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For the first time in football history, a World Cup will be hosted by three countries: the 2026 tournament.

It will take place from June 11 to July 19 across the stadiums of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. The USA last hosted a World Cup in 1994, where Greece participated for the first time. Meanwhile, Mexico has hosted the World Cups of 1970 and 1986.

Russia and Belarus will sign an agreement on mutual security guarantees in the interests of both nations, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated today, according to the state news agency RIA.

MINSK - Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin and Secretary of the State Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich met in Minsk on Friday.

Vulin and Volfovich agreed that Serbia and Belarus were free and brotherly countries and that the friendship between Presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Alexander Lukashenko especially contributed to the good relations.

MINSK - Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin said at the opening of the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security on Thursday that big world powers must demonstrate the strength and responsibility to forge a new agreement because, "without a new agreement, without new values applicable to us all, there will be no future."

MINSK - Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto met on the sidelines of the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security on Thursday.

Vulin and Szijjarto agreed that Serbia-Hungary bilateral relations were at a historic high, the Serbian government said in a statement.

MINSK - Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin, who is on an official visit to Belarus, met with Ivan Tertel, head of the country's state security agency KGB, in Minsk on Wednesday.

Noting the good cooperation between Serbian and Belarusian security services, Vulin and Tertel agreed there was space for advancement of mutual work on preserving the independence of the two countries.

A recent survey has ranked the best metro systems in Europe, revealing surprising results about the leaders in public transportation. Conducted by Bounce, the study evaluates major European capitals, indicating that some of the traditionally dominant systems have fallen behind. Notably, the London Underground, despite its fame, does not even make the top five.

Russia today warned the West and Ukraine of “catastrophic consequences” if Kiev moves against Russia’s close ally Belarus, making clear it will intervene to defend a country in which it has regularly deployed nuclear weapons.

Prosecutors in Poland have said they have charged three Belarusian officials with using a ruse to divert a Poland-registered plane and thus violating the freedom of 132 people on board when in 2021 they ordered the plane carrying a dissident blogger to land in Minsk, leading to the arrest of Raman Pratasevich.

Ukraine has called on Belarus to withdraw its troops from their shared border, accusing Minsk of amassing forces in the Gomel region under the pretense of military maneuvers. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has urged Belarus not to make "tragic mistakes" under pressure from Moscow.