Plane hijacking ends in Canary Islands
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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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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Spanish emergency services said several people had been wounded by gunfire in the hijacking of an Air Mauritania plane on Thursday.
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The last of four suspects in an alleged plot to blow up New York's JFK airport surrenders in Trinidad, police say.
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A Dublin-bound plane was at the centre of a major security alert in France yesterday. The Icelandic Airlines Boeing 737 had taken off from the Balearic Islands in Spain, but was diverted to the French city
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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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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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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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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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Armed special forces police surround the bus at the end of a hijack siege in eastern Athens early Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 in this image taken from television.
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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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Spanish authorities rescued more than 200 would-be migrants on Saturday from a decrepit fishing boat found drifting off the Canary Islands, officials said.
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A daylong hostage siege ended early yesterday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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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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ATHENS, Greece -- Two armed hijackers have surrendered and released their hostages, 18 hours after seizing a bus near Athens, Greece.
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A motor car race on the runway of the airport at Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, was probably the single most important factor in preventing the arrest of more South Africans in the ...
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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 ...Comment
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Passengers who were freed from a hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane are transported in a bus after it landed at Gando airport in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary ...Comment