Police, protesters clash after Belarus presidential vote
(WorldNews Europe)

MINSK, Belarus — Belarus police and protesters clashed in the capital and the city of Brest Sunday night after a presidential election in which the country`s longtime leader sought a sixth term despite rising discontent with his authoritarian rule and his cavalier dismissal of the coronavirus pandemic. Tensions have been rising for weeks ahead of Sunday`s vote in the ex-Soviet nation, which pitted President Alexander Lukashenko, who has held an iron grip on Belarus since 1994, against four others. The campaign has generated the country`s biggest opposition protests in years. Opposition supporters say they suspect election officials will manipulate the results of Sunday`s vote to give the...