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Provided by Dow Jones By Thomas Grove The European Union agreed on fresh sanctions against Belarus, promising to bar the country's airline Belavia from its airspace, after the country diverted a Ryanair flight to its capital of Minsk to detain an opposition journalist and activist on May 23. The move shows Belarus, which has started a crackdown against the opposition at home, is willing to track exiled activists down as well. What happened and why did Belarus divert a Ryanair flight? While flying over Belarusian airspace, pilots on Ryanair Flight 4978 rece...

Belarus Faces EU Flight Ban for Grounding Ryanair Plane With Dissident © andrius sytas/Reuters European Union leaders agreed to impose a new round of sanctions against Belarus and ban its airlines from entering the bloc’s airspace and airports, a day after the country’s president ordered a jet fighter to force a plane carrying a dissident journalist to land. Lithuania has already shut its airspace to Belarus. U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab earlier said Britain was suspending the operating permit of Belarus’s national airline and advising U.K. airlines to avoid the former Soviet c...