Iran

From a global war with the Axis of Evil to a regional incident – opinions on escalation in the Middle East.

On October 26, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Belarusian counterpart Uladzimir Makey had a telephone conversation concerning the Iranian nationals ‘stranded on the Belarus-Lithuania border’.

Almost 28,000 people became infected in Italy.

Four people lost their eyesight after consuming methanol.

On March 10, the Belarusian Health Ministry of Belarus has officially confirmed another three coronavirus cases in the country.

One of the tests of a Belarusian, who lives in Vitsebsk region, revealed a fragment of caronavirus RNA.

What does the Belarusian capital city look like after the Ministry of Health has reported the first confirmed COVID-2019 case? Have a look at the photos of today’s Minsk.

Belsat TV host Syarhei Pelyasa has interviewed US Lieutenant General (Ret.) Ben Hodges, who previously commanded US forces in Iraq and Europe. Currently, he holds a key position in the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said with reference to intelligence information that the plane of the Ukrainian International Airlines, which crashed on January 8, was shot down by an Iranian missile. “This may have been unintentional,” Trudeau said at a press conference in Ottawa on 9 January. The CNN quoted the Canadian prime minister as saying.

In the wake of Wednesday’s crash of the Ukrainian airliner in tehran, the Belarusian national air carrier has withheld flights over Iran and Iraq, TUT.by reports.

A Boeing 737-800 owned by the Ukraine International Airlines crashed down soon after the takeoff near Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran, news agency Tasnim reported on Wednesday morning.

Washington’s newly emerging interest in Eastern Europe could just as quickly fade away if another crisis in the Middle East is not resolved soon. The importance of this region to the U.S. today is much higher than the problems of all the post-Soviet republics combined.