Ferocious winds forced pilots to abort landings and divert passengers hundreds of miles from their original destinations.
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Ryanair Drops South African Passport Test After Protests
The Irish budget airline had imposed a test in Afrikaans, a language with a racist legacy and that many South Africans don’t speak, to weed out fake documents.
Ryanair Asks Travelers to Prove South African Nationality, in Afrikaans
The choice of a language that had been imposed by the apartheid government and is not even spoken by many South Africans today has set off complaints.
Belarus Transfers Opposition Figure to House Arrest
The Belarusian authorities released Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, from prison after the E.U. imposed stiff sanctions.
Russia Rejects Some Flight Plans, as Belarus Grows More Isolated
The skies over Eastern Europe became a geopolitical checkerboard, and a Swiss email provider pushed back against Belarus’s claims of an emailed bomb threat.
What’s Happening in Belarus? Here Are the Basics.
For those trying to catch up on the “state hijacking” of an airplane, the arrest of a dissident and what preceded it.
Belarus Plane Crisis Tightens Lukashenko’s Awkward Embrace of Putin
For years, the leader of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has played the West against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Now, weakened and isolated, he is losing leverage.
Roman Protasevich: A Belarus Activist Who ‘Refused to Live in Fear’
Disgusted by the brutality of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Mr. Protasevich bravely embarked at 16 on a life in opposition.
Roman Protasevich: A Belarus Activist Who ‘Refused to Live in Fear’
Disgusted by the brutality of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Mr. Protasevich bravely embarked at 16 on a life in opposition.
Roman Protasevich: A Belarus Activist Who ‘Refused to Live in Fear’
Disgusted by the brutality of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Mr. Protasevich bravely embarked at 16 on a life in opposition.