According to official sources in Minsk, Alexander Lukashenka has been re-elected president of Belarus for the seventh time in a row with 87 percent of the vote and an 86-percent turnout. The EU has criticised the election process, in which no real opposition was allowed, as a "sham election that was neither free nor fair". How should the West behave towards the Moscow-oriented autocracy on its doorstep?

Several priceless Romanian gold artefacts were stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen in the Netherlands late on Friday night. Among the looted exhibits on loan for a special exhibition about the ancient kingdom of Dacia were the Helmet of Coțofenești, a ceremonial golden headdress dating back 2,500 years, as well as three gold bracelets. For commentators, the theft is about far more than the loss of gold and silver artefacts.

Donald Trump has suggested resettling most of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip in Jordan and Egypt, where he said they could "live in peace for a change". Both countries immediately rejected the idea, while far-right circles in Israel have endorsed it. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned against the repercussions of a mass displacement of the ruined coastal strip's inhabitants.

Tens of thousands across Greece took to the streets to demand justice for the victims of the Tempi train crash on Sunday. A team of experts commissioned by the bereaved has uncovered new evidence that almost half of the 57 people who died in the crash were not killed by the collision but by an explosion caused by flammable liquids which one of the two trains was transporting. The media look at why criticism of the way the accident has been handled continues?

78 people died early last week in a fire at a ski resort hotel in the Bolu moutains in Turkey. The hotel's owner and manager as well as several more people have been arrested. The tourism minister of the ruling AKP party and the opposition CHP mayor blame each other for lacking safety checks; apparently there were blatant violations of the fire safety regulations.

Speaking via video at the World Economic Forum, US President Donald Trump called on companies across the globe to manufacture their products in the US. Thanks to his administration's tax cuts and cheap energy from oil and gas, there was "no better place to create jobs," he declared, adding that those who do not produce in the US will have to pay tariffs to access the US market. Europe's press discusses the EU's options.