How Belarus Manufactured a Border Crisis

The U.S. government this weekend is expected to find itself in yet another shutdown. This time, it is only one agency shutting down: the Department of Homeland Security.Michael Gold, a congressional reporter for The New York Times, explains why Democrats are once again picking a ...  Show more

The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is expected on Thursday to repeal a scientific finding that requires the federal government to fight global warming. The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to wipe out climate regulations in the United Stat ...  Show more

Last week tensions at the border between neighbouring Poland and Belarus escalated as thousands of people, looking to start a new life in the West, were stranded in desperate conditions. Belarus has been accused of 'weaponising' the plight of migrants in a ...

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

A border between Poland and Belarus which has been at the centre of a geopolitical conflict is now quiet. Thousands of asylum-seekers, many of the ...

Around 2,000 people from the Middle East are at the European Union’s eastern frontier. Alexander Lukashenko, the autocratic Belarusi ...