Eritreans being deported from Libya hijack plane to Sudan
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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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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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Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Aug 28, 2004 (PANA) -- A group of 84 Eritrean deportees who on Friday forced a Libyan plane to land in Khartoum instead of Asmara, their country&#39;s capital, has requested for political asylum in Sudan.
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An Ethiopian administrator accused Eritrean forces of kidnapping a group of five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in a remote part of Ethiopia, and taking them to a military camp near the Eritrean border.Comment
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The trial begins in Sudan of 15 Eritrean asylum seekers charged with hijacking a Libyan plane.
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The five Europeans who were freed after being kidnapped in Ethiopia are due to fly back to the UK.
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Mohamed Ahmed, one of the passengers from the hijacked Air Mauritania passenger plane, speaks to journalists at the airport in Las Palmas on the Canary island of Gran Cararia, Spain, in the early hours of ...Comment
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A Turkish Airlines plane carrying more than 100 passengers from Tirana, Albania, to Istanbul, was hijacked Tuesday to protest the pope's upcoming visit to Turkey and landed at Italy's Brindisi airport, Turkish and Italian officials said.
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Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese-owned ship in the latest such seizure in the Horn of Africa nation's notoriously lawless waters, a regional maritime official said on Monday.
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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.
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Sudan has agreed to consider the asylum claims of 76 Eritreans who forced a Libyan plane to land in Sudan because they feared returning home, a U.N. official said Saturday.  Libya had denied the Eritreans refugee status.
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Libya claimed to have repatriated up to 40,000 illegal immigrants and arrested several people traffickers as the Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived in the capital Tripoli yesterday
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About 220 Britons and people from other countries are flown out of the troubled West African state of Ivory Coast.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan expelled the top Canadian and European Union diplomats from the country yesterday for what was described as "meddling in its affairs," state media reported.
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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BERN, Switzerland  - A Lebanese hijacker who served 17 years in a Swiss prison for killing a passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant in 1987 has been released and deported to Lebanon, officials said Sunday.