Russian jets 'intercepted by US'
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American fighters intercepted Russian bombers near a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific at the weekend, officials say.
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Two men charged over an alleged plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets from Britain have been remanded in custody for 11 days.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 12 -- A long-range Russian bomber buzzed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Pacific Ocean last weekend, while a second bomber circled about 50 miles away, U.S. officials said. The Nimitz scrambled fighter jets to intercept the Russian warplanes.
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BUCHALKI, Russia : Two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously hundreds of miles apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport, leaving 89 people dead and raising new fears Wednesday of terrorism in the heart of Russia.
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Experts have found explosives in both  Russian jets that crashed simultaneously this week,  investigators said Saturday, supporting theories that bombs  downed the aircraft before elections in volatile Chechnya.
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Two men charged over an alleged plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets from Britain have been remanded in custody for another 11 days.
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MOSCOW - Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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Russian  commentators draw parallels  between the Beslan siege and the 9/11 attacks in the US.
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RAF jets ecorted a diverted jet to Stansted Airport yesterday after a caller claimed there was a bomb on board. The US-bound Olympic Airlines plane made an emergency landing and all 301 passengers were evacuated safely.
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MOSCOW : Russia said terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for rebels in Chechnya claimed responsibility for the downing of that and another plane.
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Russia's security services said on Friday they had found traces of explosives among the wreckage of one of two Russian planes which crashed within moments of each other, calling it a terrorist attack.
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"There's a lot of Russian airborne activity above the Gulf of Finland, especially between Kaliningrad and the Russian mainland"  Russian military aircraft were intercepted by British and Norwegian jets Friday after they breached NATO airspace close to the U.K. and Finland, defense officials said.Finland's prime minister demanded an explanation from Moscow. Interception of Russian warplanes in NATO patrolled-airspace has become increasingly common since the Kremlin ordered strategic bombers to carry out long-range missions for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union.British fighter jets intercepted two Russian long-range bombers flying in NATO airspace and shadowed them until they charged course, Britain's defense ministry said, without revealing precisely where the incursion took place. The two Tu-160 'Blackjack' bombers were initially intercepted by Norwegian F16s, defense officials said. Read more
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Military jets were scrambled to escort an Olympic Airlines aircraft en route from Athens to New York to Stansted airport in Essex after a bomb alert, defence ministry and airline officials said.
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A group of Islamic militants has claimed responsibility for Tuesdayâs air crashes in Russia. The statement, published on a website known for militant Muslim comment, linked the action to Russia&#39;s fight against separatists in Chechnya.
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Russian authorities believe that two Chechen women suspected of blowing up Russian passenger jets last month got on the planes by paying bribes, media reports said.
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MOSCOW -- The downing of one of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week was an act of terrorism, investigators said yesterday after finding traces of explosives amid the wreckage of one of the airliners.
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A claim of responsibility for the downing of two Russian planes appeared on a Web site known for militant Muslim comment Friday.