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Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel is fending off criticism from Poland and Lithuania after holding two phone conversations with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whose disputed re-election last year has not been recognized by the European Union.
By Patrick Goodenough | May 24, 2021 | 4:23am EDT Ryanair flight 4978 lands in Vilnius, Lithuania on Sunday, after its unscheduled diversion and landing in Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called for an international investigation and Western governments voiced anger Sunday after authorities in Belarus forced a commercial plane to land on its soil – allegedly by feigning a bomb threat – and arrested an exiled critic of the regime. The Ryanair scheduled service from A...
MIAMI – Belarus is accused of forcing a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 to land in the country so that authorities could detain a prominent blogger who helped organize demonstrations against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko last year. The Ryanair flight FR4978 was passing through Belarusian airspace on its way from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, when it was forced to make an emergency landing in Minsk after receiving a fake bomb alert. On the ground, security agents detained Roman Protasevich, the founder of NEXTA, a social media news channel that played a key role in the pro...