Belarus bars main challengers from presidential ballot

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Andrei Dmitriyev shows his presidential candidate's identification card after he was registered as a candidate for the presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. The election commission has cleared Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and four other candidates for running in a presidential vote in August, but denied registration to Lukashenko's two main aspiring challengers. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)