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Ukrainian evacuees reach Belarus as Melania Trump-brokered Oleshky ceasefire takes effect

The local ceasefire in Oleshky was reached thanks to mediation efforts by US First Lady Melania Trump with the pope's involvement.

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People disembark a plane carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky, in Gomel, Belarus October 31, 2026.
CELEBRATING HIS VICTORY over Daniel Santos in Las Vegas on Nov. 14, 2009, alongside legendary promoter Bob Arum, after becoming Israel’s first major professional boxing world champion. Arum had told Foreman that promoting a Jewish world champion was one of his ambitions.

Fighting for belonging: A Jewish boxer's extraordinary journey through poverty, faith, and tragedy

Within a decade, Yuri Foreman became a world champion, representing a country where he had once struggled to feel accepted and carving out a place in the long history of Jewish boxing.

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FILE PHOTO: Released political prisoners arrive in Vilnius after a prisoner release from Belarus on March 19, 2026. Belarus freed 250 political prisoners on March 19, 2026 following negotiations with the United States.

Belarus frees 25 more prisoners in return for easing of US sanctions

Coale told Reuters on Wednesday he expects to visit the country again around one month from now, hoping to secure the release of hundreds more prisoners.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attend a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, in Moscow, Russia February 26, 2026.

Russia pumps up pressure on Belarus to open new front in Ukraine war, eyes anti-NATO ops. - WSJ

Sources told the WSJ that if Belarus were used for a Russian attack, it could be aimed at testing NATO defenses or more attempts at undermining support for Ukraine.

|ByCORINNE BAUM, REUTERS

'Tunnel of Hope': The story of the Holocaust's biggest escape - review

Dr. Betty Brodsky Cohen, the daughter of Fanya Dunetz Brodsky, an escapee from the Novogrudok labor camp, has given names and faces to most who have no other memorial.

AUGUST 25, 2024ByYEHUDIT COLLINS
The author’s mother, Fanya Dunetz, pictured after liberation from the Bielski partisans with a surviving cousin. Her head is covered with a kerchief after losing her hair to typhus in the forest.

Israel 'cannot be saved from annihilation,' says Iranian army commander

“We believe that this child-killing Israeli regime is nearing its end. History shows that anyone who rules with oppression will not remain in power and will be annihilated ASAP."

AUGUST 7, 2024ByMATHILDA HELLER
Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2019, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis

Israeli national team blows out Belarus in friendly soccer match 4-0

Next up for the blue-and-white will be Nations League action in September, where the opponents will be a cut above the first two friendlies as Israel will play the likes of Italy, Belgium and France.

JUNE 14, 2024ByJOSHUA HALICKMAN
ISRAEL HAD a decent showing in its pair of friendlies on the road this week, falling to Hungary 3-0 before routing Belarus 4-0.

Israel seeks redemption against Belarus after Hungary loss, celebrates hostage rescue

After a 3-0 loss to Hungary, Israel prepares to face Belarus under new coach Ran Ben Shimon. The team aims to improve coordination and celebrated the rescue of four hostages.

JUNE 11, 2024ByJOSHUA HALICKMAN
ISRAEL COACH Ran Ben Shimon will continue to tinker with his lineup in Tuesday’s friendly at Belarus, his second match in charge.

Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus -Yale research

Children had been transported from at least 17 cities in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

NOVEMBER 17, 2023ByREUTERS
Children look at a war-damaged train carriage on display in St Michael's Square in Kyiv, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, November 3, 2023.

Jewish cemetery in Belarus destroyed by Nazis, now being made into a memorial

The Nazis also destroyed the city’s Jewish cemetery in part by selling half of its headstones.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
People take part in a protest against the presidential election results demanding the resignation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and the release of political prisoners, in Minsk, Belarus August 16, 2020

Belarus says Polish military helicopter violated border

 A Polish helicopter did not cross the Belarus border on Friday, a Polish military operational command spokesman said, denying a claim from Minsk that such an incursion took place.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023ByREUTERS
Polish police guard border fence on the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Police, November 10, 2021.

Belarus leader: I urged Wagner's Prigozhin to 'watch out'

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he warned Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin that his life may be in danger.

AUGUST 25, 2023ByREUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko visit the Valaam Monastery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia July 24, 2023.

Belarus declares anti-Russian poems by 19th-century poet 'extremist'

The targeted poems called for fighting against the Russian Empire and promoted Belarussian nationalism.

AUGUST 18, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Belarusian and Polish writer, poet, dramatist and social activist Vintsent Dunin-Marcinkievič

Lukashenko denies Russia pushing Belarus to enter war with Ukraine

Lukashenko also said he believed Russia had already achieved its goals in what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine, and said the two sides should sit at the negotiating table.

AUGUST 17, 2023ByREUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko outside Moscow