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EU sanctions Belarus over election, gets in-kind response

by Associated Press
| October 2, 2020 11:27 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union imposed sanctions Friday on 40 officials suspected of election misconduct and a brutal security crackdown on protesters in Belarus, which quickly retaliated by announcing its own sanctions against the EU and recalling its ambassadors from Poland and Lithuania.

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