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Opinions | The lines that keep getting crossed in international politics

Opinions | The lines that keep getting crossed in international politics Daniel Drezner © Onliner By Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock A security dog checks the luggage of passengers in front of Ryanair Flight 4978, which was carrying opposition figure Roman Protasevich, in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday. Over the weekend Belarusian authorities diverted Ryanair Flight 4978 from Greece to Vilnius from its flight path with a fake bomb threat. The plane was closest to the Vilnius airport and standard operating procedure would have meant the plane would have landed there. Instead, Belarus forced the plane to land in Minsk. It did this with the assistance of a MiG-29 fighter jet designed to coerce the pilots into landing.

The lines that keep getting crossed in international politics

Belarus Forced Down an Airliner to Arrest Dissident: What We Know

Belarus Forced Down an Airliner to Arrest Dissident: What We Know Intelligencer 1 hr ago Chas Danner © Petras Malulas/AFP via Getty Images Ryanair Flight FR4978 after landing at Vilnius International Airport on Sunday night. Petras Malulas/AFP via Getty Images Journalist Roman Protasevich, a prominent critic of Belarus’ authoritarian president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, left Athens, Greece, on Sunday morning aboard a nonstop Ryanair flight to Vilnius, Lithuania, where Protasevich has been living in exile out of fear of arrest and imprisonment in Belarus. He never arrived. Near the end of the flight, while the plane and its 170 passengers were traveling through Belarusian air space, it was diverted to Minsk for an emergency landing where Protasevich and his companion were detained before the flight continued on to its final destination. Both Belarus and Ryanair say the diversion from the flight plan was over a purported bomb threat, and Lukashenko’s press

At least 15 dead, hundreds of homes destroyed after central Africa s Mount Nyiragongo eruption

At least 15 dead, hundreds of homes destroyed after central Africa s Mount Nyiragongo eruption Hundreds of homes and buildings near Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been destroyed, buried by lava that spewed from the volcano when it erupted on Saturday night. A government spokesman on Sunday said at least 15 people are dead, including nine who were killed in a traffic accident as they tried to flee the area and four others who died while trying to escape from a prison. It is expected that the death toll will rise once authorities reach the hardest-hit areas, BBC News reports. UNICEF said 150 children were separated from their families during the chaos, and another 170 are feared missing.

WSJ: 3 Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers believed to seek hospital care in November 2019

WSJ: 3 Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers believed to seek hospital care in November 2019 A previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report says three researchers from China s Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick enough to visit the hospital in November 2019, around the time the COVID-19 outbreak first appeared in its Wuhan epicenter, Journals says. A State Department fact sheet released Jan. 15, in the final days of the Trump administration, said several researchers at the lab became sick in the fall of 2019 with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness. That fact sheet was based on U.S. intelligence, the Journal says. Current and former U.S. officials differed on how credible the more specific, newly reported intelligence is, though they agreed it doesn t indicate what caused any researchers to fall ill.

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