The refugees caught in a political chess game

U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to China to meet President Xi Jinping this week is full of jeopardy. From tense talks over trade and tariffs, the role of each superpower in the war in Iran, and the future of Taiwan – each leader has been full of praise, while also talking pas ...  Show more

Once relegated to paperback stands in grocery stores, the business of romance novels is hot right now – especially in Canada. In a moment when book sales in other genres appear to be relatively flat or declining, what is it about romance novels that’s making readers fall in love? ...  Show more

For three decades, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, a former Soviet nation in Eastern Europe, ruled with an iron fist. But pressure has mounted on him in the past year and a half. After a contested election in 2020, the European Union enacted sanctions and refused to ...

Тысячи выходцев с Ближнего Востока и из Африки пытаются нелегально попасть в Польшу из Беларуси. Корреспондент Русской службы Би-би-си в странах Балтии Оксана Антоненко побывала в приграничных районах Польши и рассказывает, как местные жители относятся к мигрантам, как волонтеры ...  Show more

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya claims the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, is a “criminal” who’s weaponizing migrants to pressure the U.S. to lift sanctions. Those same migrants on the Belarus-Poland border were met with water cannons and tear gas from ...  Show more

Thousands of people – mostly migrants from the Middle East - are camped in freezing weather at the Poland-Belarus border. Many have spent thousands of dollars to fly into Belarus on tourist visas, with the hope of an easy crossing into the EU. They’re pawns, trapped in a battle o ...  Show more