Mauritanian plane is 'hijacked'
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An Air Mauritania passenger jet is hijacked after taking off from the capital, Nouakchott, officials say.
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Men suspected of killing French tourists in Mauritania belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group, prosecutors say.
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Four Eritreans among a group being forcibly returned home from Libya hijacked their aircraft and forced it to land in Khartoum amid warnings from a human rights watchdog that Eritrean deportees face imprisonment or even torture.
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A Turkish airliner is hijacked and flown to Italy in an apparent protest against the Pope's plans to visit Turkey.
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A group of 78 Eritreans being deported home from Libya hijacked their plane Friday and diverted it to Khartoum in Sudan, where they surrendered, U.N. and Sudanese officials said.
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This year's staging of annual race from Lisbon to Dakar called off due to security fears in Mauritania
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Mauritania's interior minister blamed a terrorist sleeper cell Wednesday for the Christmas Eve killing of four French family members visiting the African country.
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A hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane has landed on Spain's Canary Islands after making a fuel stop in Western Sahara, officials in Mauritania said on Thursday.
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A Turkish plane was hijacked on Tuesday as it traveled from Tirana, Albania to Istanbul, Turkey, according to a Turkish Airlines spokesman on Turkish television.
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Spanish police arrested an armed Mauritanian man seeking political asylum in France who had hijacked an Air Mauritania aircraft with 79 people on board and forced it to land in the Canary Islands.
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An Islamic group has claimed that it hijacked two Russian planes that crashed earlier this week, killing at least 89 people. The statement was posted on a website which usually carries Islamic militant statements.
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ATHENS, Greece - A Greek bus with 26 people aboard was hijacked Wednesday by two armed men who demanded to be taken to Athens airport and flown to Russia, police and government officials said.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania - Authorities said on Saturday they arrested the alleged ringleader of a string of foiled coup and assassination attempts against Mauritania&#39;s leaders.
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One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the action was connected to Russia's fight against Chechen separatists.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan Aug. 27, 2004 - Armed with knives, Eritrean deportees hijacked a plane that left Libya carrying about 80 fellow Eritreans and forced it to land Friday in the Sudanese capital before surrendering to security forces, officials said.
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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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MADRID, Feb. 15 -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew members before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after it landed in Spain's Canary Islands, government and airline officials said.