EU awards human rights prize to Belarus opposition

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko’s long, hard-line reign. Lukashenko won his sixth term in office in August in a presidential election widely seen as rigged. Since then, mass protests have rocked the ex-Soviet nation sandwiched between Poland and Russia. Tsikhanouskaya and her supporters refused to recognize the resu