EU agrees new Belarus sanctions after plane arrest
Belarusian airlines will be banned from EU skies after a flight was diverted and a journalist held. …
Belarus sent a fighter jet to force Ryanair flight FR4978 – which had departed from the Greek capital, Athens, and was bound for Vilnius in Lithuania – to land, claiming there was a bomb threat. It touched down in the capital Minsk at 13:16 local time (10:16 GMT) on Sunday.