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Further strikes expected in Belarus

BBC World Service - Newsday, Further strikes expected in Belarus

More workers' strikes are due to get underway today in Belarus following Sunday's mass protest against President Alexander Lukashenko. It's estimated that at least one hundred thousand people marched through the capital, Minsk.

In the United States, the Democratic Party Convention is set to begin in Milwaukee. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are already selected as candidates for president and vice president.

Talks on the peace process in Afghanistan were expected to start in Qatar in the coming but have now been thrown into doubt. Sources in the Afghan government say the release of some Taliban prisoners is being delayed because of objections from home and abroad.

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