EU Sanctions Belarus Over Plane Diversion, Blogger Arrest
Voice of America
The European Union is urging member nations to close their airspace and airports to all Belarusian airlines after Belarus forced a commercial jetliner to make an emergency landing Sunday in Minsk and arrested an opposition blogger critical of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Conclusions on #Belarus adopted at #EUCO chaired by @eucopresident pic.twitter.com/MWco6QEiTy
Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. A number of airlines, including Air France, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, have said they would not fly through Belarusian airspace.Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024. Fire rages following an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still picture taken from a video, May 26, 2024. Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024. A member of the bomb squad of the Israeli police collects debris after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants struck in the Israeli city of Herzliya on May 26, 2024.