Plane Hijacking Ends in Canary Islands
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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.Comment
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A small bomb explodes at the airport on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza, after the airport was evacuated.
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A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man ...Comment
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A bomb scare forced the evacuation Saturday of the airport on the Spanish Mediterranean holiday island of Ibiza after a warning attributed to Basque separatist organisation ETA.
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Police exploded a suspect package at the airport on the Spanish Mediterranean holiday island of Ibiza Saturday after a warning attributed to Basque separatist organisation ETA, media reports said.
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A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man down ...Comment
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Police in the Canary Islands arrest a man as the hijacking of a Mauritanian plane ends safely, officials say.
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MADRID, May 15 (IPS) - A new wave of African immigrants has left a number  of victims behind on the route to Spain's  Canary Islands,  where 1,300 undocumented immigrants have arrived in the last five  days.
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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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A small bomb exploded Saturday in northwestern Spain, causing no injuries, after a warning call was made in the name of the Basque separatist group
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FUERTEVENTURA, Spain : Rescuers found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain's Canary archipelago, emergency services officials ...
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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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The Spanish authorities claim to have foiled a high-profile terrorist attack with the arrests of a group of mainly Algerian radical Muslims.
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Chilling plans for a 9/11- style terror onslaught - complete with hijacked planes â-argeted London&#39;s Heathrow Airport and famed financial district Canary Wharf, it was reported yesterday.
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Spain's interior ministry confirmed Saturday that two men arrested by French police were believed responsible for a fatal bombing at Madrid airport in December 2006 by the Basque separatist group ETA.
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Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week&#39;s near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive
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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.