Incidents

Former Polish Army commander General Waldemar Skrzypczak has demanded the death penalty for a soldier who escaped to Belarus.

Czech President Milos Zeman has confirmed 36-year-old Pirate Party representative Jan Lipavski as foreign minister in the new cabinet only under the personal guarantees of Prime Minister Petr Fiala.

British Brexit minister David Frost is resigning over the course of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.

Azerbaijan handed over to Armenia on Sunday ten Armenian soldiers who had been detained during the 16 November fighting on the border between the two countries, with the mediation of the European Union.

The fire broke out on the fourth floor of one of the buildings at about 10:30.

Armed men have seized the Libyan government building in Tripoli.

The Belarusian authorities will develop additional measures in response to the sanctions imposed by the West.

The US military has destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that was moving towards a US and Western coalition military base near the Syrian town of al-Tanf.

The US Senate has approved an amendment to the 2022 defence budget that would take action against politically motivated abuses of Interpol mechanisms.

A court in South Africa has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma must return to prison.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has recalled its Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in China for consultations in Vilnius.

The UAE has suspended talks with the US on the purchase of F-35 fighter jets due to US restrictions on their use, the Financial Times reported, citing an unnamed Emirati official.

Kim Yong-ju, the younger brother of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, has died at the age of 101.

Member of the European Parliament Thierry Mariani pointed out the erroneousness of the EU policy towards Belarus.

One of the vessels that collided off the coast of Bornholm is registered in Denmark, the other in the UK.