Roman Protesevich, the journalist arrested off the diverted Ryan Air flight, is described a personal enemy of President Lukashenko. How did he become such a target for Belarus’ regime? The 26-year-old was the news editor of the enormously successful opposition news channel Nexta during the height of last summer’s mass […]

The group’s most spectacular attack was on Palma, a once-sleepy coastal town, that was being transformed into a hub for a burgeoning gas industry. It lies 10km (six miles) away from a liquified gas plant, operated by the French energy giant Total, worth $20bn (£14.5bn) – Africa’s biggest foreign investment […]

Genetic tests on a giant tortoise found on the Galápagos island of Fernandina have confirmed the individual is from a species last sighted in 1906. The female Fernandina giant tortoise, or Chelonoidis phantasticus, was discovered during a 2019 expedition to the island. The director of the Galápagos National Park, Danny […]

The actor has been granted joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie after a court battle. Source link

As Western pressure grows, Alexander Lukashenko says his country’s critics are “strangling” Belarus. Source link

Swiss confederation President Guy Parmelin rejected the term “Black Wednesday” and said he hoped for a fruitful “reset in our relations”, adding that the Switzerland and the EU remained first-class partners. Even without a treaty, it was in their shared interests to maintain their “proven bilateral approach”, he said. Source […]

Iran’s banks were cut off from the global financial system and its oil exports plummeted, depriving it of a major source of hard currency and revenue, as a result of sanctions reinstated by the US in 2018 when then President Donald Trump abandoned a landmark nuclear deal. Source link

The Tokyo Summer Olympics are due to start in July, despite a surge in Covid cases in Japan. Source link