Sofia Sapega News Today

welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. we start in the uk where the home secretary, suella braverman, is in the firing line over claims she asked civil servants about the possibility of a private speed awareness course, after she was caught driving too fast. downing street says the prime minister has had a conversation with his ethics adviser, sir laurie magnus. its not yet clear whether an investigation will take place, but opposition part...

From the evacuation that took 50 minutes to a sequence of mysterious emails, UN report finds many questions unanswered by the Belarus authorities, writes Simon Calder

Belarus reignites the border crisis spat with Latvia, claiming to have found dead migrants at the countries’ shared border. Latvia denies the claim. The editor-in-chief of an independent Belarusian-language newspaper is sentenced to four years in prison. Human rights groups deem the move politically motivated. Sweden appoints a special envoy

When a passenger plane was forced to land in Minsk in 2021, one man screamed: ‘They’ll kill me’. Many of his countrymen and women now realise they are also not safe, even in exile<br>

What happened?

Lukashenko claims that the Wagner Group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia. After banning several Ukrainian media outlets for allegedly “discrediting” him, Lukashenko signs a law permitting Belarus to ban media from so-called “unfriendly countries.”

Belarus Minister of Transport and Communications Aleksey Avramenko, 46, was found dead in the garage of his country home, news outlet Nasha Niva reported this week.

A Belarusian minister who was responsible for illegally diverting a plane to arrest an opposition journalist has mysteriously died at the age of 47.

Aleksey Avramenko passed away suddenly yesterday aged 46, according to the state news agency Belta, which cited information from the government.

Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday June 27 that Yevgeny Prigojine, the head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, had arrived in Belarus. Under a deal