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Al Jazeera Article Rating

Lithuania to shoot down smuggler balloons, shut Belarus border crossings

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    30% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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46% : NATO and European Union member Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport four times last week after balloons entered its airspace.
44% : "Today we have decided to take the strictest measures, there is no other way," Ruginiene told a news conference on Monday, saying the crossings will be closed except for travel by diplomats and by European Union citizens leaving Belarus.
43% : Lithuania has said balloons are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes from Belarus into the EU, but the country also blames Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for not stopping the practice.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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