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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits a centre for the hundreds of migrants that remain in Belarus after attempting to cross into the EU via the Polish border. Thousands of migrants -- mainly Iraqi Kurds -- have spent months trying to get into the European Union from Belarus. The crisis escalated earlier this month with around 2,000 setting up a makeshift camp on the border in freezing conditions. IMAGES
A Yemeni migrant who died in Poland in September is laid to rest in the eastern village of Bohoniki, close to the border with Belarus. IMAGES
General Secretary of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, gives key note speech aboard an electric boat in Berlin and citicises Alexander Lukashenko's 'regime' for 'using vulnerable people as a tool to put pressure on other countries'. He calls these 'hybrid tactics' 'cynical'. This comes amid a continuing crisis at the border between Poland and Belarus, where Polish border guards are attmepting to clear makeshift camps of migrants. IMAGES
The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in coordination with the European Union, over the "inhumane facilitation" of migrant flows on its border with Poland. SOUNDBITE
The Bohoniki Muslim cemetery belonging to the centuries-old Tatar community in eastern Poland is to be the burial ground for a Syrian migrant who drowned in a river while trying to cross the border between Poland and Belarus. IMAGES of the cemetery
The US and European delegations on the UN Security Council condemn Belarus's behavior in the migrant crisis on its border with Poland. SOUNDBITE