Greek Hijackers Warn of Deadly End if Ransom Not Met
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Two suspected Albanians armed with  rifles and dynamite hijacked a packed passenger bus in Athens  and warned they would "light the fuse" if a Thursday deadline  for payment of a $1 million ransom was not met.
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ARMED police and negotiators were today surrounding a bus after it was hijacked in Athens. Two men with a shotgun - who also claimed to have explosives - had boarded the vehicle at a bus stop.
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Television viewers around the world watched a drama unfold in Athens on Wednesday morning, when two unknown hijackers took hostage 26 Greek bus passengers and threatened to detonate the bus.
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ATHENS Two gunmen hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus loaded with passengers early Wednesday, threatening to blow it up unless Greek authorities provided $1 million and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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British authorities gave the all-clear Monday for more than 300 people aboard a Greek passenger jet to continue their flight to New York, after bomb threats that forces the plane to make an emergency landing in London.
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Conflicting reports of ransom demands, rescues and deaths cloud the search for a group of abducted Western security contractors
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A New York-bound Greek passenger jet has been given the all-clear after it was forced to make an emergency landing at a London airport following a bomb threat, police say.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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Two foreign gunmen who hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers have demanded a $1 million (520,000 pound) ransom and a plane out of the country.
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ATHENS, Aug 30 (IPS) - Greece is set to pay an enormous cost after a week  of unstoppable inferno, with fires still burning out of control.
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A Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul was hijacked over Greece and later landed in Italy, Greek and Italian officials said on Tuesday.
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A Greek fighter jet and a Turkish warplane collided Tuesday near the island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, the Greek government said. A rescue operation was launched for the three missing pilots, two Turks and one Greek.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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Gunmen holding the kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan have threatened to hand her over to the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if their demands are not met within 48 hours.
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THE Greek government has appealed for calm, fearing a public backlash against immigrants living in the country following the bus hijacking by two Albanian gunmen.
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens released five of the captives. Police are in negotiations to free the remaining hostages, a spokeswoman said.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.