Belarus protests

Belarus riot police detained scores of demonstrators at a protest rally against President Alexander Lukashenko in the centre of the capital Minsk. 2. A Reuters reporter at the scene in the city centre said Belarusian special forces had rounded up dozens of people and put them into police buses. 3. Rallies against Lukashenko s rule are rare in the tightlypoliced exSoviet republic. 4. But protest calls on social networking sites have multiplied in recent weeks as a severe currency crisis has brought econ