Nobel Peace Prize laureate and others who took on Belarus' president are among the freed prisoners

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions on the country's vital fertilizer exports. A close ally of Russia, Belarus' authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has [...]