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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has overturned a German national’s death sentence, the presidential office in Minsk announced, according to state news agency BelTA. The German citizen had previously sent a plea for clemency to the president, according to the Belarusian secret service KGB. According to the authorities in Minsk, the 29-year-old man had been convicted of terrorism on behalf of the Ukrainian secret service. He was sentenced to death in June, including on mercenary charges, but the verdict was only made public by human rights organizations a month later. Belarus is the la…

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