🔴Poland has sealed part of its border with Belarus.
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned that the attempted crossing of thousands of migrants posed a threat to the "security of the entire EU" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇧🇾Belarus has responded by warning Poland against escalating tensions on the border, saying Warsaw's treatment of migrants would be a "litmus test" of its commitment to international norms telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
➡️After being spotted massing on the Polish-Belarusian border on Monday and trying to break through barbed wire, around 4,000 migrants camped out on the Belarus side in freezing overnight temperatures telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 "Alexander Lukashenko is ruthlessly weaponising migrants - just as he promised"
🔴 President Lukashenko’s intervention came after he was accused by the European Commission of acting like a “gangster” by using migrants as political pawns
🇷🇺Amid the mounting border crisis, Russia has publicly called on the EU to pay Belarus to shoulder the burden for thousands of migrants waiting on the bloc’s external border
🇺🇸 US officials warned Moscow against making a "serious mistake" amid its buildup of troops along the Ukrainian border, shared intelligence on the Russian movements with allies, and briefed them on the possibility of a military operation
South Africa's last white president F.W. de Klerk has died at 85
De Klerk headed South Africa's white minority government until 1994, when Nelson Mandela's African National Congress party swept to power telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
"Former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle against mesothelioma cancer," the FW de Klerk Foundation said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…