Lithuania’s Vilnius airport temporarily halted operations due to suspected balloons in its airspace, the airport said on Sunday, marking the latest in a series of flight disruptions in the Baltic nation.
European aviation has faced repeated disruption in recent months due to drone sightings and airspace incursions, including in Copenhagen and Brussels.
Vilnius airport has been forced to close at least 10 times since early October.
Lithuania says weather balloons flown by smugglers are being used to transport contraband cigarettes across the border and accuses Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko of allowing the practice, describing it as a form of “hybrid attack”.
In response, Lithuania closed both of its Belarus border crossings in October but reopened them last week after airspace interruptions appeared to ease.
Lukashenko has dismissed the closures as a “crazy scam”, accusing the West of waging a hybrid war against Belarus and Russia and pushing Europe into a new era of barbed-wire divisions.
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Israel’s government has approved the creation of 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that analysts say further undermines the prospects for a viable Palestinian state.
The death toll from Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades has risen to 161, after forensic analysis confirmed one more victim among the charred remains at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, more than three weeks after the blaze began, authorities said on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet President Donald Trump on 29 December in Florida, where he is expected to present a package of military options regarding Iran, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported on Saturday.
The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing an oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, officials told on Sunday, in what would be the second such operation this weekend and the third in less than two weeks if successful.
The United States has proposed a potential new format for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, which could include American and European representatives, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, December 20.
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The remaining 130 Nigerian schoolchildren abducted in November from a Catholic school in Niger state have been released, President Bola Tinubu's spokesperson said on Sunday, following one of the country's biggest mass kidnappings of recent years.
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