Germany has announced it will fly more than 22,500 litres of beer home from Afghanistan, as Nato forces prepare to withdraw.
The EU has banned Belarusian planes from its skies or accessing its airports after the forced grounding of a Ryanair flight.
Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, who was arrested in Minsk after being taken off a diverted flight last month, has appeared in a tearful interview on state television.
The Queen will meet US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden next week, Buckingham Palace has said.
The president of Belarus has said his critics are "strangling" his country and waging "hybrid warfare".
France has become the latest European country to introduce restrictions on UK travellers due to the spread of the Indian coronavirus variant.
The EU has decided to ban Belarusian airlines from European skies after a flight was diverted to Minsk on Sunday and an dissident journalist arrested.
Local and regional restrictions to tackle the Indian Covid variant cannot be ruled out, the government has said, as it expressed concern over the speed of the variant's spread in England.
Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, officials say.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.