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Belarusian leader defends diversion of flight that drew fury YURAS KARMANAU, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko addresses the Parliament in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Lukashenko is defending his action to divert a European flight that triggered bruising European Union sanctions and accused the West of waging a "hybrid war" to "strangle" the ex-Soviet nation. On Sunday, May 23, 2021, Belarusian flight controllers ordered a Ryanair jetliner flying from Greece to Vilnius to land in the country's capital, Minsk because ...

A Belarusian dog handler checks luggages off a Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS parked on Minsk Airport New Delhi: Belarus secret police are believed to have been present when a dissident journalist was detained when his plane was diverted to Minsk, the head of the Irish airline said on Monday. Roman Protasevich was held on Sunday after a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius was intercepted by a Belarusian fighter jet and diverted to the capital of Minsk, state TV reported. "It appears the intent of the authorities was to remove a journalist and his travelling companion," Ryanair chief executive Mich...

West slams Belarus over jet diversion, journalist arrest RAF CASERT and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 18 1of18FILE - In this Sunday, March 26, 2017 file photo, Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus. Raman Pratasevich, a founder of a messaging app channel that has been a key information conduit for opponents of Belarus’ authoritarian president, has been arrested after an airliner in which he was riding was diverted to Belarus because of a bomb threat. The presidential press service said President A...