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Police Break Up Mass Rally in Belarus 
Police in Belarus's capital, Minsk, have broken up a rally by several thousand people marking 90 years since Belarus's first declaration of independence. Dozens were arrested at the rally, an event which, in recent years, has become a protest against the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko. Riot police beat protesters as they broke up the rally. Lukashenko has been branded Europe's "last dictator" by the US, but he remains broadly popular in Belarus.