United States federal prosecutors charged four Belarus officials with piracy-related charges for diverting a RyanAir airplane mid-flight last year to arrest a journalist critical of the government.
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Four officials, including the head of Belarus s air navigation service and his deputy, have been charged in the US with piracy over the hijack of a Ryanair flight in May last year.