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EU looks to pressurise Belarus with crippling sanctions

EU looks to pressurise Belarus with crippling sanctions
The European Union is mulling sanctions on Belarus after the forced landing of a passenger plane and the detention of a journalist. The bloc's foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell said EU is intent on making Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pay a high price for the forced landing of a European airliner to arrest the regime opponents.