BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations are sketching out plans for new sanctions against Belarus that will target economic sectors close to its authoritarian president, as they seek to strike back at him for the forced diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist. EU foreign ministers meeting in Lisbon on Thursday vowed to continue to ramp up the pressure on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko — whose country is already a pariah in the West. The country’s isolation has only deepened since Belarusian flight controllers told the crew of a Ryanair jet on Sunday that their was a bomb threat against it and instructed it to land in Minsk before the journalist was pulled off the plane.
