Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad. Still, many ...

Although he started as a peanut farmer in rural Georgia, he served as a Navy officer, became governor of Georgia, ascended to be the 39th U.S. president, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of ...

So, is there a Nobel Peace Prize looming in President Donald Trump’s future? After all, his predecessor in the White House was awarded one merely for turning up to work. President Barack Obama was ...

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a ...

Many endure harsh conditions like Bialiatski, 62, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for his human rights activism and is believed to be in worsening health. Belarus will hold a presidential ...

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko often claimed in his three decades in power that Belarus has no political prisoners, but activists say it currently holds about 1,300 of them. Many endure ...

FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski ... (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File) TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him ...

FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a defendants' cage at a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk ...