SOCCER LEGEND Michel Platini has said that the recruitment of young boys from Africa and South America by top European clubs amounts to little more than “trafficking”.
Belarus’s president Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of crushing independent journalism since coming to power in 1994. Amid suggestions that his rule may loosen to facilitate economic ties with the EU, CATHERINE REILLY meets government and non-government
Belarus and its 10 million residents stand at a European crossroads, sharing a border with Russia and Ukraine to their northeast and south, and neighbouring the EU countries of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. But beyond Belarus’ global media
Dublin-born Erica Jennings left Ireland as a teenager in the early 1990s, settling in Lithuania with her family. A fateful meeting in a Vilnius pub with Viktoras Diawara and
Petras Šlajus of the Lithuanian Association NI told Metro Éireann that at a recent inter-community meeting in Dungannon,