Russia cut off electricity supplies to Belarus at midnight Tuesday until Belarus fully repays its 1.2-billion ruble ($43 million) outstandings, Russia's electricity export monopoly Inter RAO said.

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Belarusian cash exchange bureaus ran out of foreign currency on Tuesday after the sudden devaluation of the national currency and a surge in exchange rates.

The toll in the bomb explosion in a Minsk Metro station has reached 13, the Belarusian health ministry said on Friday.

A radio-controlled explosive device was detonated at the Oktyabrskaya Metro stat

At least 11 people were killed and over 100 injured in a blast at a metro station in the Belarus capital Minsk during evening rush hours, dubbed by the authorities as a "terror attack".

Belarus on Tuesday hunted the perpetrators of the Minsk metro bombing that killed 12 as President Alexander Lukashenko pointed to a foreign link in the first deadly attack in its modern history.

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Police in Belarus carried out spot checks on roads and at stations and airports on Tuesday after a bomb blast tore through a crowded metro station in the capital Minsk on Monday evening, killing at le

The Russian embassy in the Belarusian capital of Minsk was attacked with fire bombs by unidentified attackers late on Monday but there were no casualties, an official said on Tuesday.

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