Bloomberg Russia dismissed European Union (EU) and US outrage at the forced landing of a Ryanair Holdings Plc plane in Minsk by Belarusian authorities who arrested a journalist on board. The European Union will consider further sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko’s administration when its leaders meet for dinner in Brussels for the start of a two-day summit. The EU was ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East, President Joe Biden said, as the US continues to try to cement a fragile cease-fire that ended renewed conflict in Gaza. Biden announced the trip in a written statement on Monday morning, tasking Blinken with building ties with both Israelis and Palestinians. Blinken will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah, ...

Bloomberg The US imposed “wide-ranging” economic sanctions against Ethiopia to push the African nation led by a Nobel laureate to end violence in Tigray that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. Visas to government and military officials from Ethiopia and its neighbour Eritrea, which is also involved in the violence in Tigray, will be restricted, ...