Belarus lashes out at US sanctions threat
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MINSK : Belarus warned the United States it was heading toward a Cold War-style confrontation after President George W. Bush signed a law threatening sanctions against the former Soviet republic for its poor rights record.
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The Islamic militant group Hamas accused the United States on Thursday of trying to undermine European efforts to ease an economic blockade of a new Palestinian unity government.
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Russia criticized the United States on Wednesday for its willingness to hold talks with Chechens agitating for independence and suggested the issue could harm bilateral relations.
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The Belarus Democracy Act passed by the U.S. Congress earlier this week imposes sanctions on the post-Soviet republic and bars senior Belarusian leaders from entering the United States.
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Russia has curtly told the United States to stay out of its business after US criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power.
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Belarus on Thursday dismissed new financial sanctions imposed by the United States as politically senseless, and President Alexander Lukashenko said his country was ready to normalize relations with Washington.
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The move, part of sanctions against continued rocket fire, prompted a warning from the United States.
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Belarus, pilloried abroad for a referendum allowing its president to prolong his stay in office, hit back at Washington on Friday by denouncing next week's cliffhanger presidential election as undemocratic.
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UNITED STATES WASHINGTON -- The United States imposed sanctions against Bosnian Serb political leaders yesterday for failing to arrest and turn over war crimes suspects to an international tribunal. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that under the sanctions, any assets the Serbian Democratic Party, or SDS, has in the United States will be frozen. In addition, he said, members ...
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The European Commission warned Tuesday that a vote in Belarus paving the way for autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko to retain power will damage the ex-Soviet republic&#39;s relations with the EU.
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Belarus says it will back Russia if the US overrides Moscow's objections to building new missile bases in Europe.
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UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs condemns the US decision to impose fresh sanctions on Sudan over Darfur.
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The Belarus government has warned that some American officials will be barred from entering Belarus in response to the recent expansion of U.S. visa restrictions on Belarusian authorities.
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An American citizen who is under arrest in Belarus did not have diplomatic immunity, press secretary of the Belarussian Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinykh said in Minsk on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was given a double warning over its policies in the West Bank as its top legal officer said it faced a real threat of sanctions over its controversial separation barrier and the United States condemned the latest ...
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The US condemns a decision by Belarus to evict a human rights group from its offices in Minsk
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BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at critics in the West yesterday after winning a referendum to allow him to seek a third term in office.