Belarus faces sanctions over ‘state piracy’, airlines to shun it
GABRIELA BACZYNSKA and MATTHIAS WILLIAMS SEVERAL airlines have said they would avoid Belarusian airspace after Belarus scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair jetliner and arrest a dissident journalist in an act denounced by Western powers as "state piracy". European Union leaders were set to ban Belarussian airlines from their bloc's airspace and call on EU-based carriers to avoid flying over the former Soviet republic, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters. The leaders of the 27 member states will also consider widening the list of Belarussian individuals they already sanction and call on the International Civil Aviation Organization…