Eritreans in plane hijack drama
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Hijackers force a plane carrying at least 70 Eritreans to land in the Sudanese capital, the UN says.
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Mohamed Ahmed, one of the passengers from the hijacked Air Mauritania passenger plane, speaks to journalists at the airport in Las Palmas on the Canary island of Gran Cararia, Spain, in the early hours of ...Comment
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Sudan has agreed to consider the asylum  claims of 76 Eritreans who forced a Libyan plane to land in  Sudan because they feared returning home, a U.N. official said  Saturday.  Libya had denied the Eritreans refugee status.
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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A Turkish airliner is reportedly hijacked in Greek airspace.
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A jet from Indonesiaâs state carrier, Garuda, crashed and burst into flames on landing with 140 people on board.
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They were different men going in different directions &#151; one a visiting Egyptian student on scholarship, the other an ex-cop in a dead-end job as a hotel security guard. But an aviation radio left in a high-rise hotel brought Abdallah Higazy and Ronald Ferry together in an unfortunate footnote to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless  fabrication" on Sunday accusations by an Ethiopian official  that Eritrean forces kidnapped a group of tourists, including  Britons and Ethiopians, in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania and flown to the Canary Islands, where security forces raided the plane and arrested a suspect, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.
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A senior Ethiopian official accused Eritrean forces on Saturday of kidnapping five Britons and 13 Ethiopians and taking them to a military camp in neighbouring Eritrea.Comment
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An Ethiopian administrator accused Eritrean forces of kidnapping a group of five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in a remote part of Ethiopia, and taking them to a military camp near the Eritrean border.Comment
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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British nationals are believed to be among passengers on a plane that has crashed at the Thai holiday resort of Phuket.
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A group of Eritreans expelled from Libya hijacked a plane which was flying them home and forced it to land in Khartoum where they surrendered, an official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania, but the incident ended after the plane landed in the Canary Islands, where it was raided by security forces and a suspect was arrested, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.
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Hijackers forced a plane carrying about 70 people believed to be Eritreans to land in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Friday before surrendering to security forces, according to a U.N. refugee agency official.