El Al's wings said clipped over arms
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Five European countries are refusing   landing rights to aircraft from the Israeli national carrier El   Al that are transporting military equipment to the Jewish   state, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A large fire was blazing in Najaf  Saturday after a series of blasts and gunfire as a U.S. AC-130  plane circled overhead, a Reuters witness said.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - The hijacking of an Air Mauritania plane ended in the Spanish Canary Islands on Thursday, a Spanish government official told RNE national radio.
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MADRID, Spain -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.
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JERUSALEM: The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt&#39;s Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel late Thursday was claimed by the previously unknown &quot;World Islamist Group&quot;, in a telephone call to AFP here.
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Heroic fighters to some, dangerous militia to others. The bloody fight that Hezbollah picked with Israel has deepened a longtime divide in Lebanon.
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It's been a week of mishaps for European airlines, but fortunately without loss of life, El Pais reported Saturday.
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ABUJA  - The African Union observer force in the war-torn western Sudanese province of Darfur has launched an investigation into an attack on one of its helicopters, AU spokesman Assane Ba said.
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NYALA, Sudan -- With violence increasing and political pressure mounting to end conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, the government agreed yesterday to halt military flights over the region and signed a separate agreement to allow free access to aid for the nearly 2 million people displaced by the violence.
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It is estimated armored unitâs soldiers thought Egyptians were armed terrorists and opened fire. IDF official: &quot;it is an unfortunate accident, matter under investigation&quot;.
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&quot;Both planes were destroyed as the result of terrorist acts,&quot; spokesman Lt Gen Andrei Fetisov told the Itar-Tass news agency.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza StriP -- Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip yesterday as the army massed an armoured force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians&#39; biggest
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An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots  and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight on  Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be  linked to his asylum status.
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Statements made by Samuel Etoâo, who recently returned from knee surgery, have upset some teammates and management at F.C. Barcelona.
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BEIRUT -- The Lebanese prime minister warned yesterday that his army will seize all weapons shown publicly in southern Lebanon, offering a sharp retort to a boast from Hezbollah's leader that his fighters are on the border with Israel and won't leave.
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Abu Ali Mustafa groups, the military wing of the People&#39;s Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for the Palestinian Tel Aviv operation which resulted in killing four Israelis and injuring more than 40.
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The U.S. military pounded positions held by radical clerical Moqtada al-Sadr's lightly armed militiamen early Friday, unleashing one of its most terrifying aircraft in a bid to break their will to fight.