VILNIUS (Reuters) - Belarus freed 52 prisoners including an EU employee on Thursday after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump, as Washington and Minsk flirted with a rapprochement that many ...

President Trump says five Polish and Moldovan prisoners have been released from detention in Belarus and Russia through U.S.

Belarus freed 52 prisoners of various nationalities on Thursday, a release negotiated by a U.S. delegation to Minsk. That delegation included a personal letter from Donald Trump to Belarusian ...

Belarus freed dozens of political prisoners over the weekend in exchange for the United States lifting some sanctions on the reclusive Moscow-allied country after talks that also implicated Ukraine.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus freed 52 political prisoners on Thursday as part of a deal brokered by the United States, which lifted some sanctions on the country’s national airline. It was ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered the release of 250 political prisoners as part of a deal with Washington that lifted some U.S.