm government buildings in Minsk after the leader sometimes called "Europe's last dictator" won a landslide victory in Belarus' presidential election. Alexander Lukashenko won a fourth term with 80% of the vote, according to election officials, but the election has been widely denounced...

Priest: Holocaust's Toll Likely Higher Than Thought

Rob Quinn — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:30:59 CDT

A Catholic priest probing the slaughter of Jews in Eastern Europe believes the Holocaust's true death toll may be far higher than the 5 to 6 million historians have settled on, the Times of London reports. Father Patrick Desbois has spent the last five years methodically investigating mass graves in...

French Priest Uncovers Holocaust's Beginning

Katherine Thompson — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:19:34 CST

Before the Nazis started shipping Jews to gas chambers, they marched across Eastern Europe, shooting more than 2 million above the mass graves they'd been forced to dig, or burning whole communities in bonfires. In an oft-forgotten and horrifying look at the Holocaust's beginnings, French priest Patrick Desbois traveled Eastern...