Photographers of news agencies Associated Press, France Presse, Reuters and Belarusian newspaper "Nasha Niva" were not accredited.

An independent journalist from Byaroza, Tamara Shchapyotkina, has received a summons. She is to visit the district prosecutor's office on November 15 at 3 p.m. for "conversation".

The arrested participant of the Process of 14 is still in cruel prison conditions and went on three-day hungry strike protesting against arbitrary behaviour of the colony administration.

In 2010 different agencies are to hold separate exercises in the framework of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force of the Collective Security Treat Organisation.

Minsk city court has examined complaints of activists of the civil campaign "European Belarus" against the ruling of the court of the first instance.

Coordinator of Charter'97 Zmitser Bandarenka estimated statements of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in an interview to Belarusian journalists.

On November 24, "Vecherni Minsk" newspaper owned by the Minsk city executive committee wasn't put on sale unexpectedly.

The Belarusian leader is puzzled why the president of Russia needed to give a press-conference to Belarusian mass media, including independent ones.

The joint tactical drills of special task detachments of Belarusian and Russian interior ministries are to be held in Minsk on November 25-26.

Articles under such titles were published in today's Lithuanian newspapers. Belarus refuses to extradite to Lithuania people suspected in organising and participation in events of January 13, 1991, "Lietuvos zinios" writes.

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THE widow of a bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan the day before he was due to return home made an emotional plea for peace at his funeral yesterday.

PARENTS will have no choice but to give their children the MMR jab after the world's only single mumps vaccine manufacturer stopped production, it was revealed yesterday.

MORE than one in three new mothers are left alone and worried during labour or shortly after giving birth, a poll found yesterday.

MOTORISTS are being used as "cash cows" with parking fines seen as a lucrative source of income for local councils, despite penalties falling, campaigners have claime

AMERICA'S delay in deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan has contributed to falling public support in the UK for the mission, Defence Secretary Bob Ainswort

THE brother of a man murdered by former royal aide Jane Andrews - now on the run from prison - has called on Justice Secretary Jack Straw to resign.

MORE than six and a half years after Tony Blair defied opposition at home and abroad to invade Iraq, feelings are still raw among those who campaigned against the war or lost

THE body of a Royal Military Police officer killed in a Taleban ambush was yesterday returned to the UK in an emotional hero's homecoming.