Athens hijacker issues ultimatum
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A man holding hostages on a bus in Athens threatens to blow it up if a ransom is not paid in the morning.
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LONDON - A bomb threat forced a New York-bound Greek airliner to make an emergency landing Sunday at London's Stansted Airport escorted by military jets, authorities said.    Police sources in Greece said the Athens daily newspaper Ethnos received a phone call saying there was a bomb on board Olympic Airlines plane...
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Perhaps seeking to leverage any momentum from recent negotiations with prominent citizens of the volatile Iraqi city of Fallujah, Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi Wednesday issued what The Australian Broadcasting Corporation calls an &quot;ultimatum.
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ATHENS: Gunmen holding six people hostage in a bus near Athens threatened to blow up the vehicle on Thursday morning unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.
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ATHENS, Dec 15  - Gunmen who commandeered a bus near Athens and demanded a ransom and safe conduct out of the country released four men and one woman Wednesday, police said, bringing to 17 the total number of passengers set free.
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KABUL - The militant group holding three foreign UN workers captive in Afghanistan extended an ultimatum for their threatened execution on Wednesday but gave conflicting versions of a new deadline.
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A Greek airliner forced to divert to Britain after a major security alert on board has been given the all-clear to resume its flight to the United States, British police said.
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Police take cover as they surround a bus in eastern Athens early Wednesday Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 27 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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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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Athens - The two armed men who hijacked a commuter bus outside Athens for over 18 hours had no explosives on them despite their threats to blow up the bus, the Greek police chief said Thursday, after the stand-off ended peacefully.
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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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It was two hours after Olympic Airways flight 411&#39;s takeoff from Athens that an anonymous man telephoned a Greek newspaper and said calmly that a bomb was on board.
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Gunmen who hijacked an Athens bus and held its passengers hostage are being questioned by Greek police after giving themselves up.
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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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As the Summer Olympics in Athens approached, fear and concern overwhelmed any sense of anticipation and excitement. Would terrorists use the occasion to attack civilians in such a large gathering ?
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ATHENS, Greece -- Officials say three more people have been freed from a hijacked bus in Athens, Greece. Police are also lowering the number of passengers they think were initially on the bus.
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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.