EU leaders will discuss potential sanctions today against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his regime, after a flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in Minsk, and a Belarusian journalist and activist was detained. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou reports from Athens, where the plane departed on Sunday.
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