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Belarus' isolation deepens as flights avoid its airspace

by Vladimir Isachenkov
| May 25, 2021 6:03 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus’ isolation deepened Tuesday as commercial planes avoided its airspace, the European Union worked up new sanctions, and a senior U.N. official said he was concerned for the welfare of an opposition journalist arrested in Minsk after his plane was diverted there, apparently on the orders of the country’s longtime strongman.

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