BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany have pulled out of next month's European track championships to be held in Minsk and have asked for an "alternative solution" because of the situation in Belarus, the country's cycling federation said on Tuesday.
Belarus scrambled a warplane to force a passenger plane to land in the capital Minsk and arrested a dissident journalist who was on board on Sunday, drawing criticism from the European Union and the United States for an act denounced by Western countries as "state piracy".
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